https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2039&p=30266#p30266 ----------------------------------- Visitor Friday, 31 March 2006, 09:18 AM ----------------------------------- Hello everyone, Posetteforever has now been here for three years, while I have been a member of this great place and a part of our family of friends for only year and a few months now. Compared to many of our members I am still a green horn around here, and you have welcomed me as once of you. You have placed your trust in me to help this place to remain safe and to help when things go wrong; for this I am deeply grateful, thank you. As has been said this is a place where we can come, relax, share our love of art, a place to be silly and a place to be serious; a place to share our happy times and seek comfort when things go not so nice in our lives. But what is this place, or rather where is this place. From a pragmatic viewpoint, Posetteforever location is on the server that is hosting this website. But that is not the real Posetteforever. The real Posetteforever was born from Tormie's dream and it has grown as each an everyone of us found it, found that we liked it here. Why did we like it here, because it touched somthing inside of each of us and said to us, this is a place that I like, these are people I like. And so with Posetteforver grows for Posetteforever is not in that desert where the server is, it is where each of us are. A peice of Posetteforever is right there where you are now, if you want to see tha piece, look in a mirror for you are a part of Posetteforever, we all are. What exists in that server is like the body, but all of us together are the soul of Posetteforever. When I started getting involed with art once again, I visited many sites. When you go to another forum look in the membership listing and you may see that I am already there too. But at that time I was a lurker and a lurker only. Then while still a lurker I got involved at another website, I had not intended to, but it just sort of happened. An event there happened that almost drove me back to being a lurker only, but by that time I had stopped being a lurker and started posting here and I was accepted as one of you. So just as the event at the other site could have done me harm, it was being a part of Posetteforver that helped to heal me. Posetteforever is a healing place for our spirits as well as a fun place to play. I said before how I came here in the first place, and what lead be to want to stay here as more than a lurker. Bit it seems only right to say it agin here in this topic in this forum. One day, shortly after my years long lack of inspiration faded away and art returned to my life, I was viewing the artworks in a.b.3.p and a.b.3.b when I saw a thread of replies without the initial article the one that contained the picture. The fragments of the picture's description as available through the quotations in the replies, got my attention. It sounded fun and playful, I wanted to see the picture but it was already expired, but from the quotations, I learned that he picure was posted by "Tormentor". Other pictures by "Tormentor" were posted but in each case they were expired before I got the chance to see them; however, in one of the quotations was included the URL for some place named Posetteforver. What did I do? I went there, that is, I came here. I registered but it didn't work. Something went wrong and I never got my activation email. I waited for a while, then I sent Tormie an email about my problem. I had been hoping that he would either force the system to send me a new activation email, or to delete by account, so that I could try again to register. The was jsut before going to bed. While I was hoping for help, I did not really expect any. However when I got up the next morning I found an email from Tormie. Rather than provided the minimal help that I had asked for, Tormie had activated my account for me. That impressed me very much. I have been here ever since. Altough it did take me a couple of month before I worked up the courage to post something. I would like to say more but for the moment, I will only say, Thank you everyone.