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Author Topic:   A few questions concerning the GODZALA threads..
T
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posted November 01, 2009 02:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
Do the regular posters in those threads have something against Randall or LIndaLand in general? I"ve wondered that a few times... and since Xodian just said he has taken it easy on you and asked that you all watch how many GODZALA threads get posted - then PA bumped four of them to the top.....i have to think this may be something personal? It really doesnt make sense. Isnt this considered spamming a board?

It's been brought up before that it's annoying to other members here to come to the forum and see numerous GODZALA threads - or even a couple that are constantly up at the top, but you all seem to think we just need to deal with it, or lighten up or something.

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Lindaland Central 2.0
A general discussion gathering-place where you can talk about anything you like; make new friends, lend support, share inspirational stories, and recommend any interesting sites that you come across

"Talk about anything you like" does that mean use threads like chatrooms? Speaking of, could you all use one of those to chat about celebrities or whatever's been going on in there?

Another thought was, there are websites that host for free and even come with their own forums. You could make a site called www.GODZALA.webs.com at Webs.com for instance.

I hate to have to be the one to bring this up, but i think it bothers more members than realized. They might just be afraid to speak up, because the ones that have have gotten made fun of and because we all like you ladies alot here, but the GODZALA-ness is a little out of control.

Any thoughts from members on this?

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posted November 01, 2009 02:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
seems SpooL might have left.
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000672-2.html

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PeaceAngel
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posted November 01, 2009 03:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
I just take it that people ignore the threads that they don't like. For me it's the zillion and one threads about soulmates and twinflames in Astro2.

If something is directed my way, I'll address it.

I'm not going to apologise for Godzala threads. I'm grateful for them. They have value to me. It's open forum and anyone can post in a Godzala thread just as much as in any other. I think that the usual Godzala posters have a similar sense of humour and there's a place to share that as well as friendships formed and daily life. That's what they're all about.

Anyway, I think this is really sad. What's started as fun and turned to this. My heart has kind of sunk. And right now I just don't feel the same way about being here.

If this is going to turn into a Godzala backlash of some kind, then if you've ever had a laugh from Godzala or any of my absurd posts in LLC2 you have no right to complain because you're being hypocritical, whether you've posted to it or not. And if anything said or done in these threads has brought a smile to your face or made you laugh - then job done. Again, you can't be hypocritical about that.

To T - this post could have come from any other person and I would have taken it another way, I think, but I really think you are stellar and have an enormous amount of respect for you.

There's nothing else I really have to say on this one.

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posted November 01, 2009 05:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
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I hate to have to be the one to bring this up, but i think it bothers more members than realized. They might just be afraid to speak up, because the ones that have have gotten made fun of and because we all like you ladies alot here, but the GODZALA-ness is a little out of control.

Any thoughts from members on this?


Yes. The key words are 'out of control'. I have mentioned this to another member in the past and also directly to PA, and soon regretted it because I felt like a pooper, and soon sincerely apologized to her. I know where PA's heart is and I know how much satisfaction and joy she must get to be able to bring laughter to the lives of other members here, it's just that I too personally know, that other members have mentioned the excessive nature of them are off putting. Although we have an option to ignore them, the real problem is the affect it's having toward the real spirit of Lindaland. It's the principle. There are other websites that can host this kind of thing. I don't think it's appropriate for LL to be flooded like this. I also have noticed a child like rebellion against the seriousness of certain subjects in LL, which really should remain sacred.


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posted November 01, 2009 06:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Spanky Butler     Edit/Delete Message
Seriously?

It's nit picking. The mayhem stays in the general vicinity of LLC with a small amount of spillage into astro2 by many people who aren't PA.

I think this is just a witch hunt to target someone simply because you're annoyed or it's not your type of "humor" & if that is the case then perhaps you should not read it, ergo, the LindaLand experience will be more user friendly to those more seriously minded.

Valus's monotonously predictable attempts to spread controversy/enlightenment, depending on his mood, annoy the **** out of me but you don't see me trying to curb him do you?

Why not display the "grown up" attitude you're not so subtlety trying to imply & ignore it?

Happy Halloween


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koiflower
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posted November 01, 2009 06:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
There have been members on LL that get up my nose.

They can be rude, self-possessed, insensitive, banal, and hurl their opinions at others in an aggressive, narrow-minded, 'think-me-big' way.

I usually ignore them. I have addressed some behaviour before, but realise we are all like a family - the human family, and need to learn tolerance and understanding to partake in discussions, considering we all have a common aspect - we love alternative thinking!

