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So you found it! Any luck so far?

az

I can't think of any specific question to ask. Where did interesting things happen on the God and Moral Majority threads, with high feelings mixed with rational and intellegent debate? Oh, and was this character called Insight involved in any of it, 'cos I think he's interesting? Very vague question.

I have enough to be doing, anyway. For the past scarily how long my name tag has been declairing my intention to cut down on other parts of the site and concentrate on getting an Entry through Peer Review. I actually did something about it a couple of days ago, and I now intend to sweat blood till it's done.

And then there's something in my journal I've been told to pop into the AWW. Plenty to keep me out of mischief.

TRiG.

As a by the way, would you be elegible to be listed at A416819, the Natural History Museum?

TRiG.

You might ask about the Partial Birth Abortion thread started by Nerd42. I agree that the God And Moral Majority threads are too BIG to pin down any specific dialogues.

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This *character*? Why refer to him as a 'character'? He was just himself. And I think most people got on with him quite fine.

Sometimes you come across as a bit of a gossip monger, ya know? Trying to make more out of things that were said and done than actually was the case.

az

Really? Sorry. Just here, or elsewhere too?

I don't know why, but I enjoy trawling through old parts of the site, blowing the cobwebs off conversations that haven't been disturbed in years. It's a passtime I think few share, but it amuses me. I lurk a lot. I don't think of it a lurking, just reading, but lurking seems to be the accepted verb.

And I enjoy reading good debates.

I suspect that my use of the word /character/ does not quite chime with yours. Substitute /person/, perhaps. The phrasing of the question in that form was intended merely to imply that the person asked may not know Insight. The word /character/ serves as a categorisation tool, a classifier. Nothing more.

I don't really feel I actually *know* many people here, or any people here really, in some ways. I don't enjoy purely personal spats, the way some people do, taking vicarious pleasure in others' emotional pain. It's the debates that interest me. It makes it more interesting when a bit of personal emotion shows through, but that's all. It's the times when people disagree strongly, are unafraid to display their feelings alongside their arguments, and yet don't actually fall out that I enjoy.

TRiG.

To me the use of the word 'character' to define a person is a bit dismissive.

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Elsewhere where? You mean not on this particular thread?

Yes, you are the 'necromancer' who likes to dig up old long forgotten threads for reasons I can't fathom. Bit of a hobby? I really don't get it, to be honest.

People say things, then they move on. Well, sometimes not (in the 'moving on' dept), but mostly they tend to forget about what they may have posted somewhere on h2g2 four or five years ago. Because it really wasn't anything of importance, just an opinion here and there.

There's quite a good discussion going on about dreams on my blog (and don't tell me you haven't lurked there!) that is exactly what you are talking about ... <>

Meanwhile, Insight hasn't been around for ages ... maybe a year or more? Your interest in him seems somewhat curious; you calling him a 'character' makes me wonder if this is how you maybe think the rest of people view JW's. Bit of a defensive whatever projection thingy (sorry for getting all technical there )?

Just asking.

I suspect that my calling him a character is just Irish, but I may be wrong. I'm certain, though, that I didn't mean whatever it is that you are reading into it.

Meanwhile, I haven't visited your blog in a good while. I'll go sneek a peek.

As for the dead threads: I like the fact that this isn't a chatroom, that what is said here is preserved for prosterity, and that, as you said before, conversations never do die, they just slumber a bit. There's often good reading in them. In older places especially, I lurk a lot more than I post. (In a younger conversation I'm more likely to either comment or leave.) I might post if something in particular sparks my interest or there's something I have to say which has not been said. And anyway, why not? That's how the site works. Conversations slip down your list until someone posts to them, and then spring up again. Sometimes there's a gap. If the gap is a year or more, the site still works the same way. That's how it's designed.

Why am I interested in Insight? Because he added me to his friends list although we'd barely exchanged words. Because recently, while lurking on Della's PS (I smell the disaproval now), I came across some compliments to him from varied sources. Because I left Hootoo for a spell when I had too much work to do, and when I came back I had such a frightening number of new posts to read on the God thread that I abandoned it, and so I lost contact with him so soom after meeting him. Because he seems to have been interesting.

It was a passing comment. You mentioned Insight. It occured to me that a debate between ye would be interesting, so, since I enjoy reading such debate, I asked if there was any. Just a passing comment. Don't read too much into it.

And yes, from where springs this impression of me as a 'gossip monger'? Feel no compulsion to answer that if you don't want to. It comes across as an impression, not something you should be asked to defend rigourously.

TRiG.

Ah, was just teasing you a bit. Don't take it seriously, please.

Like how I tease you about the Necromancer stuff.

I surely don't suspect you of having any diabolical motives - guess I mostly think of you as being a bit of a curious cat.

az

Rightio. That's all alright.

I could tell you that I never take you seriously. It would be a good line, in the curcumstances, but untrue.



Curious cat? True enough, I suppose.

TRiG.

I've just added you to my friends list.

Read no more into this than you wish to.

TRiG.

Well, I no longer have a friends list here (other than having Noggin's name on it) and I no longer write journal entries.

And I no longer have any idea who has or doesn't have my name on their friends list. But apparently you do, for reasons best known to yourself.

Have fun.

az

No journal entries? Might take you off again, so.

I've had a minimalist friends list for ages, and have decided to start expanding it. It was originally only people I'd met in real life. Then I added DNA (for the fun of it), Auntie Beeb (because she's a useful person to be able to find), and Insight (because he was interesting, and had me on his). And then that was it, for ages. I've decided to start expanding.

I'm adding people who are interesting people to know, and people who write good journal entries. It took me a long time to realise how much of the business of this site goes on in journal entries. I must write a few more myself.

Anyway, it'll make it easier for me to lurk your conversations.

TRiG.

Well, as I haven't written a journal entry since the beginning of last May I reckoned your main reason for adding me to your friends list was for more 'easy-lurking' access.

Whatever.

az

Nah. Yours was simply a name which was in the front of my mind, and which therefore occured to me as I commenced my expansion campaign. No more to it than that.

TRiG.