people_are_kind_of_missing_the_point Witheld The title says it all. Going underscore happy is missing the original point of blather. 031211 ... notme please tell me,.. what is the original point? 031211 ... time_warp "but really it's an experiment to see what shape this will take when left at your mercy." not missing. the target shifts. 031211 ... Witheld I am afraid that I must disagree. 031211 ... time_warp i'll allow you to. ;) it is usually proper form, though, that if you disagree, you elucidate... 031211 ... withouteld there's a point? 031211 ... Nukemall dammit, where is it? 031211 ... notme if there is a point to be seen perhaps we are looking back at it because we are expanding if 'it' is the source perhaps 'we' are the light from whence we came typing nothing 031211 ... no reason i like underscore blathers. they don't take long to load. and i'm lazy. 031211 ... notme i_would_like_to_underscore_the_point_that_had_it_not_been_for_the_blessed_underscore_many_beautiful_things_would_not_exist 031211 ... so fucking lost people always do 031211 ... ferret points_are_funny 031211 ... pipedream would like to agree with notme 031211 ... r1y9a6n4 maybe you're right Witheld. all of Dallas' blathes are single word. who knows. it is just another flavor. 031211 ... phil I think it would be better to use the words we type to navigate through blather instead of backtracking to the start. Like a maze, we should propegate at the end, wherever that is. 031211 ... zeke euclidian? cartesian? vanishing? 031211 ... phil the recent page kind of gives a false hopeless impression of a landscape, like staring from the tower window. 031211 ... zuverschiedenlichbesorgenausserhaltsnesskeit if you just imagine that we're all german, then the underscored phrases _are_ just single words 031211 ... zeke i like your idea ... zuverschiedenlichbesorgenausserhaltsnesskeit 031211 ... misstree words are vessels red is different from scarlet. blood_red is different from either. and blood_red_sky makes an even bigger bucket, which from the other end of the perspective tube is a rather narrow bucket. blood_red_sky contains a synthesis of vessels, an alchemical joining. but when_everything_is_an_underscore, you have a lot of little voices tittering in the corners rather than a collection of will o' wisps, ready to be whatever you desire. whoever said that thing about the false landscape also had a good point. and my opinoin in all this? i look past what does not call to me. to me, phrases like word_sex or blather_is_blather are a single concept, and as valid as a wordform as any other, thankyouverymuch. i do, at times, crave more of a purity... but then i allow my eyes to prowl through blathes themselves, i lose myself in three_words dancing for me. maybe it's just that all my rage is otherwise occupied, but i somehow find myself utterly passive, with plenty of viewpoints but no real opinoin. mark this day on your calendars. 031211 ... zeke how sanguine 031211 ... phil what_a_pain_in_the_ass "pain" get it? 031211 ... phil it should go the other way around. Pain - what a pain in the ass. Phil - that entry looks stupid. 031211 ... phil what_a_pain_in_the_ass - underscored_words_are_such_a_pain_in_the_ass, how_am_I_supposed_to_find_this_blathe_ever_again? 031211 ... could not resist phil_is_a_retard 031211 ... p2 i don't mean to dis_onphil but when was the last time you even thought about any one of these: ace_gil_no_pr_suy bogus_metric_prefixes 15_letter_adverbs sex_death_music_writing_love vomit_soap_cannon silaer_du_hum things_that_end_in_alk or even the non-underscored abcdefghjklmnopqrstuvwxyz so what_does_it_all_mean_mr_natural? all the awfully_long_and_stupid_blathes with each_entry_longer_than_the_last are they regrets_that_still_make_my_stomach_turn? how_do_you_know _absolutely_everything when there's a_big_hole_in_your_head_pouring_out_idiocies where_the_internet_ends everyone_else_needs_to_die_so_i_can_live_on self_rejection can cause inner_blindness 031212 ... p2 _absolutely_everything -> _ablsolutely_everything 031212 ... User24 it's what you do with it that counts. or, in other words; it's not so much the underscores, as the words between them that miss the point. if it wasn't underscores, it'd be something else. I am intrigued as to why dallas_and_sage (or is it sage_and_dallas?) allowed underscores. I do think that the majority of underscored blathes are... not needed. and though it pains me, I must disagree nom; I'm sure the beautiful things would have found space elsewhere. still, not wishing to insult or shitrake, I will finally say that it's what we make of it that makes bather what it is; you don't like the content? make something you do like and share it. I will not be seen on this page again, lest it turn into another frightful slagging match. 