Without Godzala, LL can be a little like a stagnant river. Thank Godzala, we have a place to let loose and be creative!!! Take a look at yourself this very moment!! Are you being TOO serious? Do you suffer stress? Are you tired of your worn-out mask? Throw off your shackles and laugh like a child. Jesus loves children and we are Children of God. 'Be like little children' was God's command!!!!

Movement is energy. Godzala moves the page, so it doesn't feel like we are staring at an uncooked sausage roll.

What really is the problem?? Do people feel uncomfortable in their own skin? I'm thinking so.

If you really want to get personal, take an argument into Global Unity and you will experience a real taste in what it's like to develop tolerance and understanding.

There are no 'isms' where true tolerance lives. There is just a place of being, in a natural state. That is not a difficult thing to deal with for those who are truly emotionally free.

Don't sweat the small stuff. Discover the truth of real communication by communicating rather than criticizing.

Laughter is energy. Try it. Try creating it!

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posted November 01, 2009 06:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
I guess posters could create their own website....

I'm2Kool2LAUGH.com

...if they are not happy.

How can anyone think anyone has anything against Randall?????? He's brilliant!!! How many other websites have so many posts being placed in any one time????

Come on now, T. You're not a closet chuckler from way back, just dying to loosen up that diaphragm?????

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PeaceAngel
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posted November 01, 2009 06:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
SunChild

I would have appreciated that stance from you a few months ago when I was a Mod and when a Knowflake who has not posted here for a long time now and I don't know if they're actually a member anymore so I won't name them, posted out of control and manic threads and posts that make me look like the Dalai Lama.

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posted November 01, 2009 06:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
I can't help but notice the irony, that this is technically another Godzala thread.

So... continue.....

You can't help but get sucked into the vortex.

Stewy really does have some competition in terms of quest for world domination.

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Peri
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posted November 01, 2009 06:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
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Without Godzala, LL can be a little like a stagnant river.

I second that. You can always skip the thread you dont want to read, what's the problem with Godzala? I dont recall any members that post numerous threads here one after another (threads that mostly ignite fights and discord btw!) were ever warned about posting too much or annoying LL members to much!

PA

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Do the regular posters in those threads have something against Randall or LIndaLand in general?

shocked* can you elaborate T? I dont understand what you mean by this...

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koiflower
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posted November 01, 2009 06:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
This is a great place to get honest - and not just with other people, but with ourselves.

I'm very comfortable in LL - even when someone said the "EFF" word in response to me just recently. I was honest with them and told them what I thought, and we just got on with it. Being sworn at startled me a little, but I didn't start a thread about it.

Or could I?????? Let's see, what are my possibilities???

"Someone used the EFF word"

"The EFF word sounds so aggressive"

"The EFF word didn't mean 'Fabulous'"

Does it bother anyone that some people actually believe there are people who came from reptilians????

Really, there are!! There are actually people who think some people come from reptilians!!!!

But who am I to judge this opinion?? Because, it could be true! And I could be the dumb idiot that thought this was an impossibility!!!!

To keep yourself safe....Avoid judgment!!!

That was free advice from a middle aged woman with very little life experience, and has run out of heamorroid cream.

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PeaceAngel
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posted November 01, 2009 07:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
I think the problem is that people want others to agree with them all the time. Well, you can't please everyone and there's a lot of people and varied opinions here. No point in trying to do that then. And people will choose to see things any way they want. I choose to see the funny side.

I do like to make people laugh and I do like that I do it intentionally.

I love the irony of the posts from so-called enlightened people or self-professed philosphers and deep souls, etc, who go around telling the rest of us how great and sensitive they are and basically how shallow the rest of us are in comparison to them, and how we should be more like them. The irony is hysterical. The even bigger irony is that these posts are even funnier than anything I've ever posted. That makes me roar with laughter.

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posted November 01, 2009 07:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
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That was free advice from a middle aged woman with very little life experience, and has run out of heamorroid cream.

That's how I've always pictured you, you know! My visualising skills are improving. Wow! I'm impressed.

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posted November 01, 2009 09:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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I just take it that people ignore the threads that they don't like. For me it's the zillion and one threads about soulmates and twinflames in Astro2.

We try to PA. Although i dont read them, the titles/threads themselves are hard to ignore because that's what dominates this forum. The GODZALA threads are obnoxious and in your face. They bury the other threads here.

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If something is directed my way, I'll address it.

Good. Thanks. Same here.

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I'm not going to apologise for Godzala threads. I'm grateful for them. They have value to me.

