It looks like the thread has run its race, interesting, in fact one we needed.
Yet I feel a bit empty, some still seem to seek some thing that is not here.
I will treat this post like Saturday morning.
I will study the form before putting my money on at the races.
We know, lets not kid our selves, we had become a bit rowdy.
Some far more than others.
We do know, but seem not to all except, bans have been no more or less than any other time.
We even neglect to see,some have a few bans to their names
And form seems to shout to me GY has determined we are not going to slip back in to bad habits.
So be it, we make up many types,the show pony,wanting center stage at any price.
The pit pony, more often in the dark but interesting.
The plodder who makes up the numbers .
I suspect we will continue to stay in the barrier when the gates open, clash at times.
But just maybe try to contribute rather than take swipes and one another.
Whit and Twit are seperated by only one letter

at least comprehend...NOW
that piper banning herself
was a cry for help

clearly...she tried to stay
by changing id

but docs workers...and olo self appointed monitors.,.did
their monitorying too well

clearly its hard to post further..
if you allready been told not to

Thankyou Lexi.

Yep...I sure am not perfect... as a person and as a Christian.

The passage I've been contemplating just over the past few days is this:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians+1&version=NIV

V 11&12. It's hard to read that kind of thing and just dig one's heals in eh :)

The real tragedy for those precious folks who left OLO (suspended or just departed) is that they are quite possibly 'lost' ..(I can't make definite pronouncements) and I prefer not to be seen as one who confirms that state rather than remedies it.

In the rough and tumble of debate, I try to see 'issues' rather than people... but it does become a little tempting to 'stick it to them' when such individuals (I'm not sure which ones) try to destroy one's life and family by urging a man who once abused me when I was a teenager (horribly) to sue me for defamation for alluding to it on OLO.
I wonder if they would be so enthusiastic if I was making known that I'd been molested as a child by a priest? I hardly think they would call for me being legally 'stipped bare and destroyed' for making known such an experience. The particular issue for me was a brutal bashing.

So... I'm past that now.. I've reconciled with that individual but it is difficult to just 'let it go' for those people from OLO who were have been urging real world serious harm to myself and family over such an issue. I can find out exactly who it was if I need to.... so they should think twice before doing such a stunt again.

Belly: thanks for the good tip earlier, already changed my privacy settings here and there.

we have to be vary of our movements due to the laws and rules that we have binded ourselves with. break a rule, get punished, break a law, pay the price.

i wonder how long all these systems are going to hold up for...yes, i wonder. there is so much going on around the world right now, in all the 'power' countries. only time will tell.

there's this saying: "rules are meant to be broken" i never broke that many, but i wonder how it came about any why. is it to tell us that we should have our own rights to our own lives without having another being enforcing rules on us?

we pay the price, for the mistakes that were committed by the 'bad?' people. and this is what we have to live with. the rules.

TPP should have been more careful with what she disclosed. she exposed to much, and broke the rules.

AGIR:

My mind couldn't even begin to understand the situation that you've experienced. I'm so sorry. Wanting to do serious harm to another human being is beyond all comprehension. Jokes, satire, putdowns, is one thing, but wanting to cause serious grief to another person - suggests mental instability. Although even with satire and putdowns, you have to be wary of the damaging effect they can have. Think twice before posting. Although I realise that it's not always that easy to do.

Given that this has become such a long thread, and that, courtesy of a newer user, Lexi, it has degenerated into poetry, it is only fitting that there should be a footnote or two. Especially because Lexi has effectively discredited Houellebecq's derision of the claim as to users doing 'work' on OLO.



First, just to set the tone, take Houllebecq's post of Monday, 15 November 2010 at 12:29:59 PM:

"[TPP]: 'The rules state no flaming which
is probably more about how politely you can
insult someone and get away with it?'

[Houellebecq]: See this is why you were so missed."

Priceless! ROFL.


Now to the point in contention, Houellebecq's post of Tuesday, 16 November 2010 at 11:23:20 AM:

"... I just find it fascinating
how people think their comments
are so important. Like they're
changing the world or something.
Some even used the expression
'My work here', ..."

Lexi, in her post of Monday, 29 November 2010 at 3:52:31 PM, says:

"Forrest: Re-Turnered, Re-Inca-nated, Re-Versed?
How sweet it is. William Blake can justifiably
lay claim to the title of symbolist poet and as
such is open to personal interpretation. Your work
reminds me of Blake."




Did you see that, Michel? My WORK! I can't help it Michel, but I just have to say it (and at that in an accent of that most naturally suited language to diplomacy, Afrikaans), you WRONG, man. "Oh Lord, but its 'ard to be 'umble ...", especially if one is considered reminiscent of Blake. I don't quite know how to tell Lexi that, to me, it isn't work at all, just the way the words seem that they ought to fit together, and that I have never read William Blake, or many other poets, for that matter.

Life sucks sometimes, don't it?




Houell, Houell, Michel
Banned for ever?
Never, never, hell
not our Michel!
No, not our Michel.

Lame joke, Graham spoke.
Houell, Houell, Michel
It was said so well
Yes, said so well
"... suspended for just a few days"