031212 ... phil I didn't start he underscore thing, and I never would have. I tell you it was something evil that did it, evil. 031212 ... endless desire somedays you look on blather and all you see are really long lists of underscores and i feel frustrated. i don't like creating underscores without putting a good deal of thought into it because i feel like im destroying a foreign place. im sure ive made annoying underscore entries but nowadays im mostly frustrated with myself and my identity on blather. i don't know why i keep putting so much thought into it. WHO THE HELL AM I ANYWAYS? i really don't know. i think im losing touch with everything. i really do. there are times when i try to see how long i can go without blathing under any underscores. if you look at my list, ive never done very well. though, for some reason ive noticed that new skites usually start out with single words. anyways, my opinion: underscores allow individuality (i think ive said this before) but when they reach a ridiculous level of test pages and words that end in ing or something, well then it just seems sort of pointless. 031212 ... phil we need to put all the underscore entries inside of real word entries. And... GO! 031212 ... p2 somethings to note: the_first_blathe with an underscore was mountain_dew on 980918 exactly one month after the_first_blathe the first underscore_connected_phrase was fuck_it_all on 981101 dallas did indeed use underscores way back in 990417 with death_defying the ability to underscore was given to us by the blather_gods a long time ago 031213 ... r1y9a6n4 correction noted 031213 ... celestias shadow the point is the lack of a point. just letting the words spill out. I agree that the 200-word blathe titles are a little ridiculous, but if that's how some people work, then power to 'em. 031215 ... end less des ire people are kind of missing the point haven't they always been? 031216 ... somebody yes, e.d, they have 031217 ... stork daddy that's sad. if people miss the point so much, they should try and get back together. i mean, you only live once. shouldn't this blathe be posted under a one word title? 031217 ... girl_jane Umm...didn't you just start a page with underscores...? 031217 ... Witholding I don't mean to state the obvious girl_jane, but that was the irony of the whole thing. I was making a point there. Showing the sheer obviousness of the whole. 031223 ... shivers people can find their own point. cant they? 031223 ... minnesota_chris I think it's good to start some blathes with underscores. The first one was mountain_dew I think. And you can't really write that under mountain, or dew, can you? And if somebody's going to write something scintillating under a huge ass title, more power to them. I just mind the junky blathes. Especially when I write them. 031223 ... slothisily pointing point points oh what is the point missing i say the lost have found points (scissors knifes sticks) there are so many points it's not hard to imagine imagining missing a point somewhere along the way 040123 ... dakota who is to say what the point really is? 040318 ... dakota there is no point, thats what it is. 040318 ... cinzento I think it would be good if someone could do titles that were more than one word without underscores. Why don't we have that feature? Maybe they could be in quotation marks or something, and that would set them off from words and sentences that are in the same order but aren't referring to the title. was thinking about this last night. 040318 ... falling_alone i find it hard to remeber a blathe when the title exceeds 2 or more words. 040319 ... meta meta 051213 ... oren Pure presumptuousness. 060506 ... ivyducktwilightseto I believe we are all correct in what we are doing. Like it has been stated, this is all merely an experiment. There are really just a few that want to be a bit bitchy and try to make blather their own, fabricating rules, etc. Please, enough of this petty squabbling. 060506 ... unreal whatsthepointinblather 060506 ... Eikoh Hosoe i'd wish you'd shut up. then you may burn. 060506 ... unreal blather_is_blather 060506 ... . in other words... it is a lie 070522 ... Lemon_Soda A lie? How is blather misleading? Am I the only one to notice how negative "." is all the time? Do you need a hug? 070523 what's it to you? who go blather from