posted March 28, 2009 10:36 PM         

I understand your choice.

As I will understand if you reconsider.

It is difficult sometimes, to know what the truth is.

"You are all perfect,
And you could all use
a little improvement."

posted March 28, 2009 10:44 PM         

I feel like I have been reborn from the ashes, its amazing.

I feel like I finally believe in myself.

I can finally speak my truth without stooping.

Aquila non captat muscas
("The eagle doesn't catch flies.")

The anger is being mastered.

No more Mr. Pushover.

But I am full of love and toasts!!

Toasts to Dostoevski, to Aegipan,
to our brothers in Dachau, Eris, and Valhalla!!

Bring me a woman!!

LOL

posted March 28, 2009 10:51 PM         

It's taken me several years to figure anything out here.

posted March 28, 2009 10:55 PM         

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I dont think you can sum up LL in 3 months

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posted March 28, 2009 11:24 PM         

~ Kurt Cobain

posted March 28, 2009 11:59 PM         

Cheshirekat,

I hope you could return and read our posts. If you need a time off from LL, maybe that's what you need now. But it's true, you don't figure out the people on a particular site within a couple of months. There are many pearls of wisdom here on this website. If you could take time to go through some of the old threads you might find hidden treasure that delights you.

Wishing you all the best with your spiritual path

posted March 28, 2009 11:59 PM         

To me it's never ok to bring up someone's skeletons or their past in an argument or to make a point but people did, they dug up his skeletons and tried to break him down.

All he did was defend himself, sure he twist words and rattle people's cages but that doesn't give anyone the right to insult his integrity, to make fun of his loneliness and heartache, and to call his mental illness insanity.

There are several people on LL who share their deep emotional problems, loss, sorrow, heartache and it's never used against them until someone doesn't agree with what someone says and then it's used against them, if their not in the LL favors.

When someone is willing to be open and share their vulnerability to a person..I don't care if it's online or in the world, you never ever use that against them.

I don't want to post here because I can't be open here anymore, if someone disagrees with me and thinks I am full of sh!t, I am ok with that but if someone disagrees with me and starts to dig up my skeletons to use against me. I will blow, it will be a dark day in wonderland. Thats just how I feel..

posted March 29, 2009 12:02 AM         

I'm sorry to see you go, for my own sake.

But I completely understand what you are saying.

So much love to you

posted March 29, 2009 12:05 AM         

I just unlock their combinations.

Even my irony and sarcasm are sincere.

I don't even have an incentive to distort.

I have a healthy command of reason.

posted March 29, 2009 12:34 AM         

I can usually tell straight away whether a thread is provocative. From that point, I choose to protect myself and not get involved.

I have been tempted to sit down this weekend and read every post of some knowflakes in an effort to get to know them. But my heart and head say "Don't do it". I really don't have the energy or time to get in deep with many knowflakes. I seem to get to know them little by little.

There are many here I enjoy very much!!! But even then, I don't have the time to write something to each of them. i just think of them and it gives me a warm fuzzy.

Lindaland is a little like playing squash with 2 racquets and 3 balls. There is information and opinion flying in all directions. Some hit the ball harder than others.

Why not hang around. It'll be a shame to lose your company. I haven't got to know you very well yet. We're a community. Many of us make connections somewhere. Lindaland fills an empty space for me. I can't say I always love what I read, but what a library of information and personalities that fill this place!

Keep coming back and see where Gravity pulls you. Just like anywhere, relationships here grow, change and thrive.

Does a pretty please with a cherry on top help?

posted March 29, 2009 12:38 AM         

I tried to skip around the glaringly obvious but Chesire, hon...I don't know how you're missing what's going on. All those things you point out that have been done to the person you named, he has done to them and others TENFOLD. You'd think after how many years the person would ditch the delusions grandeur and stop using LL as their personal blog, but this is like deja vu all over again. Some people just never learn.

posted March 29, 2009 12:43 AM         

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others did not bring anything up
that was not already or repeatedly brought
up by HSC many many many times

Odd that you missed that.

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I think her point was that,
just because someone brings it up themselves,
does not give you license to throw it in their face.

People should be admired, not punished, for showing vulnerability.

If you can argue with their logic, why not argue with their logic?
To exploit their personal admissions in order to "make your point"
is a lazy, rude, and dishonest way of conducting an argument.

posted March 29, 2009 12:47 AM         

And I think everyone is guilty of all those things. Many people dredge up posts made by others in order to show them contradicting themselves. I don't think anyone is immune there. There's a lot of common ground.

posted March 29, 2009 12:52 AM         

I think you missed the scene last night.

I was being calm and rational.

Certainly, using sarcasm and irony to make my points,
but, refusing to stoop to issuing personal insults and attacks.

26Taurus and writesomething
were meeting this with a stream of insults
(words like "crazy", "insane", "b!tch", little boy", and "pansy"),
and no real logic to speak of.

The more I controlled my temper and reasoned with them,
the more unrestrained and cruel they became.

These are not just empty, biased claims, Dulce.

This is all right there on the thread. Plain as day.

posted March 29, 2009 12:53 AM         

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Heart--Shaped Cross
You are unreal.

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On the contrary, LEXX.

I may be the realest person you know.

(Or is it "the realist person you know"?)

But namecalling doesnt respond to my points.