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...and make people wait in line and jump through flaming hoops before they could get a glimpse of me atall on my personal turf.....
Ah, I'm in one of my "Why am I not more of a social asshole?" moods.......don't ask why unless you're in the 'otherkin' loop, otherwise you'll miss the forest for the strangeness of the trees.
Admittedly, I can easily be more of one -- really, I've been trying already lately. I even warned people about the ginsus in a totally-revised profile-page, just so no one could make the mistake of thinking that I was some mild and milky-winged avatar of never-being-offended by the shite people try to deal me (or others in general) online. You mess with me, you get the blades deployed in your general-or-specific direction...could I be any more clearer with the caveat?
Now. We all know that there are a lot of people out there...and that a lot of those people aren't exactly scrupulous in their dealings with their own minds and memories. I am -- perhaps even too much so, atimes. A lot of people play fast and loose with everything that they know very little about -- I don't. Yet, in no other "culture" on earth or heaven as that which I find mostly ensconced, is a person's entire sanity consistently and perpetually put to question merely on account of peer-pressure and embedded hyper-skepticism. There is a pathology to this "commmunity" -- or at least to a good many of its manifestations on LJ -- to which I do not have any desire to subject myself on a continuing basis, as I find it frustrating, enervating and frankly maddening.
Therefore, I'm not much in a mood to join any further groups, and may even withdraw from the ones that I'm in, where the level of group consensus is marked and bogged down by zealous contrarianism and attempts to always tear down, never dig for supports. Likewise, and as I've probably said before, I've no liking for groups that take everything at face value and challenge nothing, or allow no challenges once a view is spoken, no matter how far-out, half-baked, extreme or offensive. Those groups, and those people, offend ME. They offend my sensibilities as a scrupulously intelligent being who nonetheless knows things that he cannot necessarily prove to any-and-all comers, because there are a lot of people out there who have already chosen their "belief" either way and refuse to be swayed by anything that is not it or does not neatly-validate it. That's their problem, not mine.....why should I even admit their existence in this world, let alone that they have any right to evaluate what they cannot see to disprove it?
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Refusal (or inability) to observe the evidence does not negate its existence. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is adjudged to be suffering from hallucinations -- but does that mean he does not see?
I'm going to be putting a lot more effort into building/growing my own groups and communities, both here and on Yahell, because I do not think that my concept of "anderen" (clustered/interrelated and consciously-purposeful 'otherness') will ever be really respected within the officialdoms of the so-called 'otherkin community' -- even though that is only part of its most-prominent cluster. I have no desire to be constantly arguing for the merely-basic validity of something that needs to be moving beyond the stage of "proposal" and into that of application, exploration and action, particularly with people who have no idea how much of my life has been building into this. If you know me, you know that I have my groups listed right there on the side of my LJ page....if you're interested, check them out. I could use some non-kneejerk types to kick in their thoughts and experience without getting all orthodox-wankerish on me.
That all said and duly thrown out on the winds...I have a few probationers on my flist, and for either lack of personal relevance or lack of activity on their accounts, I shall be deleting them next time I'm on -- I've already gotten rid of a few names that had no activity, no mutual-friending and/or not enough shared interests to fill a thimble. If you think/know that you are in this category and yet want to remain on my flist, post something to make me change my mind. (Admittedly, I hardly ever respond to ultimatums of this sort unless I really really want to retain a contact, so do feel free to ignore me if you actually don't give a damn.)
There. If I think your hangouts are worth it I'll give 'em the time of day.....apart from that, my soul shall tend to be quite selective with its company, on an individual and not established-communal basis -- at least for this slice of cyberlife. And if the mods don't like me not bending to get into their groups and and play nice by their rules, they can all go bugger themselves with fresh-picked pineapples.
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(If you read this and are violently offended, chances are that you're already slated for flist-eviction, if indeed you were ever personally on my flist atall, or ever . Good day.)
Ah, I'm in one of my "Why am I not more of a social asshole?" moods.......don't ask why unless you're in the 'otherkin' loop, otherwise you'll miss the forest for the strangeness of the trees.
Admittedly, I can easily be more of one -- really, I've been trying already lately. I even warned people about the ginsus in a totally-revised profile-page, just so no one could make the mistake of thinking that I was some mild and milky-winged avatar of never-being-offended by the shite people try to deal me (or others in general) online. You mess with me, you get the blades deployed in your general-or-specific direction...could I be any more clearer with the caveat?
Now. We all know that there are a lot of people out there...and that a lot of those people aren't exactly scrupulous in their dealings with their own minds and memories. I am -- perhaps even too much so, atimes. A lot of people play fast and loose with everything that they know very little about -- I don't. Yet, in no other "culture" on earth or heaven as that which I find mostly ensconced, is a person's entire sanity consistently and perpetually put to question merely on account of peer-pressure and embedded hyper-skepticism. There is a pathology to this "commmunity" -- or at least to a good many of its manifestations on LJ -- to which I do not have any desire to subject myself on a continuing basis, as I find it frustrating, enervating and frankly maddening.
Therefore, I'm not much in a mood to join any further groups, and may even withdraw from the ones that I'm in, where the level of group consensus is marked and bogged down by zealous contrarianism and attempts to always tear down, never dig for supports. Likewise, and as I've probably said before, I've no liking for groups that take everything at face value and challenge nothing, or allow no challenges once a view is spoken, no matter how far-out, half-baked, extreme or offensive. Those groups, and those people, offend ME. They offend my sensibilities as a scrupulously intelligent being who nonetheless knows things that he cannot necessarily prove to any-and-all comers, because there are a lot of people out there who have already chosen their "belief" either way and refuse to be swayed by anything that is not it or does not neatly-validate it. That's their problem, not mine.....why should I even admit their existence in this world, let alone that they have any right to evaluate what they cannot see to disprove it?
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Refusal (or inability) to observe the evidence does not negate its existence. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is adjudged to be suffering from hallucinations -- but does that mean he does not see?
I'm going to be putting a lot more effort into building/growing my own groups and communities, both here and on Yahell, because I do not think that my concept of "anderen" (clustered/interrelated and consciously-purposeful 'otherness') will ever be really respected within the officialdoms of the so-called 'otherkin community' -- even though that is only part of its most-prominent cluster. I have no desire to be constantly arguing for the merely-basic validity of something that needs to be moving beyond the stage of "proposal" and into that of application, exploration and action, particularly with people who have no idea how much of my life has been building into this. If you know me, you know that I have my groups listed right there on the side of my LJ page....if you're interested, check them out. I could use some non-kneejerk types to kick in their thoughts and experience without getting all orthodox-wankerish on me.
That all said and duly thrown out on the winds...I have a few probationers on my flist, and for either lack of personal relevance or lack of activity on their accounts, I shall be deleting them next time I'm on -- I've already gotten rid of a few names that had no activity, no mutual-friending and/or not enough shared interests to fill a thimble. If you think/know that you are in this category and yet want to remain on my flist, post something to make me change my mind. (Admittedly, I hardly ever respond to ultimatums of this sort unless I really really want to retain a contact, so do feel free to ignore me if you actually don't give a damn.)
There. If I think your hangouts are worth it I'll give 'em the time of day.....apart from that, my soul shall tend to be quite selective with its company, on an individual and not established-communal basis -- at least for this slice of cyberlife. And if the mods don't like me not bending to get into their groups and and play nice by their rules, they can all go bugger themselves with fresh-picked pineapples.
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(If you read this and are violently offended, chances are that you're already slated for flist-eviction, if indeed you were ever personally on my flist atall, or ever . Good day.)
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