Old PS Discussion Board Archives

[Fern]

For those of you who were registered and participated on our old Discussion Board, you can access its archives with your old username and address here:

http://singleness.org/wwwboard/

[Rx]

 Or you can send Fern a wheel barrel full of money
 and have her zip them up and upload them to you,
 I'll bet.

Conversely, you cud bribe one of the 2000 or so registrants,
 many hundreds of which still have a working awareness of
 how the subsite functions.
 Some might even remember most of the roughly 30,000 posts there.

Or like many of us, you might just stare longingly at the 110 links
listed in the Site Map,
and wish there was a magic back door,
even if it meant that Fern had to do some [more] back flips to make it happen.

 :p

[Hawk]

If you ever decide to have a PS Hall of Fame, I'd nominate Kelvin and Neil. They had some outstanding contributions to the forum.

[Rx]

If you ever decide to have a PS Hall of Fame...

That's a neat idea really. But sometimes its the people that LEAST "have it all together" that  unify and strengthen the interchange most.

God's people seem best enabled, when they are under duress, when they are in a foreign land, when they are facing Goliath. Infact, when there is too much time to contemplate Bathsheba instead of joining the battle, thats when we fall down worst.

Relationships begin when fronteers are penetrated.

...God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
 to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty... Paul

[Rx]

Speaking of wheel barrels and archives:
 Here is part of 4297.shtml called  "LINE LOSSES"
straight out of the archive.

One of the most basic concepts about electric power transmission is that, in order to prevent a loss of power because of the great distances and resistance of the wire, the voltage has to be cranked way up. Sometimes when the linemen are not flawlessly careful, the deadly juice "jumps" thru them, finding an easier path than to force its way across the miles and do the work for which it is sent.

After a few years of being online and trying to communicate a point, I get the same dread of working around posts.  If they are NOT strong enough, the message is lost, if they are too strong the message "jumps on the linemen" and never reaches the hearts to which it was sent. We dare not delay in our short schedules to tap off a reply, and tend to leave much unspecified. Or we are trying to express minutia to minds that are scanning for macrocosm.

A couple days ago, during the eclipse, I was elated to find a live webcam which was offering minit by minit refreshes of the moon. Then I went outside, and sat in my wheel barrel with a pair of binoculars. The difference was like night and day, in more than one sense. On-line: shades of grey. On-life:Deep chromavariant hues of umbral luminousia. On-line: one refresh everytime the net congestion permitted. On-wheel barrel: Crisp gradient of magestic terminator line as earth's penumbra then the dark umbra oozed its way over peaks and valleys of craters. On-line: death of webcam transmissions due to immoveable building at sunrize in brazil. On-farm in northwest Canada: I wish I had a web cam set up. Awesome. Pitch black sky, eyes dialated, dog wondering why I dont want to chase rabbits.

I know its one of the hardest things to do, to communicate on line accurately and effectively. But it is MORE important for that reason, that Chirstians heed the complications and take care.
...

Kel

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew 12

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13

PS. I guess that's a balance I haven't mastered yet.