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Welcome to the ClearMinds conference. Welcome to lifeboat Spring. I'm Paul Terry Walhus, Austinite, I started this operation three years ago and it's been running pretty reliably. Please make yourself at home.

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Terry and Dave, Thanks so much for your work, and for the insanely quick uptime. The Commons is not listing topics at the moment (all conspiracy theories welcomed!!), so I'm going to huddle over here for a bit. Any way to see who is around?

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Thanks Heather. We've added something new. Instant updates on each users conference page of the latest posts all around the system.

another minds straggler here... I couldn't log on to eminds at all earlier (not responding)! but then I got on, and I couldn't follow the happenings. Oh, and when I posted some things, they weren't "updated" properly: the var ious conversations were listed as not having been updated since before my posts The new posts were there all right, but just not at the top of the topics lists as they should have been. Hence, who'd even see my posts? Real bummer. didn't like utne (I guess that's where they're lifeboating to? as I said, I couldn't follow the divergent FAQs). couldn't find river. so here I be! anyone into web developing here?

There are some folks into web developing. Is that what you're into? Minds is kind of going bonkers in the Commons conference and the conversation on the future has pretty much moved to the technos conference.

Where the heck did Thaler get that Howard bbq pic?

I made it... I left the link here that time I couldn't get anything to work it's on my server - doesn't howard look cute in that apron? but not as chic as I am looking over at Utne in nacy's purple dress!

A guy I ran across at Borders last night is making a living off his website and all he does there is collect morphs of famous folks, like Madonna. It's totally wacky and he's making a living with it. http://www.scoopy.net I believe.

I'm here. I'm also here. This seems slow to me. I know it's not my connection, I'm on a fractional T-1.

Hmm. how would I have scribbled that? Or hidden it?

I'm so HAPPY to see it only shows me recent responses. Quite a break from OverBoard.

Hmm. I click on my name, and I get a mailto. I want a profile page. Also, how do I tell who's been here? Where's the participation statistics? And, to be a little mean.. How does this work?

That was SO cool! It caught my missing closing TABLE tag!

good morning Terry I am back as promised so sorry that all hell broke loose last night everyone came to see the house that harry and nod built at the exact same time I was suppossed to meet you guys here... I had promised nancy I would be the doorman over there as each person had to be added to the user list as they registered and e-mailed me their login names so besides running two browsers and seven conversations at once, I was also fielding email by the bushel basket! I will check that guys site out who makes the morphs oh, if only I could make even a small living doing this goofy shit... but I love it just the same before I came online last november, I did not even have a telephone for 8 years the web has changed my life in so many ways, and introduced me to so many cool people I would never have otherwise known! goint to scroll back through these topics real quick before I have to boot out of here to paint me old mum's cracked and peeling house... here is a cool celebrity morph I found

It might be uncle-scoopy.net or unclescoopy.net or just scoopy.net. Both he and his wife quit their jobs to do this full time. And they both had good jobs. He was an overnight success. If Uncle Scoopy can do it, Harry Pike can surely do it.

Is the Ask an Expert home away from home? I am interested in learning more about how to repair a cracked house by using paint. I have been very cautious about removing wallpaper or scraping paint inside or outside, in/on my early Charles Addams/Psycho-set Victorian, because of the possibility that the wallpaper and paint are holding the place together. But if Harry says it is okay to peel and scrape, I'll risk it. We need a topic called This Old Doghouse, for those of us who are trying to restore creaking monstrosities to period. Or even elipsis.

I'm actually communicating via the house conference with Lee Wallace, who is both my house remodeler and Peter Lewis right hand man. He's starting today on "This Old Spring Office". How apropos you should bring this up.

Pardon me for just dropping in here... Eye am willing to create the reality which involves Electric Minds in a state of fiscal health, happiness, and prosperity. If enough of us perceive of this as a fully accepted reality, an absolute fact, then it will be so. We can easily attract this state into being if we collectively focus our thinking. In order to help the thought process solidify into Real Life, eye am suggesting that we CREATE A RITUAL in San Francisco, next week. We would need at least a dozen people to get a critical mass together -- Real Life, living, breathing, people in one place, at one time, of one mind... plugged into the bigger consciousness of the Electric Mind(s). If logic ain't werkin', dear friends, why not use ***MAGIC***??? Take a deep breath, and clear your mind. Anybody willing to join me?

Greetings All! This seems like as good a place to say hi and pause a moment to grieve for EMinds. I'm in a particularly weird position, as I first logged on over there a mere three weeks ago. Here I was, a reporter (please hold the flames for now) with a longtime interest in virtual community, surfing through Rheingold's Brainstorms site and finding m yself at that smiling incarnation inviting me to register. I did, of course, and wandered around for awhile. I usually got stuck trying to figure out The Palace, but really enjoyed the conferences. Life got fairly complex for awhile, and I didn't log on for a couple weeks. Next thing I know, I get the email survey and I've gone into crisis mode for people I've hardly known for a month! I'm really glad people are getting organized, and that we will survive (we have no choice, you know). Tell me what to do, you veterans. I'm prepared to help! Many thanks to those who created this space, and to all those who keep Minds alive ... Mike in Madison

