I think we should all throw a big "virtual party" here on this forum for when Tiassa reaches the 10K mark of posts! It is quite an amazing statistic.

If any of u have any thoughts on what we could do for this party then let me know. Time is running out!!!

=_ ill get the vitural party hats K?

Ten thousand isn´t bad. I am in for the celebration.

Dreamwalker of all people would know about attaining a ludicrous post count..

Hey, Invert Nexus is still worse. He was here a month after me and has 60 more posts...

Anyway, 10k posts is much, really much.

-And not just 10k posts, but 10k of the most insightful and thought-provoking posts going around here, IMO. 3 Cheers, and :m: :m: :m: for Tiassa!

Awww, and I was thinking about this all along! I thought this should be announced somewhere at post 9.980 or so, but you just couldn't wait!

Tiassa,


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Happy 10.000th post!


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lets eyeball...

tiassa-Total Posts: 9,974 (5.40 posts per day)

contrast with..

dreamwalker-Total Posts: 2,537 (16.24 posts per day)

hype-Total Posts: 3,504 (6.21 posts per day)

rosa-Total Posts: 1,815 (11.97 posts per day)

vslayer-Total Posts: 796 (6.71 posts per day)

as you can see, tiassa will soon be eating your dust

Am I going to get a party too? I'm about to hit 7000.
(11.00 posts per day)

well, i thought id make a quick note of tiassas past so: :D

tiassa as a child:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3133&stc=1
childhood pets:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3134&stc=1
tiassa getting drunk for the first time:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3135&stc=1
and i cant forget his undying love of macs:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3136&stc=1
and his support of sciforums through its hardest times:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3137&stc=1

see next post...

next post?

they say to learn from others mistakes, lets learn from tiassa:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3138&stc=1
and after all his work, this is the car he has to show for it:
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3140&stc=1

so there ya have it folks, the life of tiassa
enjoy! :D

Am I going to get a party too? I'm about to hit 7000.
(11.00 posts per day)

Sweet Monkey, of course you will get a party too. For your 10k post.

hehe, i hope you guys have computers at the old folks home for when i hit 10k

Owing to recent considerations by Kunax (http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=39655) regarding the Cesspool and other posts not immediately apparent beneath our names, I feel the obligation to mention that this should equal post #10,000. There's a few left to go on the more specific count, and I'm trying to think of something nice, fun, or otherwise not entirely self-centered to do for that 10k or 10,001.

But, as I've generally forgotten about most milestones 'twixt zero and here, I figure to get at least one back. Er ... never mind. At any rate, drink up, smoke 'em if you got 'em, and I'll come shake my booty and try not to horrify y'all shortly.

(And thank you all. Truly.)

:m: :cool:

(Updates obliterated, as I have answered part of my own question ne'er asked.)

Well, strangely the post count deducted from Kunax´s insights give a strange count in Tiassa´s user profile, there, only 9947 posts can be found, but I will blame that on upgrades done to this site and perhaps some other influences I do not know about. Anyway....


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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

10000 posts!!

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I just figured out why I'm seeing a different number than others. I'm supposed to. At this time I should raise a pipe to our man Porfiry: something never occurred to me until now. Good show, Dave; seriously, I never once thought of it in all that time. (So, yes, knock two points off my score for failing to recognize the obvious before it was tapping me on the shoulder.)

I have found what I think is tiassa's FIRST POST EVER!!!!! It's this post in the Religion Archives.


Is "God" a part of the universe, or, as its creator, is God somehow intrinsically connected to life? A chaos game played with a pen and a die (make a triangle, roll the dice, create lots of pretty triangles inside) illustrates a notion that chaos, when contained, will come to resemble its constraints. If, then, God is everything, as so many undereducated faithfuls like to assert, then truly God makes humanity in Its own image. The flip-side here is that, being constrained by the universe, nothing we think can exceed it; it is a tenuous argument that therefore, anything a human brain can conceive, no matter how paradoxical, nihilist, or dysfunctionally shortsighted, is possible. Thus God Itself becomes possible, as does little grey men from Zeta Reticuli, warp travel, and all the wonderful things that mythology and science fiction have endowed unto our imaginations.

