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Haha, i think that's why we need to change forum engine 
Anyway, there was nothing important there. I was just saying that i remember that thread and as i recall i was a proponent of a merge with AN back then, mostly due to technical/hosting reasons more than anything else from what i recall.
Nothing much has really changed over the years, variants of the same discussion going on now
I remember quite enjoying the DhO liferay forum when i signed up, the wood panel (i think it was?) background was really comforting. It feels like the forum (Liferay, not the content) has gone downhill since, so here's hoping for a change to something more likable.
Simon
Anyway, there was nothing important there. I was just saying that i remember that thread and as i recall i was a proponent of a merge with AN back then, mostly due to technical/hosting reasons more than anything else from what i recall.
Nothing much has really changed over the years, variants of the same discussion going on now
I remember quite enjoying the DhO liferay forum when i signed up, the wood panel (i think it was?) background was really comforting. It feels like the forum (Liferay, not the content) has gone downhill since, so here's hoping for a change to something more likable.
Simon
Olivier, lol, for example:
katy steger:
But, really, I like that the call to dharma generally starts in the bottom of the outhouse of the mind-- not pretty-- and that people need to shed some major stank as part of the process. A too-clean and polite and filtered cite can be a put-off/unwelcoming to those of us who start at the bottom of the outhouse, so to speak. A simile could be that one in filthy clothes doesn't necessarily want to go to a sit-down, table-cloth restaurant: one wants the gnarly food truck at first and the grease...a place that looks approachable. Make sense?
So I think DhO offers both that approachability and those glorious, tidy heights...
But, really, I like that the call to dharma generally starts in the bottom of the outhouse of the mind-- not pretty-- and that people need to shed some major stank as part of the process. A too-clean and polite and filtered cite can be a put-off/unwelcoming to those of us who start at the bottom of the outhouse, so to speak. A simile could be that one in filthy clothes doesn't necessarily want to go to a sit-down, table-cloth restaurant: one wants the gnarly food truck at first and the grease...a place that looks approachable. Make sense?
So I think DhO offers both that approachability and those glorious, tidy heights...
What's most fun about reading through those two threads for me is:
1. How attached we get to our habitual "stuff," like message board cultures, asking for donations, or selling t-shirts
2. As Daniel can probably attest, keeping this kind of shit free for hundreds of other people can be expensive
3. How these things turn into a lot of thrashing around and never really go anywhere
Now, here's my favorite post from those threads:
1. How attached we get to our habitual "stuff," like message board cultures, asking for donations, or selling t-shirts
2. As Daniel can probably attest, keeping this kind of shit free for hundreds of other people can be expensive
3. How these things turn into a lot of thrashing around and never really go anywhere
Now, here's my favorite post from those threads:
Jane Laurel Carrington
modified 7 Years ago
RE: Thoughts on Integrating the DhO with Awake Network
Posts: 196
Join Date: 12/29/10
From the way people talk, you'd think that a frat house was proposing to move next door to a pair of complacent empty-nesters and start setting cars on fire in the street and throwing old t.v. sets out the window during drug and alcohol-induced riots. Or conversely, gentrifying developers will take over and clean up the neighborhood, driving out all the drunks, panhandlers, and drug dealers.
Or maybe things will actually be fine. Maybe the AN people should bake a nice pie and take it over to the DhO group to welcome them to the new neighborhood. Couldn't hurt. Especially since some of us are the same people!
modified 7 Years ago
RE: Thoughts on Integrating the DhO with Awake Network
Posts: 196
Join Date: 12/29/10
From the way people talk, you'd think that a frat house was proposing to move next door to a pair of complacent empty-nesters and start setting cars on fire in the street and throwing old t.v. sets out the window during drug and alcohol-induced riots. Or conversely, gentrifying developers will take over and clean up the neighborhood, driving out all the drunks, panhandlers, and drug dealers.
Or maybe things will actually be fine. Maybe the AN people should bake a nice pie and take it over to the DhO group to welcome them to the new neighborhood. Couldn't hurt. Especially since some of us are the same people!
If your engines do not allow you to set wood background textures then you know they are terrible 
Yup, definitely warmer than white with blue accents
The new theme is imho the least of an issue and I actually like it. Few technical issues need to be resolved and it will be imho good. Little sterile but on the other hand topic of this community is vipassana so less thing to note is easier on the brain ;)
The new theme is imho the least of an issue and I actually like it. Few technical issues need to be resolved and it will be imho good. Little sterile but on the other hand topic of this community is vipassana so less thing to note is easier on the brain ;)
Chris Marti ...an attempt to mend several schisms
shargrol never! semper schisming!
Borges, another schismatic:
"The explanation is obvious. The Garden of Forking Paths is a picture, incomplete yet not false, of the universe such as Ts'ui Pen conceived it to be. Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In another, you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these very same words, but am an error, a phantom."
and yet you have the nerve to talk about basic sanity!
