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I wasn't even around for your initial flame-out, and since you deleted all your posts, I can't go back and see what happened. So, all I know about you is that you keep starting these whiny threads! My goodness, man! Talk about theology. Talk about politics. Post pictures of your dog. Anything! Just stop whining!
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The sky is always up, it is never down!!
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January 18th, 2012, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. 5020
I wasn't even around for your initial flame-out, and since you deleted all your posts, I can't go back and see what happened. So, all I know about you is that you keep starting these whiny threads! My goodness, man! Talk about theology. Talk about politics. Post pictures of your dog. Anything! Just stop whining!
[If you are male] MAN UP!!
Last edited by Grosnick Marowbe; January 18th, 2012 at 11:35 PM.
It isn't, really. And giving that good natured a "cut it out" a shove isn't your best tactic. You don't seem to have a great deal of understanding about how internet communities knit and function...a new guy's best means of making a place for himself in any i-com he wants to inhabit is to do one of two things: either spend a great deal of time reading and getting to know the principles involved and how they relate (which is where the interview thread should help as it expands), or spending his first few weeks there making interesting contributions to other, established threads and interacting with the regulars in as genial a manner as he can. Those first weeks give the members in good standing a chance to get a sense of you and why you're here, and should give you the chance to establish both your potential value to the community and to demonstrate your desire to settle in and participate, as opposed to, well, I'll get to that directly.
People who come in swinging at established members and generally acting out loudly and as though they're on the same footing as everybody else (and make no mistake about it, you aren't yet) tend to be the sort who don't stand the test of time. In fact, opening conduct and post content is such an easy and consistent predictor of longevity and purpose that many established members simply won't bother to respond or react to certain types of new members who follow those established patterns, other than to offer dismissive over/unders or similar sentiments and notes.
Is it a lock every time? No. Now and then someone begins that way but for one reason or another gets it, looks around a while and manages to salvage his or her reputation before everyone else has tuned them out. Others, though only a few, never seem to get it but remain anyway, gibbering through thread after thread that rarely turns up much interest except by a handful who enjoy poking them with a stick.
What I'm getting at is that in fairly gentle terms a number of people are saying, "Upon reflection you may just be the sort worth having around for the long haul, but this sort of "Woe is me" reaction to relatively mild hazing isn't helping your case any." The squeaky internet wheel always, always gets the wrong sort of attention.
Try something new. If you feel you need to be making threads this early then chose a helpful or entertaining or informative topic and run with it. Or find one someone else has going and chime in with two informative or helpful cents. But this sort of thread is only going to give everyone the impression that you're that guy in the pick-up game crying foul every time he's touched, even if you do it with a smile...it won't infuriate many, but it begs a certain treatment and could prolong that hazing indefinitely...
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January 19th, 2012, 12:08 AM
::: Rusha and Bybee on the attack :::
Seriously ... that must have been the *other* Rusha. I have been busy doing more important things since around 7 P.M. ... like watching "Criminal Minds" and "Law & Order SVU" and watching a suspenseful movie called "House" with my daughter, Megan.
It was definitely different ... the characters didn't know they were being tested to find out if they were good or evil.
The chihuahuas will attest that this information is true.
Anyways ... sorry to interrupt another one of your thought provoking threads.
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...the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love thei
Seriously ... that must have been the *other* Rusha. I have been busy doing more important things since around 7 P.M. ... like watching "Criminal Minds" and "Law & Order SVU" and watching a suspenseful movie called "House" with my daughter, Megan.
It was definitely different ... the characters didn't know they were being tested to find out if they were good or evil.
The chihuahuas will attest that this information is true.
Anyways ... sorry to interrupt another one of your thought provoking threads.
Criminal Minds was good tonight. And, I haven't seen House in a long time.
June is Gay Pride Month. Tolerance and diversity? More like tolerate perversity.
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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
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January 19th, 2012, 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Rusha
::: Rusha and Bybee on the attack :::
Seriously ... that must have been the *other* Rusha. I have been busy doing more important things since around 7 P.M. ... like watching "Criminal Minds" and "Law & Order SVU" and watching a suspenseful movie called "House" with my daughter, Megan.
It was definitely different ... the characters didn't know they were being tested to find out if they were good or evil.
The chihuahuas will attest that this information is true.
Anyways ... sorry to interrupt another one of your thought provoking threads.
Are you schizphrenic and not remembering something the other you has done
The other night I was laughing at/with him but this is getting old and I'm not just one that goes with the flow. Why are you here dear?
"Myths are not lies," Tolkien countered, among the swaying trees of Magdalen Grove. Materialistic progress leads only to the abyss, Tolkien said, but the myths we tell reflect a fragment of the true light. He argued the Christ story functions as a myth, just like the Scandinavian myths they had loved, with one difference: The Christian myth was true.
January 19th, 2012, 05:28 AM
Are you schizphrenic and not remembering something the other you has done
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