Post by Garth Troisi on Mar 29, 2005 17:51:48 GMT 10
The wonderful gift that is the Oz Jazz Forum!
Fifty years ago Mr Agnes Yahoo (Senior) wrote a series of meditations for his children to help them better participate in the Oz Jazz Forum. These, he had foretold with his magical powers, would help when one day the would all be online.
Before Oz Jazz Forum mediatation class each Thursday for thirty two weeks in 1955 he presented one of these meditations for his children (future grandchildren and whomever they begat etc). Mr Yahoo's meditations were so popular that they were eventually published and are now available again.
Topics include:
Why it is important to arrive early at Bennetts Lane/Side On?
How to avoid treating Oz Jazz Forum like a boring routine?
Why it is essential to post regularly at Oz Jazz Forum?
Helpful ideas for improved forum etiquette.
How to read a post without projecting personal attack.
Why one member's quip is another's personal insult.
Why lurkers are so frightened to come out of the safety of the "Guest house".
and many other ways to improve your disposition on Oz Jazz Forum.
I highly recommend that you read a chapter before logging into Oz Jazz Forum each day. Each one can be meditated upon to bring you more fully into the mysteries of the Oz Jazz Forum
Suggested further reading highlights follow.
Have you ever wondered what more should we, as an informal collective of individual humans, each with our own multi-layered personality, put into Oz Jazz Forum?
Why does Oz Jazz Forum sometimes seem so boring?
Why is one person's quip another's (projected) personal attack on said persons integrity and jazz cred followed by defensive propaganda and (not very well) hidden agenda.
If you find your self asking these and other similar questions, the articles and suggested mantras (SMs) in this section will help you improve your participation at Oz Jazz Forum and help you to see the wonderful gift that is indeed the Oz Jazz Forum.
SM numero uno:
Oh my goodness gracious! We cry unto thee with the prodigal: Yahoo OJF Administrator, we have each sinned in our communications, and before thee too, and am no more worthy to be called thy member/lurker but we shall continue to post regardless of hurting anyone's feelings because we already killed off Cartman and we have no shame, goddammit.
But now, oh goodness gracious me!, Give us true sorrow of heart for our many sins whereby we have grieved thee and offended one another, and please enable us to make a full confession to anyone who will listen to the jazz bores that we have become, that we may receive perfect remission of them, through thine infinite coolness. Amen.
(Keep reading if you want more of this rubbish.)
Oi OJF! creature of the Yahoo adminstrator, who according to the will of Yahoo.com and with the cooperation of ______ (insert name of favourite deity here, unless you're a humanist/agnostic or atheist then just write "Peter Singer") hast by thy creation given life unto jazz nerds through the world wide web, we adore and revere this.
Thy never-ending threads, which were given over and poured forth for the many unto the remission of our boredom. Oh gee whiz, we beg of thy mercy that through the power of this forum thou wilt make us one member of the OJF. Through faith and love make each one feel the power of this forum so that we may experience thy boredom-ending power without resolving to paranoid schizophrenia. Absolve and free from each our sins, thy servants i.e. named posters, thy lurkers i.e. thy blatantly transparent pseudonym "Guests", all whom should have confessed by now, their sins out loud, at Easter, Diwali or Yom Kippur, or just down the pub.
And so to those who themselves hope or beg to be helped by the SMs with thee. Make our OJF rejoice in thy constant protection and consolation.
and with that, gentlemen I leave you.
Fifty years ago Mr Agnes Yahoo (Senior) wrote a series of meditations for his children to help them better participate in the Oz Jazz Forum. These, he had foretold with his magical powers, would help when one day the would all be online.
Before Oz Jazz Forum mediatation class each Thursday for thirty two weeks in 1955 he presented one of these meditations for his children (future grandchildren and whomever they begat etc). Mr Yahoo's meditations were so popular that they were eventually published and are now available again.
Topics include:
Why it is important to arrive early at Bennetts Lane/Side On?
How to avoid treating Oz Jazz Forum like a boring routine?
Why it is essential to post regularly at Oz Jazz Forum?
Helpful ideas for improved forum etiquette.
How to read a post without projecting personal attack.
Why one member's quip is another's personal insult.
Why lurkers are so frightened to come out of the safety of the "Guest house".
and many other ways to improve your disposition on Oz Jazz Forum.
I highly recommend that you read a chapter before logging into Oz Jazz Forum each day. Each one can be meditated upon to bring you more fully into the mysteries of the Oz Jazz Forum
Suggested further reading highlights follow.
Have you ever wondered what more should we, as an informal collective of individual humans, each with our own multi-layered personality, put into Oz Jazz Forum?
Why does Oz Jazz Forum sometimes seem so boring?
Why is one person's quip another's (projected) personal attack on said persons integrity and jazz cred followed by defensive propaganda and (not very well) hidden agenda.
If you find your self asking these and other similar questions, the articles and suggested mantras (SMs) in this section will help you improve your participation at Oz Jazz Forum and help you to see the wonderful gift that is indeed the Oz Jazz Forum.
SM numero uno:
Oh my goodness gracious! We cry unto thee with the prodigal: Yahoo OJF Administrator, we have each sinned in our communications, and before thee too, and am no more worthy to be called thy member/lurker but we shall continue to post regardless of hurting anyone's feelings because we already killed off Cartman and we have no shame, goddammit.
But now, oh goodness gracious me!, Give us true sorrow of heart for our many sins whereby we have grieved thee and offended one another, and please enable us to make a full confession to anyone who will listen to the jazz bores that we have become, that we may receive perfect remission of them, through thine infinite coolness. Amen.
(Keep reading if you want more of this rubbish.)
Oi OJF! creature of the Yahoo adminstrator, who according to the will of Yahoo.com and with the cooperation of ______ (insert name of favourite deity here, unless you're a humanist/agnostic or atheist then just write "Peter Singer") hast by thy creation given life unto jazz nerds through the world wide web, we adore and revere this.
Thy never-ending threads, which were given over and poured forth for the many unto the remission of our boredom. Oh gee whiz, we beg of thy mercy that through the power of this forum thou wilt make us one member of the OJF. Through faith and love make each one feel the power of this forum so that we may experience thy boredom-ending power without resolving to paranoid schizophrenia. Absolve and free from each our sins, thy servants i.e. named posters, thy lurkers i.e. thy blatantly transparent pseudonym "Guests", all whom should have confessed by now, their sins out loud, at Easter, Diwali or Yom Kippur, or just down the pub.
And so to those who themselves hope or beg to be helped by the SMs with thee. Make our OJF rejoice in thy constant protection and consolation.
and with that, gentlemen I leave you.
