Hi all,

Thought I'd drop by and say hi. (((FRL))) I find myself feeling some of the same feelings I felt this time last year. For me, y2k was a possible tripwire to world war. I was preparing with that in mind. In my reading I'm finding the move towards war continues. The communists will not join the NWO and submit to the UN. I find myself still in a preparing mindset. This October could bring what we thought y2k might bring. Do any of ya'll have any feelings or thoughts about this? I know this is a pretty serious post. Probably too serious for this forum. The reason I came to Frl late last year was to get away from the doom and gloom. So if I have thrown some cold water here, you can send me the fruitcake and demand I write three humorous limericks. :-) October Surprise

-- BB (I'm@lookingto.Him), July 17, 2000

One more should work! :-)

-- (helping@bold.hater), July 17, 2000.

Hi BB! Nice to see you here! That was a very sobering article. Thank you for sharing it. (Yes, now you have to write humorous limericks!) :-)

Overall I would consider myself to be a Pollyanna, but I too have been experiencing a sense of foreboding. I think being 'prepared' at all times is wise. We live in a very volatile world. Slipping into complacency now would be extremely foolish IMO.

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), July 17, 2000.

Hmmmmmn.

I'm right-handed, who's very happy relatively (speaking of children, aunts, uncles, and grandparents at least) little went wrong last January. Does that answer the question?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 17, 2000.

I like limericks! Please write some!

I've tried to post what has happened at the farm over the last two weeks, and the software (or God?) won't let me. The synopsis is this: Go with your gut instincts to prepare if you have them. You just wouldn't believe the string of "things" that went on here, one building for the next. If you have a feeling you should be storing water, do it now. Don't wait. Do it even if it's in the middle of the night.

-- helen (home@home.home), July 17, 2000.

I just had a huge (it's really huge) water tank installed. I am a libertarian at heart, my preps continue just because I would prefer to rely on myself, and not anyone else. When we are not completing preps, we like to have fun here. Folks that show up just to say something nasty are ignored and/or deleted.

All the sysops here are women.

-- (sis@home.zzz), July 17, 2000.

Nothing like laughing in the face of death. Ouch.

All the sysops are women? Really? Maybe we should change that to sisops. oops. or should I say sisoops. sis ops sip soup like sisoops. :-)

Yes, Gayla, wise to be ready.

-- BB (at@the.beach), July 17, 2000.

Systeroops?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 17, 2000.

Sistoops, I like that! Femops might also work. We're Systas! I don't know if there is really a reason we have no male sysops, other than we gals thought it was funny when we were first toying with the idea of making an FRL forum.

How does Systas work? I just recall one night there was a y2k pro type post here, and three of us diplomatically discussed for 2 hours what we were gonna do with it, decided we'd leave it be, and meanwhile, another Systa stopped in and deleted it. It's chaos theory, but it seems to work. And why not, it's been working for millions of years.

(oh sure, I know..I'm talking to BB, who won't agree with chaos theory, but we'll leave that for another thread)

Back to the "foreboding doom" feeling. I've yet to have it ever. I'm a doom FAN, probably one of just a handfull, I am mesmerized by TV shows about Tornados, Earthquakes, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. I love UFOs and Aliens. I loved the premise of y2k. However, by enjoying doom, I tend to defy it.

It just never happens for me. Tornado warnings turn into quiet spring nights, Our Earthquakes are .001 on the Richter Scale, and this Empire keeps growing and growing.

So I've gotten in the habit of assuming that neat stuff (in MY opinion) never happens. Maybe by not expecting doom, I can bring it on? (Would I make a good meglomanical Cartoon character or what?)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 17, 2000.

Nice to hear from you BB. I just visited your church's page the other nite. Very nice site.

Yes, I am not optimistic about the future either. Revolutions, and persecutions are taking place in many parts of the world, and here at home, the concept of corruption is being carried to unprecedented heights (at least in America).

It looks as though any day could see the nations move to destroy Israel, with our own government encouraging the Israelis to surrender.

Americans have had it so easy that as long as they get cable and snacks they think all is well. Personally, I'm a bit surprised that we haven't experienced a major collapse before now.

It just shows how great is God's mercy toward us.

gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), July 17, 2000.

systas, all right! Thanks Gene for the kind words. Bob's Church Web Site Yes, times are filled with nations in perplexity, trying to find a way out. Only one thing to do.

-- Padre (hello@its.me), July 17, 2000.

I was (am) a very lonnggg time lurker. I loved the FRL and needed too laugh. We all do. FRL helped me relearn this. I learned not to take things sooo serious in my life. Things I looked at are:

1. My husband loves me, even if he has to be away. He's N.G.

2. Said man loves his country, I'm proud of him.

3. I'm on my own. We all are!

4. Were not alone. There is always someone to help or receive from.

5. I have chickens!

6. And eggs. Lots of them.

7. No matter how frightened I am, someone else is filling there pants and I could help.

8. Helping is the only thing that counts.

9.My kids are stronger than I thought.

