I'm leaving DU for now

[Greeby]

It's nothing to do with politics. I just need to take a leave of absence of sorts from all non-essential internet and TV usage. I've been caught up in trivialities the past two years, and need to take some hard measures to gain focus on what's important in my life. Not to say that what we talk about on DU is trivial, but I have to look closer to home.

So, shout-out to everyone at the UK Forum, and the Mike Malloy nightly threads, and all the C-Span junkies out there.

Maybe it's corny to go out with a line from a movie, but it sums up my thinking:
"Get busy living or get busy dying. Absolutely goddamn right."

[jobycom]

1. Yeah, I say that two to three times a day. See you in a couple of hours.

:rofl: Seriously, good luck.

[Demit]

2. LOL!

Yes, funny how "essential" internet usage tends to bleed over into the "nonessential" kind pretty quickly. Happened to me just this morning.

[rurallib]

3. Keep us posted on how it's going!

:P

[bonito]

4. Follow your heart

that little voice inside and on the way take time to smell the roses tis the only way.
best to you.

[Sydnie]

5. Greeby

I will miss you and your imput in the C-SPAN threads most. Please take care of what ever is calling you in your real life and come back to fight the good fight with us another day.

You will be missed, but I look forward to seeing you again ... soon. :hug:

[PhilipShore]

6. Join the revolution, turn off the TV

[achtung_circus]

7. .

[babylonsister]

8. Take care of yourself, Greeby, and come back when you can.

:hug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Hope to see you back soon Greeby

Until then my fellow Truthseeker, all the best.

:hi: :hug: :pals:

[TomInTib]

10. Keep your antennae up, Greeby.

Ain't much here that you do not already know or intuit, anyway.

I, personally, have so much enjoyed your presence here, Greeby.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Take care.

Tom

[ClayZ]

11. Peace!

[bobthedrummer]

12. Do take care, and thanks for your input here. Do reconsider stopping by now and then.

:hi:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. Ta, mate.

Hope to see you back sane and whole in the future.

[Nimrod2005]

14. Peace........nt

[LeftishBrit]

15. Oh no, we will really miss you!

I wish you all the best in your own life, and hope that you will at least drop by occasionally.

[Taxloss]

16. Take care old chap.

I look forward to your return. :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Feeling a bit like Steve Bell did after the 2005 election?

Hope to see you back before too long. We'll keep the Steve Bell cartoons warm. :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. I have taken "vacations" from DU in the past

in order to get my priorities straight . It is real easy to think the computer substitutes for the real world.

It does not!

[rug]

19. Stay well. Here's the whole lyric:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SflfBzKBC1A

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.



Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music

[roguevalley]

20. take care and come back. the flowers are blooming. go smell 'em. :)

[WorldResident]

21. Good luck and take care

n/t

[deutsey]

22. You have to keep things in perspective...sounds like you're making the right choice

It's crucial that we remain plugged primarily in the "real" not "virtual" world.

"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

:hi:

[applegrove]

23. Perfectly understandable. DU is addictive. Happy journey!

[MzNov]

24. We'll miss you at the Malloy thread!

Take good care of yourself.

:bounce:

[SoCalDem]

25. have a nice "vacation".. I "leave" regularly these days..

I wander back in for a few days, and then take a break for a week or so.

Sometimes it's just a bit much :)