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Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#42

Long long ago i and friends would smoke a ton of weed and write letters that we never send. They went something like... Dear sir, you must feel privilaged to receave a letter from someone as important and distingushed as me. It was well earned and deserved i assure you (which is the best kind of assurance) It of course pains me greatly to see my greatness overshadowed but there is joy in being reduced to an observer…

Juding by the content you were not far from the truth... :-)

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#43
post #16

As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.

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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#47
post #19

Umm, proceed and persist sounds better imo.

Maybe, but ‘continue’ is a better negation of ‘cease’. Proceed can mean (usually means?) to do something one has not yet started, rather than to not cease .

By the latin roots:

Continue - hold together (cum + tenere -- same root as contain)

Proceed - go forward (pro + cedere)

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#48

Hypothetically, if I had to violate someone's personal privacy like this, I think I'd be leaning toward doing it for someone I don't like. And even then, I would never.

What's going on here? What planet are you from to come up with a comment like this? Haha wtf.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

#49
post #16

As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to.

If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

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