Hindsight, and an Interesting Side-Effect of Online Forums

[VEGANGELICA]

Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine

I went looking for my original "introduction" thread - which is a barrel of laughs, in itself - but was distracted by a number of other threads that I saw lurking at the bottom of my search. Threads like This.

Now, I don't know about you all, but whenever I think back on the way I used to think, I (think :P) I used to think in roughly the same manner that I think now. As a result, I can never see how immature I was at any stage, because I always felt mature for my age, and I can't remember how I thought. It's an interesting little problem, to say the least.

I had thought that I did most of my growing up before I was 17, but it's astonishing looking at exactly how much I've changed as a poster, as a person in these 4 years. And not only that, but how it's been a continuous change over that time. Yeah, there's been an epiphany or two over the time, when i can say "that's when I started really being myself" or "that's when I realised who i really was", but overall, the maturity and the change in my posting has been a gradual process.

The other thing I find interesting is how quickly we lose sight of what it is to be like we once were.

Moonlit,

I like your thread idea and I love your intro thread! I've never seen someone pack so many Irish jokes into a couple sentences.

In answer to your third question, since I haven't been part of MB very long I actually only noticed you recently due to the Meat is Murder thread. Then I saw elsewhere that you similarly post thoughtfully about a variety of topics. I felt your old thread about what is spam wasn't bad at all. I feel spam is in the eye of the beholder since something off-topic to one person may seem relevant to another. That, and an awful meat product people make by killing and grinding up pigs to satisfy human tastes but not needs.

In answer to your second question, I think you are very right that your sense of self may not change even as you yourself do, so that you don't recognize the changes.

This is one reason I feel the idea of an immortal "soul" is untenable. Which self of mine would be the one that remains immortal: the shy little girl me? The quirky, cocky high school me? The more experimental, self-focused college me? The troubled post-college me? The level, more outgoing and caring me of my late 20s? And if you were to say ALL of them...well, that wouldn't really be me, would it? Ergo: the concept of an immortal soul fails, since who we are is temporal and ever-changing.

(That, BTW, was an example of slightly off-topic, wasn't it! But was it spam? )

I think my posts (and the self behind them) haven't changed much since I joined, except that I now know some people better so we share a history that can be the basis of jokes. Also, I now try to separate my l o n g paragraphs into short sentences after having received several complaints. Apparently some of you don't read books, so you aren't used to reading real paragraphs. (And by this I mean mr dave.)

Here's one of my early posts that I still feel stands as a great monument to all that "Vegangelica" is:

http://www.musicbanter.com/introduct...tml#post677204

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Here's one of my early posts that I still feel stands as a great monument to all that "Vegangelica" is:

http://www.musicbanter.com/introduct...tml#post677204

Oh man! That's a pretty good back and forth we had there, Erica

I don't think I've had time to change much since I came. In MB age, I'm still fairly young. I came here in november 2008 I think, so two years. That's nothing!

I've dropped by other forums I spent time on years before I ever came to musicbanter and thought that I was a bit different, but I've generally been well behaved at least. I wrote helpful guides and stuff back then too, but I think I do it better now.

Pictures of me as a young teenager, now those are embarassing!