ryyannon

Yeah, I mean, maybe it was just that kind of a day for that 13-year-old: the kind of day when you just chuck it all and hang yourself. Happens all the time. Why blame a 50-year-old adult woman - even though it has already been demonstrated that she very carefully orchestrated the whole scam over a period of weeks: slowly reeling the girl in emotionally by means of a make-believe boyfriend of her own invention - and then dumping her brutally with a final online message. So why blame her? It's not like she was intentionally trying to hurt the girl: she was just funning! We've become a soft, nanny-coddling society full of snivelling victims. /sarcasm off. Addendum: Even if the girl's mother was a crack ho', her father a child abuser and her brother Frankenstein, there would be even less mitigating circumstances for baiting such an obviously emotionally fragile individual. @Blobzor: Speaking of mitigating circumstances, are you French by any chance?

I heard from her recently; she'll be back as soon as she can escape from Auntie Fritzl.

Spend some quality time in the village of Ubud.

Great photos, Ken....and despite my humbled silence, worth literally thousands of words.

Yes indeed, ...umm...Nanuq. More zeriously, well said, and of course: no problem at all with that idea. You could push it even further with the hypothesis that a certain percentage of these people were unconsciously driven by that very objective and destiny in the first place (or should we say the last): to simply disappear.

Hmm.....

Sure, Mr. sssurfer, help yourself...

Well, there you have it folks. So far around the bend that he's living proof of the concept of curved space. Decency demands that we change the subject.

Instead of patting ourselves on our backs, I think someone should give a enema to The Shortest Thread Ever.... (grabs HazMat suit and runs for cover...)

Actually, it turns one's brain into something far worse than that. But irrespective and irregardless of that irritating reality, the attentive reader has doubtlessly noticed the duplicitous 'Nanuq's' inadvertent demonstration of his mastery of foreign languages. I rest my case. Is it full-blown Dissociative Identity Disorder, or just cabin fever, Nanuq? Being chased around by Polar Bears and attacked by large man-eating antlered Arctic Mice seems to have taken its toll....

By the way - and for the misguided who imagine that ryyannon is just blowing soap bubbles out of his...um... nostrils every time he posts - just check out this little bit of news, first reported by ryyannon himself (in concert with his old friend, Special Agent 'iblake') three years ago in one of the most informative threads ever to appear on the old RWG: http://www.replica-watches-guide.com/forum...6384&st=120 and this item, right off the April 11 news wire of the AFP: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i-EetM...1QWRvLzMWPE2wjA My natural modesty prevented me from bringing the latest news concerning Victor Bout to the attention of the forum earlier, but following Nanuq's attack on my use of the word 'irregardless' (not to mention my speling skills), I feel that honor demands that I re-establish my overall credibility - irrespective of the fact that despite his increasingly frantic claims to the contrary, Nanuq himself is very certainly Victoria Barrett's alter-ego!

Yikes! And I always thought the plural of 'moose' was mice.... You learn something every day reading RWG! As for the mysterious disappearance of Vicky (and the sudden reapparance of that guy in Alaska), I earlier suggested that they were one and the same. With the passage of time, I'm beginning to think I was right.

Hey, thanks for the offer! I'd love to read it. One of the many ironies of my life is that despite receiving an

In pics two and three, it looks like he's mildly amused. Afterwards, it really does look like he's cutting to the chase.... Does it ever help to carry a Mars Bar or a ham sandwich to lob over in the opposite direction - sort of like spare change for a panhandler?

The whole system runs on the insane desire to be able to develop rational systems to predict with certainty what's going to happen tomorrow - plus the tons of grants and government money that gets thrown at anyone claiming to be able to be able to do so - or at least working on the idea. Personally, I find that using an online Tarot reading produces excellent results and has the merit of being free. The worst part about it is how accurate it can be - along with the cororllary of how difficult it is to face reality - or often just to see it - particularly when it's staring you in the face, warts and all. The toughest part is understanding that it's you.

It's a very good article and it goes a long way in explaining the messes that managers, specialists, politicians and any idiot with a bit of power are creating for the rest of us. As Crichton says (sort of, somewhere) "A bit of f

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=78...84634&hl=en Or read the whole enchilada: http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-complexity.html Excerpt: "We live in a world of complex systems. The environment is a complex system. The government is a complex system. Financial markets are complex systems. The human mind is a complex system---most minds, at least. By a complex system I mean one in which the elements of the system interact among themselves, such that any modification we make to the system will produce results that we cannot predict in advance. Furthermore, a complex system demonstrates sensitivity to initial conditions. You can get one result on one day, but the identical interaction the next day may yield a different result. We cannot know with certainty how the system will respond. Third, when we interact with a complex system, we may provoke downstream consequences that emerge weeks or even years later. We must always be watchful for delayed and untoward consequences. The science that underlies our understanding of complex systems is now thirty years old. A third of a century should be plenty of time for this knowledge and to filter down to everyday consciousness, but except for slogans

Another little-known fact: Mahhatten is really spelled Manhattan

You did the right thing. Just because they didn't is no reason to sink to their level of disconnection and indifference towards others - in fact, that would in some way only validate the correctness of their miserable attitude. Keep doing what you know is right. And the next time someone pulls up with a whole moving van into their driveway and proceeds to empty their place while they're on holiday, be sure offer the guys a cold beer! Oh, and don't bother with the camera.

People have finally understood that they shouldn't post here.

God, that's heart-wrenching! Where can we send the emergency Guiness rations?

I work very hard at being a perfectly awful person.

You're absolutely right, Slay, and I'm the guy who's pulling his strings. Cope with that, sukka! @giorgio: Damn straight his whole postion is biased! I wouldn't trust anyone who wasn't: he's not trying to be some kind of impartial clinical scientist; he states his postion (what you call his 'bias') clearly and then backs it up with hard fact and empirical observation - all the way down to describing how dangerous it was to pilot the zhitbucket fighter jet that Bush did, having flown the same pig himself. Who ever taught you that to be credible, a position had to be 'unbiased'? Sounds like dreadful PC/muticultural/relativist groupthink...

@Raijor: Now, that looks like an interesting list. I've read a bit of Bateson as well as the (I believe it was) Stanford/Santa Cruz? group that he was associated with, and although it was I long time ago, I remember that it was good. I don't know if it's related information, but the Systemic Analyist Mony Elkheim drew on Bateson's work to develop his theories of the interactions in dysfunctional families which I greatly enjoyed reading - being an entire dysfunctional family unto myself. Your descriptions make me want to Google up some info on these guys and see what's up with them; thanks for posting them.