With this post, I shall have 235 posts--after just over 2.5 years (since June of 2004). Most of those posts were garnered in the past over a year ago. In fact, the 4 or 5 JUB people with whom I have exchanged emails are people with there was contact during the first 6 months of my JUB membership.
I am glad to be a member of JUB. I found numerous posts rather informative. So JUB has been a lovely source of information Yet, I am not inclined to post that much. I do not post unless it is clear to me that I have something to contribute to the discussion. So I rarely post when what I would have said has already been said. Sometimes a post that I am constructing has been anticipated by another and so I have ended up echoing what has been said, which is not a problem for me. I rarely participate in threads posting (links to) pictures, though I have appreciated quite a few of these. Nor am I inclined to make comments that are ever so clever. That is probably because I am not clever in that way. Congratulation threads for reaching a certain number of posts or Happy Birthday threads are interesting; and I participate in these when I know and, especially if, I admire the person's "work". In general, I am a person of very few words. There were would be no JUB if everyone took my approach.
Finally, I contributed more to JUB earlier on than now. This has a lot do to do with the evolution of JUB itself. Though I appreciate much, I am most animated by substantive issues, except that I do not like politics all that much since I find that truth is rarely relevant in the arena of political debate. For my tastes, there are far fewer substantive issues (of a non-political nature) that show on the JUB board. So I increasingly have less to say.
It is obvious that JUB plays various roles in the lives of its members. It plays a personal role in the lives of some. It is even an alter-ego for some. And it is wonderful that JUB can play that in the lives of individuals. I repeat: This is a wonderful thing. That said, JUB could never play a personal role in my life--certainly not now, though perhaps that could have happened had a previous incarnation of JUB remained in place.
The strength of JUB is its diversity. In my own small way I attempt to contribute to that diversity. Fortunately, not everyone is like me.
well done
