Post by MikeRyderPost by MikeRyderOn Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:49:02 -0800 (PST), mr bill
Post by mr billPost by MikeRyderOn Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:47:30 +0100, expires
Post by expiresOn Fri Feb 12 2010 04:13:59 GMT+0100
Post by MikeRyderOn Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:21:53 +0100, expires
Post by expiresOn Fri Feb 12 2010 00:50:20 GMT+0100
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/anything-beyond-the-unive_...
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F40110166CE0FF56&search_query...
I enjoyed the comments that followed. Those characters on
youtube about as much as the advanced acimer regulars do here.
lol
I hadn't read the YouTube-comments until you
mentioned it, and after the first dozen or so,
I lost any inclination to continue ;-))
Kind of like the newsgroup. lol
and yet you cannot stop feeding your addiction to the conflict
that you breed here
after a long hiatus i return to predictably find you here
wallowing in your own slime
you are a truly pathetic excuse for a human being michael tanner
truly and magnificently pathetic
bill,
In my reply to what you said above, last night, I said...
Post by MikeRyderI see you and your hatred are back.
no more for you.
I had intended to leave it at that--just a quick comment and then
move on. But today I've decided to take a few minutes and say a
little more. It's about you, and it's about this pathetic excuse
for an acim-dedicated newsgroup, all wrapped up in an absence of
human decency.
Last spring, while you were apparently off at your management
training program for the pizza company, I posted a brief thought
about the revelation of god as it's discussed in the first pages of
A Course in Miracles. Revelation as a subject for consideration has
interested me for a very long time. My intention was to say a
couple things and leave it at that. And the "advanced" religioners
in this newsgroup *could* have left it at just a few words, too.
But they didn't.
First up was deborah bc (no surprise there) who, as she's done
before, pronounced me to be a Wayne-clone--as if I had no brain of
my own to draw my own independent conclusions. That was enough to
start the newsgroup slide once again into the toilet, this time to
a depth of shit I never before thought possible, in which the
"advanced" acimers to a man crawled out of their rat holes to trash
me with every vicious, malicious word they could come up with. If
not full blast, at the least their behavior bordered on
sociopathic. The depth of this two-month-long viciousness came when
one of the more pathetic hangers-on, upon discovering my
orientation, called me filthy names including an epithet that I
wont repeat again, but it had to do with a rooster and a lollipop.
If you weren't there at the time I'll let you figure out what he
repeated--over and over.
Why did the acimer regulars and their hanger-on do this? In posting
my thoughts on the revelation of god it was obvious that I
threatened their carefully constructed acim religion. So, as
they've done before with people who they disagreed with, they went
to war, the intention of which was as usual to drive the offender
off the newsgroup in any indecent way they needed to. The acimers
in this group are no different from cowardly religious
fundamentalist extremists the world over.
I could have gone the way of so many others who've been pushed out
of here. But I chose to take a stand and not let the "advanced"
acimers prod me into the volcano. Thus I remained in this newsgroup
and simply let them spew their shit and vomit all over me. I
suspect it was very frustrating for them. The more episodes of
explosive diarrhea they had, the more I insisted on staying around.
For all their declarations of peaceful luvin', last summer those
"advanced" acimers showed their true colors. I've got this pathetic
newsgroup's number now.
Then there is you. We used to exchange occasional emails back and
forth, beginning a year and a half ago? two years ago? something
like that. I remember now that it was mostly I who initiated those
emails. And eventually you would reply. And I sent those first
emails not because I was on some acim mission to save your sorry
ass, but because over the years prior you always seemed like a good
guy, a guy I thought I'd like to make friends with outside the
newsgroup. It was about a human-to-human friendship.
And in our private conversations, you took the opportunity to spew
out your bitter hatred for Ellen and her friend Debra apparently
for the sin of not paying enough attention to you after your
daughter was murdered. Apparently their failure to satisfactorily
console you justified your everlasting enmity. Did I get this right?
I dont remember you volunteering information about the details of
your daughter's death. Maybe you thought I had read about it in the
newsgroup. But I hadnt, and I do remember asking you about it. And
what you told me was hair-raising, so much so that I did my best to
say a few things that I hoped would make sense. Forget the son of
god thing. That's what friends do. Your response was to tell me
that what I said was more than even your family had ever told you.
Evidently your family had said next to nothing. And having a cousin
who'd been kidnapped and raped when she was a teenager, and her
family tried to suppress any discussion of the event because they
didnt know what else to do, I suggested that maybe your family was
the same way. Maybe they just didnt know how to handle the murder
of your daughter. Did that help you? I dont know.
There was something else I told you. I said that for the life of me
I didnt understand why you were willing to give that monster of a
murderer power over you like you were doing. I dont know if those
words helped, but I do know that shortly thereafter you got off your
ass and did something other than just spend your life getting high
and hating the monster. You put aside the stoner trip you were on
at the time enough to apply for management training at the pizza
company. Assuming that you're still a manager now, the rest, as
they say, is history.
Again, I dont know if anything I said helped, but if it did I'm
glad. That IS what friends are for. At one point you even told me I
was a good friend. I appreciated that. And the same applied to you
from my standpoint.
When you started manager's training I didnt hear anything from you
again until you showed back up in the newsgroup at the tail end of
the two-month obscenity the "advanced" acimers were waging. Without
even knowing the details you piled on right along with the rest of
them and even threatened to post the contents of the project files
I had sent you when you agreed to read them. And that hurt. *Big
time*. Out of left field my friend blew into the newsgroup and
started piling on the shit with the rest of the assholes. Well, so
be it. Live and learn.
I'm going to stop typing now and send this. I've pretty much said
all I want to say. And this is going to be the last post I will
make in this newsgroup longer than a couple-sentence quip every now
and then, as I've been doing. This pathetic newsgroup isnt worth
any more of my time than that. I do find the place occasionally
entertaining, though. Like the next guy, I'm fascinated by train
wrecks.
And if you feel inclined to reply to what I'm writing here, that's
your choice. But it's only fair to tell you that I have no intention
of ever speaking to you again. It took me awhile, but last summer I
finally learned my lesson. And the lesson is, never try to make
friends with a cobra. They'll turn around and bite you every time.
is one) is "group therapy".