Quote from: friends1980 on August 30, 2020, 09:06:59 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on August 30, 2020, 06:50:18 PM

Quote from: Last of the V8s on August 30, 2020, 06:39:13 PM

Quote from: friends1980 on August 30, 2020, 06:16:57 PM

Another important question: why do I feel as if I'm in the Ivory Tower?

Quality of discussion today has been terrific. We're allowed to veer off topic roughly speaking if there's consensus on the new topic.

Seems to me that friends1980 has been diverted from his original mission in this here thread, which was supposed to be reading the whole thread and reporting his various findings back to us on a periodic basis.

Get back to your duties, friends1980!!!!!!! Angry

Got me

but eerrrm, looks like you don't read everything either, since I posted about my "mission" weeks ago already Wink

You are correct that I do not read everything in this thread. I came to this thread around page 6560 (my first post on the forum, too), and probably, I only sporadically read through some of the pages that were already in existence prior to my entering the thread... perhaps the first 10 pages of the thread and then here and there through the next 6,500 plus pages.

I do recall seeing a couple of reports from you in this thread regarding some of your thread reading progress in recent times, but surely not as many reports that I had anticipated in the event that you had been really spending some time reading through WO historical posts.

Through the years, we have had a decent number of members who have gone back and who have brought up some historical thread posts, from time to time, and sometimes those posts are enlightening and relevant, and other times they are embarrassing. Go figure. We do not always either get things right nor do we stay consistent with the passage of time... of course, a decent amount of individual variance in these regards, too.

Quote from: friends1980 on August 30, 2020, 09:06:59 PM

I got off to eat something about 2 hours ago, and now that I'm back, about 22 posts were added already. How the hell am I supposed to read the whole thing?

Hey.. .don't be so disgruntled. Tongue

It's NOT like any of us is imposing any duties upon you. You are the one who proclaimed that you were planning on reading the whole thread. Surely, I am not completely clear about how you are going to achieve your objective, but you are the one who proclaimed to have such an objective.

From the start, I had pretty much proclaimed that I was not exactly a fan of your proposal and I was a bit unclear about how you were going to be able to fulfill such proposal.. here's my responsive post:

Quote from: JayJuanGee on July 01, 2020, 07:35:39 PM

Quote from: friends1980 on July 01, 2020, 02:08:21 PM

After almost 3 years on these boards, I've never really dared to take the leap to visiting this thread. I'm wondering how much time I'd need to start reading the WO from the very first post all the way to the last one. I'm also wondering if it'd deliver me inner peace or other life-changing insights.

I sense the seducing perfume of a challenge...

how many pages do you believe that you could reasonably read per day while attempting to maintain inner peace? and/or to absorb such content in order to potentially work towards life-changing insights?

Even if you would be able to read 50 pages per day, it would take you 542 days, just to catch up to our current page count, so at that pace, it would not be unreasonable to project 2 years of your time (close to full time)... not sure if it would be a self-satisfying project, unless you were to give us daily or weekly summaries of your findings, which would just cause you to have to read fewer pages per day, and end up generating more pages that you would have to read if you were to engage in some kind of meaningful (inner peace and/or life-changing insights) kind of reporting of your progress.

Without more of an explanation (beyond a desire for inner peace or vague concepts of what would be life-changing insights), I am not a fan of your proposal... even though such a project probably would change your life.. just conceptually, I am not sure if it would be changed in a preferred direction.

Quote from: friends1980 on August 30, 2020, 09:06:59 PM

Can we start a fund to provide my financial support during my reading of the complete WO?

I doubt that very many WO members would be very receptive to that kind of a fundraiser idea for your own voluntary proclamation and also little follow through from you, so far.

On the other hand, since so far you have not seemed to have received much if any meaningful backlash from the mere proposal of a fund raiser, maybe taking the next step of setting up a special BTC donation address will inspire some members to donate to such fund (in the event that they do not red trust you)? Hey, you gotta break some eggs, if you want to make an omlet, right?

Quote from: friends1980 on August 30, 2020, 09:06:59 PM

(and by the way, there was an even older WO before this one, if I'm not mistaken, so make that 2 funds)

Have you made nearly zero progress on reviewing and reporting back on that thread, too? Seems that you are going to be rolling in the dough with all the hypothetical funds that are going to be generated from these so far paper-tiger efforts. Wink