Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Riordan
The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll just
print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of carving new
stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an arbitrarily long one.

I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the Aztecs long
before 2012...

-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider
jsschneid...@smithsys.netwrote:

  I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec 21,
 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but simply the
 end of a time or era.
 That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is simply
 the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle 4 or 5 there is
 nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec 2012 is just being the
 beginning of a new era.

 John

 - Original Message -
 *From:* Rod Goke rod.g...@earthlink.net
 *To:* Texas Cavers texascavers@texascavers.com
 *Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
 *Subject:* RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


 I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained
 an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be revised to record
 that happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's
 when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it
 is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012,
 leading some to interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now,
 however, some people are claiming that this interpretation of the
 Mayan calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the world
 date will be November 6, 2012.
 . . .
 (election day)  ;-)

 Rod

 -Original Message-
 From: Louise Power
 Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
 To: Texas Cavers
 Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

 But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec
 calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture.
 She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy
 who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend?
 OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend!


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Burrell
For any of you who are really interested in the Mayan calendar, the  
best book I've ever read on the subject is Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 by  
John Major Jenkins. Jenkins is an Archeo astronomer, not some new age  
channeler. He lays out the history of the Maya and how they calculated  
and recalculated the calendar to make it one of the most accurate.  
It's a very dense book but a great read especially for those of you  
who go caving in Central America regularly and want to have a deeper  
appreciation of the Maya culture.


Mike Burrell
On May 23, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Brian Riordan wrote:

The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll  
just print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of  
carving new stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an  
arbitrarily long one.


I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the  
Aztecs long before 2012...


-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider jsschneid...@smithsys.net 
 wrote:
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec  
21, 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but  
simply the end of a time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is  
simply the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle  
4 or 5 there is nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec  
2012 is just being the beginning of a new era.


John
- Original Message -
From: Rod Goke
To: Texas Cavers
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever  
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be  
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their  
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan,  
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar  
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to  
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however,  
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan  
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the  
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to  
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed  
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I  
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a  
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for  
my poor old brain to comprehend!



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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread John.Schneider
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec 21, 2012.  
It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but simply the end of a 
time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is simply the 
end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle 4 or 5 there is 
nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec 2012 is just being the 
beginning of a new era.

John
  - Original Message - 
  From: Rod Goke 
  To: Texas Cavers 
  Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
  Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future



  I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an 
end of the world prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that 
happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when 
their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the 
Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some 
to interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however, some 
people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan calendar is off by 
several weeks and that the real end of the world date will be November 6, 
2012.
  . . .
  (election day)  ;-)

  Rod

  -Original Message-
  From: Louise Power 
  Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
  To: Texas Cavers 
  Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

  But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec 
calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She 
says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got 
it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's 
just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Riordan
The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll just
print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of carving new
stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an arbitrarily long one.

I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the Aztecs long
before 2012...

-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider
jsschneid...@smithsys.netwrote:

  I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec 21,
 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but simply the
 end of a time or era.
 That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is simply
 the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle 4 or 5 there is
 nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec 2012 is just being the
 beginning of a new era.

 John

 - Original Message -
 *From:* Rod Goke rod.g...@earthlink.net
 *To:* Texas Cavers texascavers@texascavers.com
 *Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
 *Subject:* RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


 I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained
 an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be revised to record
 that happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's
 when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it
 is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012,
 leading some to interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now,
 however, some people are claiming that this interpretation of the
 Mayan calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the world
 date will be November 6, 2012.
 . . .
 (election day)  ;-)

 Rod

 -Original Message-
 From: Louise Power
 Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
 To: Texas Cavers
 Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

 But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec
 calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture.
 She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy
 who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend?
 OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend!


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Burrell
For any of you who are really interested in the Mayan calendar, the  
best book I've ever read on the subject is Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 by  
John Major Jenkins. Jenkins is an Archeo astronomer, not some new age  
channeler. He lays out the history of the Maya and how they calculated  
and recalculated the calendar to make it one of the most accurate.  
It's a very dense book but a great read especially for those of you  
who go caving in Central America regularly and want to have a deeper  
appreciation of the Maya culture.


