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Lanyap

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Ah, now I see why I may have remembered my dream. May these Moonbeams pierce you and give you strength to bring down your own prison.


Deep stuff Moonbeam. It will take me severl days to decipher. Are you , or are you not, a philosophy professor? Am I really sitting here at my computer reading a Moonbeam post or am I dreaming?
 

dank69

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God I hope Moonbeam is a girl. Otherwise I'm going to look pretty stupid standing on his front porch in my skivvies with a tub of grape jelly under my arm. :oops:
 

Dr. Zaus

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MoonPie is a 57 year old "homeless" homosexual man in San Francisco that sells smal quantities of pot to philosophy students from Berkley for absolutely no personal gain to himself, except for the conversation.

This is why there is real justice in the world. Those who see beauty live in heaven and those who see ugliness live in hell. But don't tell the latter. I can assure you from years of diligent research using the finest, most advanced, and sensitive scientific instruments that telling them will make them mad?
I think you're not going far enough with this.

It isn't just seeing. Being beauty, love and life makes it so that the world you create both physically and emotionally are imbued with that nature of your being. Being ugliness, hate and hurt makes it so that the your intentional-self imbues such things into not only the entirety of every"thing" you have intentions toward, but also every thought, memory and hope.
 
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still not convinced that LunarRay and Moonbeam aren't the same person ;)
I've always had the very same feeling, not to mention that the similarities in their writing styles are a big tip off. LR may not consider them the same person but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they both inhabit the same body...wouldn't be surprised at all.
 
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AreaCode707

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Moonbeam is a Tibetan monk from the Dalai Lama's personal retinue, living in Beverly Hills to change the nature of Hollywood and therefore the world.
 

LunarRay

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I've always had the very same feeling, not to mention that the similarities in their writing styles are a big tip off. LR may not consider them the same person but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they both inhabit the same body...wouldn't be surprised at all.


I assume that long long ago Harvey would have easily been able to detect such an event should it have been true. I don't know how I can convince you that I am not LunarRay.... er... Moonbeam :D
 

Lemon law

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All I can say, is that this thread brought Moonbeam back, and is still an elite member as always. Its good to hear Moonbeam is still alive and well which IMHO beats the alternative.
 

Stuxnet

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Honestly, I got pretty tired of the self hate thing. He might be a very pleasant fellow IRL, but here he got very old very fast.

Pretty much agree. If you've read one moonbeam post you've read them all. Glad he's well, of course.
 

Madwand1

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I've always had the very same feeling, not to mention that the similarities in their writing styles are a big tip off. LR may not consider them the same person but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they both inhabit the same body...wouldn't be surprised at all.

While the two have a similarity in names and frequent though not complete agreement on subjects at hand, I find it odd that anyone would think that the two are the same, given the marked differences in style, manner, and often perspectives on the same subject.

Perhaps the commonality you see is due to the distance you have from both of their positions?
 

skyking

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While the two have a similarity in names and frequent though not complete agreement on subjects at hand, I find it odd that anyone would think that the two are the same, given the marked differences in style, manner, and often perspectives on the same subject.

Perhaps the commonality you see is due to the distance you have from both of their positions?
Glad this brought you out of the woodwork, long time no see:)
 

lothar

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I always thought he was too busy running California which was why he stopped coming here.
 

Madwand1

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Glad this brought you out of the woodwork, long time no see:)

Thank you.

The missing of Moonbeam, I think, is not just a missing of personalities, but also of a sort of subject and variations on perspectives and attraction and repulsion to the same. Moonbeam is lost on himself, and if there is not enough interplay of light, we all disappear in darkness.
 
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While the two have a similarity in names and frequent though not complete agreement on subjects at hand, I find it odd that anyone would think that the two are the same, given the marked differences in style, manner, and often perspectives on the same subject.

Perhaps the commonality you see is due to the distance you have from both of their positions?
If they were both of identical opinion and perspective it would be a dead giveaway. The tipoffs are more subtle than that. Nor does my assertion have anything whatsoever to do with my own opinions vs. those of LR/Moonbeam.
 

zinfamous

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I miss Moonie! :thumbsup:



Your statement misses the entire context. Go back through the record, and learn.

Moonbeam wasn't that way for years and years and years of posting. Then, he entered P&N, and for quite some time, as in a couple of years, he still wasn't.

But he began to be ruthlessly and personally attacked and derided, crudely and repeatedly, by a core group of posters whom I feel couldn't carry his philosophical or moral jock.

This eventually coarsened his approach. The old P&N coarsened everyone. So Moonie began to become more "provocative" in his approach at times.

Moonbeam was and is one of the finer and most distinctive posters ever to grace these forums.


:thumbsup:
 

nobodyknows

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If they were both of identical opinion and perspective it would be a dead giveaway. The tipoffs are more subtle than that. Nor does my assertion have anything whatsoever to do with my own opinions vs. those of LR/Moonbeam.

Any idiot can see that LR is a liberal that leans to the right while Moonie is a liberal that leans to the left.
 

smitbret

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What a roller coaster ride!

Been off the forums for a few months, mostly due to time and the 2nd thread I begin reading informs me that Moombeam has stopped posting. So I'm thinking, "sweet, I may have to start makoing time to check the forums out again."

Through my tears of joy, I continue reading on, only to discover that Moombeam has decided to drag his self-loathing poison up from the depths so he can solicit and receive his pats on the back from everyone that feels sorry for him/her/it.

I only read a few of Moonbeam's posts, the majority of which were in L&R. I can honestly say that Moonbeam added NOTHING but poison to L&R. Moonbeam's answer to every problem was that OP is a pervert and bringing it on themselves. Yet, here's a person who's so busy publicly trampling on their own self-esteem in search of the next sympathetic ear that they can't even figure out how to get out of the way their own insecurities. I've met DMV clerks with more charisma.

I know, I know. I just don't understand, but I just have a difficult time having any respect for someone that so blatantly fishes for outside reassurance, yet is so eager to point out the shortcomings of everyone else's slef-esteem and moral compass.

Moonie smells of intolerance and self-hate.