Kevin's Watch

I was just thinking about this - what is the one thing that we all have in common? I don't mean something as obviously simple as "we all like SRD."

Think about it - we have people here from all over the world. There are those who are religious and those who are atheists. We have people who are of a conservative bent when it comes to politics, and some who are very liberal. There are people of all ages, and it seems that we have an fairly equal distribution of the genders.

We share our lives and our families, and support each other through hard times. I've never found anything like that on any other message board.

So, what is it about this particular board? Is there some unifying theme to the members here? Or, is this a rhetorical question which can't be answered?

SRD is the thing which I don't have in common with you...

Maybe it is that we are all strange

Well, the common denominator is obvious: we are all members at kevinswatch.

I think that we are all seekers--we may not all be seeking the same thing--but I think it is true.

I think that the common denominators would be that we are all thinkers.

We are all quite creative and imaginative.

I think we are all quite accepting of others and that we are moderately accepting and satisfied with who we are turning out to be in this world.

I think all of us must have a rampaging, hyperactive inner child as well...

I don't know about this next bit, but I wonder if everyone here has had some powerful hurt in the past that makes us a little afraid to throw ourselves into real life with the same abandon that we throw ourselves into our cyber lives.

Maybe I am just projecting everything.

I dunno.

That's my 75 cents worth, anyhow.

I am a denominator.

*I* am a prime number! *preen*

I am Pi

Queeaqueg wrote:I am a denominator.

And you're quite common, too

I am not common. If I am common then I am a chav (British common people) and I hate chavs.

Queeaqueg wrote:I am Pi

ooooo!

I do hope you are a coconut cream pie....*drool*

No that is pie, I am Pi

Queeaqueg wrote:I am not common. If I am common then I am a chav (British common people) and I hate chavs.

Quiet, commoner!

Queeaqueg wrote:No that is pie, I am Pi

Ah, so someone else already got the first bite, eh....oh, well....still should be five pieces left.

Come on guys, stop spamming.

It might be the fact that Jay keeps us all G rated or PG-13 at the most. No sex no foul language (except language about Foul!)-and it keeps people in check...maybe?

Our common denominator is our uniqueness.

AWWWWWWWW

There's been sex and foul language, though minimal by most msg board standards. Not so much recently, however. It wasn't until Zeph and Severian came around that we started to be a "family board." I still have my misgivings about the whole PG bit, but it's trivial.

I'm afraid to say it, but the common denominator is definately SRD. It's not that we have all read SRD. If that was the case, we'd have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of members. No, we read Donaldson and we sought out a community of people that also read him. There was something about his writing, something about us, that made us want to belong to people who subscribed to the themes or beliefs put forward in his books (predominantly, The Chronicles).

One of those themes, as mentioned upthread, is something that Donaldson hit on in the GI. I wish I had the time to get the quote. Basically, everyone has to deal with pain at one point or another. What distinguishes Donaldson fans is how we choose to respond to that pain. We either choose or wish to choose a response that makes something out of it. And I believe we make a specific response to find others of the same mind to work together, either to help us overcome our own problems or to help each other build something we want to see exist.

In that way, I see Kevin's Watch as a Tower of Babel of hope, we keep building and building...

Well said, Syl. I think we can retire this thread now.

Excellent post, Syl! But I have to say the reason I came here, and still visit here, is because I seek good conversation, not empathy or belonging. Well, that's me, anyway.

Loremaster wrote:Come on guys, stop spamming.

sowwy