Mike Burrell
On May 23, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Brian Riordan wrote:

The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll  
just print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of  
carving new stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an  
arbitrarily long one.


I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the  
Aztecs long before 2012...


-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider jsschneid...@smithsys.net 
 wrote:
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec  
21, 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but  
simply the end of a time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is  
simply the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle  
4 or 5 there is nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec  
2012 is just being the beginning of a new era.


John
- Original Message -
From: Rod Goke
To: Texas Cavers
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever  
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be  
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their  
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan,  
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar  
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to  
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however,  
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan  
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the  
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to  
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed  
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I  
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a  
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for  
my poor old brain to comprehend!



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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread John.Schneider
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec 21, 2012.  
It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but simply the end of a 
time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is simply the 
end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle 4 or 5 there is 
nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec 2012 is just being the 
beginning of a new era.

John
  - Original Message - 
  From: Rod Goke 
  To: Texas Cavers 
  Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
  Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future



  I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an 
end of the world prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that 
happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when 
their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the 
Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some 
to interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however, some 
people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan calendar is off by 
several weeks and that the real end of the world date will be November 6, 
2012.
  . . .
  (election day)  ;-)

  Rod

  -Original Message-
  From: Louise Power 
  Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
  To: Texas Cavers 
  Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

  But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec 
calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She 
says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got 
it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's 
just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Riordan
The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll just
print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of carving new
stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an arbitrarily long one.

I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the Aztecs long
before 2012...

-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider
jsschneid...@smithsys.netwrote:

  I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec 21,
 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but simply the
 end of a time or era.
 That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is simply
 the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle 4 or 5 there is
 nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec 2012 is just being the
 beginning of a new era.

 John

 - Original Message -
 *From:* Rod Goke rod.g...@earthlink.net
 *To:* Texas Cavers texascavers@texascavers.com
 *Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
 *Subject:* RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


 I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained
 an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be revised to record
 that happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's
 when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it
 is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012,
 leading some to interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now,
 however, some people are claiming that this interpretation of the
 Mayan calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the world
 date will be November 6, 2012.
 . . .
 (election day)  ;-)

 Rod

 -Original Message-
 From: Louise Power
 Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
 To: Texas Cavers
 Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

 But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec
 calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture.
 She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy
 who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend?
 OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend!


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Burrell
For any of you who are really interested in the Mayan calendar, the  
best book I've ever read on the subject is Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 by  
John Major Jenkins. Jenkins is an Archeo astronomer, not some new age  
channeler. He lays out the history of the Maya and how they calculated  
and recalculated the calendar to make it one of the most accurate.  
It's a very dense book but a great read especially for those of you  
who go caving in Central America regularly and want to have a deeper  
appreciation of the Maya culture.


Mike Burrell
On May 23, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Brian Riordan wrote:

The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011...  But we'll  
just print a new one for 2012.  I presume the Aztecs got tired of  
carving new stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an  
arbitrarily long one.


I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the  
Aztecs long before 2012...


-B

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider jsschneid...@smithsys.net 
 wrote:
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec  
21, 2012.  It DOES NOT however predict the end of the world, but  
simply the end of a time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is  
simply the end of the most recent era.  Since this was either cycle  
4 or 5 there is nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec  
2012 is just being the beginning of a new era.


John
- Original Message -
From: Rod Goke
To: Texas Cavers
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future


I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever  
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be  
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their  
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan,  
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar  
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to  
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however,  
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan  
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the  
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to  
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed  
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I  
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a  
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for  
my poor old brain to comprehend!



