Hello All. I'm a new member. ;)

Serenity · Post by **Serenity** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:15 am

HI! I just joined yesterday. First of all, i just want to say i love the way this forum covers all the topics that are so relevant for us to know of today's world....I can't understand why most people i know, wish to remain so ignorant. Oh well.

Secondly, this has got to be the first forumgroup of members i've had the fortune of hearing such positive comments. I've seen no flaming to speak of, and SOOOO much informative content.

I'll just leave a little about me, so you know who the guy behind "Serenity" handle is.

I'm 21 and live in B.C. Canada.

Ever since i was about 10, i've had an increasingly developing fear/impatience of not becoming a person in poverty.

It is.only until just recently that i've started to get a slow grasp on the cycle of our society. School never made much sense to me, and i always new that there was something more in EVERYTHING the world's told me, then to what there really was goin on behind the scenes.

(After having read "Rich dad Poor Dad", it was very clear to understand how school educates you to be employed. I guess i could sense it, yet it never clicked."

Politics/ World Affairs and wealth has basically become my life.......i'm not exactly happy about it...... My friends are worried for they think i'm becoming overconsumed trying to understand the world in a matter and get wealthy too soon with too much pressure.

Personally , i don't think i'm committing myself enough! I think not enough people try to inform themselves about what the world leaders are doing that influences our very lives, that everybody has a hard time trying to make easier and don't understand how to.

My main motivation behind everything I'm currently doing seems to be "Delayed Gratification" ...post-poning my immediate daily enjoyment in order to get out of our daily "rat race" lives.

I'm always searching for beneficial influence in order to achieve such desires, and that has what -to my great fortune- has lead me here.

I'm hoping to network with people here, so we can all come out on top of the "game".

Thanks everybody!

Fraser

digitalfog · Post by **digitalfog** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:35 pm

Glad you're here! The more the merrier!

Serenity · Post by **Serenity** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:39 am

jayboy wrote: :p Welcome. You have joined a great discussion group. My favorite big band, Rob Mc Connel is out of Canada, as is Peter Jennings. Many Canadians deliver good times for me. I will look for your threads.

well, the general canadian attitude is that of a light-hearted nature.

I know we come across to americans as beer swillin, bacon lovin, igloo owners but it's quite funny how most of us think we're "peace lovin americans" with better health-care! haha (though that's debatable :rolleyes: )

I'm not sure how we ever landed that "Mr. nice country" gig, because i find a lot of people are fuggin arrogant here as much as anywhere.

I think the big difference that sets Canadians and Americans apart, is that Americans have more drive. want to see more results. and are just more profit-driven. Though that can be experienced here too, there's such a slack canadian attitude of what i refer to as "retirement before you work".

lots of canadians see Americans as the destroyers of all things green and comfortable, but i think the real truth of the matter is we just sit back, let americans take the heat for the advancements- then bring them across the line and get comfortable on that lifestyle ourselves- and as a result we're that much less innovative and that much more a consumer rather then a competitive producer.

i guess you can call that balance.

It's sure discouraging when you're trying to be the next up and coming capitalist in a social wel-fare state.

I once spoke to a dentist who had friends in washington, in the same practice.

he told me this. " The main difference between the US and CAN is in the US you're encouraged to make money". For me- that was enough said. haha.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:15 am

Welcome Serenity,

Buzzard here from a little place with big mouths called Ireland. :-5

Clatteringford · Post by **Clatteringford** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:06 am

Hello and welcome

clatteringford.com

redman · Post by **redman** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:27 pm

Welcome mate, look forward to some debates,or news...........

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:29 pm

Hello Serenity!:)

jbbarker1947 · Post by **jbbarker1947** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:32 pm

Welcome to the Garden.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:34 pm

I don't understand this thread. It seems to have got bumped from August 2004???? Why???

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:35 pm

Uhh...guys? Serenity posted this intro on August 21st, 2004. I don't think she's coming back. :yh_bigsmi

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:41 pm

I must be Elmo.....................

