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How Has Barbelith Affected You?

 
  

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Captain Zoom
23:11 / 06.05.02
Now, I know this will be one of those topics that gets the "We've seen this before", but in light of all the discussions of the nature and purpose of the board, I thought this might be interesting.

What affect has Barbelith had on your life? Negative or positive, serious or humourous.

For me, I have met, by way of the board, a person I now consider to be one of my closest friends, whom I love quite dearly.
I have become involved in a really exciting comics project that finally got me off my ass to write a few scripts.
I am talking with people from all over the world, which I think is just cool.
It has given me a support system of sorts. If I am down, or worried about the store, I can bitch about it here and some will cheer me, some will sympathize, some will make me laugh. This is a very supportive community.
It has, at times, pissed me off so much that it's affected my whole day.

I'm sure there's other stuff, but these are the ones that came to mind just now. I realized this is total navel-gazing, but it's also another way of evaluating the affect and direction Barbelith has taken, and will take.

And it in Conversation, so if no one's interested, it'll disappear pretty quickly. So there.

Zoom.
 
 
Rage
23:18 / 06.05.02
It's sure put things in perspective for me.

I once thought I was some superhuman who nobody understood and...

Oh wait- I still do. What was I gonna say again?
 
 
the Fool
23:39 / 06.05.02
Its got me designing in a lot of ways I hadn't expected.

I'd have never designed tarot cards, if not for this place. Nor done my own comic. I get to make fun things for people, bits for peoples blogs and stuff.

It gives me a place to show some of my work, which I don't have anywhere else.

It also gives me a place to discuss metaphysical ideas that I don't get to discuss anywhere else as well.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:01 / 07.05.02
Its given me a place to realise how much I love pirates and a chance to prove my father wrong when he said I'd never use anything I learned my "investigating pirates" college class in real-life. And im sure much more that I havent realised yet but will see if I can get a shot for it when I do.
 
 
Margin Walker
05:51 / 07.05.02
Zoom wrote: For me, I have met, by way of the board, a person I now consider to be one of my closest friends, whom I love quite dearly.

Um, is your wife aware of this clandestine tryst you're having with Moriarty?
 
 
suds
11:47 / 07.05.02
it has taught me a bunch about ninjas and it has stopped me getting my thesis done in time.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:03 / 07.05.02
Hmm. That's a hard question to answer, maybe a bit easier to answer by people other than me. Now, if you asked me how Barbelith has effected me, it might be a little easier on me, and a lot of other people I suspect.
 
 
w1rebaby
12:24 / 07.05.02
effected? Well, I suppose Barbelith may have effected your suit. Sort of. Perhaps you and Barbelith could be considered its parents, bridging that human-computer sex divide. Apart from that though...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:31 / 07.05.02
You bring up a good point: It really should read "what effect has Barbelith had on you?"

I would hope that you are all not affecting change due to yr exposure to Barbelith...that would be disappointing, don't you think?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:40 / 07.05.02
Young men, there's a place you can go...
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:14 / 07.05.02
it has taught me new brands of snooty affectations
 
 
Ierne
14:30 / 07.05.02
It's given me a deeper appreciation of sentence structure, grammar, and the other unsung heroes of communication by writing...
 
 
grant
15:03 / 07.05.02
It slows down my work speed, but gives me lovely bizarre leads.

Balances out, overall.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:40 / 07.05.02
I feel so unwound now... I get to be a bodiless entity.
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:09 / 07.05.02
I forgot to add that it's raised my blood pressure.

(Guess it's a good thing I never became an English teacher, huh, you bastards)

Zoom.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:32 / 07.05.02
It has kept me out of trouble since the Hindu Love God went south...
 
 
bio k9
17:40 / 07.05.02
It cuts into my porn time.

But not much.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
11:13 / 08.05.02
What has this board done for me?

Showed me the way to Chaos magick and how to make it a part of my life, given me people to talk to about my interests and created a kind of community that was missing, got me to push myself creatively and finally convinced me to quit working in the corporate world and killing my soul doing it and work full-time in social services.