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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said: "... that day is coming soon!"But wasn't "that day" supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we allhavebeen judged unworthy and have been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS toTexascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.;-)Rod-Original Message-From: bmorgan...@aol.comSent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AMTo: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future Re: A warning from the futureIn retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten  billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly what he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost exactly the same but worse. I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only  reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than to crawl into holes  in the ground? So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of  the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the middle east? So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  more trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As you  have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!God

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Louise Power

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec 
calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She 
says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got 
it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's 
just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:56:56 -0500
From: rod.g...@earthlink.net
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future




God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said:

   ... that day is coming soon!

But wasn't that day supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one 
raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we all have been judged unworthy and have 
been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting 
up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS to 
Texascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.

;-)
Rod
-Original Message-
From: bmorgan...@aol.com
Sent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future 

Re: A warning from the future

In retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten 
 billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a 
big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur 
resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over 
camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly 
what 
he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly 
thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert 
dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost 
exactly the same but worse. 

I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  
I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only 
 reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil 
fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts 
and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. 
Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first 
centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than 
to crawl into holes  in the ground? 

So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of 
 the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed 
land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have 
put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the 
middle east? 

So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  
awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  
Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  
more 
trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  
themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  
part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  
pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As 
you 
 have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!

God


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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an"end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that happening August 13, 1521(from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes).I believe that it is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however, some people are claiming that this interpretation ofthe Mayancalendar is off by several weeks and that the real"end of the world" date will be November 6, 2012.. . .(election day) ;-)Rod-Original Message-From: Louise Power Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PMTo: Texas Cavers Subject: RE: [Texascavers]  A warning from the futureBut wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Minton
As I understand it, 2012 does not mark the end of the world 
according to Maya mythology.  It is simply the end of a calendar 
cycle.  After that date a new calendar cycle would begin.  All talk 
of apocalypse is modern mythology, not Maya.  (In modern usage, the 
word Mayan is used solely in reference to the language.  In all other 
cases Maya is used as both noun and adjective.)


Mark Minton

At 10:34 PM 5/22/2011, Rod Goke wrote:

I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever 
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be 
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their 
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, 
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar 
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to 
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however, 
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan 
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the 
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to 
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed 
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I 
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a 
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for 
my poor old brain to comprehend!


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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said: "... that day is coming soon!"But wasn't "that day" supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we allhavebeen judged unworthy and have been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS toTexascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.;-)Rod-Original Message-From: bmorgan...@aol.comSent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AMTo: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future Re: A warning from the futureIn retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten  billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly what he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost exactly the same but worse. I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only  reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than to crawl into holes  in the ground? So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of  the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the middle east? So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  more trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As you  have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!God

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Louise Power

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec 
calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She 
says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got 
it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's 
just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:56:56 -0500
From: rod.g...@earthlink.net
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future




God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said:

   ... that day is coming soon!

But wasn't that day supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one 
raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we all have been judged unworthy and have 
been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting 
up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS to 
Texascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.

;-)
Rod
-Original Message-
From: bmorgan...@aol.com
Sent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future 

Re: A warning from the future

In retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten 
 billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a 
big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur 
resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over 
camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly 
what 
he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly 
thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert 
dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost 
exactly the same but worse. 

I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  
I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only 
 reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil 
fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts 
and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. 
Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first 
centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than 
to crawl into holes  in the ground? 

So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of 
 the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed 
land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have 
put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the 
middle east? 

So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  
awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  
Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  
more 
trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  
themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  
part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  
pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As 
you 
 have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!

God


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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an"end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that happening August 13, 1521(from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes).I believe that it is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however, some people are claiming that this interpretation ofthe Mayancalendar is off by several weeks and that the real"end of the world" date will be November 6, 2012.. . .(election day) ;-)Rod-Original Message-From: Louise Power Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PMTo: Texas Cavers Subject: RE: [Texascavers]  A warning from the futureBut wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Minton
As I understand it, 2012 does not mark the end of the world 
according to Maya mythology.  It is simply the end of a calendar 
cycle.  After that date a new calendar cycle would begin.  All talk 
of apocalypse is modern mythology, not Maya.  (In modern usage, the 
word Mayan is used solely in reference to the language.  In all other 
cases Maya is used as both noun and adjective.)


