blather_is_forever nobody important The Moving Hand writes, and having writ, Moves on; not all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -Omar Khayyam blather is a record. our record. our words will be here long after we have moved on, either through life leading us away or being distracted or just losing interest. this is our collective child. this is our time to tell our tales. we can fill it up with the mental equivalent of crop reports and sitcoms and cartoons, or we can create something lasting and intense and beautiful. for once, ours is the moving hand. be aware of the weight of your creation. 040316 ... marked very true, and sadly too often overlooked . 040316 ... unhinged i should have been much more aware much more 040316 ... andru235 [i shall boldly restate what no one else in particulary has said only a zillion times already!] funny how blather - "absurd or foolish talk; nonsense" - acquired quality standards that blatherskites - "babbling, foolish persons" - are expected to meet. what's humorous is that, on the flipside of this blathe, some worry that a glut of things badly blathed that will fill up serverspace and end blather. so we should be afraid of saying the wrong things, and costing us blather, itself? *and* we should be afraid of saying the wrong things, and blather never going away? sounds like good ol' fear of saying the wrong thing. technology does not "evolve" us! if i wanted to constantly walk on eggshells, worrying about whether my thoughts were validated by the community at large, i would go hang around high schools, or mansions. or offices. i think i can safely say that a good number of regular visitors here have become so because of the quasi-nonexistent pressure to conform to anything; to freely expressed the funkiest or stupidest things possible. i like how minnesota_chris put it somewhere or other: "the only laws here are those we impose upon ourselves because of our own coolness" i'm not saying i'm cool! in fact, i'm rather warm. is it getting hot in here? you are totally turning me on right now, anonymous reader. oh. oh yeah. oh baby. ooh. funky. 051129 ... oren bravo. 051130 what's it to you? who go blather from