posted August 31, 2007 03:33 PM         

By the way now would be good time for a gentle reminder (get into the Christmas spirit, early) to those of you who can and would like to make a donation to Lindaland.
Randall spends a small fortune on this website and all gifts are greatly appreciated.

posted August 31, 2007 03:41 PM         

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posted August 31, 2007 08:36 PM         

I'm not here to be mothered, and I don't consider anyone who is not nurturing to be a mother-figure. I also reject the notion that Lalalinda is the "first to take responsibility for, apologize, and correct" her mistakes. It took her days to apologize for erasing my post, and even then she wasn't truly apologetic. She could care less, but she was getting so much flack she practically couldn't resist.

I'm both smart and moral, and I act accordingly. I learn from everything, but efforts to teach me will always be met with skepticism. That's what Gemini ascendant is all about: questioning the source. First I judge the person with my 8th house Sun's insight into the human psyche, and then I examine their ideas with my Mercury chart [and Moon] ruler. Lalalinda doesn't have my respect as a person on a moral or an intellectual level, so her attempts at teaching me are futile. There is nothing she can accomplish through engaging me.

I stand by everything I've said and done, and I reject anyone's notion that it impugns my character in any way. If the worst that can be said about me is that I:

- started a forum to keep in contact with someone who was leaving this one
- ran it democratically
- neither censored nor denounced someone's speech despite its vulgarity towards one of my friends here

...that's fine by me. If it were up to me I'd have left the site up for scrutiny for eternity. I have no shame about it, nor will I. I define myself at LindaLand all the time through my words. My communication is consistent, my morals are consistent, and my character is consistent. The changes I've made while here have been in the direction of becoming more conservative rather than more controversial.

The notion that I'd be jealous of Randall is completely ludicrous. If that were the case I'd be shelling out money for my own forum, and I'd be working to promote it. I'm doing neither. Having been a forum webmaster I know it's a pain in the ass, especially if you're not that into it. All the emails from people every time something at the forum doesn't work right aren't "fun" to deal with. The drama you're neither a part of nor concerned with... not "fun" to deal with. Taking responsibility for everyone's forum experience is not "fun" at all. What's the reward?

posted August 31, 2007 10:13 PM         

I think we all would.

And then, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, that will be the end of it.

posted September 01, 2007 05:26 PM         

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First I judge the person with my 8th house Sun's insight into the human psyche, and then I examine their ideas with my Mercury chart [and Moon] ruler.....acoustic

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posted September 03, 2007 12:02 AM         

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a plain and simple "I made a mistake I'm sorry" will suffice...lalalinda

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posted September 03, 2007 01:05 AM         

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I'm both smart and moral, and I act accordingly. I learn from everything, but efforts to teach me will always be met with skepticism. That's what Gemini ascendant is all about: questioning the source.

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There's no need to state that you are smart, moral and that you act accordingly. People get that through action, not words.
That reminds me of those people who constantly brag about their IQ scores and so forth... Insecurity that's what it truly means.

It reminds me of a speech we had to learn in middle school:

I am a decent human being capable of thinking, speaking and acting with intelligence and dignity. Each and every day I create experiences that makes me healthier and happier in body, mind and spirit

posted September 03, 2007 01:07 AM         

I did create a forum:
Yes, I did. As has been mentioned previously this site was spawned from a different forum. There's nothing inherently wrong with creating a forum. There isn't even anything inherently wrong with inviting people from one forum to another. People are free to do as they please.

I did run it democratically.
Yes, I did.

You remember everyone commenting on how I passed out Moderatorship to everyone. I did that for a reason, and the reason is that I didn't care to do it myself.