Mark Minton

At 10:34 PM 5/22/2011, Rod Goke wrote:

I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever 
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be 
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their 
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, 
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar 
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to 
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however, 
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan 
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the 
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to 
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed 
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I 
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a 
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for 
my poor old brain to comprehend!


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Permanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org 

RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
I agree that interpreting the end of the Maya calendar cycle as an "end of the world" prediction should be taken only about as seriously as the joke aboutNovember 6, 2012, or the rapture predictions for May 21, 2011.As for the usage of the words "Maya" vs. "Mayan", my understanding is that you are technically correct, and I've heard that explanation before. In actual common usage, however, both "Maya calendar" and "Mayan calendar" are used very frequently, almost interchangeably, as can easily be verified in a few minutes with an Internet search engine. Use of "Mayan" as an adjective has become so common, even in mainstream media and publications, that I can see how people might legitimately argue about whether this is a common mistake or whether it is a case of academicians being slow to adapt to the reality of evolving language. Dictionaries tend to be lagging (not leading) indicators of current language usage. Does anyone know of a reason to prefer"Maya" over "Mayan" for use as anadjective, other than the fact thatacademicians prefer this convention? Otherwise, I see little reason to prefer one convention over the other on this issue and am content to follow whichever one wins out in actual practice. Thus far, it appears to me that both are acceptable in actual modern usage.Rod-Original Message-From: Mark Minton Sent: May 22, 2011 10:25 PMTo: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: RE: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future As I understand it, 2012 does not mark the end of the world according to Maya mythology.  It is simply the end of a calendar cycle.  After that date a new calendar cycle would begin.  All talk of apocalypse is modern mythology, not Maya.  (In modern usage, the word Mayan is used solely in reference to the language.  In all other cases Maya is used as both noun and adjective.)Mark MintonAt 10:34 PM 5/22/2011, Rod Goke wrote:I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an "end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however, some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan calendar is off by several weeks and that the real "end of the world" date will be November 6, 2012.. . .(election day)  ;-)Rod-Original Message-From: Louise PowerSent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PMTo: Texas CaversSubject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the futureBut wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend!Please reply to mmin...@caver.netPermanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org 

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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said: "... that day is coming soon!"But wasn't "that day" supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we allhavebeen judged unworthy and have been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS toTexascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.;-)Rod-Original Message-From: bmorgan...@aol.comSent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AMTo: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future Re: A warning from the futureIn retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten  billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly what he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost exactly the same but worse. I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only  reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than to crawl into holes  in the ground? So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of  the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the middle east? So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  more trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As you  have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!God

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Louise Power

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec 
calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She 
says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got 
it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's 
just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:56:56 -0500
From: rod.g...@earthlink.net
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future




God's impersonator (from 2035 or whenever) said:

   ... that day is coming soon!

But wasn't that day supposed to have been yesterday, May 21? Why was no one 
raptured? Oh no! Could it be that we all have been judged unworthy and have 
been left here to suffer a most dreaded fate, namely having to continue putting 
up with all those other unworthy people, even the ones who post OT BS to 
Texascavers! Guess we'll just have to find a way to tolerate each other.

;-)
Rod
-Original Message-
From: bmorgan...@aol.com
Sent: May 22, 2011 9:43 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future 

Re: A warning from the future

In retrospect I realize it was all a big mistake. I send down one of my ten 
 billion only begotten sons only this particular one is a paranoid with a 
big  mouth and everybody takes him seriously. His delusions of grandeur 
resonate with  ignorant desert tribesmen whose idea of fun is to fight over 
camels. Then, about  sixty years later after everybody has forgotten exactly 
what 
he says they  collect the stories and they become a best seller. Shortly 
thereafter Roman  priests and pederasts get involved, then another desert 
dwelling lunatic named  Mo comes up with a different version that is almost 
exactly the same but worse. 

