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Hiya

Post by themaneki » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:23 am

Hi, all! Got an invite from a friend (although he neglected to share his nick over here) to check this place out, and here I am. Looks pretty nifty.

Nice decor, btw -- as a long-time Linux user, I like the Ubuntu swirls all over the place.

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Re: Hiya

Post by Pappa » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:25 am

Hello...glad you founded us. Welcome to the forum.
For information on ways to help support Rationalia financially, see our funding page.


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Re: Hiya

Post by Azathoth » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:42 am

Welcome new person. Pull up a shoggoth and throw a cultist on the barbeque.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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Re: Hiya

Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:24 am

Hello and welcome! :cheers:
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Re: Hiya

Post by Twoflower » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:25 am

Howdy!
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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Re: Hiya

Post by RandomGuyOnCouch » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:30 am

Salutations!
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Re: Hiya

Post by PairOfFeet » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:20 am

Welcome!
An Arabian guy at the aeroport:
- Name?
- Ahmed al-Rhazib.
- Sex?
- Three to five times a week.
- No, no… I mean male or female?
- Male, female, sometimes camel.
- Holy cow!
- Yes, cow, sheep, animals in general.
- But isn’t that hostile?
- Horse style, doggy style, any style!
- Oh dear!
- No, no! Deer run too fast.

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Re: Hiya

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:21 am

Pappa wrote:Hello...glad you founded us. Welcome to the forum.
Err... wasn't it you that founded us? :think:

Welcome anyway, themaneki. Describe this person that invited you - let's see if we can guess who it is?
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Re: Hiya

Post by maiforpeace » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:27 am

Hi there themaneki, welcome! :cheers: :flowers:
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Re: Hiya

Post by Robert_S » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:02 am

Greetings themaneki.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Hiya

Post by Ronja » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:13 am

the+man+eki ... welcome!

BTW: I have a cousin who is called Eki. But he's about ten years older than what you confess to.
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Re: Hiya

Post by Ronja » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:14 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote: Describe this person that invited you - let's see if we can guess who it is?
:+1:
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." - Maureen J

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Re: Hiya

Post by Rum » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:31 am

A slightly belated but sincere welcome from me too!

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Re: Hiya

Post by charlou » Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:20 am

Hello :cheers:
no fences

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Re: Hiya

Post by themaneki » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:41 am

Thanks for the warm welcome, all!

Turns out in the invite he did give his nick; I just seem to be possessed of sub-par reading comprehension skills. He's Zigmen.

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