We already have an established group here; can anybody think of a good cause or two that could be addressed?

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 02, 2000

Answers

Mental Health.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 02, 2000.

'Treating' Mental Health.

-- Look (at@the.facts), January 02, 2000.

It's only just begun.

-- Charli (claypool@belatlantic.net), January 02, 2000.

Funny that we require a crisis or a "cause" to motivate us to engage in discussion. A flaw in our thinking models is we are "event- driven".

Yes, I agree that the networks which have developed from this crisis could be utilized for longer range growth.

But you have to look for the motivating factors which are driving this current engagement. People are committing hours of their time to acquire new information to enrich their gold or stock portfolios, prepped folks want to figure out if they did the right thing, told- you-so egos want to feel good, etc. We learn what has personal meaning to us.

What "cause (es)" could possibly captivate the thousands of people (or how many are we?) in this forum to be motivated to continue the conversation?

How many are here because they think it makes the world a better place when people get together and communicate? And of those few, how many of us would continue to prioritize our time for this purpose instead of the more immediacies of day-to-day personal lives?

Many of us had hoped that a slap in the face such as Y2K might be a sufficient attention-grabber to initiate a larger social learning process which is needed to deal with the longer range planetary survival issues (which technology has seeded).

I appreciate your desire to capture the moment, Al

-- Chuck (cestin@aa.net), January 02, 2000.

One of my tenants already has an online counseling service. If you feel like ya need her services, I could get her url.

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 02, 2000.

jj, This forum has brought a wonderful group of like-minded people together. It's not going to go away.

-- Charli (claypool@belatlantic.net), January 02, 2000.

How about "Time Bomb 2020," to address the environmental and population problems that may cause "the end of the world as we know it" in the next generation or so?

Or maybe "Time Bomb 2028," because we're going to relive what we're experiencing now with all the windowing that will need to be fixed?

-- (dot@dot.dot), January 02, 2000.

politicking to get to the bottom of the chemtrail issue. we had a nice haze over DC today. first time in a few days.

how about also re-impeaching clinton over the right issue this time-- china? :-)

go ahead flame me---i don't care.

-- tt (cuddluppy@nowhere.com), January 02, 2000.

Like all greenspun forums, this one will cease to be active when the myriad posters stop coming to lurk and then speak.

The day this board goes on inactive status is the day almost all of us will agree that y2k is no longer an issue, and not one minute before.

I predict we will all be lurking and posting for at least 1 more month.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), January 02, 2000.

Oh, and if you want to start a new forum for any subject (chemtrails, etc.), you can do so on Phil's new 'puters at this site:

http://greenspun.com/bboard/add-new-topic.tcl

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), January 02, 2000.

Y2K is a good topic. Let's see what's happening with it first.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 02, 2000.

How about waiting until the real time end to end testing begins in/on our system of systems. Oil and the flow of data and money will be watched closely in the weeks ahead. Time tells this story as it does most others.

-- Blew5M (gaf@mindspring.com), January 02, 2000.

Orwelliator, you may be interested in Phil's current 'new board' notice:

Sorry but we aren't accepting new bboards until after January 1 (having some serious performance problems with this ancient machine due to Y2K fanatics trying to download hundreds of thousands of messages onto their desktops).

-- Count Vronsky (Vronsky@anna.lit), January 02, 2000.