I did everything I could to dissuade people from believing this gibberish.  
I sent war, plague, and famine to everybody who bought the bull but it only 
 reinforced their faith. It occurred to me to hide the original set of evil 
fairy  tales so I sent a little shepherd boy to collect the scattered texts 
and hide  them in a cave. That worked fairly well until cavers came along. 
Who could have  imagined that in the late twentieth and early twenty first 
centuries people  would be so bored they would have nothing better to do than 
to crawl into holes  in the ground? 

So it came to pass that not too long ago a Bedouin caver discovered some of 
 the hidden scrolls not far from the aptly named Dead sea in the accursed 
land of  Yidzrael. The rotting fragments made no sense, and that should have 
put the  matter to rest, but no! Ask yourself, has peace come to the 
middle east? 

So I have  finally had it. There are other yet undiscovered scrolls  
awaiting discovery and misinterpretation and I simply will not allow it.  
Henceforth all caving is banned along with all direct discussion thereof. No  
more 
trip reports, only off topic apocrypha will be allowed. As to cavers  
themselves I condemn them to old age and death. The use of electronic media is  
part of my plan. No more scrolls in caves that might be found later, just  
pointless babbling that will disappear from earth once the lights go out. As 
you 
 have been repeatedly warned, that day is coming soon!

God


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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an"end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that happening August 13, 1521(from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes).I believe that it is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however, some people are claiming that this interpretation ofthe Mayancalendar is off by several weeks and that the real"end of the world" date will be November 6, 2012.. . .(election day) ;-)Rod-Original Message-From: Louise Power Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PMTo: Texas Cavers Subject: RE: [Texascavers]  A warning from the futureBut wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend! 

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RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Minton
As I understand it, 2012 does not mark the end of the world 
according to Maya mythology.  It is simply the end of a calendar 
cycle.  After that date a new calendar cycle would begin.  All talk 
of apocalypse is modern mythology, not Maya.  (In modern usage, the 
word Mayan is used solely in reference to the language.  In all other 
cases Maya is used as both noun and adjective.)


Mark Minton

At 10:34 PM 5/22/2011, Rod Goke wrote:

I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever 
contained an end of the world prediction, it probably had to be 
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their 
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, 
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar 
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to 
interpret this as a predicted end of the world date. Now, however, 
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan 
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real end of the 
world date will be November 6, 2012.

. . .
(election day)  ;-)

Rod

-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to 
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed 
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I 
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a 
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for 
my poor old brain to comprehend!


Please reply to mmin...@caver.net
Permanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org 

RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future

2011-05-22 Thread Rod Goke
I agree that interpreting the end of the Maya calendar cycle as an "end of the world" prediction should be taken only about as seriously as the joke aboutNovember 6, 2012, or the rapture predictions for May 21, 2011.As for the usage of the words "Maya" vs. "Mayan", my understanding is that you are technically correct, and I've heard that explanation before. In actual common usage, however, both "Maya calendar" and "Mayan calendar" are used very frequently, almost interchangeably, as can easily be verified in a few minutes with an Internet search engine. Use of "Mayan" as an adjective has become so common, even in mainstream media and publications, that I can see how people might legitimately argue about whether this is a common mistake or whether it is a case of academicians being slow to adapt to the reality of evolving language. Dictionaries tend to be lagging (not leading) indicators of current language usage. Does anyone know of a reason to prefer"Maya" over "Mayan" for use as anadjective, other than the fact thatacademicians prefer this convention? Otherwise, I see little reason to prefer one convention over the other on this issue and am content to follow whichever one wins out in actual practice. Thus far, it appears to me that both are acceptable in actual modern usage.Rod-Original Message-From: Mark Minton Sent: May 22, 2011 10:25 PMTo: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: RE: [Texascavers]  A warning from the future As I understand it, 2012 does not mark the end of the world according to Maya mythology.  It is simply the end of a calendar cycle.  After that date a new calendar cycle would begin.  All talk of apocalypse is modern mythology, not Maya.  (In modern usage, the word Mayan is used solely in reference to the language.  In all other cases Maya is used as both noun and adjective.)Mark MintonAt 10:34 PM 5/22/2011, Rod Goke wrote:I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever contained an "end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan, finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however, some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan calendar is off by several weeks and that the real "end of the world" date will be November 6, 2012.. . .(election day)  ;-)Rod-Original Message-From: Louise PowerSent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PMTo: Texas CaversSubject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the futureBut wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for my poor old brain to comprehend!Please reply to mmin...@caver.netPermanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org 

