April 20, 2015
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Expiring
How can my lifetime Xanga expire? Are they trying to guess the date of my death? Do they already know, and they're giving me a heads up? Should I prepare a will? Not that I have anything anyone would want. At least no one with half a brain. Most of the people I've met in life had two brains. One was lost and the other was out looking for it. All that I have, that anyone with any sense at all should want, couldn't be transferred via a last will and testament. Not that a last will and testament matters much anymore. They're nearly always contested these days by people who feel they should have been given whatever they weren't given in the will. What madness! No one contests old tea pots or bibles. They contest money, land, houses, property. Anything that can be turned into cash. They think that is value. Well, perhaps think is too strong a word. It's certainly not the right word for the reaction.
Consider for a moment what a gift it would be if Xanga really was telling me that I was going to expire August 17, 2025. If you knew the exact date of your departure from this realm of the five senses you could pack. Since you couldn't take anything from the realm of the five sense with you, for obvious reasons, you would have to consider how to prepare. There's the lazy man's way. "There is nothing except what is shown to us by the five senses, therefore there is no life beyond the five senses." Some really believe that. Others think they believe something else but live as if they really believed it. The thing is, you can believe something that isn't true. The recalcitrant, would-be-philosophers might wish to know what is true. What's so is what's true. Our problem is that living in the realm of the five senses, and believing we can only know what the five senses tell us or suggest, we can't know anything else, so there must not be anything else. It's laughable really. Like saying there was no microscopic world before the invention of the microscope.
What is so? For me, Xanga expired years ago. It may be gasping now, like a beached fish, but for me it died when they lost their focus and desire to serve. Therefore, it won't be possible for me to expire prior to Xanga's termination. If I should depart the realm of the five sense prior to August 17, 2025 or after will not matter. This may be my final hour. I'm doing all that I need to be doing right now to make sure that if this is my final hour I'm packed and ready.
Comments (4)
James!
I've not received this notice, yet, as a "lifetime" member of Xanga, though I was just asked about it by someone else. And I feel as you do. Xanga expired a long time ago. Rather unfortunate that.
Hope you are a long way from your expiration date.
@warweasel: I didn't "receive" the notice either. I looked it up after reading that others had somehow accessed the information. I wasn't surprised that lifetime meant something other than what it meant when they were selling it. Standard sales crap.
Yeah, that 'lifetime' thing was as close to false advertising as it gets, I paid for 'lifetime' about 6 months before they shut down the original Xanga. People should get a class action suit going, but no one cares that much anymore. Which just shows how dead it really is.
@moniet: It wouldn't be worth the time and trouble. Edmund Burke is credited with saying, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." There are not many good men left in the world.
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