This is a bulletin board forum Mark.

Mark K. Bilbo wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:38:29 -0800, V wrote:

Am not interested in blogs. I participate only in forums.

Then why are you here?

This is a bulletin board forum Mark.

Mark K. Bilbo wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:38:29 -0800, V wrote:

satyr wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:04:25 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:

"V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1168530384.102672.49760@i56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

Dr. Newto Joseph wrote:

www.atheistfellowship.com
Dr. Newton Joseph

The site won't show up.

If it is a true fellowship for the atheists to 'practice what they
preach' as I have listed below, then it sounds like a sorely needed
tool.

Shut up, you retarded *****. No one has to do anything you want. Get over
yourself and shove you over-inflated ego up your *****.

But we want to, Robyn. We are even converting a.a to a web based blog
just like he wanted. It starts at midnight tomorrow.

So V, after midnight tomorrow, don't come here anymore. Just go to
the new web site. Here is the address:

http://dumbassidiots.blogspot.com/

If we aren't there yet, just start blogging without us.

--
satyr #1953
Chairman, EAC Church Taxation Subcommittee
Director, Gideon Bible Alternative Fuel Project
Supervisor, EAC Fossil Casting Lab

Am not interested in blogs. I participate only in forums.

Then why are you here?

This is a bulletin board forum Mark.

You know why I am here Mark. I have told you this many times.

Alt.atheismt is just where I ended up after being banned at the
Christian, Buddhist and other atheist forums. I tried agnostic forums
but not much participation. I have been on about 210 forums over the
last 9 years and have been banned from about 70% of them due to
prejudice.

Take care,


V (Male)

Agnostic Freethinker
Practical Philosopher
AA#2

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:41:32 +0000, atheist wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:42:07 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:40:57 +0000, atheist wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:58:08 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:46:24 -0800, V wrote:


You do not get to tell us who we are, nor what we should be, nor what we
should think, nor how we should act.

Well now...somebody's gotta do it.
Didn't you know that?
Else what are politics and religion all about?

<snip>

Anyway, I think about you frequently.
Very tough stuff you've been through.
How are you doing overall?
If you don't mind my asking.

Generally better. Things are settling down. Though the aftermath is...
yeesh... fun. I'm severely overweight and have aches and pains and
allergies out the whazoo. I didn't realize just how bad a hit my health
had taken from the stress of the year from hell.

It was without doubt a year from hell.
Those sorts of things do terrible things to us.
Sometimes even when we think we have it all together we don't.
My memory went to hell in a handbasket from my two or three
nightmarish years and I still don't have it all together.
Over time though I've been amazed at at how well I thought I was
handling things only to realize now that I was just going through the
motions.

I was running non-stop. Especially from June of '05 to October same year.
I even did something nasty to my ankle while boarding up for Katrina and
couldn't see a doctor for two or so weeks. Took a while for him to get
back and open his office (and what fun he was having, his daughter lived
in the city, she evacuated but lost *everything... then Rita flooded *his
house).

By the beginning of '06, I felt like I was falling apart. Every single
ache, pain, sneeze, and sniffle I'd ignored jumped me. I know from about
October of '05 into about March of '06, I was on auto-pilot. I don't quite
remember what I was doing those months. Weird.

It does get somewhat better with time however though never forgotten.

Most of that, though, is a matter of getting my (fat) butt back in gear
far as diet and exercise.

Same here.
I make myself all sorts of promises that I have trouble keeping
regarding the health issues.

I was in good shape in spring of '05. Almost down to my ideal weight
(maybe 10 pounds more to go). I'm starting back slowly but my motivation
comes in fits and starts. My brother actually uses my weights more than I
do. Oh well. I'll get there. I just want to get past this month, get the
estate closed, get my stuff out of storage over in Louisiana, and be done
with it all before I get too hyped up about anything.

So that's next month's challenge. I'm trying to
get past the estate crap and I have to run back to Louisiana later this
month to get the stuff I left in storage. Then I'll be done with the place.

Any special difficulties with the estate because of the circumstances?
Or is that too personal?

Not really. Just *tedious as all get out. I swear, you'd *think we were
talking about the estate of Donald Trump with all the hoops to jump
through. And he didn't have all *that much. But I have read it's not usual
these days for even ordinary estates (like this one) to drag on a year or
more. It's ridiculous.

(Though I still keep going back and forth over whether I'm going into the
city while I'm there. Still haven't set foot in the place since Katrina.)

I've been there once and was awed by it.

I'm still not sure I want to see it. I'll probably decide at the last
minute.

That whole mess is increasingly behind me. I was right that getting out of
the area would help. I'm not just surrounded by things that remind me of
it all.

Making new friends?
Still Austin right?

Actually, not doing much nor getting out much right now. Once I got this
place in a basic, livable state, I said "to hell with it all" for a while.
I notice I'm starting to get bored now though. I figured when I started
feeling bored, I'd be about ready to stop playing hermit. <g>

I do sometimes miss New Orleans but the New Orleans I miss is gone.
Whether it'll recover is still an open question. The news coming out of
there is just not good at all. I still wonder if the city I knew will ever
exist again even if they manage to recover.

I don't know.
The city has a lot of history and was a special place.
It's heartbreaking and still a bit spooky to think about what happened
there.
Apparently quite a few of the displaced folks, some of who grew up
there have decided not to go back.

And more people are starting to leave. Things are getting bad over there.

Personally I don't know how anybody who experienced what the people of
New Orleans did could ever recover emotionally.
I can't even imagine what it must have been like.

Anyway. In short, I'm doing a hell of a lot better. Thanks for asking.

I'm glad you are doing better :-)

Not bad. Though, today, me and the dogs are hunkering down and hoping the
power doesn't go out. Counties up in the hill country northwest of Austin
are already starting to ice and the whole sopping, wet, soggy area is
going below freezing tonight.

Wheeeeeeeee!

--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"...otherwise, we're looking at the potential of this kind
of world:.... a world in which oil reserves are controlled
by radicals in order to extract blackmail from the West..."
- George Bush

Wait... oil reserves?