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:42 pm

G'day Elmo, and welcome to Forum Garden where there are lots of great people and we all know you'll hava ball. Steer clear of Nomad.. grin

THIS HAS BEEN A RECORDING...

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:43 pm

:wah:

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:44 pm

Bumped by a newbie who's been here since Aug. '05 and has nine total

posts... gave me a giggle!!

:yh_giggle

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:47 pm

So we've got a new thread to romp in!! All is grist to our well honed FG mill ! Sermons in stones. Flowers in deserts. Limericks in dustbowls. Butter in fridges

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:52 pm

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:52 pm

valerie wrote: Bumped by a newbie who's been here since Aug. '05 and has nine total

posts... gave me a giggle!!

:yh_giggle
It makes you giggle and it kinda annoys me. Why people don't look at the dates on threads is beyond me....:-5

Course, pretty much everything annoys me these days. :-2

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:54 pm

Well, any old excuse to bump...............

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:35 pm

BabyRider wrote: It makes you giggle and it kinda annoys me. Why people don't look at the dates on threads is beyond me....:-5

Course, pretty much everything annoys me these days. :-2

Oh, I was guilty of not looking a time er two. But this seems more than

just not looking, it would have taken quite a bit of digging to bump this

I'd think. Somebody goes through what 10-20 pages of introductions

to get to it? Weird, indeed.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:39 pm

Pinky, Clatteringford bumped it.

A quick check of Aug. '04 Introductions shows they are on

page 35. I smell something fishy and it ain't Pagnes. A minion

again? Honest "mistake"? Who the heck knows...

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:51 pm

Well, us bump-aholics can still take it over!

Hugh Janus · Post by **Hugh Janus** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:53 pm

Hmmm. I think a good look through the "back catalogue" of intro's, seems like a good idea... :rolleyes:

Maybe there are some others that need a "bump" start.... :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:58 pm

AussiePam wrote: So we've got a new thread to romp in!! All is grist to our well honed FG mill ! Sermons in stones. Flowers in deserts. Limericks in dustbowls. Butter in fridges

Ill give you a new thread to romp in ! :sneaky:

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:27 pm

OOOOOOH Nomad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT WHEN YOU TALK DURRRTY !!!! Sock it to me, Baby!!!! pant pant pant....

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:38 am

NOMAD!!

Must I tell you again to be a good boy??

redman · Post by **redman** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:30 pm

AussiePam wrote: I don't understand this thread. It seems to have got bumped from August 2004???? Why???

Well spotted,I missed it.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:33 pm

Hey, if we keep welcoming her, maybe she will come back. Think she has her email notifications set to on?? :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:35 pm

I just reread her post. It is amazing the things folks will reveal about themselves in an intro post, isn't it??

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:01 pm

I agree, Marie.

Cuts right to the chase, doesn't it?

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:18 pm

cherandbuster wrote: I agree, Marie.

Cuts right to the chase, doesn't it?

Welcome Serenity, I'm sure youll enjoy the next 2 years in the Garden :-3

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:23 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: Welcome Serenity, I'm sure youll enjoy the next 2 years in the Garden :-3

Good One !!:D

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:26 pm

Remember, though, you have to be careful of the quiet ones. THEY are the ones who come back with the tell-all book!!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:27 pm

Marie5656 wrote: Remember, though, you have to be careful of the quiet ones. THEY are the ones who come back with the tell-all book!!

:-3 Oh oh :-3

Watch out!

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:29 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Marie, you're at post 669 right now... is that the sign of the devil giving/receiving oral sex?

Sorry.:rolleyes:

***SIGH****

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:03 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Marie, you're at post 669 right now... is that the sign of the devil giving/receiving oral sex?

Sorry.:rolleyes:

:wah: :wah:

Thats right up there with the selfish cannibal reply. Im giving you a 9.9 for that one.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:06 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Marie, you're at post 669 right now... is that the sign of the devil giving/receiving oral sex?

Sorry.:rolleyes:

At the rate I am going, I should be well over 700 by the end of the weekend.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:38 pm

Go Marie go!:)