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Posted Dec 23 2009 - 09:27 AM: Subject: couch hiatus	#1
hi everyone, i'm sorry to announce that the couch forum will begin a hiatus of indefinite length beginning january 1, 2010. i have a lot of things going on in my personal life right now, one of which involves taking care of my mother whose health has seriously deteriorated in recent months. hence i would rather take an official break here than watch the couch suffer for months from my neglect, as i have seen happen in other forums. so, what this means is the couch will be closed to accepting any new members or posts after december 31. no winter newsletter either, sorry fellas. there have been a lot of great discussions here, and all the topics will still be available for viewing during the hiatus. i hope to eventually re-open the forum to active discussion, maybe in the spring. i will post a note to all the registered members if / when the forum re-opens. lib
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Posted Dec 23 2009 - 10:01 AM:	#2
"taking care of my mother whose health has seriously deteriorated in recent months" The proper choice, I think, when you love someone. Good luck! Let us know when the doors open again... --Henry
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Posted Dec 24 2009 - 09:34 AM:	#3
Sorry to hear your mother is not doing well, lib. I hope for the best for her, you and your family. We'll miss you, and we'll miss the couch too. Best wishes to all for 2010. See you around, folks !
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Posted Dec 24 2009 - 11:17 AM:	#4
Take care everyone. peace
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Posted Dec 25 2009 - 12:24 AM:	#5
Sorry to hear that. Good luck to your mother. For what it's worth, PF has been fine without me doing any admining for most of the last year. Different situation though since there were already several other admins there who took progressive responsibility over a long period. Edited by Paul on Dec 25 2009 - 12:28 AM

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Posted Dec 25 2009 - 11:54 PM:	#6
thanks guys
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Posted Dec 26 2009 - 11:21 AM:	#7
Thanks for being such a great host and best wishes to you and your mother, Libertygrl.
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Posted Dec 26 2009 - 04:00 PM:	#8
Hope all turns out well!

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Posted Dec 27 2009 - 12:26 PM:	#9
Sorry to hear about your mom, lib. Wish to lend you a helping and I'd give you a if you were here

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Posted Dec 28 2009 - 07:46 AM:	#10
So: any suggestions as to a place where a Grendel might go, hang his hat, sip coffee, and have 'conversation'?
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Posted Dec 28 2009 - 01:58 PM:	#11
I've been pissing 'round a bit in the Dissident Philosophy Forum Nancy Drew offered up a while back. It bites, but it does have its pluses...
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Posted Dec 30 2009 - 12:46 AM:	#12
hrm. I mistrust philosophy forums who put forward ideas or attitudes towards philosophy. But I'll be taking a look around. Probably pass through there too. Cheers.
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Posted Dec 30 2009 - 08:15 AM:	#13
The Dissident Philosophy forum is less about 'philosophy' or 'philosophizing' than it is about a bunch of communitarians sitting around kvetching about the evils of the debbil, 'capitalism'...utopian schemes are offered up, ass-kissing and pedantism run rampant. For me: it's shooting fish in a barrel...
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Posted Dec 30 2009 - 08:41 AM:	#14
I'm going to take a chance here and post a link to a forum I frequent since the couch will be unavailable for a while. There aren't many forums if any that can replace the couch's quality of conversation and libertygrls leadership. Much of the conversation in this other forum is lite but there are some of us that like to dig a little deeper when we can. Some of you will probably fit in really well and others probably will not, but all of you are welcome to try it out. My user name there is Ahso!. Hope to see you there. If not I'll see you when the couch reopens. http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/

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Posted Dec 30 2009 - 09:31 AM:	#15
cripes wrote: There aren't many forums if any that can replace the couch's quality of conversation and libertygrls leadership. Ain't that the truth!! I'll be hanging around the Tao Bums (http://www.thetaobums.com/) as Astral Monk. Need to increase my learning of qigong and kundalini. And I'll probably still lurk at Islamic Board (http://www.islamicboard.com/) so I can get angry and yell at religion, lol. Allah knows best. Thanks to all for making the couch an expressive, stimulating, creative atmosphere. We'll miss it! Until then,
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Posted Dec 31 2009 - 10:04 AM:	#16
cool, thanks for posting the links guys and for the positive contributions here too everyone. you guys rock.
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Posted May 21 2010 - 09:05 PM:	#17
couch hiatus is hereby officially over! cheers,
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Posted May 21 2010 - 10:33 PM:	#18
p.s. i sent an email notifying all members, not sure if anyone received it. i didn't receive it myself (yet).
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Posted May 21 2010 - 10:59 PM:	#19
Well, I wondered that nobody said a word here and thought it’s a dead end over here ;-) like all long roads do end somewhere even in the US ;-)
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Posted May 22 2010 - 06:29 AM:	#20
libertygrl wrote: p.s. i sent an email notifying all members, not sure if anyone received it. i didn't receive it myself (yet). I got it!

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Posted May 22 2010 - 06:35 AM:	#21
ah, good it said "all members" so i wasn't sure if it would include me on the recipient list
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Posted May 22 2010 - 09:07 AM:	#22
no problem I got it too
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Posted May 22 2010 - 04:59 PM:	#23
Finally...now I can continue to rant about all the things that are important to me! BTW, have yall SEEN the 'mascots' for the 2012 olympics? A most blatant form of occultism. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Listen well, o' unbelievers: Round tha clock, tha Monk don' stop! "My prayer is not to live in fear but to have faith in God and pray that your actions will be timeous and effective." --Nico Uys --- Sow, sow, sow your dope, gently near the stream...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is good with green! A substructural paraconsistent turbo polar robot

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Posted May 23 2010 - 05:54 PM:	#24
Hooray! By the way lib. I think I lost my post editing abilities.
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Posted May 24 2010 - 04:18 PM:	#25
hyena in petticoat wrote: Hooray! By the way lib. I think I lost my post editing abilities. will look into it
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