Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 6, 2014 - 6:40pm
No really; the intended story of the Shining was that Jack was a flawed but decent man who got possessed by the ghosts.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 6, 2014 - 7:45pm
...the ghosts of rice crispies. REDRUM.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 6, 2014 - 11:12pm
@RG - you're great!
@Dwayne - Jack was at the tipping point; his fate was sealed the minute he hit the hotel. I'm not sure about the decent part... but it is arguable, so.
The whole story imho is about the boy and his gift and will the evil in the hotel succeed in absorbing it - I haven't read the new book about him, but I will. Cheers, D!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 7, 2014 - 5:44am
@Justwords - No, it was sealed at the first snow when they couldn't run. I'm not really sure what you mean by not decent; before the Overlook he made some serious mistakes and bent over backward to correct them. I think that is a pretty common human thing to do.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 7, 2014 - 6:45am
@Dwayne--
I guess I was a little too harsh on Jack; I'm a little too gung-ho at times to jump on the perpetrator of domestic violence, having experienced that as a child. People do make mistakes, but that never excuses child abuse in my judgment.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 7, 2014 - 7:55am
I'm not sure he abused the kid. He very well might have, but it seemed that it read, "They went into a room and the kid came out with a broke arm." After that he tried to get himself clean, and it worked. Until you know demons.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 7, 2014 - 1:52pm
Demons will just mess you up everytime.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 7, 2014 - 2:50pm
Well, yeah.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 7, 2014 - 8:12pm
@RG: Everyone's got their own demons.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 7, 2014 - 9:04pm
I guess.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 7, 2014 - 11:30pm
So are people strategizing on how to get the last post?
Nathan Scalia
from Kansas is reading so many thingsMay 8, 2014 - 7:26am
Yes. I am going to post, then lock the thread. Then I will win.
Wait, that seems petty.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 8, 2014 - 12:06pm
@Nathan--
I object to youir excessive use of power, sir!
@RG--
I know Dwayne is.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 8, 2014 - 12:11pm
I'll just bring back the game on another forum you aren't an admin on.
Natso
from Mongolia is reading Moby DickMay 8, 2014 - 6:45pm
So this is like a chat room, huh?
Alma
from Denmark is reading Warm Bodies + The Haunted VaginaMay 8, 2014 - 6:54pm
I once dropped my wrist watch in the toliet.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 8, 2014 - 9:36pm
I was going to just keep posting until you all lost interest, and make this whole thing as unpleasant as possible so you leave it alone.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 8, 2014 - 10:26pm
@Natso--
I think most of the community forums are chatrooms, just w/more focus.
@Alma--
That's not good. My son somehow owns a bar, and he's spent mucho dollars on plumbers on the facilities in the Women's room because some women have no sense & talk on the phone in the stalls (ew!). Often, the said female is inebriated and drops her phone in the depths below, and rather than fish it out of the loo, she flushes the toilet: BAD choice, expensive choice. Unbelievable how many young chicks do this. I hope they're drunk; I'd hate to admit I did something that stupid sober. Plumber is always on call.
@Dwayne--
In your dreams!!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 8, 2014 - 10:57pm
I've outlasted everyone I started with a few years ago.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 9, 2014 - 12:44am
Oh Dwayne - teach me all you know...
@JW: is being stubborn a strategy?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 9, 2014 - 12:52am
Just base everything you do off the duo in Way of the Gun.
Alma
from Denmark is reading Warm Bodies + The Haunted VaginaMay 9, 2014 - 2:49am
I picked it up and put it in my pocket - and wasn't drunk, just a teenager...
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 9, 2014 - 9:29am
Oh good.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 9, 2014 - 11:32am
@Alma-
That's good!
