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Jeeez.....I think some members need to lighten up.
I think the TFP is a great place to be. I don't see all these problems you're talking about. It's like a storm in a cup - try not to be so self-important.
Conflict, disagreement, difficulties in understanding or relating to one another....this is just a normal part of life everywhere, anywhere.
Last time I looked, I still liked being on the TFP. I am always puzzled by these threads revolving around dire discontent with the forum. If you're so unhappy, leave. There's plenty of other places to go! Maybe the TFP could use a little more of this, a little more of that. You know what might drive people away? 4 pages of ranting over what's wrong with the place.
I'll say it a 3rd time, the TFP is a great place. Thank you Hal for starting this forum. I donate because I want to. Like Hal said, there was no arm-twisting.
I think it's a waste of time dissecting the TFP from a pessimistic, "glass half empty" point of view. I do think there are some valuable points from a few posters that give ideas on how to get more members. But honestly for me, I like the TFP as is. Not always the same, always changing. Sometimes better sometimes worse. Like I said: life.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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