What about everyone else? i know youre not going to apologize PA. That's not why i posted. I'm not looking for an apology anyway. Honestly, i was looking for you all to 'cut the shiit'. and speaking for other members that don't want to touch this.
But i know that's farfetched. Can't say i didnt try.

But your statement that you refuse to apologize is also one of the odd things about all of this. Why is a grown woman acting so defiant, not unlike a rebellious teenager? Your response to Xodian was a picture of a dog with the caption: REBEL

note to Peri: This is an example of why i thought maybe she had something against LL. This 'acting out' seemed like she could purposely be trying to bring negativity to the site?

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It's open forum and anyone can post in a Godzala thread just as much as in any other.

Youre right PA. And people are entitled to complain about it too. As much as they want to, all day everyday if they feel like it. Even if people try forcing them to shut up or tell them they can do whatever they want to or have a God complex or no sense of humor. Those things make me chuckle.

So, i think i'll carry on here. This is fun. A nice way to utilize this Taurean full moon energy. Let me make a coffee and i'll get back to the rest of what you and the others wrote.

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posted November 01, 2009 09:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message
Guys I assure you, I have nothing against the context of any given Godzala thread.

Most forums do have a thread in their midst that usually exists for nothing more then mindless MSN messenger like banter Lol! But there are at max. two of these type of threads . That way the forum allows other people to enjoy general discussions relating to specific topics and at the same time, randomly chat away in the chat threads.

The problem isn't the creation of a random chat topic thread but the amount of threads created. You have the option of reviving a Godzala thread if it falls behind a few pages. Heck I revived my Avatar Movie thread for the purpose of posting a newly released trailer. If people do want to contribute to a Godzala thread, they will keep it afloat themselves.

No need of creating a thread of a similar nature every other week .

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posted November 01, 2009 09:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
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The problem isn't the creation of the a random chat topic thread but the amount of threads created.

I hear you and understand Xodian.

T - Oh boy! ***sigh***

Knock yourself out.

That really is all I'm willing to invest in this one.

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posted November 01, 2009 09:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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I think that the usual Godzala posters have a similar sense of humour and there's a place to share that as well as friendships formed and daily life. That's what they're all about.

Yes, well, it seems from the ganders i have taken into some of them today, that the jokes are mostly inside ones along with 'subliminal messages' (as i read in one post) with digs at other members here. Then maniacal laughter.

Sorry not all of us have been keeping up with and get the humor in the threads. That doesnt mean we need to get 'enlightened' up and get better senses of humor either, okay?

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Anyway, I think this is really sad.

I do to, but for different reasons. And then again it's not sad! I mean, we're just discussing differences of opinions here, right? Maybe it's good that i brought it up. Maybe i'll look like the bad guy to some of you. All i'm doing is saying what's on my mind. Take it or leave it. Carry on however you wish. I'm not going to leave over the GODZALA threads or anything. You probably shouldnt either.

Would it be so hard to consider another point of view rather than being so aggressively defiant? I have considered yours and also not said much of anything for, what - months? And not let the threads bother me too much. Youve all had a lot of fun with those threads and only heard a few peeps here and there from other members that felt they should say something. And the response has been not unlike getting the middle finger.

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What's started as fun and turned to this.

Turned into what? Don't let me ruin your fun. From what i understand, you dont plan on stopping, right? I'm just expressing my opinion.

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My heart has kind of sunk. And right now I just don't feel the same way about being here.

Same here, in a way. I also think alot of the other members who have disappeared felt the same way. This place has really changed.

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If this is going to turn into a Godzala backlash of some kind, then if you've ever had a laugh from Godzala or any of my absurd posts in LLC2 you have no right to complain because you're being hypocritical, whether you've posted to it or not. And if anything said or done in these threads has brought a smile to your face or made you laugh - then job done. Again, you can't be hypocritical about that.

I may have laughed at something once, maybe twice, but it was probably AT something in the thread and something i thought of, not the joke the person was trying to make. i honestly don't find humor in them, maybe because i dont follow them closely. And there seems to be mostly inside joking?

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To T - this post could have come from any other person and I would have taken it another way, I think, but I really think you are stellar and have an enormous amount of respect for you.

Sorry to disappoint you. Also, thank you, I think youre a nice person too.

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posted November 01, 2009 09:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
PA, i'm not going to knock myself out (unfortunately for some members here), but i'll continue.

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posted November 01, 2009 10:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueRoamer     Edit/Delete Message
T, Seems like it might be possible that you started this thread to start an argument. What do you think your motivation might be for wanting to start an argument?