@RG:
I think being stubborn is a character trait; I guess it could be used as a strategy. Personally I think Dwayne is planning on outliving everyone to get in the last post! I think Dwayne would say it's perserverance or maybe intense focus. :D
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 9, 2014 - 11:57am
Not really; I figure in 5 or 10 years you guys will lose interest and I got it.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMay 9, 2014 - 12:19pm
But not yet, Dwayne. Not yet.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 9, 2014 - 12:30pm
Time is on my side.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMay 9, 2014 - 12:56pm
I will outlive you, Dwayne.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 9, 2014 - 8:38pm
Dwayne, if you applied that willpower to great projects like World Peace, that would be Awesome!!! I salute you for your determinedness!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 10, 2014 - 5:16am
@Utah - Good chance, but I'm willing to waste more of my shorter life on this thread? Why?
@Justwords - Thank you for the encouragement, but I don't believe in peace in this world. No moral objections, I just don't believe it is possible, same as I don't believe gold at the end of the rainbow. Thomas Hobbes was right when he said life in a natural state as
solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 10, 2014 - 11:36pm
@kDwayne:
OMG, everyone wants World Peace! Even beauty queens.. Oh, T.H., man I miss Calvin & Hobbes.
Sorry, not to make light of serious things. It's just I've learned to laugh in bad times and at bad things because one can go crazy otherwise.. What gets you through the dark night of soul?
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 11, 2014 - 4:19am
Poetry helps a lot in the dark night.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 11, 2014 - 4:55pm
What gets you through the dark night of soul?
Grim determination.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 11, 2014 - 8:04pm
l|l
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 11, 2014 - 9:34pm
Now you aren't even trying.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 11, 2014 - 9:49pm
That took longer to compose than some posts.
I dare you to reproduce it without copy/paste.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 11, 2014 - 9:51pm
Everybody's got a story.
Renae Gee
from Australia is reading All the words!May 12, 2014 - 3:10am
But not everyone writes it down.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 12, 2014 - 1:45pm
Some tribes had oral traditions for centuries before they wrote them down.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 12, 2014 - 2:17pm
But that didn't work out.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 12, 2014 - 4:34pm
People still maintain oral traditions, but they have options besides.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 12, 2014 - 9:13pm
@Dwayne--
Why do you say that didn't work out? Regard the Old Testament, the ancestor of which is the Torah. Australia has the Aboriginals and they have their Dream Walkabouts; American Natives have oral traditions.. I'm sure you have an explanation for your remark. :)
@JYH-
Yes they do.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 12, 2014 - 11:48pm
Because now we write things down.
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 14, 2014 - 2:23pm
Yeah, but families hand down stories and traditions all the time that aren't written down.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 14, 2014 - 4:09pm
And than people forget them.
Alma
from Denmark is reading Warm Bodies + The Haunted VaginaMay 14, 2014 - 5:26pm
We get it, you want people to write stuff down
justwords
from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick HornbyMay 14, 2014 - 6:59pm
I think recordings are just as viable as the written word, regardless of the medium. A lot of folks record family stories, etc., including music.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 14, 2014 - 10:40pm
It isn't so much what I want as it is what people tend to do.
Natso
from Mongolia is reading Moby DickMay 15, 2014 - 6:53pm
There are many things I have left incomplete, and yet this is the one I'm trying to complete.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 15, 2014 - 8:30pm
No really; the intended story of the Shining was that Jack was a flawed but decent man who got possessed by the ghosts.
...the ghosts of rice crispies. REDRUM.
@RG - you're great!
@Dwayne - Jack was at the tipping point; his fate was sealed the minute he hit the hotel. I'm not sure about the decent part... but it is arguable, so.
The whole story imho is about the boy and his gift and will the evil in the hotel succeed in absorbing it - I haven't read the new book about him, but I will. Cheers, D!
@Justwords - No, it was sealed at the first snow when they couldn't run. I'm not really sure what you mean by not decent; before the Overlook he made some serious mistakes and bent over backward to correct them. I think that is a pretty common human thing to do.
@Dwayne--
I guess I was a little too harsh on Jack; I'm a little too gung-ho at times to jump on the perpetrator of domestic violence, having experienced that as a child. People do make mistakes, but that never excuses child abuse in my judgment.
