AndGodCreatedMe said:

Nice to see you around

Serious said:

Martina! Hope you're well

I'm less gay than I used to be.

Cloudbuster said:

Cloudbuster said:

I think i got that gay.....

My life is most definately uber wonderful coz of the org

If it weren't for the org... this certainly wouldn't have happened!

Diva said:

Wow! Look at the size of Moony's hand!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I have traveled outside of the US for the first time...among other changes.

My faith is restored in humanity thanks to the folks here....I thought that we'd lost the ability to agree to disagree, and still get along....but the fact that I'm on active duty in the military didn't cause too many folks heartburn, nor did opposition to this "thing" cause me to shit Old Glory....

..not to mention the support and love and care packages and wonderful outpouring of thoughts and prayers....hell, I've been "sticky-fied"....doesn't get any better than that...

so to cross threads for a sec...I LOVE Y'ALL!!!

Now I actually have a social life. If you can call it that.

reneGade20 said:

i fell in love and heard those wonderful three words...
i haven't traveled specifically to meet orgers other than the above
but have managed to meet purplethunder, freespirit and meow85 in the course of traveling
and have made soooo many wonderful amazing friends from all over the globe
and from so many different cultures and viewpoints that i wouldn't have managed to meet otherwise

that's the good stuff. there's other stuff too but the good stuff is nicer to think about

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

...and sometimes some really good people are just around the corner. Maybe you can see us from the airplane while you fly away lol. miss you

I've met very interesting people and have encountered the worst amount of negativity imaginable. It's different in a sense that I wouldn't have been exposed to so many great minds as well as the level of hate. It's made me more jaded and reserved than I would be if I never found the org
[Edited 10/13/07 17:30pm]

My life has been enriched,saddened and crazy because of a few orgers But I have meet some very amazing people IRL and talked to a few on the phone. I have talked to one who is quickly becoming a close and amazing friend. If it hadn't been for the org I never would have talked to him.

Let's see. I'm a bit more...

* Educated
* Distracted
* Challenged in some of my stances
* Validated in others
* Conditioned to truly think about who I am, what I am, what I believe, etc.
* Cognizant of how interesting and inspiring and how petty, parochial and occasionally genuinely hateful folk can be.
* Broadminded (I would never have considered that there's a gay Dutchman somewhere bumping Bootsy Collins )
* Comfortable with where I am socially. I don't have a HUGE circle of friends or lots of places around the city where I can be seen hanging out, but I'm pretty cozy now with the familiar faces (or avatars) that I've come to know here... and there's no smell of smoke; no struggle to find a parking space; no drunken, vomiting co-eds; no cover charge; and no one trying to bum money off of me!

GSharp said:

Give a call am home again my friend...Hope all is well and whom is passing over whom huh? Are you even in the US?

Diva said:

One of my all time favorite occurances here!

Good stuff great read!

Gosh, this is a weird one for me.

I've met a few orgers now that I've been to two invasions, and the distinction between IRL friends and org friends has blurred considerably.

I've had the displeasure of having met some very vain, cruel, and self-serving people in real life, to the point that I've grown jaded in my view of people. The orgers that I've met so far have been far sweeter, kinder, and more thoughtful than many of the IRL friends I have now.

I do still consider many of my interactions with orgers to be just flirtatious or harmless Internet friendships, which won't go beyond that for practical and personal reasons--after all, its ok for the org to act as a compliment to my real life, but I still need to have a real life so to speak.

But, there is something special about the people who have congregated on this site for the most part. I don't get that feeling from any of the other sites I've singlehandedly destroyed over the past 10 years. There's something unique about the experience here, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Prince.

If Ben were to shut the org down, I would hope someone would carry the torch and we could still play somewhere else. If not, I'm happy for the friends that I've made, and am absolutely confident some of them I will know until my dying days.

Diva said:

... for you both...

There is the matter of Dan;

I tease him to no end... but he is amongst those i feel i will know to the end of my days. I had to back off Florida towards the end to take the California real estate exam... ( May sound silly to some but combine the fact that I haven't studied in 22 years and the state issued those specific dates and i had a quandary.. I needed to do this for many reasons unspoken... well, unspoken to most) Dan supported me and I am so thankful) As I went to the test site Carrie and Dan ( and crew) where invading. I received calls from Carrie and Dan the night before to get me to laugh and relax.... The day of my exam I spent the hour before laughing until tears ran down and saying oh Dan that's Carrie ill call you back and then vise-versa.....

I had this huge fear that I could bomb the test and hence would have blown off Florida for nothing. He reassured me that either way i was a winner... I needed that approval very badly. Now I am a fairly great test taker ( well I had been 20 years prior) but state tests tend to be less base knowledge and a lot more trick questionish.... I just knew I would go out of there either knowing it and or not. I in fact left very unsure where I stood...


There were a few hundred questions and a 3 hours to nail it. You were given one scrap paper page with your packet. I used mine to tally my progress... collums for questions I nailed out right/ may have gotten / where absolutely unsure of..... I had to turn in my paper at the end as well as my test should have seen their faces....

So i called Carrie and Dan and they were there for me... Dan was sure i nailed it though I just wasn't sure...I admitted my fear I pushed to hard to fast and may have no showed for nothing....

He was certain and reaffirming for the following 10 days until it was said and done. ( I did ace it and my next 3 classes.. economics proving both most rewarding and difficult!)

Dan is generous and kind to a fault. For all the silly fun he produces here on the org you should all know he is deep albeit complex and supportive of his friends to a fault. Friendship means the world to him and many of us could learn from this.

It is difficult for single people ( especially for us long timers) when relations appear on the scene. We fear our lives will be affected. As someone who has pulled a long stint on the single scene I get that like no other. To some degree it is natural but to another it is a loss. I have learned the value of friendship and of long term relating...

Some feel this joint is a temporary place with a lack of deep truth... I know better.. My life is forever changed and full for those the likes of Daniel in my life..

I wish you the same!

( I love you Dan, you are a friend i take for all time!)

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I've met people I know I will count as friends for the rest of my life.

Insert Mathilde Santing's 'Beautiful people' HERE.

HamsterHuey said:

You are such a wonderful part of my heart.... I love you!

Let's see. Org showed me exagerated parts of life. In the beginning I took it too seriously and I got burned a few times, until I learned I should take some distance.

The 'meeting people is easy'-part is amazing. Cuz it is! The entire site is filled with the same kind of needy and lonely people as I am. If you wonder why there are so many Org romances; that is why. People search for the antidote to loneliness and if it works; more power to them!

I myself am trying to stop looking for love in all the wrong places and am trying to take it all back to myself. I had a couple of rough years, but the people I met on this site helped me through it.
Love and friendship of people like Muse, Isten, Abierman and many, many others (you know who you are) helped making the insomniac nights bearable.

And there are still somany people I love I never met at all! Some I never will and some I hope for will happen some day. But I know that the seeds of friendship planted here on this site will bear fruit in many, many years to come.

So, Org enriched my life. I count myself having friends on Bondi beach, LA, London, rural UK, MPLS, Poland, Michigan, China, NZ, France, Germany. I should make a world trip one day and visit you ALL!

Herman Org.

PS

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PETRAAAAA!
NATIIIIISSE!

WE ARE ORG! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!

reneGade20 said:

You are actually quite kewl for a straight guy.