What thoughts you have when you realize your online persona(s) are 20 years old?

[VetLegion]

In the case of this forum and my login here, it is 20 years old. 20 years! That's a lot...

If I made a kid when I created a login here, it would be a grown man/woman by now... wow

It feels so strange, puts me into a philosophical mood. I must be getting old, without noticing it.

I can't really say that this forum holds 20 years of my evolving thoughts, opinions, records of what happened to me... because I stopped being active at some point.

But for some of you, the more active folk, that is true too, I guess. You can look at old threads and trace how you evolved from the leftie youth of yesteryear into the grumpy conservative you are now. Or the other way around?

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you realize somewhere online (not neccessarily Apolyton) "man, I've been here for 10/15/20 years now..."?

[VetLegion]

The screaming fart in my avatar, from some demonstration somewhere (against Americans in Iraq, perhaps?) is also an older man now. I wonder if he's still angry. Probably. America is still anger-worthy. Perhaps he has kids now, that are also angry, as is befitting.

[SlowwHand]

Lot of life spent here.

[N35t0r]

I find it hard to read VetLegion's posts without having the impression he is yelling at me

Some of my earlier posts (and more recent also ) are positively cringeworthy, but I started posting here at 15 or thereabouts.

[Dauphin]

Vet needs to update his avatar.

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[-Jrabbit]

90%+ chance this guy was yelling "blue lives matter" just a few years ago.

[Ted Striker]

Regardless of what you think of him, Snowden has an interesting section in his book about the evolution of the Internet from the early, golden years where decentralized places like Apolyton existed, before the Google and Facebook borg centralized everything.

It’s been quite the adventure. I do miss the golden days of 1998 when the world seemed a much more civilized place.

For me, the biggest realization was always the real life Matrix reveal where the lines between good and evil weren’t so clear.

i can see why all those vets from Vietnam who apologists wrote of as “loons” we’re coming from. These guys were used and lied to for so long after giving their souls up for what they thought was defending their country, only to be lied to the whole time.

Obama raised the bar ( not saying he was perfect), but Trump pretty much destroyed it. I’m in the apathy state at this point. The guy’s policies are literally killing people and we just stand by and let it happen.

[Berzerker]

Trumps been less blood thirsty than most of his predecessors, kinda hard to stick him with the warmonger label given his company

[Ted Striker]

You make a good point Berzerker. I'm sure if he could get one of his companies to profit he would be all about the warmongering. If there was a Trump rocket company you'd better believe he'd be lobbing rockets at whoever he could find. Though I was referring to his mishandling of the virus and how terrible it's been that it's literally killing people. He gets an F- on that one.

[Dauphin]

The guy’s policies are literally killing people and we just stand by and let it happen.

He did say before his term started that he could kill someone in fifth avenue and would not lose any voters.

[BlackCat]

If Vetty has any balls he will replace his avatar with Lauren Leander

[Bereta_Eder]

I guess what I've learned is that life is fragile not to be taken for granted and that noone has signed a contract with God about anything (least of all his plans or long life)

Realizing Ephemeralitty (is this a word in the primitive english language) gives a burning reality to everything...

[-Jrabbit]

Yes, it's a word in English, but only one "t" in spelling. Same meaning as its Greek source.

[Bereta_Eder]

I'm also more left wing and progressive than what I was younger when I was more centrist and conservative.

I do use the ocasional racial slur against pchang lest someone calls me a snowflake

[BlackCat]

I'm also more left wing and depressive

FTFY - makes way more sense

[Provost Harrison]

I guess what I've learned is that life is fragile not to be taken for granted and that noone has signed a contract with God about anything (least of all his plans or long life)

Realizing Ephemeralitty (is this a word in the primitive english language) gives a burning reality to everything...

Yeah...pretty much (just a t too many). Even a broken clock is right twice a day :-D

Life is nothing yet life is everything and no one knows what it is.

[Provost Harrison]

Got distracted there. Yes, I first registered on 25th June 1999...I mean...I was still at university...that feels like a lifetime ago.

[I AM I AM I AM MOBIUS]

Life is nothing yet life is everything and no one knows what it is.

synchronized streams
assembled in real time
autonomously
with varying degrees of
focus oriented
initiative capable
logical pathway
execution
composition features
emulated
by introducing interruptions
into ongoing cyclical content expressions
"memories"

ten things you can identify as you fill out a set of ten
qualify as a
"solar eclipse"
in the sense that
your webbed fingers
or viewing device
will still translate
derive
reflect refract such words
into a single formed image
of the etc sources in question

this pervasive information environment
linked together by a multitude of information bands
frequencies
translated into
accepted data
via massive unsorted information sets
"your child hood"
"english"
"internet web chat etiquette"

you and others suffer at times existential crises
because you are in a sandbox
expecting a game
and it's so horrible the thought
that "God"
would leave seeming dice roll mechanics
to tell you "what you don't know"
and could "adopt any number of custom avatars
"and personalities
, tokugawa

to express any number of ideas

"the spaghetti monsters doesn't like you
"in that way

it's a sad realization
even agnostics"atheists"
the dice/random in the gaps

https://vimeo.com/410652597

go prove random exists

[I AM I AM I AM MOBIUS]

speak for yourself chapvp