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Is There a Recovery Group for Ricochet?
I’m serious. I’ve never been active on a blog before, and I think I’m in deep trouble. Some people seem to spend all their waking hours here. Some people are so bright that their wisdom and intelligence are overwhelming. Me, I just say what I think, trying to balance head and heart. But I think I’m spending too much time here. Yet there are so many important topics and intelligent (although sometimes somewhat snarky) comments, that I don’t want to miss what is clearly valuable information.
I’m trying to set up rules for myself (limiting myself to certain people, topics, reviewing a limited number of comments. limiting my own comments). And then of course I make my own posts — how foolish is that?! Maybe I need a super speed reading and super speed writing workshop. Maybe Ricochettis should offer one? Is there a cure? Should there be a cure? Is it possible to have a life outside of Ricochet?
I have to stop here … need to check for comments on my latest post and see how people are responding to Tom Meyer…
Editor’s note: There is no recovery group, but Ricochet is one of the few healthy addictions you can have. Join the conversation here.
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Yes. For $39.95 a year you can sign up at RecoverFromRicochet.com. It’s a members-only blog where you can post your thoughts and questions about recovering from Ricochet. There are lots of interesting discussions about this topic going on right now. Your post might even be chosen to be included on the main page of the site! We have upgraded memberships too…
So there’s hope!!!!!
You are clearly wasting time.
Efficiency tip: You get everything you need from the title of the post and the last page of comments. Read those and you’re ready to add your comment. No need to return to that thread unless you want to see if you got any likes.
I’ve actually been grounded from the site by my wife before.
Ditto, more than once. You have to take your smartphone to “the gym.”
There’re so many discussions going on, on any topic you can think of. I’ve been here since the beginning, but I just found out about Chix Pit and group writing this week. Good stuff.
Are you lurking over at the most popular post on the member feed or are you planning on playing with us.
Susan, there is always hope but sometimes it’s false.
And for just $59.95, you can sign up at NarrowlyEscapedRecoverFromRicochet.com. We are registering members now, though the site is currently closed for maintenance after being preemptively obliterated by a failed (or successful?) anonymous science experiment.
There is no cure for Ricochet Syndrome, nor should there be. However, it can be controlled with careful management of one’s time of connection. For example: do not log in when there is some important family event going on, say . . . Thanksgiving Dinner?
One aspect of dealing with a life-challenging issue is to join a support group. Because you’re already a Ricochet member, you are entitled to all the support you need from an existing Ricochet support organization – attend a Ricochet Meetup! Look for one near you, and come. Anywhere from 2 to 40 like-minded Ricochet addicts will help you with good food and drink, witty intellectual conversation and discussion, and a wide variety of opinions that will stimulate your thinking.
Oh . . . sometimes, there’s moonshine (re: 2015 Nashville Meetup).
This could be the launch of another career writer :-D
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Hit Enter
I prefer playing with the regular folk.
Oh, right, let me write that down. No lurking on Thanksgiving Day….by the way, I don’t think there’s been a meet-up in FL
There has. With me hosting :-D and 6ft2 in heels organizing… and we are due for the next one. There has been some talk of it with us FL locals.
Ever since I joined, I visit here several times a day. Always something thought provoking/interesting being said by smart people. There could always be worse things one could spend time/money on.
He didn’t say Thanksgiving Day, that would be too harsh. Just not during Thanksgiving dinner. As to the meetups, they are hardly an effective inoculation against Ricochet Fever. The more meetups I go to, the more I want to go to. At least half the time when I read a new meetup announcement, I feel kind of disgruntled that people are having a meetup without me. Especially when I see that one of my good friends is going. I just have to tell myself that five meetups a year ought to be good enough for anybody (except for James of England, that meetup glutton).
Fort Lauderdale, 2014 post-election National Review cruise. Barkha Herman set it up, and she was awesome! Perhaps another in Florida, Ms. Herman? Hmmmmmm?
True, true. There is much football to be watched when not eating the bird . . .
There’s moonshine if Concretevol is there.
That got a laugh-out loud! Hoo-hoo!
FL is a big state. Anywhere near Orlando?
The Cure:
Homer: The Iliad, start at page one….
Not so interested in the football. The Broncos aren’t playing …
Who needs rules? Just spend all day here.
I’m serious. I see absolutely no downside to intelligent conversation and engaging ones mine.
As addictions go, it’s a pretty good one to have.
Susan,
Try being addicted to Ricochet when you sit at a computer all day for your job. I use LeechBlock for the Firefox browser to limit my Ricochet consumption to 20 minutes every 4 hours during work hours.
I think there are at least a few members in or near Orlando. If you want some help or advice in planning a meetup, there are people willing to help.
There will be one on the new year, as I have relocated to Florida and am dedicated to Ricochet meet-ups. Barkha and I have already discussed it, albeit briefly, as it’s the holiday season.
Um, well, by their very definition, addictions can interfere with other parts of our lives. I’m lucky enough to be retired, but I walk, work-out, have two spiritual practices, read two newspapers, go once per week for a three-hour visit to a hospice patient, and lead two once per week practice groups. And I like to read non-fiction books. It all comes together with a balance, but my computer is in my office and I like to spend evenings with my husband. So I squeeze in Ricochet time as much as I can during the day. So yes, there are worse addictions, but after 42 years of marriage, I like to spend *some* time with Mr. Buju.
Ours is a wonderful, wonderful addiction.