You also remember that people voted on membership, and whether or not we'd invite people to join us. You see that as a terrible thing, and as people talking behind other people's backs. The reality is that it was voted that it would be private. You know me well enough to know that I'm not particularly concerned about my own privacy. I live the way I live, and people can scrutinize as they please. I even created a site with all kinds of information about me for TINK back in the day. Only a good person can withstand the amount of scrutiny I open myself up to, and you've seen over and over again how people stand up for me. Do you think these people are under some sort of magical spell? Don't you think that if I could cast such a spell I'd be using it for much greater purposes than just defending myself from Lalalinda attacks? I'm truly not that compelling.

I didn't censor someone.
This is true as well. Way back when Randall was looking for a Moderator for GU my name came up, or maybe I volunteered, I don't remember. In the course of that thread, though, I foreshadowed that I probably wouldn't be inclined to censor anyone. When I had the power, it turned out that I didn't censor someone. Petron compared me to a KKK member for that. Not exactly what I would consider an apt comparison.

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Now, back when this initially came up, many of the members who were at the forum I created did give their thoughts. Those thoughts were almost universally dismissed by those who enjoyed the witch trial, but if you were listening you'd know that the things that dominated that conversation here at LL were not the same things that dominated the forum itself. Virtually NOTHING of what was enjoyed at the other forum has ever been considered by you, or any of the other people who only chose to look at it in a negative light.

Now, there's a reason people come to me to ask if there are other forums out there. There's a reason why people email me privately when they're dealing with Capricorn males. There's a reason people are interested in my astrological and psychological opinions.

posted September 03, 2007 01:11 AM         

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There's no need to state that you are smart, moral and that you act accordingly. People get that through action, not words.

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posted September 03, 2007 01:39 AM         

I am going to say these things, even though I have NOTHING to do with it...

1. Did anyone die?
2. Did it start a transgalactic war in which we were all assimilated and forced to obey the Collective?
3. Did anyone contract a potentially life threatening STD?
4. Was anyone robbed of millions of dollars?

If the answer is "NO" then honestly, WTF IS THE BIG DEAL??????

This is the INTERNET- not the United Nations.

Good grief.

posted September 03, 2007 01:43 AM         

I wouldn't even dream of considering it terms of being like a "cult." You know and have had interactions with I think everyone who was over there. Do you think they're cultists?

Here's the definition of the word: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cult
Please read it, and consider what you think.

It seems a little ridiculous to even say the following, but I guess I'll do it for your sake:

Response to definition 1:
There was no system of religious worship at my forum.

Response to definition 2:
I think the people at the forum like me generally, but I am completely unaware of it if they worship me. If they did, then I never saw any threads dedicated to my worship.

Response to definition 3:
I don't know what the object of our cult would be if were to be said to have had one.

Response to definition 4:
Bound together by our devotion to the same person, thing, or ideal? Not that I'm aware of.

Response to definition 5:
No. No sacred rites or ideology.

Response to definition 6:
Well, no one was living under me, and I clearly wasn't Moderating them, so I would think not. I certainly don't see the people that were there as extremists, and I don't think anyone here does either.
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I'm gonna skip the rest. It absolutely had no resemblance to a cult in any way. Definition 10 would have to be the closest way you could use that term in reference to KS.

posted September 03, 2007 01:48 AM         

You have mastered the art of
Manipulation AG...

posted September 03, 2007 01:51 AM         

my fascination is with the fact it keeps coming up- over and over and over.

That's all.

posted September 03, 2007 01:54 AM         

Everything happens for a reason!

posted September 03, 2007 01:55 AM         

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I am fascinated by the fact that i have spent the past 6 months NOT knowing why LaLaLinda keeps haranguing AG....and even though I wasn't present for it, it still lingers like the smell of sh!t on a summer day.

If the answer is "NO" then honestly, WTF IS THE BIG DEAL??????

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Good night

posted September 03, 2007 01:58 AM         

As far as manipulating people, why is it that you believe I have this magical power? Why is it that you believe that people meet me over the internet and just hand over their Free Will to me?

You know, if you're on to something, then I should go ahead and run for President of the United States. Surely I can manipulate the masses after all my practice on the internet. ...oh, except that people like you exist to expose me.