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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Frank Binney
Amen!!! Can we trade ³David from the Future² for our present-day ³David the
well-meaning but compulsive OT Spammer²?


On 5/20/11 3:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened.
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart
 with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in
 the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I
 won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a
 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us,
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you,
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant
 manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I
 would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time,
 while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did
 not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching
 information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent
 caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave
 related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film
 about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just
 damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise
 participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If
 we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving
 can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and
 headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.
 



Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Leslie Bell
With all due respect - if David did not write the below, I find it to be 
completely inappropriate. 

Best of wishes to all of those having fun at NaturFest.

Leslie Bell 

--- On Fri, 5/20/11, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

From: David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 5:00 PM

David,
It's me, David, from the future. 
It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 

David LocklearCEO of Natufest International,A subsidiary of The People's 
Republic of Facebook
P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Frank Binney
Amen!!! Can we trade ³David from the Future² for our present-day ³David the
well-meaning but compulsive OT Spammer²?


On 5/20/11 3:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened.
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart
 with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in
 the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I
 won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a
 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us,
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you,
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant
 manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I
 would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time,
 while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did
 not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching
 information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent
 caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave
 related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film
 about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just
 damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise
 participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If
 we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving
 can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and
 headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.
 



Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Leslie Bell
With all due respect - if David did not write the below, I find it to be 
completely inappropriate. 

Best of wishes to all of those having fun at NaturFest.

Leslie Bell 

--- On Fri, 5/20/11, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

From: David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 5:00 PM

David,
It's me, David, from the future. 
It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 

David LocklearCEO of Natufest International,A subsidiary of The People's 
Republic of Facebook
P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Frank Binney
Amen!!! Can we trade ³David from the Future² for our present-day ³David the
well-meaning but compulsive OT Spammer²?


On 5/20/11 3:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened.
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart
 with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in
 the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I
 won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a
 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us,
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you,
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant
 manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I
 would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time,
 while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did
 not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching
 information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent
 caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave
 related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film
 about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just
 damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise
 participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If
 we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving
 can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and
 headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.
 



Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-21 Thread Leslie Bell
With all due respect - if David did not write the below, I find it to be 
completely inappropriate. 

Best of wishes to all of those having fun at NaturFest.

Leslie Bell 

--- On Fri, 5/20/11, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

From: David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 5:00 PM

David,
It's me, David, from the future. 
It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 

David LocklearCEO of Natufest International,A subsidiary of The People's 
Republic of Facebook
P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Bentley
meltdown, is it one or two words?
  - Original Message - 
  From: David Locklear 2035 
  To: texascavers@texascavers.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
  Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.


  David,


  It's me, David, from the future. 


  It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 


  You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 


  Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.


  The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.


  What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from 
recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 


  It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.


  Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 


  David Locklear
  CEO of Natufest International,
  A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook


  P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.


  P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Fritz Holt
I think the strain of planning NaturFest has gotten to David and he has gone 
off the deep end. I know what to get him for Christmas, it is white with long 
sleeves and straps that buckle in the back. :(

Fritz


From: Bill Bentley [mailto:ca...@caver.net]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:24 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

meltdown, is it one or two words?
- Original Message -
From: David Locklear 2035mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.commailto:texascavers@texascavers.com
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

David,

It's me, David, from the future.

It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it.

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so.

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave.

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too.