I love you guys. We should all get a big house together.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:39 / 08.05.02
but imagine the arguments!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:48 / 08.05.02
Barbelith has:

Provided me with something resembling a social life during the dark days of engineering studenthood

Been a veritable mine of useful info and advice

Been a source of support

Been a place to explore ideas

Made me finally bite the bullet and go for writing as a career.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
13:49 / 08.05.02
It has reminded me that I probably will never be able to remember all of the rules required to become a productive and inoffensive member of society and yet it has compelled me to try.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
15:25 / 08.05.02
this place has me looking for homoerotic subtext everywhere in the mass media now.

i know more about drugs i havent tried

left me with somewhere to go when people in RL made my few refuges uncomfortable
 
 
SMS
23:01 / 08.05.02
It's strange. I've gotten more conservative. I think it might be your (barbelith's) fault.
 
 
Tamayyurt
05:15 / 09.05.02
Again talking to people from all over the world is just cool. It learned me about Chaos Magick and got me traveling. Also,I wouldn't have written Godshead 3 & 4 with nicomouse.
 
 
Cat Chant
15:01 / 09.05.02
this place has me looking for homoerotic subtext everywhere in the mass media now.

My work here is done.

< Deva scatters a benevolent smile down upon everyone and fades out of sight, quite possibly with lame 70's wobbly special-effect >

Seriously, though - it has added a number of vocal and intelligent interlocutors to the cast of people with whom I argue in my head, and hence sorted out my thoughts on a variety of things, or created ongoing dialogues which one day might become thoughts. But why should they? Ongoing imaginary dialogues are better than concepts.

It has given me a few moments of intense happiness, and a lot of moments of contentment & pleasure.

It has made me really pissed off on many occasions.

It has sparked several pleasant gossip sessions with the lamentably absent bluestocking.

It has made me feel like part of a 'scene'.

It gave me a fucking excellent May Day.

It has made me laugh a lot.

It has introduced me to Philip K Dick, who is indeed a genius (thanks, Frances - are you still here, btw? Are you called something else now?)

It has reminded me that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in the Theory barracks at Gauda Prime.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:00 / 09.05.02
"this place has me looking for homoerotic subtext everywhere..."

I'd already been doing that pretty much since I found out what gay was, but the 'Lith has legitimized it.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
19:04 / 09.05.02
Hmmm. Never really looked for homoerotic subtext, it's the autoerotic subtext that makes me laugh.
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
20:12 / 09.05.02
It got me laid.

hile traveling, I stayed with a girl I met on the board, went out on the town with her, and met another girl -- who shagged me.
 
 
Cat Chant
10:32 / 10.05.02
Oh my God - and the other night I had this really bizarre dream that Tom had just washed his hands of barbelith and... this bit is kind of hazy. I think he just sold it to some random corporation or something, but then my brain rebelled against this concept & I managed to wrench the dream into a better place whereby lick my plums, bitch, took over. So it's clearly got into my subconscious.
 
 
Sax
10:42 / 10.05.02
I had a dream the other night that I met Ganesh and Haus in a pub in London, but they wouldn't speak to me because I was wearing a suit.

Bizarrely, I now have a quite definite picture of what they both look like as suggested by my dream, although I've met neither nor seen pictures of them.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:12 / 10.05.02
Go on, Sax - tell all. I am eeenterested.
 
 
Sax
13:23 / 10.05.02
I don't know if I should. Okay, go on then:

Dream Haus was tall, quite thin and wearing a black T-shirt. He had very straight hair cut in a straight line across his forehead (this isn't me, rememnber, it's my subconscious) and had the general air of someone who'd been through a very unorthodox schooling system of the kind where lectures are attended voluntary and they let you play with toy guns in lessons. One eyebrow was permanently arched in a very knowing manner.

Dream Ganesh had a well-tended goatee beard and sharply-cut hair, brushed back. Good cheekbones, as I recall, and twinkling eyes. My dream-self was obviously in a paranoid mood so I felt like the eyes were laughing at me.

Presumably all this is rather wide of the mark. But you did ask.
 
 
Ariadne
13:29 / 10.05.02
It's stopped me doing any work at work and any writing at home. Not that I ever did much.
And Sax, that's decidedly scary. Are you sure you haven't been skulking around behind pot plants at Barbe-meets?
 
 
Sax
13:45 / 10.05.02
Astral projecting, maybe. Do they really look anything at all like that?
 
 
Ariadne
13:48 / 10.05.02
I think I'll leave that to the chaps themselves to say. But it's certainly pretty close to how they look in my dreams.
 
  

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