Guest guest Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Hi Suze, > I realized that for most of us, only a > fraction of our personality comes out > on the list - it was such a pleasure > to have fuller interactions with some > of our listmates. Yes. And I'd like to add that I'm always struck by how much everyone really is like their online personality whenever I meet them in person. It was a great time meeting all of you. As said in another post -- it was a joy to be in a place where it was possible to be more yourself than you can usually be and to be able to be relaxed and comfortable with the people around you at the same time. That was part of the reason that I came back to the conference this year. Even though last year I knew no one I was unable to forget the feeling of camaraderie at the Saturday night banquet in particular. Eating great hunks of butter in front of other people who were doing the same was a memorable experience. So thanks to all who allowed me to be a part of the experience and I look forward to more of the same next year. Hopefully will be bringing more sausage. Or maybe by then he will have set up shop so we can all buy it from him and make him a wealthy man... Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 On 11/16/05, RBJR <rbjr@...> wrote: > Hi Suze, > > > I realized that for most of us, only a > > fraction of our personality comes out > > on the list - it was such a pleasure > > to have fuller interactions with some > > of our listmates. > > Yes. And I'd like to add that I'm always struck by how much everyone really > is like their online personality whenever I meet them in person. Yes when I was at the conference last year, I can't remember one person I met whose personality was all that different from what I had gleaned online, at least from those who posted regularly. Where the surprise was, and always is, at least for me, is seeing that personality matched with how they physically look and how they actually sound. Many, perhaps most times, that IS a surprise, LOL. I had already met Suze, and seen pics of so neither one of them surprised me at the conference last year (although I surprised Chris when he met me...hehehe). I have talked to Heidi on the phone and several others on these lists that should I ever meet them the surprise factor is already gone via their voice (cuz therir voice sounded very different from what I had imagined). I think sometimes when you interact with someone whose ideology is radically opposed to yours and yet they can present it in a competent and articulate way, one might be prone to draw certain conclusions about how they might be in person or socially, but, IME, those are usually always wrong, as I learned years ago in my active dabting days with all sorts of other folks with whom I had profound disagreements. So I rarely draw any ultimate conclusions along that line from web interactions (or books or debates), where you can't even see that person and have no idea as to their particular life setting or current personal circumstances or personal social style. > It was a great time meeting all of you. As said in another post -- it > was a joy to be in a place where it was possible to be more yourself than > you can usually be and to be able to be relaxed and comfortable with the > people around you at the same time. That was part of the reason that I came > back to the conference this year. Even though last year I knew no one I was > unable to forget the feeling of camaraderie at the Saturday night banquet in > particular. You were there last year? Did you come by the WAPF table? That is where I was working with Suze. > Eating great hunks of butter in front of other people who were > doing the same was a memorable experience. Yeah reminds me of a Dr. Schulze training conference I was at where we LOADED up on the garlic. There were bowls of garlic and ginger at every table that we freely put on our salads (along with LOTS of cayenne). Man it was great! I didn't realize how strong we smelled until I left the conference early, smelled the super strong odor in the elevator, and felt sorry for everyone else in the hotel, LOL. > So thanks to all who allowed me to be a part of the experience and I look > forward to more of the same next year. Hopefully will be bringing more > sausage. Or maybe by then he will have set up shop so we can all buy it from > him and make him a wealthy man... You know that really isn't a bad idea. Perhaps could train someone else to make his style of sausage even if he can't personally devote the time to it. -- " It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. " -- Murray Rothbard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 - >You know that really isn't a bad idea. Perhaps could train >someone else to make his style of sausage even if he can't personally >devote the time to it. My style? I have not invented a " new style " , composite or otherwise that is set within a distinct tradition as apart from " this " method or " that " method of sausage-making. On the contrary, I hope to free the world from clinging to styles, recipes or cookbooks. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about it. My sausage production methods are simple, direct and non-classical. A sausage maker who prepares exclusively to a set recipe is losing his freedom. He is actually becoming a slave to a choice recipe and feels that the recipe is the real thing! But sausage is anything and everything, and sausage is nothing. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like sausage which has not yet been stuffed into a casing. If you put sausage in a loaf pan, it becomes the loaf pan. You put sausage into a casing and it becomes the casing. You put it in a patty mould and it becomes the patty. A good sausage maker can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. In sum, my style is the style of making sausage without making sausage, and therefore I cannot possibly train anyone in my " style " or attempt to start a sausage-making business, because to do so would be to imprison myself in standardized plastic packaging and freeze my sausage preparation technique into an eternal, stagnant moment. - P.S. Apologies to those of you who aren't Bruce Lee fans and think I've gone off my nut. P.P.S. I have a feeling that this should've been about half as long, but I've got to make a mad dash for the subway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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