David Locklear
CEO of Natufest International,
A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook

P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread cvreeland
Beautiful. Sublime, even. 

I hope you guys have a great weekend out there on the prairie.

On May 20, 2011, at 5:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged 
 Wal-Mart with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship 
 of life in the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy 
 task. I won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED 
 light and a 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all 
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on 
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, 
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came 
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my 
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever 
 irrelevant manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom 
 tissue, I would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one 
 time, while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I 
 did not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
 dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports 
 from recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about 
 a cave related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner 
 Herzog film about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out 
 just damages the community because we're running people off who might 
 otherwise participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible 
 posts. If we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, 
 maybe caving can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these 
 flashlights and headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and 
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Bentley
meltdown, is it one or two words?
  - Original Message - 
  From: David Locklear 2035 
  To: texascavers@texascavers.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
  Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.


  David,


  It's me, David, from the future. 


  It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 


  You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 


  Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.


  The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.


  What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from 
recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 


  It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.


  Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 


  David Locklear
  CEO of Natufest International,
  A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook


  P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.


  P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Fritz Holt
I think the strain of planning NaturFest has gotten to David and he has gone 
off the deep end. I know what to get him for Christmas, it is white with long 
sleeves and straps that buckle in the back. :(

Fritz


From: Bill Bentley [mailto:ca...@caver.net]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:24 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

meltdown, is it one or two words?
- Original Message -
From: David Locklear 2035mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.commailto:texascavers@texascavers.com
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

David,

It's me, David, from the future.

It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it.

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so.

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave.

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too.

David Locklear
CEO of Natufest International,
A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook

P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread cvreeland
Beautiful. Sublime, even. 

I hope you guys have a great weekend out there on the prairie.

On May 20, 2011, at 5:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged 
 Wal-Mart with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship 
 of life in the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy 
 task. I won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED 
 light and a 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all 
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on 
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, 
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came 
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my 
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever 
 irrelevant manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom 
 tissue, I would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one 
 time, while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I 
 did not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
 dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports 
 from recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about 
 a cave related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner 
 Herzog film about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out 
 just damages the community because we're running people off who might 
 otherwise participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible 
 posts. If we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, 
 maybe caving can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these 
 flashlights and headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and 
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

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Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Bentley
meltdown, is it one or two words?
  - Original Message - 
  From: David Locklear 2035 
  To: texascavers@texascavers.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
  Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.


  David,


  It's me, David, from the future. 


  It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 


  You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so. 


  Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.


  The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.


  What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from 
recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave. 


  It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.


  Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too. 


  David Locklear
  CEO of Natufest International,
  A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook


  P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.


  P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread Fritz Holt
I think the strain of planning NaturFest has gotten to David and he has gone 
off the deep end. I know what to get him for Christmas, it is white with long 
sleeves and straps that buckle in the back. :(

Fritz


From: Bill Bentley [mailto:ca...@caver.net]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:24 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

meltdown, is it one or two words?
- Original Message -
From: David Locklear 2035mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.commailto:texascavers@texascavers.com
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

David,

It's me, David, from the future.

It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged Wal-Mart 
with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship of life in 
the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy task. I won't 
go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED light and a 17th 
generation Facebook Blackberry to do it.

You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
enough AA batteries to do so.

Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all still 
be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on Facebook 
about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.

The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the most 
banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was off 
the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, collected 
thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came back, but 
it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my mundane 
passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever irrelevant manner 
possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom tissue, I would 
have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one time, while 
caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I did not. The 
threat was real, though, this I assure you.

What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply dispatching 
information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports from recent 
caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about a cave 
related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner Herzog film 
about a cave.

It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out just 
damages the community because we're running people off who might otherwise 
participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible posts. If we 
stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, maybe caving can be 
saved. I really want to have a use for all these flashlights and headlamps.

Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and I 
recommend that all of you do too.

David Locklear
CEO of Natufest International,
A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook

P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
on topic.

P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.


Re: [Texascavers] A warning from the future.

