wolfdancer
06-05-2003, 04:32 PM
With apologies to the septuagenarian gentleman, a retired Air Force fighter jet pilot and systems engineer, that authored this for another site:
What is "The CCB"?
It is often a window on the souls of its members.
And a window on our own souls is often opened when we read what
Others write here.
It is lessons on life......"and pool"
Chess strategies.
Investment in markets, life, family, nation and the future.
It can be and often is profound and superficial; deep and shallow
and always enlightening, even when a writer may not be.
It sends out tendrils seeking answers and finds them, coiled about
ideas we would never have found alone.
The CCB lives and throbs with the insights, prejudices, wants and
experiences of the members.
There is a selection process at work here, as some find an
intellectual home ... others move in for a while and then move on.
Those who remain don't always agree and contention boils up, simmers
and fades, sometimes leaving a residue of hostility but never, never boredom.
The CCB is ephemeral.
Although there are rumors that somewhere everything ever posted on
the Web is archived, the sheer quantity of material generated makes that
less than credible.
So our moving fingers write, and having writ move on, leaving little
more than fading memories, but building new ideas and broadening the
thinking of we who read, and answer, and ponder, blending what is read
into a tapestry that, but for the CCB would never have been woven.
Surely we, the weavers are much the better for it, and must
acknowledge the debt each of us owes to each other, and to the two who first spread
the warp and the woof.
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The above article with the word "list" replaced by "CCB" was copied from the dailyspeculations site
What is "The CCB"?
It is often a window on the souls of its members.
And a window on our own souls is often opened when we read what
Others write here.
It is lessons on life......"and pool"
Chess strategies.
Investment in markets, life, family, nation and the future.
It can be and often is profound and superficial; deep and shallow
and always enlightening, even when a writer may not be.
It sends out tendrils seeking answers and finds them, coiled about
ideas we would never have found alone.
The CCB lives and throbs with the insights, prejudices, wants and
experiences of the members.
There is a selection process at work here, as some find an
intellectual home ... others move in for a while and then move on.
Those who remain don't always agree and contention boils up, simmers
and fades, sometimes leaving a residue of hostility but never, never boredom.
The CCB is ephemeral.
Although there are rumors that somewhere everything ever posted on
the Web is archived, the sheer quantity of material generated makes that
less than credible.
So our moving fingers write, and having writ move on, leaving little
more than fading memories, but building new ideas and broadening the
thinking of we who read, and answer, and ponder, blending what is read
into a tapestry that, but for the CCB would never have been woven.
Surely we, the weavers are much the better for it, and must
acknowledge the debt each of us owes to each other, and to the two who first spread
the warp and the woof.
***************
The above article with the word "list" replaced by "CCB" was copied from the dailyspeculations site