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posted November 01, 2009 10:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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Seriously?

Yep.

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It's nit picking.

Is that what it is?

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I think this is just a witch hunt to target someone simply because you're annoyed or it's not your type of "humor"

"A witch hunt" - WRONG!

No, it's not because it's not my type of humor either - there are plenty of people here i dont find funny and i dont say anything to them, why would I? We all have different senses of humor. And yes, it's because the GODZALA threads littered throughout the top of the forum IS annoying (among a couple of other things). LOL

I'm not doing anything wrong by voicing my opinion here an stating the obvious. Don't be mad at me because youre of your immaturity.

It's one thing when it's nice fun, but you people pretty much say: screw off and deal with it. your opinion doesnt matter, now shut up about it.

And maybe it doesnt, but i'll say it anyway.

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& if that is the case then perhaps you should not read it, ergo, the LindaLand experience will be more user friendly to those more seriously minded.

I don't read it. Though lately i've skimmed a page or two. The problem is, is the multiple GODZALA threads, not that youre having fun and laughing and being weird in a thread. Get it?

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Valus's monotonously predictable attempts to spread controversy/enlightenment, depending on his mood, annoy the **** out of me but you don't see me trying to curb him do you?

But you do, in subtle passive aggressive ways. By comments i've seen made and pictures posted.

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out of me but you don't see me trying to curb him do you?

Maybe youre better than me Spunky.

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Why not display the "grown up" attitude you're not so subtlety trying to imply & ignore it?

Nope sorry, but i cant. And i'm being a grown-up by discussing it here with you.

Why not have a little respect and think about starting your own website dedicated to it? Or chat with each other?

Is that such a bad thing? I think it's a great idea. lol!

But I suppose i should shut up and get a sense of humor, right?

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posted November 01, 2009 10:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
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T, Seems like it might be possible that you started this thread to start an argument. What do you think your motivation might be for wanting to start an argument?

I am thinking the same, BR.

Is 'thanks for not having a god's complex' thread a real reason, T?

PA email me please.

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posted November 01, 2009 10:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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T, Seems like it might be possible that you started this thread to start an argument. What do you think your motivation might be for wanting to start an argument?

No, BR. Not to start an argument, but to voice a few things for some people and express my opinion. We are free to do that here, correct? You can think otherwise if you want to. Could it be that I just don't agree with what they are doing here and saying so?

I don't expect for people to change for little ole me, but we have freedom of expression here and I'm expressing my thoughts on this issue. Thanks for helping me clarify.

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posted November 01, 2009 10:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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Is 'thanks for not having a god's complex' thread a real reason, T?

That isnt the reason Peri. lol! You can reread what I wrote already. Some people, such as yourself for example, wont agree.

Others, like SunChild, for example, do.

Have a nice day.

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posted November 01, 2009 10:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for DD     Edit/Delete Message
Since opinions are asked, I give mine.

I love the Godzala threads. I love the humour in them. But that is just my personal opinion.

There are several other "post-types" that I seriously dislike and would prefer to see gone.
But I know this is an open forum; Lindaland central was created for providing such a space, wasn`t it?
So I am just skipping these threads I don`t like. That`s all.

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posted November 01, 2009 10:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
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There have been members on LL that get up my nose.
They can be rude, self-possessed, insensitive, banal, and hurl their opinions at others in an aggressive, narrow-minded, 'think-me-big' way.

Yes, that's exactly what i'm talking about.

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I usually ignore them.

Me too! Usually. Not today though.

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I have addressed some behaviour before, but realise we are all like a family - the human family, and need to learn tolerance and understanding to partake in discussions, considering we all have a common aspect - we love alternative thinking!

Do we now? Fantastic! I agree that we are like a family, and that's why i'm bringing this dysfunction up. Call me Cranky Cousin Catherine, but i'm only doing what you said you have done before.

I've not only "learned tolerance" - i've been tolerant here. I "understand" you guys have fun. I'm not trying to ruin your fun. I'm just suggesting you think about if it might be better to do it elsewhere. If you disagree and want to continute to tell people like me to 'stuff it', so be it! But I dont think that would be very understanding of you.

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Without Godzala, LL can be a little like a stagnant river. Thank Godzala, we have a place to let loose and be creative!!!

You all have come up with some fantastic lines to defend the GODZALA threads. I bet there's a part of you, that can even admit that theyre a little over the top. Come on, try it, it wont hurt.

There are other ways to keep the energy flowing here - besides for just the few of you. Think of the whole.

"A place to let loose and be creative." .....

sigh

be back in a bit

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