I was just browsing through the memberlist for the forum and something stood out. I noticed that two thirds of the members on this forum have signed up within the past year. I also noticed this forum was created in August of 2001, making it about five years old. That means that only one third of the members signed up over the first four years of this forums history, while the majority two thirds have signed up over a period of just one year. Another thing is that the increase in members was fairly steady for the first four years. Except 2004, which only had members joining within the first two months. Then there were no new members between the months of February 2004 and June 2005.
It just made me curious, and wonder why the sudden explosion of members to this forum in the past year. Was something changed on the site to make it more accessable to the public? In my case I wasn't even looking for anything on the internet that had to do with this forum or any subjects discussed on it. I just accidentally stumbled upon The Thinking Man's Minefield and eventually found my way to the forum. I get the impression that most other members have also unintentionally ended up here.
Any explanations from the senior members?
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Rask0lnik0v
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I have an explanation for you, Nick. I joined this message forum at least 2 years ago, and then about a year ago the forum got hacked along with a lot of the forums on ezboard.com. Then Quinn and Drowden changed to phpBB. When they changed, I got a new membership instead of trying to have my account reinstated from before. I'm guessing when the forum crashed, a lot of people just signed up for a new account, starting about a year ago.
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MKFaizi
I think it is obvious that the swell had to do with the change from ezboard.
Hard to believe that the forum has been around for five years..sniff..sniff..Why, I remember back in the day, I had to walk five miles in internet snow just to get here..dial-up..nearly missed my father's heart attack ..and before that, there was Genius List. Started in 1997. Those were the days -- when men were men and cunts were cunts. Young'uns here can't even picture the glory days of Genius. Back then, enlightenment mumbo jumbo was just a sideline. I mean, enlightenment was always the issue but there were some spectacular cage fights and several decent writers.
Genius List was a daily slug fest. The beginning members were naive and unguarded. It was a fairly small intimate group that would discuss anything anywhere.
Well, there is much to be said for the more intimate setting and as much to be said for the larger forum.
Personally -- and I realize this causes many people to ridicule me and to not take me seriously -- I am not interested in the oh-so-serious discussions that go on upstairs. To me, enlightenment is not something you fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. I don't believe that one becomes enlightened because one says this thing or that thing or fits one piece to another piece.
It can happen that way, I reckon. But, in the way that I go, it is something that comes about through truly introspective thought, without restriction. It ain't church. You just hammer it out until -- well, something like spontaeneous combustion. I don't mean that it is something magical or that cannot be explained. You just beat the anvil until it ignites.
This is why I am protective of this unsavory Genius-ho forum. Mentally, I am a miner. A miner knows that he must sift through a lot of silt to come to the motherlode.
You can talk about enlightenment and talk about enlightenment and talk about enlightenment. Talking about it ain't doing it.
I am regularly accused of yakking about daily life and job and kids. I have thought about those accusations and I have decided: Fuck it. Yakking is yakking. As much yakking goes on upstairs in Genius Heaven as I could ever do. At least, I don't pretend to be on the road to Buddhahood when I ain't.
Somewhere, Sue warned me that this forum is not meant for one with a cup of coffee or glass of wine to come here and yammer. Is it, then, meant for one without a glass of wine or a cup of coffee to come here and yammer?
Yakkety yak is yakkety yak.
All ways to enlightenment are different. There is no way. And that is not to say that "anything goes." It is to say that there are other paths than the path of overt study and purity. One does not have to speak of Buddha to know Buddha. One does not have to speak of God to know God.
One who is enlightened does not have to proclaim it.
Faizi
Hard to believe that the forum has been around for five years..sniff..sniff..Why, I remember back in the day, I had to walk five miles in internet snow just to get here..dial-up..nearly missed my father's heart attack ..and before that, there was Genius List. Started in 1997. Those were the days -- when men were men and cunts were cunts. Young'uns here can't even picture the glory days of Genius. Back then, enlightenment mumbo jumbo was just a sideline. I mean, enlightenment was always the issue but there were some spectacular cage fights and several decent writers.
Genius List was a daily slug fest. The beginning members were naive and unguarded. It was a fairly small intimate group that would discuss anything anywhere.
Well, there is much to be said for the more intimate setting and as much to be said for the larger forum.
Personally -- and I realize this causes many people to ridicule me and to not take me seriously -- I am not interested in the oh-so-serious discussions that go on upstairs. To me, enlightenment is not something you fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. I don't believe that one becomes enlightened because one says this thing or that thing or fits one piece to another piece.
It can happen that way, I reckon. But, in the way that I go, it is something that comes about through truly introspective thought, without restriction. It ain't church. You just hammer it out until -- well, something like spontaeneous combustion. I don't mean that it is something magical or that cannot be explained. You just beat the anvil until it ignites.
This is why I am protective of this unsavory Genius-ho forum. Mentally, I am a miner. A miner knows that he must sift through a lot of silt to come to the motherlode.
You can talk about enlightenment and talk about enlightenment and talk about enlightenment. Talking about it ain't doing it.
I am regularly accused of yakking about daily life and job and kids. I have thought about those accusations and I have decided: Fuck it. Yakking is yakking. As much yakking goes on upstairs in Genius Heaven as I could ever do. At least, I don't pretend to be on the road to Buddhahood when I ain't.
Somewhere, Sue warned me that this forum is not meant for one with a cup of coffee or glass of wine to come here and yammer. Is it, then, meant for one without a glass of wine or a cup of coffee to come here and yammer?
Yakkety yak is yakkety yak.
All ways to enlightenment are different. There is no way. And that is not to say that "anything goes." It is to say that there are other paths than the path of overt study and purity. One does not have to speak of Buddha to know Buddha. One does not have to speak of God to know God.
One who is enlightened does not have to proclaim it.
Faizi