So we come to the "Question". Is God part of the universe or is God extraneous to the universe? "Does God live in the universe and experience or outside it to watch and manipulate" is essentially the question; though the brevity of the phrase steals some of the idea's strength.

To assume that God lives outside the universe is to accept that there is something outside it. (If the Earth itself was Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, would a voyage to what would be North America be considered leaving the Earth?) I think it is paradoxical for God to live "outside" the universe. Whether God is nature itself, or the father of a religious and political zealot is important here because, if it is truly paradoxical to live outside the universe, then the omniscient, omnipresent force that is described as God must be the whole of nature. In this way I can picture a God that is everywhere and that administrates everything. Why? It is not some stern, "Thou shalt not" personage whose edicts drive naked hubris, but rather something that resembles Lucas' "Force".

And if this is should ever be the case, then I would assert that arguing over believing in God, Heaven, and Hell is irrelevant. Under these conditions, it seems, God is not an answer but the question itself.

thanx,
Tiassa

[This message has been edited by tiassa (edited August 04, 1999).]

It's obvious that tiassa has been a great and very opinionated poster since the first post.

Sorry this wasn't all flashy and colorful. I'm planning something as we speak.

tiassa must see this!
tell you what, I was just suggesting this in another thread lolz:)

It has been interesting reading your posts, tiassa. Keep on living :cool:
:m: !!congrats!! :m:

v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ v^v^v

HAPPY 10,000TH POST TO YA,
HAPPY 10,000TH POST TO YA,
HAPPY 10,000TH POST, DEAR TIASSA,
HAPPY 10,000TH POST TO YA!!!!!

And many more, on channel four
And Scooby Doo, on channel two . . .

And I dunno the rest . . . Oh well!

v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ v^v^v

Guys, how do I post a picture? I try, but it just makes a link to it. I'm doing this (without the spaces):

[ I M G ] (Picture URL Here) [ / I M G ]

What am I doing wrong?

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Tiassa's at 9,999 at this moment. Something exceptionally brilliant for the 10k milestone would be appropriate. I also believe that a fixation on round figures is silly. So I'm off to bed, just like I did on the eve of Y2K. I hope the world doesn't actually end on this one. Rested, I think I'll read back in the archives, and take in more of what he's contributed over the years.

Hats Off to Tiassa, and :m: :m: :m: : Not just prolific, but also (truly) an exceptionally brilliant person.

actually upon reaching post 10 000 sciforums software will have a y2k like error and the forums shall drift into abyss /muhahahaa

A definite probability. :D Await thy doom!

hmmmm Doom3 is an option
I'll name some ugly monster Tony1 if possible
(some may even remember him)

Maybe T's head will explode trying to think of something significantly insightful for the official once-in-a-lifetime #10k. I suggest we all define him forever by his next post. Obviously, I don't think his head will really explode. I expect it is quite large by now, though.

:m:

It would be pointless, I think, to make a litany of thanking people, although much thanks must necessarily go out to our man Porfiry: Raise a pipe, folks. Smoke it if you got it.


No, don't seek control, and the Milk of Heaven will flow.
Why would you want to keep it from anyone?
Please, please, on my knees,
My heart is on my sleeve.
And all I need is just one little taste of it.

And all my kingdoms rise when I'm dreaming.
We lie on the grass,
Just soaking in the life of the land.
So high, God rest our souls.
All you cynical would not understand.

As all your kingdoms fall,
And you hit the ground running,
Time will teach you to give in.

Floater (http://www.floatermusic.net/sosobralyrics2.html#milk)
You know, I still believe most of the stuff I spout around here; I don't know whether or not that's unique. A nod at this point to Athelwulf, for digging up that early post (http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=27054). There are earlier posts, or at least one. Sciforums actually marks the period when I adopted the Tiassa as an online identity, as my prior one, embarrassingly, was falsely-founded; in all the time since I've never discovered the source of my error,

And that post highlights another error of mine:



And if this is should ever be the case, then I would assert that arguing over believing in God, Heaven, and Hell is irrelevant. Under these conditions, it seems, God is not an answer but the question itself.

It would be sarcastic, at least, to say, "Oh, if only I'd listened to myself! But no, I had to go and be open-minded."

(Lesson: Never call yourself open-minded. It works kind of like Betty White's philosophy about sex on Golden Girls.)

Nonetheless ....

