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Seconded. I almost failed out of High School and went to a remedial school where the history books ended with Nixon.

Ugh.

Fair enough 3nodding Catcha later!
For what it's worth, we're still on public mode. So if you wanted to pop back in at some point, you'd still be able to post. wink

There's this little b***h in LD whose definition of "god" excludes any god not his own. He's using this crap to argue that Pascal's Wager has merit. W.T.F.

I had explained how in a BDSM session gone wrong I was raped. I had used a safeword to stop the activity and my rapist said "No safeword this time b***h".

I get nervous when people talk about safewords in a casual manner- and it lead to a very public miscommunication with someone I count as a friend. I wrote a journal about it to process my thoughts and feelings on what happened- and I got a lot of feedback. Some of it was phrased in a way that was sympathetic to how I felt at the time- but tried to give me good advice on what to do in the future. Some of it was phrased in a way that basically said it was my fault for being raped. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I deleted their response and pretended it wasn't written- because if they didn't mean it that way- then it was an honest accident and I was too raw to do anything rational about it.

The person PMed me complaining about me deleting their post after making this vague reference to it in the journal. I told them to leave me alone and that those comments weren't welcomed. They threw a fit and I blocked them. They logged onto Gaia and harassed me here. I let them know it wasn't acceptable behavior and that there are Loa who deal with this kind of behavior when fed in the right way. That leaving me alone is the right thing to do and it won't come to that.

Apparently in their mind it's okay to harass people and call them names- but if they point out you have no problem taking actions against them, you've crossed the line- and they'll tell anyone who will listen what a horrible person you are and how you should be banned from Gaia and specific threads. Some people are even stupid enough to listen.

I'm not the only person who has been harassed by this jerk. I woke up this morning to find about ten pages in a favorite HOT made up of two of her other targets getting sick of her and firing back. Then I get pulled into it and called more names when I haven't even been on for 12 hours.

I speak up and basically tell the other two they're better than that- and they agree to stop. And then the jerk claims that she was the better person and stopped it.

WTF?

I'm feeling a bit better. Thanks though.

And sometimes people want to help- and they just don't know how. I can understand they tried to do right by me- and I told them I couldn't handle what they were saying and they got that instantly and stopped. Well, most of them- except the jerk I was talking about.

She got all rude and when I blocked her- she had her friend come and hassle me. Blah. But I have good friends and she has enough rope- she'll hang herself eventually.

Thanks. I'm doing a lot better. I get to watch a movie and have Chicken and Dumplings for dinner.

Now I've got "She'll be Coming Around The Mountain" stuck in my head.

Well technically, the old fashioned sentiment is the other way around. Ever read a home ec. book from the 50s? .....yeeeah.

Although frankly I can't stand that sort of gender divide either way >.>