I'm not sure he abused the kid. He very well might have, but it seemed that it read, "They went into a room and the kid came out with a broke arm." After that he tried to get himself clean, and it worked. Until you know demons.
Demons will just mess you up everytime.
Well, yeah.
@RG: Everyone's got their own demons.
I guess.
So are people strategizing on how to get the last post?
Yes. I am going to post, then lock the thread. Then I will win.
Wait, that seems petty.
@Nathan--
I object to youir excessive use of power, sir!
@RG--
I know Dwayne is.
I'll just bring back the game on another forum you aren't an admin on.
So this is like a chat room, huh?
I once dropped my wrist watch in the toliet.
I was going to just keep posting until you all lost interest, and make this whole thing as unpleasant as possible so you leave it alone.
@Natso--
I think most of the community forums are chatrooms, just w/more focus.
@Alma--
That's not good. My son somehow owns a bar, and he's spent mucho dollars on plumbers on the facilities in the Women's room because some women have no sense & talk on the phone in the stalls (ew!). Often, the said female is inebriated and drops her phone in the depths below, and rather than fish it out of the loo, she flushes the toilet: BAD choice, expensive choice. Unbelievable how many young chicks do this. I hope they're drunk; I'd hate to admit I did something that stupid sober. Plumber is always on call.
@Dwayne--
In your dreams!!
http://litreactor.com/discuss/battle-for-the-last-post?page=5
I've outlasted everyone I started with a few years ago.
Oh Dwayne - teach me all you know...
@JW: is being stubborn a strategy?
Just base everything you do off the duo in Way of the Gun.
I picked it up and put it in my pocket - and wasn't drunk, just a teenager...
Oh good.
@Alma-
That's good!
@RG:
I think being stubborn is a character trait; I guess it could be used as a strategy. Personally I think Dwayne is planning on outliving everyone to get in the last post! I think Dwayne would say it's perserverance or maybe intense focus. :D
Not really; I figure in 5 or 10 years you guys will lose interest and I got it.
But not yet, Dwayne. Not yet.
Time is on my side.
I will outlive you, Dwayne.
Dwayne, if you applied that willpower to great projects like World Peace, that would be Awesome!!! I salute you for your determinedness!
@Utah - Good chance, but I'm willing to waste more of my shorter life on this thread? Why?
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/k4kthv/chappelle-s-show-dave-gets-revenge-pt--1
@Justwords - Thank you for the encouragement, but I don't believe in peace in this world. No moral objections, I just don't believe it is possible, same as I don't believe gold at the end of the rainbow. Thomas Hobbes was right when he said life in a natural state as
@kDwayne:
OMG, everyone wants World Peace! Even beauty queens.. Oh, T.H., man I miss Calvin & Hobbes.
Sorry, not to make light of serious things. It's just I've learned to laugh in bad times and at bad things because one can go crazy otherwise.. What gets you through the dark night of soul?
Poetry helps a lot in the dark night.
Grim determination.
l|l
Now you aren't even trying.
That took longer to compose than some posts.
I dare you to reproduce it without copy/paste.
Everybody's got a story.
But not everyone writes it down.
Some tribes had oral traditions for centuries before they wrote them down.
But that didn't work out.
People still maintain oral traditions, but they have options besides.
@Dwayne--
Why do you say that didn't work out? Regard the Old Testament, the ancestor of which is the Torah. Australia has the Aboriginals and they have their Dream Walkabouts; American Natives have oral traditions.. I'm sure you have an explanation for your remark. :)
@JYH-
Yes they do.
Because now we write things down.
Yeah, but families hand down stories and traditions all the time that aren't written down.
And than people forget them.
We get it, you want people to write stuff down
I think recordings are just as viable as the written word, regardless of the medium. A lot of folks record family stories, etc., including music.
It isn't so much what I want as it is what people tend to do.
There are many things I have left incomplete, and yet this is the one I'm trying to complete.
Well, I guess it shows your heart is here.