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While the board has slowed down some it seems no more than one of its many moods. Almost every day I start at the top of the forums and then check several on the way down and have noticed a large change in the membership. Lots of new names. It feels as if the board is currently in a state of serene contemplation, this thread as an example. More introspection, less fire and gunpowder if you will.
Those of you that have been around for a long while have seen the quickly changing gesalt personality of the TFP. There are periods of ever increasing posting and discussion, then a sort of pause, and a sublty changed TFP is reborn with slightly different DNA than the last phase.
This is one of the reasons I have been a member, a quiet one I'll admit, for such a long time. The observation of the TFP is in itself a form of intelligent entertainment. A social experiment that works, and I think, works quite well.
An artifact of the bold new age of communication with truly global membership. How many other global clubs do you belong to? Your color doesn't matter, your gender doesn't matter, your sexual preference, your age. None of this matters to the members of this group. I was born in 1953, this is light years from those days.
I think, and this is just my opinion, that we are evolving again. We have molted old members and gained new ones, but many of the central strands remain. The board will soon accelerate again, I have no doubt at all.
If you hang around long enough it's a kick ass ride!
Geez, can I ramble or what?
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