Who the Frak are YOU: The RI Membership Directory

[LilyPatToo]

This was a great idea for a thread, elfismiles. I've always known that there were a lot of interesting RI-ers out there who I'd love to know personally/RealWorld, so it's great to be able to get a glimpse of the non-RI parts of their lives.

I'm a 62 year old painter and writer who just recently went back to gardening and to sculpting dolls. Also taught myself rough carpentry and built a garden shed a few years back. Married to a really nice, smart guy and have 3 spoiled cats--2 of them Maine Coon mixes. Live in an old house on a hillside in Oakland, CA. I wish I had a website to send people to, but at the moment I don't have one. Managed to get a (kind of lame) Photobucket slideshow of old & new artwork up, though--just ignore the unprofessional copyright notices and lack of chronological order, plz

Anyone who cares to can find me on facebook, too. I posted online under my real name for many years, only switching to "LilyPat" a few years ago, when I finally figured out WTF kind of scary crap had happened to me over my lifetime--what blanc calls "systematized abuse"--and got paranoid. But my identity was already "out," so to speak, so I have no problem with people knowing who and where I am. After all, the people I'm really afraid of have known exactly where I was all my life.

Love RI for all the smart people and hard-to-find information, even when it gets contentious.

LilyPat

[elfismiles]

This was a great idea for a thread, elfismiles. I've always known that there were a lot of interesting RI-ers out there who I'd love to know personally/RealWorld, so it's great to be able to get a glimpse of the non-RI parts of their lives.

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Love RI for all the smart people and hard-to-find information, even when it gets contentious.

LilyPat

Thank you LilyPatToo. I'm glad others are getting something worthwhile out of my (crudely-titled) thread.

And thank you (and all those who've contributed) so much for participating. Especially folks who've been more private.

And thanks again beeline.

Thanks Norton Ash, SonicG, jam.fuse, Sounder, and 23(!).

- SMiles

[elfismiles]

Photobucket slideshow of old & new artwork

Holy Moly LPT!! That's GREAT stuff!

- SMiles

[Pele'sDaughter]

Wow from me, too. There was a 4-day gap in my reading and I'd missed that. I love your work.

[barracuda]

Cuda wrote:

They already know who all of you are.



That's probably true, but what's telling about it is they don't seem to care. I've read more subtlely treasonous and outrightly seditious statements on this board than just about anywhere else in my little jaunts about the net.

Shoot, man, you need to start hanging out at the fringe-right sites, if that's what you're looking for.

That's interesting, because I find the difference between some of the viewpoints on this forum (anti-Israelism, Hollywood as the corruptor of youth, 2nd amendment rights, anti-Obama, federal government as the enemy of freedom, police state issues, etc., etc., etc.) and those on the fringe-right sites to be practically negligible at times. But on the other hand, no, that's really not what I'm looking for. It's just a bonus!

[rrapt]

Hey this is a nice info stream elf. I been offline since before you started it, marrying off my daughter in new Orleans and seeing a lot of old friends up close.

I have spent 63 years lazily avoiding jobs that didn't appeal to me. It took a couple of firings from corporate jobs to finally convince me that I was meant to be self-employed whether I knew it or not. Nice that I've had guidance from the spirits, and I got a few years of learning time inside of corp. walls, so I know first-hand what a defense contractor is, how govt $$ pours through these black holes, and something about the psychic makeup of the bees which inhabit that workstation.

Since an early age I have been skeptical of almost everything, which of course could be explained as a natural inborn trait. So I never worried about govt or politics and mostly did technical stuff, designing and building, or thinking about it. Still true.

Then around a year after 9/11 when questions and evidence started coming out, I had to start adjusting my laid-back attitude of (then) 56 yr. Damn it was all a lie. I mean I knew the JFK stuff was bullshit, but y'know that had drifted into the past; now this 9/11 thing was SERIOUS, mostly because the propaganda was working exactly (well, almost) as planned. So the big hit to me I think was how stupid everybody really is.

I am probably at least as radical in my perception now as anyone else here, entertaining notions of instantaneous space/time travel, of advanced intelligent ETs whom we low humans can hardly comprehend, much less understand. I take some comfort in my belief, crudely formed as it is, that I can't be totally in charge of my life. So what happens happens - even death is a transition to another dimension. My collected skills and knowledge from this life will help me in the next. Tune in later for more on that if yr so inclined.

[jam.fuse]

Off Topic, but could someone inform a brother,

what the hell happened to AliceTheKurious???

and if she was banned could someone give me a link to her last posts???

tho i only check in here sporadically, the place seems quite impoverished by her absence.

[Searcher08]

Off Topic, but could someone inform a brother,

what the hell happened to AliceTheKurious???

and if she was banned could someone give me a link to her last posts???

tho i only check in here sporadically, the place seems quite impoverished by her absence.

Alice is just taking a break over the summer I think - enjoying her family - she'll be BACK

[AlicetheKurious]

Talk about synchronicity!!! I haven't checked into RI for weeks, if not months, and when I do, it's this thread, and the last two posts mention me!

"Enjoying"...that's one word to describe it, I guess. Normally I post here when I have some free time and life has fallen into some kind of tolerable routine, usually once the kids are back in school in September.

This year, supposedly because of Swine Flu (rather than a zionist plot to further deteriorate education in Egypt -- already on its last legs), schools in Egypt were forbidden to open until October 3, which means I've had the kids at home for 3 1/2 months or so. I've been trying to keep them up-to-date with what they would be learning if they were in school, though, which means I've had to learn stuff, teach it to my kids and keep their noses to the grindstone for around 5-6 hours per day, plus the cooking, laundry and cleaning of a very big house and other time and energy-consuming miscellanea. All by myself, since I haven't had any help for the last two months.

I haven't even dared to check in to RI, because I lose track of time when I'm here, something that I really can't afford right now. I think about it all the time, though, and, scarily enough, carry on RI discussions in my head. Sort of like when a dog dreams of chasing a bird, his legs pumping away in his sleep.

I miss it here, sooooo much. Too much to even risk popping in and out occasionally, until things settle down. That will happen soon, I hope. But Searcher is right: I WILL be back.

[blanc]

Boy, how tough is that.

To quote a blue rabbi .

" Blanc

Make a little plateau of unsalted cream cheese and put it on a pretty plate. Dust it with a little sugar.
On top put some natural yoghourt and dust again with a little sugar.
Crown it with a blob of whipped cream.
Surround the layered whiteness with fresh strawberries or balck and red currants.
You need something special in bed."

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[Occult Means Hidden]

Deep on page 7, OMH makes his first appearance, then darts off to disappear again...

[Joe Hillshoist]

I'm glad to see you are ok alice.

hope the kids don't run you round too much.

[justdrew]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YVeg9GhSY

... and bent to it again ...

[IanEye]

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

I've already put out way too much personal information over the last five years.

The professional profilers have all they need.

Relevant: The Vietnam War conscription draft missed me by just a few years.
So I've taken war seriously since I was a child. And have little tolerance for bullshit.