11-25-2017, 11:21 PM
Rules are rules, I have done my level best to follow them my entire life, not that it has availed me much at this stage.
This wonderful community is no exception. I understand completely the admin's step-by-step process to weed out undesirables before they are able to access the vendors who deliver more quickly than those in the open IOP section, in fact, I applaud them.
The fact remains, however, that five posts per day until fifty posts are reached is a ten day endeavor, and there's yet another path to follow after that to reach 150 posts. I simply don't have that time to spend waiting to be elevated, because I was unfortunate enough to have a very cruel psychiatrist, I am out of the medication I require to function, and because the firm I worked for over the past ten years had to "cut costs" during a quarter they posted a 27% profit, I am on a less than fixed income, and I must be able to function in order to secure new employment. Even if I were to place an order today (which I cannot do, as the two most popular IOPs have not completed my registration yet), it would be several weeks before (God willing) a magazine arrived at my home.
So I really don't have any choice but to avail myself of a different method of magazine purchasing, the classic one of course being to take a bus downtown and asking questions of some of the obvious gentlemen who either have magazines with them, or can have them delivered in a manner of minutes.
None of this is to say I plan to leave here, I enjoy very much the few conversations I have had, and find this community to be a wealth of good, honest, smart people - Exactly the people I would enjoy speaking with in real life. This is not a "Goodbye Cruel World" announcement, if Charon and the moderators allow it, I will continue to post here, but given the choice of suffering for many more weeks while fulfilling the requirements necessary to find a reasonably priced news stand and ending the "zaps" in my brain and the sword of Damocles (sword of seizures, really) hanging over my head, I have to put my own health and welfare first. To do otherwise would be foolhardy.
This post may be my sixth today (have not counted, am not sure), but for the friends I've made here in my short time so far, I'll risk being banned in order to say: Thank you. You've all been wonderful, and I hope to "see" you again here, or elsewhere should the ban hammer fall.
Be well, happy, and hale if we don't meet again soon, and take very good care of yourselves, you are a fine group of individuals that make up an outstanding community.
Hasta Luego, as we say in my home state, and my very best regards to you all.
This wonderful community is no exception. I understand completely the admin's step-by-step process to weed out undesirables before they are able to access the vendors who deliver more quickly than those in the open IOP section, in fact, I applaud them.
The fact remains, however, that five posts per day until fifty posts are reached is a ten day endeavor, and there's yet another path to follow after that to reach 150 posts. I simply don't have that time to spend waiting to be elevated, because I was unfortunate enough to have a very cruel psychiatrist, I am out of the medication I require to function, and because the firm I worked for over the past ten years had to "cut costs" during a quarter they posted a 27% profit, I am on a less than fixed income, and I must be able to function in order to secure new employment. Even if I were to place an order today (which I cannot do, as the two most popular IOPs have not completed my registration yet), it would be several weeks before (God willing) a magazine arrived at my home.
So I really don't have any choice but to avail myself of a different method of magazine purchasing, the classic one of course being to take a bus downtown and asking questions of some of the obvious gentlemen who either have magazines with them, or can have them delivered in a manner of minutes.
None of this is to say I plan to leave here, I enjoy very much the few conversations I have had, and find this community to be a wealth of good, honest, smart people - Exactly the people I would enjoy speaking with in real life. This is not a "Goodbye Cruel World" announcement, if Charon and the moderators allow it, I will continue to post here, but given the choice of suffering for many more weeks while fulfilling the requirements necessary to find a reasonably priced news stand and ending the "zaps" in my brain and the sword of Damocles (sword of seizures, really) hanging over my head, I have to put my own health and welfare first. To do otherwise would be foolhardy.
This post may be my sixth today (have not counted, am not sure), but for the friends I've made here in my short time so far, I'll risk being banned in order to say: Thank you. You've all been wonderful, and I hope to "see" you again here, or elsewhere should the ban hammer fall.
Be well, happy, and hale if we don't meet again soon, and take very good care of yourselves, you are a fine group of individuals that make up an outstanding community.
Hasta Luego, as we say in my home state, and my very best regards to you all.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
-- Saint Basil
-- Saint Basil