Well, eye did some crystal work last night... using a Real Life crystal that gave me, which is a lil' beauty. The feeling is that financial reinvigoration of Eminds in its current identity-mode is still a very distinct possibility. But we would first need to turn the prevailing tide of belief. Although eye am sure that, on one level, it might be easier to let it go (eye hear the liquidators are coming in tomorrow?)... the over-riding emotion is that certain forces could be easily rallied to divert that energy-flow of dissipation & closure into powerful regeneration. A wave is a powerful thing: you can either surf it into shore, or get tossed underwater. How are we collectively choosing to surf this wave? Where do we perceive this wave is taking us? Eye am quite willing to put my faith on the line in favour of an "as is" (i.e., this site) Eminds renaissance. But, as with anything, power output (and desired effect) increases exponentially when MORE THAN ONE person works on this. My personal, physical energy is low right now. Eye am in the very middle of my Circus of Joy cosmadelic tour of the USA thingo right now... just pulled into LA for some much-needed R&R. Feeling a bit ill, profoundly physically & psychically exhausted, and operating at 50% of regular capacity without my usual left brain function (i.e., my husband, who is back home in Australia) for the past 3 weeks. Eye am not whingeing about this state of affairs (after all, eye CREATED IT! Using magic! And here on Eminds, too!) but simply explaining that eye am not personally capable of pulling off such a big magic just by myself, re-birthing Eminds. Eye would need... You. And You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You, and You... the more, the merrier. We would need at least a dozen people (more would be even better!) who are actively willing to gather in one place, at one time, and suspend their disbelief -- to CONSCIOUSLY FOCUS on seeing Eminds in vibrant financial & emotional health. With absolutely no doubt at all in our minds... To start, this means eye need at least 12 folks to personally contact me (eye'm currently on-line at , or phoneable in Long Beach, California on 562 433 2311), in order to get our perceptual ball rolling. Go on, do it do it do it. Whaddaya got to lose? At worst, you'll feel like a fool. At most, something wonderful might happen. Please believe me: eye fully understand that our entire Western Civilisation conditioning system has taught us that what eye am proposing is impossible, that it won't work... this alone will cause most people to fear even trying it, or even thinking about trying it. But all eye know is that it works. How did eye come to be here in the USA, in California even, when three weeks ago, in Australia, eye had no money, no plane ticket, no logical prospects of being here... YET EYE AM HERE???????? And if tomorrow, i.e., Wednesday, 25 June, 1997, is the absolute deadline/lifeline for Eminds, then eye am willing to perceive of this regeneration ritual happening tomorrow -- in San Francisco, if that is the collective feeling of where it should be. If eye am needed in San Francisco, then you may collectively desire me to be in San Francisco, simply WILL me there, and eye will just naturally flow towards the energy pull. That is the way this whole Circus of Joy thing has been working. Eye go where eye am needed, when eye am needed the most. If eye am needed in San Francisco, eye could be there in just a couple of hours. It's purely up to your collective decision... Eminds is very important to me, as eye am sure it is to others. It crosses my mind that perhaps this Eminds ritual is the real reason why the Circus of Joy was called to the USA. What do you think? Maybe, for me, this is where my Real Life meets my Virtual Life. As any of you who knows me knows, eye always have been big on that Real Life thing. Maybe here is where the cave wall meets the reflected shadow...? A disclaimer: eye have no special powers, nor do eye claim to. All that happened is that eye have been steadily catching glimpses, out of the corner of my eye, deep from within the shadows, of a way to play with energy, easily & effortlessly. My job is simply to hold up a great big mirror so that you can see these glimpses, too. With a mirror, we can see around corners in time & space. With a mirror, we can see... Ourselves. With a mirror, we can look into our own eyes, and into others' eyes simultaneously. Everybody alive has an equally-important cosmic job. If eye am a mirror-holder, then, who are you? What is your cosmic job? If you feel called to help create the Eminds ritual with me, then you will surely be tasting your true identity. This, above all, eye look forward to experiencing... true identities. One final note; a request: if we collectively choose to create this regeneration ritual, if we choose to rebirth Eminds together, then eye ask two things: *That the process be effortless, flowing, easy; *That the process be fun. *** Can anyone provide links to other places where this concept should be posted, or (*better still!*) could you please copy this rave, and post it wherever YOU think it should go??? Now, then who will write? Who will call? You may say eye'm a dreamer -- -- but eye'm not the only one...

i dunno. the concept shot itself in the foot from the start. just reform the pastry ball and reroll, i think...

Michael, usually Yapp has buttons to hide and delete (aka scribble) your responses along with the response headers, but it looks like terry removed them a while ago. (The system administrator can customize the headers to look like anything they want.)

I just wanted to pop-in and say hello. I was a member at eminds but I haven't been active there since near the beginning. Howard tunred me onto the site the weekend before the launch in a reply to an email I sent him praising his books. ;) It wasn't long before the place was kinda overwhelming, and I regretfully stopped participating. When I heard the new about the site going dark I was saddened none the less. Besides, I love those cool icons. But, alas, I want to commend those volunteering their time, their lives, to organize an effort to save the community. Reading through the conferences today I was excited, amazed, and inspired by all the work being done. Thanx!

We'll put these back (scribble and hide).

So, hello...i am visiting from electricpeople.flash.alteredminds see...i expect things to commence but since life is flux, here i am that tricky transwarp flux capaciter has been at it again and caused a warp in the time and space continuum nice place (terry) sorry about the pie in the eye the other day...it's never safe to stand between harry and a flying fuckleberry pie � tara

THE BEST MIND TRIP YOU'LL EVER EXPERIENCE CAN BE FOUND IN THE BIBLE, PARTICULARLY IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS 12:2. YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT ITS ETERNAL EFFECTS!

I would like to invite all visitors of this conference to the International Conflicts conference here on the Spring: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/InternationalConflicts/all This new conference is dedicated to the disputes between groups all over the world, be that social, cultural, political or ethnical differences.