2011-05-20 Thread cvreeland
Beautiful. Sublime, even. 

I hope you guys have a great weekend out there on the prairie.

On May 20, 2011, at 5:00 PM, David Locklear 2035 dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:

 David,
 
 It's me, David, from the future. 
 
 It's taken the better part of a decade to do this, but I'm sending this from 
 the future to tell you... to tell me... that something awful has happened. 
 Things haven't been the same since Tzar Zuckerberg of Facebook merged 
 Wal-Mart with the Department of Defense, but aside from the general hardship 
 of life in the year 2035, sending an e-mail back in time is just not an easy 
 task. I won't go into all the details, but it took 1.21 jigalumens of LED 
 light and a 17th generation Facebook Blackberry to do it. 
 
 You wouldn't believe the inaccurate treatment of caving in all the movies and 
 shows I watch on Facebook. I've compiled a spreadsheet of all the ones I've 
 encountered and will be sending that back in time also, once I can stockpile 
 enough AA batteries to do so. 
 
 Getting back to the reason I'm sending this... It's me. I mean you. It's us, 
 David. I've seen the error of our ways. Ever since the exodus of 2012, Texans 
 don't cave anymore. Nobody knew about the trips anymore because everyone quit 
 the TexasCavers e-mail list. If only they'd switched to Facebook. Tzar 
 Zuckerberg's mandate of 2017 made it illegal to quit Facebook. They'd all 
 still be connected, and we'd be caving right now, or at least talking on 
 Facebook about caving trips a few of us went on in the 1970s.
 
 The point is that I ruined it. You ruined it. We spammed Facebook with the 
 most banal off topic minutia of our life and everyone left. Once everyone was 
 off the list, they all just forgot about caving all together. I, you, 
 collected thousands of flashlights and headlamps for the day when caving came 
 back, but it never did. It had been like a game figuring out how to make my 
 mundane passing thoughts tangentially related to caving in whatever 
 irrelevant manner possible. If I'd wanted to dispatch a manifesto on bathroom 
 tissue, I would have, because bowel movements do not stop for caving, and one 
 time, while caving, I thought I might need to make a burrito bag, but alas, I 
 did not. The threat was real, though, this I assure you.
 
 What the e-mail list should have been used for all along is simply 
 dispatching information about upcoming caving trips, sharing trip reports 
 from recent caving trips, and hosting the occasional meaty conversation about 
 a cave related topic such as cave geology, biology, safety, even a Werner 
 Herzog film about a cave. 
 
 It's time to stop using this e-mail list as a vanity fueled megaphone for our 
 ramblings. Maybe our closest friends care about all we have to say, but those 
 people out there on the e-mail list aren't all our closest friends. Many of 
 them have never even met us. I see now that sending e-mails like that out 
 just damages the community because we're running people off who might 
 otherwise participate in this list if it weren't congested with our terrible 
 posts. If we stop now, in the year 2011, which the great exodus looming, 
 maybe caving can be saved. I really want to have a use for all these 
 flashlights and headlamps.
 
 Although, on the topic of bathroom tissue, if you ever need any, I highly 
 recommend Facebook Brand Bum Wipes. They're strong, and absorbent. I haven't 
 had any of them tear on me yet. They could be softer, but I'll take utility 
 over comfort any day. I've pushed the LIKE button on their Facebook page, and 
 I recommend that all of you do too. 
 
 David Locklear
 CEO of Natufest International,
 A subsidiary of The People's Republic of Facebook
 
 P.S. You all should really go on Facebook and download the new Wu-Tang single 
 when it comes out in 2020. I listened to it the other day while looking at my 
 old caving photos on Facebook (which makes it on topic) and it's really 
 excellent. I never thought I'd like Classical Music, but the gunshot sound 
 effects on this one really are sublime. Also, in the early nineties they were 
 considered 'undgeround' and caving is an underground activity. So it's doubly 
 on topic.
 
 P.P.S. I'm going to go Facebook my Facebook Facebook. Facebook.

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