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I don't remember my exact registration date, but it was definitely in January of 1999, so now its been about eleven years that I've been posting here. Damn, that's a really long time. It feels a bit weird that through all the massive changes in my life in that time period a lot of things about the OT have stayed the same, a lot of the same people over much a long time-frame.
When I first started posting on poly I was a senior in high school and now I'm married and my son just had his first birthday. Damn was I really naive and earnest back then. Hell, I was even a Christian when I first started posting on poly
Although I don't post too much on Poly anymore, its really had a sizable impact on my life. One of my closest friends right now is Seeker who I met through Poly and his posts were one of the things that got me thinking about moving to Korea, which was obviously a pretty big thing for me.
Also Poly is pretty much the only place I've EVER had really serious political and religious discussions (OT political and religious discussions seem to have been taken a LOT more seriously before), which really got me to think things through a lot more clearly and gave my brain a lot of exercise. I helped me understand why people hold a lot of ideas that they do (Adam Smith was especially good at getting through my thick skull, he is very much missed) for reasons besides "well, they must be really stupid" (with some exceptions ). I'm sure I would've become an atheist eventually without posting on Poly but the political discussions on Poly probably accelerated that a lot by helping me realize that a lot of things about the position that I was holding didn't make a lot of sense.
Its been a good eleven years, I hope I'll be around for eleven more...
When I first started posting on poly I was a senior in high school and now I'm married and my son just had his first birthday. Damn was I really naive and earnest back then. Hell, I was even a Christian when I first started posting on poly
Although I don't post too much on Poly anymore, its really had a sizable impact on my life. One of my closest friends right now is Seeker who I met through Poly and his posts were one of the things that got me thinking about moving to Korea, which was obviously a pretty big thing for me.
Also Poly is pretty much the only place I've EVER had really serious political and religious discussions (OT political and religious discussions seem to have been taken a LOT more seriously before), which really got me to think things through a lot more clearly and gave my brain a lot of exercise. I helped me understand why people hold a lot of ideas that they do (Adam Smith was especially good at getting through my thick skull, he is very much missed) for reasons besides "well, they must be really stupid" (with some exceptions
). I'm sure I would've become an atheist eventually without posting on Poly but the political discussions on Poly probably accelerated that a lot by helping me realize that a lot of things about the position that I was holding didn't make a lot of sense.Its been a good eleven years, I hope I'll be around for eleven more...
It's been a nice long ride so far! (that's what she said)
anyway.
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