Of course, I live in a conflicting world. I am to write with a sense of absolute authority, yet my personal outlook refuses the establishment of anything definitive outside the relative. That old post contains one of the purest statements of my theology, only mildly stained by my affinity for the Craft.

So that phrase, "if this should ever be the case," is of the utmost. It is the qualifier, and I do mean the qualifier. Never fear, unless you are reassured, "I know what I'm doing. Trust me." You are never lost unless you are reassured, "We're not lost! I know exactly where we are."

Thus I am happy to admit that I generally have no idea what I'm doing. Were it any other way, I would be a mere falsehood.

Note: A Jesuit novice, given the sermon at Friday mass, once advised the assembled students that in any sermon, brevity was of some importance: the first six minutes are given to God; the second are obviously for the preacher himself; the third .... Well, you get the point. While I am generally known for not following that advice, the odd weight of expectation is driving far too pompous a post for even my tastes, and thus I should end the sermonizing here before I manage to piss off the lot of y'all.


Why don't you form a line,
Form a line and swim?
Oh, now form a line
Form a line and swim.
Ah, you see me kickin' at a tin can,
Yeah, and I blame it on the sea.
You see I'll never know when, I'll never know why,
I'm never gonna be you.
No I'm never gonna be you.

Floater (http://www.floatermusic.net/greatreleaselyrics.html#end)

:m:

Avatar meditates on the post 10 000

My comment:




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Congratulations!

Good work http://www.cheesebuerger.de/smilies/lustig/16.gif

Excellent 10,000 post Tiassa. I think I’ll join Avatar on that http://forums.guru3d.com/images/smilies/new_llying.gif http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/smoking3.gif
aah its total mindless crap like all your other post!

I am at geek awe


j/k :D

tiassa

Well done Sir!
Your stamina and patience do you credit.
Ten thousand posts. Thats practically a library.
I hope Porf backs up the server for posterity ;)

Party on Dudes!
Dee Cee

I don't get it. Tiassa sits around in a pot induced perma trance all day and produces nothing other than what he posts here. It is you the working class who literally pays him to do so.

And you're congratulating him?

If I ever find myself in a similar position, you all have my permission to put a bullet in my head.

Tiassa sits around in a pot induced perma trance all day and produces nothing other than what he posts here.

Oy!
What did you do on your grannies birthday?
Did you say;
"Hurry up and die you worthless old drain on society"
Or did you grit your teeth, kiss her cheek and give her that card with a picture of a kitten on it?

Develop some sense of occasion man!
With Pothed and Gendy banned I thought we might just get through this thread without any downers.

Sheesh
There's always one at every party!
Go stand in the kitchen Q! :D
Dee Cee

So, Tiassa has hit 10000 post count eh?
CONGRATULATIONS!

highlight my last post people :D

YAY!!!!! CONGRATS, TIASSA!!!!!

Let the party begin!!!!! Where are the virtual party hats?! How 'bout the Cyberhol?

I don't get it. Tiassa sits around in a pot induced perma trance all day and produces nothing other than what he posts here. It is you the working class who literally pays him to do so.

And you're congratulating him?

If I ever find myself in a similar position, you all have my permission to put a bullet in my head.

Note to those who mock Tiassa as a lazy stoner ... y'all are mocking a guy for laziness by spiting out the exact same shit, over and over again.

Anyways, 10,000 posts for Tiassa ... probably about 30,000 citations.

Good times.

Won't cyberhol lead to cybersex?

At any rate, (Q) ... hey, at least I'm not on smack. Didn't think about that, did ya?

I protect what other people my age only mourn. That's the secret of life. Sure, it's cost me dearly, but I'm not done with it yet, and the world will be a better place when that harvest finally comes.

Don't make me break out the A-list: Rilke, Barker, Brust, McCammon, Lovecraft ... I have my reasons.

If life is a gamble, I'm aiming to break the bank for the big payoff. In the meantime, step off while I heat this table up.



And it came up from the water's edge,
Went down into the village now,
I saw it follow me to my home.
Staring at me.

Spider-leg fingers,
Seashell hair,
Looking glass eyes,
It said, "Don't you know why I am, boy?
Do you recognize me yet?
Oh, do you recognize me yet?
I brought you everything,
I brought you all you know.
I brought you everything,
I'm everywhere you go.
I'm everywhere you live,
I'm everyone you see,
I'm every corner darkened,
I'm everything you can't see!"

