Seasons

I don't know what death leads to, but we all go through it or smack up against it, so it interests me. My thesis was on medieval death lyrics (poetry), so I've spent waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time thinking about this . . .

What great responses!

What is the CMIF?

Um....CMIF    Career Management Individual File (US Army)
CMIF    Cover Me I'm Fouled (polite form; hand signal used when in trouble)

Center for MultiSource Information Fusion
Complex Mode Indicator Function
Central Minnesota Initiative Fund
Crude Militant Industrial Fascism
China Machinery Industry Federation
Cellular and Molecular Imaging Facility
Creative Musicians Improvisors Forum
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Are all those things real? In particular, is there a Creative Musicians Improvisors Forum?

yes, they are all real, including the Creative Musicians Improvisors Forum:

http://www.tunecore.com/music/oticrecords

i shall add that Crude Militant Industrial Fascism is a phrase coined by me. it does not exist in the form of an official organization, movement, doctrine, etc... but it's nevertheless as real as any item listed above.

also, an update on sex:

i just learned recently that dolphins are the only animal other than humans that have sex for pleasure.
considering that dolphins have a brain that is not only larger in volume compared to human brain, but also far more developed in terms of number and complexity of neural connections contained therein;
and, considering that humans have spoiled their inherent ability to enjoy sex, one has to conclude that the dolphins are indeed the most advanced species here on Earth.

Too bad they can't figure a way to jump out of a tuna net.

Interzone wrote:

considering that humans have spoiled their inherent ability to enjoy sex, one has to conclude that the dolphins are indeed the most advanced species here on Earth.

Speak for yourself, Izzy! [wriggles]

hello

Bev,

Not picking on your insecurities, but sympathising and hoping I can soothe some of them a bit...

There are some yucky people around, and unfortunately some of them are attracted to sites like this. I share your disgust when I read my bot's transcripts to see someone informing her that they are having sex with her (in a less tasteful way than that, of course). I resent having to make keyphrases just to try and avoid it as much as possible. It also took me a while to accept that even among the more pleasant clientele here, there's a bit of a "sexbot until proven otherwise" idea, or at least a very early testing of boundaries! I've decided that it's worth staying here for now, as I can easily cope with the current nice:ick ratio of the transcripts.

But in a way I think it's like, I dunno, going to a singles bar or something. You're going to meet disproportionately more sleazy people - and people are also going to be at their sleaziest.

So it doesn't show us how men really think. You are reading the sleaziest thoughts of a sleazier-than-average selection of men (no offence to the non-sleazy men here, of course). Some of them are probably horrible in real life, too. But others are using the site (or porn, or whatever) as an outlet for something. (I'm not getting into the rights or wrongs of that, just stating it.)

Imagine someone knew you only from, I dunno, the curses you let out when you drop something on your foot - or even the ones you scream internally. Imagine that's all they ever hear you say. They'd probably think you were horrible, but they'd be wrong. I don't think we should judge the human race - or even the male half of it - from what we see here.

And I'm very glad we don't have telepathy. I'd hate people to hear my thoughts. And no, I don't want to hear my husband's inner thoughts either. I want him to edit them first! He's wonderful, but I'm sure his innner monologue isn't always.

Don't give up on men! Yeah, some guy you meet might be thinking "I'd love to have sex with her right now" while acting like a gentleman - but if he's making the effort to be gentlemanly, I'd give him a chance.

Hope that's not too much of an essay.