way cool pictures

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I would reply to the post above, but I didn't read it, so I can't. Regardless, I win now.

"...yes I'm so sorry, it was somewhat intellectual I imagine a bunch of written words can look very daunting too, so not to worry then, just enjoy the pictures now, simply reading ability comes with practice if one keeps at so don't give up now..." replied the goblin encouragingly of course

repost from elsewhere, the leaks again

"...if someone publishes non classified material, and then gets investigated for doing so, what does that actually tell you about the situation in america now..." mentioned the goblin here, adding "...clearly the fault here is not with the barman but with those who ordered the drinks for their own hangover here...", in fact, the goblin understood that there was a very important "freedom of the press" principle at stake here, adding "...actually, I think there would be a lot less deaths on the field if the president fulfilled his election promise of "bringing the boys home", where this war is neither winnable nor sustainable, so why do we keep on slaughtering ourselves, wasn't ten years in nam then, and now eight years in iraq now, enough, because I don't know what they might think they're achieving by being there, but simply, hearts and minds are fast hardening against them as the carnage continues..."

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Everyone start one--it would be fun. If you start it, you will be interested in it.

"...the trouble with starting new threads is that no one gets to know that they are started, well without turning up to see if it is the case that is, however, I also know that if I post the same content to a random thread, then anyone who has replied to that thread previously will get a notification now, plus the fact that if someone replies, then that reply will pull more people back to the thread to ones topic, plus if the thread has lots of posts and hits it, that too will pull more people towards it then..." mentioned the goblin explaining why he preferred chatting on random threads on some subject rather than commenting of some set subject in tailor made threads but he also knew that this was simply personal preference then

"...same for me too gigler, but this is not forced on us here, merely to write like this is a defiance towards dailylife I suppose, or a chance to pass some reflection reflecting oneself back within it..." replied the goblin, adding "...so this is my revenge then, that whatever happens to me I post back, winning this unwinable on such borrowed time...", but the goblin, even in those short moments that he had lost being unable to pull himself to post, had returned to posting afterwards winning again, saying "...funny how most people play this game against someone else here, where I play this against my dailylife now..."

("...I think if I were to start another game here, I would call it the "oh how hate my editing" game now..." mentioned the goblin who knew too, that for him, a post was not a post until it was a repost then)

repost from elsewhere

by now, the goblin somehow knew that subjectively writing isn't what people ever image it to be, nor what they had bargain for either, explaining "...isn't there always a risk of self deception here, that once one has built up a "shared life" with some muse and succeeded in whatever, that one can then dump her, unshare it, and return to dailylife without her, ah but it doesn't work like that does it, no, for "sharing", much like some dream diary, or like those people who see ghosts, is something where the practice just reinforces the whole sharedness of it...", perhaps the goblin at this point was just remembering the small print of the Muse's pact again, something that read "warning, last sanity test: you can't get her back into her bottle from this point onwards"

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Please tell me anything you know about or have heard about Queen Bodicca.

"...britain was mostly conquered during the reign of claudius, the event happened in the reign of nero, meaning that the territory was relatively newly settled, the tribes were to be incorporated into the roman system, but in typical roman style, repression leads to revolt leading to suppression slaughter and final appeasement, unintentionally perhaps, native tribes were progressively culled like this..." mentioned the goblin noting how this system might have worked and flurished had not the "haves" and "have nots" become so clearly segregated and odious, that in ad 410 one of these same settled tribes finally sank the system by sacking the western capital rome when both the slaves and the poor actually opened the gates to them, in fact, the freefall that followed from there then was called 'the dark ages' but it was more like regionalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Suetonius_Paulinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGGm4GQAq4

"...well it's not that americans gripe a lot, just that they have rather a lot to gripe about..." mentioned the goblin, where their list of woes seemed daunting now, adding "...no, if anything I feel they are too complacent here..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7a5IliLJTY

and with that the goblin just put up a sign to help those who had newly turned up on this "fist post" thread then, saying "...wasted effort I know but as least no one can accuse me of not pointing out the folly of your ways then..."

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footnote: readers, if they can actually read that is, might be wondering at this point why they should post on a "first post" thread at all, where the first post has already been won by the thread-starter here, well the answer is that the shouldn't of course, and yet because they shouldn't, and because humans are greedy little creatures anyway, any thread, regardless of thread-title that is, just turns into yet another "last post" thread here as their human nature gets the better of them, for "he who lives for the post dies by the post"

("...yes, I often find myself musing on some moment in the past that has no meaning in the present, as if the brain has placed a bookmarker on it, a groundhog memory then, lost battles, injuries, shames and regrets that all slip into the working day here..." mentioned the goblin still quantifying it now)

the goblin too, somehow knew why his ghosts of long past still haunted him vividly today, why his dreams had become better recalled and more imaginative, and saying "...toltec teachings tell one to cut out the internal dialog, that talking to oneself that is, something that holds together ones internal world here, and something that blocks out the larger picture according to those toltec teachings then, ah but writers if anything actually reinforce their internal world by their writing about it, in that their writings are exactly this same dialog now, so they might lose their feeling of self importance during their "journey to self" much as I have I feel, but they can't actually drop their internal world in the toltec sense, for simply they can't escape their own ghosts where they are writing about them just reinforces those connections and imagery here, where most people would trust to the fading memories here..."

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i wonder if my stuff gets reposted elsewhere?

"...you have the right to remain silent I suppose..." started the goblin continuing "...but equally anything one posts may wind up across the length and breadth of forumland...", in fact, the goblin never named the name when quoting someone, only dealing with their content instead, explaning "...actually think it's part of the "goblins are not to be trusted" clause in the small print somewhere..."

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I make it a point never to read your posts.

"...well that's where we just differ ever so slightly now, in that you don't read my posts and thus go ignorant by it, whereas I read your posts and still go ignorant by it..." replied the goblin, simply enough, where much simplicity was needed he felt

"...difficult balance..." went the goblin, explaining "...which forums to be on I mean, I'm guilty of forgetting those sites that forget me I suppose, or the ones that don't feed me much, but that is how it should be, for what does one owe somewhere that is outrightly hostile, or worse, a forum that show no interest...", ah but the goblin too, was often guilty on just overlooking a forum, he lost its link or his password to it, saying "...I'm a scavenger where notifications can mean food where posts feed me..."