Non-turtle talkin' users

[Davetello]

Originally Posted by Peanut

We're getting old. Our life is ticking away, Cube.

Yep

"Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day. The clock ticks life away".

I sometimes think about how in 100 years we will all be gone and people in that time will probably be reading archived versions of forums. In a sense, future generations will have far more access to 'at the time' knowledge than we have of past events.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Davetello

I sometimes think about how in 100 years we will all be gone and people in that time will probably be reading archived versions of forums. In a sense, future generations will have far more access to 'at the time' knowledge than we have of past events.

That's a pretty cool concept, like we're leaving a time capsule just by interacting. Hope in that time TMNT are still loved as much as ever and those fans are keeping the history intact.

[Davetello]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

That's a pretty cool concept, like we're leaving a time capsule just by interacting. Hope in that time TMNT are still loved as much as ever and those fans are keeping the history intact.

Yes, exactly. I referred specifically to this forum but I was really meaning life in general. be it television, films, music, political events, news etc...future generations will be able to see what we were all thinking to a far greater extent than what we know people in colonial times were thinking, or people through the World Wars. We have access to some of what those people think, but they tend to be prominent people. Whereas in future they will be able to see what all of us random, everyday folk felt. In theory it makes for better education because they will see what even free thinkers thought, whereas many primary sources of the past are obviously propaganda filled books, speeches etc.

The common man and woman have never had the opportunity to have their views recorded in history on such a mass scale as we do now.

[BubblyShell22]

Yes, that's very true with the age of the Internet and all.

[Venom]

Been a long time since I read through a whole thread here!

I remember lurking for 3 or 4 years before finally joining up in '07, mainly so I could interact with other people my age who still loved the Turtles!

There used to be an FB group called Technodrome Members United that was fun to post in, quite a few of us "newer" big posters hung out there, actually got to kinda know each other.

Pennydreadful mentioned something about folks falling away and coming back, and there's a truth to that. Sometimes life kicks in and you find yourself not posting much, or you drop in to read a few interesting things and head out, but at some point you log in to pull up a stool to the proverbial bar and order a drink by posting.

Oh, and Krang and Shredder are pretty cool, just send a PM - they'll reply. Eventually.

In the end, regardless the sh*t we give each other, we all share a bond that began with the Turtles, and where there lies common ground, there is a foundation to begin or rebuild anew.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

I've found myself reading and posting in the general forums much more than anywhere else, but I don't really post here that often anymore.