10. All that is left when the bombs drop.......

11. is a song!!!!! (or a limerick)

-- a soul (here@listening.com), July 18, 2000.

12. I am proud of who I am.

13. Weird number? Thank you.

14. waiting....

15. THANK YOU ALL!

-- a soul (here@listening.com), July 18, 2000.

B.B.,

Sorry, I got personal,

I didn't respond to your question. Pollys or Dommers?

Agonistic perhapes?

-- a soul (here@listening.com), July 18, 2000.

Agnostics who refrain from tormenting believers will be accepted. Agnostics who torment, hassle, insult etc. believers will be ignored or deleted. We have all sorts of religions represented here and I think some decent agnostics.

The Golden Rule is practiced here.

-- (sis@home.zzz), July 18, 2000.

Is Agnostic in itself a religion? (discuss...) ;-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 18, 2000.

BB, you're always welcome to come to ezTB2K where the "new" Doomer Gloomer topic is the Dogma Wars.

LOL

ezTB2K

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 18, 2000.

Not a problem 'a soul'. A&L, using me to promote your thread huh? I feel dirty. ;-) Got your detector yet? ......I have learned my lesson. I have brought reality to a place where Alice lives. I will restore what I have taken. Pass the jiggle juice and give me a pen.

-- BB (peace2u@bellatlantic.net), July 18, 2000.

We welcome all souls, many souls, some souls, and even "a soul" here - if one should be temporarily single during a deployment or drydock period of 28 hour days.

We do generally frown on several bodies occupying the same body at the same time in public; but what you do in private is your own affair. Or your own marriage, if you aren't eligible for an affair.

But, should you have multiple souls in the same body at the sametime, we will excuse you for the interuption and let you get dressed before resuming the conversation.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 18, 2000.

If you have multiple souls, can you sell one to the Devil and still go to heaven? Oh, I guess now that I think about it, after dying, each soul would go it's own way depending on it's personal deeds. ?? Or are the souls all ducttaped together?

How about...We are each "a sole soul", and together we are multiple souls, ducttaped together on this planet called Earth. Upon death, we get cut out of the duct tape...something only God can do. Then we are free to wander about tapeless. Ahhhh....

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 18, 2000.

Kritter, tapeless and bra-less. It's Heaven we're talking about, remember that...

-- helen-lap-dancer (home@home.home), July 18, 2000.

But braless is heaven......Tapeless?

That I'm not so sure of.....

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 19, 2000.

What about topless, Robert? :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), July 19, 2000.

and let you get dressed before resuming the conversation.

I wonder what state of dress or undress people are in when they post, perhaps we shouldn't delve into that one.

But I sit here wearing my tux to maintain decorum in the forum but no- one out there knows, I could be wearing jeans or worse for all they care.

Maybe we should dress for the occasion,

TB spinoff we would have to don say a tatty t shirt and jeans, for ezboard we would at least need a jacket (no tie)

PS Customs and Excise have found me out, I tried to import a camera from the US through Eire thence to the UK hoping to avoid import duty and the dreaded VAT, unfortunately the Irish customs were on the ball for once, trust them to pick on me, first time ever it seems.

Its a run a baaaaaaaaad luck I'm having.

-- richard (richard.dale@unum.co.uk), July 20, 2000.

Dude, this is definately a T-shirt and Jeans forum. Or Shorts and sandels. Hell, I'm in my pajama's here 50% of the time. Comfort rules in the FRL. Raid the fridge, grab some jiggle juice, put yer feet up on the coffee table, relax....we're amongst friends. Isn't that what it's all about? :-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 20, 2000.

You have to have clothes on to post here?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), July 20, 2000.

Not if you're covered with fur, Bear. So you and Coyote are covered.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 20, 2000.

Whew. For a minute there, I thought I had to wear duct tape to post here!

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), July 21, 2000.

Tim, you DO have to wear duct tape to post here UNLESS you're covered with fur. Can you imagine a furry fellow trying to remove duct tape on his way to work? We're not that cruel here. Try applying the duct tape to your oily forehead -- easy on and off. No one need know you post here in your real life. As a side effect, you'll totally lose all the blackheads on your forehead too. We should apply for a health-study grant.

-- helen (home@home.home), July 21, 2000.

I thought that this was the foil-hat forum... I've been wearing my foil hat to post. You mean I've been faux-pas-ing this whole time!? Oh, no!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), July 22, 2000.

A foxy furry faux posting tapeless and topless would end up with much more comfortable and considerably fuzzier than a fully taped fuzzy foxy taped topless faux.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 27, 2000.

That's a FRLian tonque-twister if I ever heard one LOL.

-- Tim (pixmo@pixelquest.com), July 27, 2000.