What Did the Cellar Ever Do For You...?

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Please be patient with my long post. It is somewhat of an awareness journey and I can't explain it in a few words.

I've been reading this title and I really wanted to honor S.G.s contribution but this whole time I had been drawing a blank in my mind.

I wanted there to be something and I was disturbed there wasn't anything forthcoming.

and so I've been giving it a little thought, about that much
* showing thumb and forefinger in about an inch gap*

Not very much but feeling bad about myself for not coming up with anything, not for the sake of others but wondering wtf I am doing if I can't dig deeper than the surface crap.

Without giving this thread anymore thought to my dilemma of not thinking of anything to say I decide to entertain myself by reading some of the cellar.

So here I am, off line reading a cellar philosophy thread. It was the freedom thread and that about burned my eyeballs off and I laughed and mused the whole way through.
It was so disorderly and passionate and frustrating.

That done I went searching the net for other philosophy subjects or forums. The first one I came to was an actual philosophy site. I am reading through the first few posts and I notice everyone is so orderly and nice. "Oh look" I think to myself."They are so orderly and nice"

Then crickets chirping. Literally dead pan.



So I'm reading their thread and I am thinking, "Is it the lack of dysfunction that bores me?"

I don't think it is the dysfunction here that attracts me. I think that was dysfunction was the main thing causing me to draw a blank.

I don't think I am consciously drawing a comparison at this point but my subconscious is doing double time because little did I know it the next time I read a cellar post I would have an 'ah-ha' moment.


So back to my story.


I go back in to the cellar philosophy archive and read and someone posted something that made me chuckle and crack up.

AH HA! that's it! It's the spontaneous off the cuff remarks. The odd ball comments, bits of humor and interpersonal spark. Those little gems you find that keep you coming back looking for more.

There are so many strong personalities here no wonder there are so many clashes. Everyone is unique and makes up the whole dynamic and that is what makes this a special place. Without Henri, or classic or lookout or ph, or shawnee or Merc, or lj or jinx or clod....oh yeah.. I am remembering as I type. It was clod's post that got me chuckling and gave me my ah ha moment. It was about the stepping on the conjoined twins foot to see if the other felt pain. haha That still cracks me up.

At that moment I knew what the cellar ever did for me was to give a chuckle, or bruce's off handed remarks knocking me from my chair or shawnee's funnies that leave me awestruck, Henri's knuckle biter posts, Merc's softer side,whip's concern of the free world, joe poet,UT's wisdom and restraint,zen's goodwill,Wolf's Constance, etc...etc..and a dozen other people who make this a truly special place to be.

Thank you all for being the wild conglomeration that you are but especially for the constant laughs.