choices

Buncha rambly thoughts to follow...

Yes, you can do anything in Second Life. You can even do everything -- but you can't necessarily do everything all at the same time.

Is that fair?

Yes.

Life, both 1st and 2nd, is made up of choices.

If I choose to do A, then I can't afford to do B, but if I do B I can also do C and D. Decisions, decisions...

But I want what I want and I.Want.It.Right.Now.

Well.. tough toenails. You don't always get everything you want in either of these lives.

A line from "The Lion King" keeps running through my head... Scar talking to the mouse he just caught: "Life's not fair, is it? You shall never see the light of another day, and I, I shall never be king."

SL shouldn't be as stressful as our first lives. Many of us have enough financial woes in our FL that we need SL as an escape. So.... the *choice* is ours. *We* bring the stress upon ourselves in SL by *choosing* to overextend ourselves beyond our SL means. If that stress in SL is too much for you... STOP! Cut back. Slow down. There's no rush! Keep it simple. Expand as you can.

Ok, I'm done rambling for now. Now if I could only take my (IMHO) very good advice.... =)

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fen-

I know exactly what you mean.
And you're right, any stress I get from SL (which is very very little, even with that long post I made haha) is my own fault. But you gotta admit, someone's gotta do this stuff just so someone can say "I did this and that and boy was it crazy."

Shebang, that is the most profound post I have ever read in these forums. It should be recommended reading for all of us Lifers.

Very tru sweet and simple to the point . Thats why there was a big change in Kissling.

I could handle starting this up, but the attitudes and squabbles got out of hand. I couldn't deal with them. So I now have decided to do a joint venture with a select few of the SL Oldies. We are going to *share* the land in the island and write up a plan then go all out with a more simplistic, yet nicer idea.

But the confiscatory taxation involved here limits one's creative freedom in SL. Picking and choosing is RL. ie: I couldn't afford a new BMW this year in RL. No joy there.

But being robbed week after week, regardless of how well the Lindens claim the system works is no fun.

I don't envision taxation in my ideal second life. Taxes suck.

I don't mean to come off like a griefer, but I'm not subscribing.

I am absolutely in Shebang's court on this. To those who do not like the taxes, go to any other game that doesn't have them and once again I will point out that you get taxed in another form. It is called a closed system that allows you to do this and that and no more. Here in Second life you get a completely open ended choice of this and that before the "no more" hits. But one way or the other, as long as you are dealing with the finite resources the "no more" going to be there at the end of the day. Those who in the end will stay here will stay here because in the final analysis open ended creation is more important to them than some knee-jerk abhorance of the concept of taxes.

Once again, those who were the victims of a book keeping error due to crashes of whatever else should speak up so that safeguards can be developed to avoid such issues.

Amen Shebang!!!!!

Words to live by.