And it said, "I'm am the prophet!
And I am the king!
And I am the gold
And all the silver they bring!
And I am the trumpets!
And I am the swords!
And I am the devil!
And I am the Angel of the Lord!
I'm the persecutor,
Come to torture you now.
And I am the ruler someday;
I'm everyone you know.
Everyone you know.
Everyone you know.
I'm everyone you know.
Everyone you know.

"Night after night the same question;
Don't try, give in, it's all the same to me now,
It's all the same to me now.
Aw, don't worry.
'Cause this is only meant to be a
Little warning to you from me, yeah,
And I am only meant to be affectionate."

Floater (http://www.floatermusic.net/greatreleaselyrics.html#per)

Won't cyberhol lead to cybersex?

Hmm . . . I have no idea how to respond to that. That's rare! :eek:

Strange that people don't celebrate their 10,000th DAY. Allowing for variations due to leap years (and not counting time in the womb!) it falls at some point in the 5th month after your 27th birthday.

That's probably cuz people don't keep track of how old they are in days, but years.

Imagine someone saying, "I'm 10,000 days old today!". Ya'd think, "Damn, yer old!".

actually, id think: dam, thats 10000 whole days. and what have you done in them?

Note to those who mock Tiassa as a lazy stoner ... y'all are mocking a guy for laziness by spiting out the exact same shit, over and over again.

Isn't he raising a child in his drug induced coma? Don't you think the local child abuse authorities would be interested in such a case?

Just a thought.

At any rate, (Q) ... hey, at least I'm not on smack. Didn't think about that, did ya?

Should I?

Tiassa,
I'm not going to congratulate you because I don’t find the “occasion” merits it. But I’d like to thank you for your posts. They’ve been, for the most part, insightful and amusing. I’ve truly enjoyed them.

Strange that people don't celebrate their 10,000th DAY. Allowing for variations due to leap years (and not counting time in the womb!) it falls at some point in the 5th month after your 27th birthday.

I celebrated my gigasecond not too long ago. People thought I was odd. :bugeye:

I'm not going to congratulate you because I don’t find the “occasion” merits it.

Frankly, I don't have a problem with that. I'm not sure if the fact that it took five years to reach this post count is a comfort or not. On the one hand, it doesn't seem nearly as dependent as the relationship probably is; to the other, I've spent five f@cking years here.

That's over five years our man Porfiry has given to us all. Where's his f@cking party? ;)


But I’d like to thank you for your posts. They’ve been, for the most part, insightful and amusing. I’ve truly enjoyed them.

Honor, privilege, pleasure: they're all mine. It beats going insane and screaming at the walls.

:m:

yet again:
CONGRATS ON 10000 POSTS !!! :D :D

w00t

Note to those who mock Tiassa as a lazy stoner ... y'all are mocking a guy for laziness by spiting out the exact same shit, over and over again.

Isn't he raising a child in his drug induced coma? Don't you think the local child abuse authorities would be interested in such a case?

Well, being that Tiassa's in Washington, probably not, since those fucks can't even handle an open & shut case like Lehman.

As for the allegedly comatose Tiassa ... since when does pot induce catatonia?

Or was that just intentionally ridiculous hyperbole? Well, asuming it was ... I doubt that child services is anymore interested in a recreational smoker than they are in a recreational drinker.

I had 7000 some time ago...

no party.

You'll get a party when you'll have 10k posts.
Now post, or your party will be even further away in the ... future.
:D

At least you get encouragement, spurious :D
It may take time as long as what it takes you to raise you grandchildren for me to get 10K post:)

At the rate I'm going, I'll reach my 10,000th post by Summer 2009. :D Let's hope SciForums (let alone the Internet) exists for that long!

CONGRATUMALATIONS TIASSA!!!

ill reach 10 000 posts by the time hell freezes over

I think I´ll need until June 2006...

If I do my best I might make it today.

2800 posts per day, that could be difficult, not impossible... that´s roughly two posts every minute, over 24 hours.

Sounds too much like work. I give up.

True, one should not work too much.

Especially not with a hangover.

Yes, another good reason. ( I suppose, I never had a hangover...)