Saturday, August 07, 2004
Why do we clean the house for company?
Our windchime-giving friend is coming over to spend Saturday evening with us, and that means many hours of picking up and cleaning up so that I don't die of embarrassment as soon as she walks in the door. Between bouts of scolding my husband for trying to sneak off and post on forums instead of handling his mess, I was thinking about what we do for company and why.
Why is it ok for us to live every day of our lives with dirt and clutter, but NOT ok for anyone ELSE to be in our home in its normal state? Would harm come to them from conditions that don't harm US?
I know, I know, we don't want anyone to see our house messy... but why not? Are they so stupid they truly believe that the condition they see our home in is the way it is every day? Are WE so stupid as to think they don't realize that we're cleaning up for them? Why do we need to perpetrate this mutual deception our entire lives?
If we could all agree to bring this madness to an end, imagine how much time and aggravation it would save us, and how much more we'd enjoy having company over if we didn't have to make so much effort for them. Yes, we'd still have to do SOME cleaning, such as in any bathroom used by anyone of the masculine gender, but it'd be a cakewalk compared to what most of us are doing now.
On the other hand, my husband refuses to clean anything unless someone's coming over, so... never mind, everyone continue on as always. ;-)
Why is it ok for us to live every day of our lives with dirt and clutter, but NOT ok for anyone ELSE to be in our home in its normal state? Would harm come to them from conditions that don't harm US?
I know, I know, we don't want anyone to see our house messy... but why not? Are they so stupid they truly believe that the condition they see our home in is the way it is every day? Are WE so stupid as to think they don't realize that we're cleaning up for them? Why do we need to perpetrate this mutual deception our entire lives?
If we could all agree to bring this madness to an end, imagine how much time and aggravation it would save us, and how much more we'd enjoy having company over if we didn't have to make so much effort for them. Yes, we'd still have to do SOME cleaning, such as in any bathroom used by anyone of the masculine gender, but it'd be a cakewalk compared to what most of us are doing now.
On the other hand, my husband refuses to clean anything unless someone's coming over, so... never mind, everyone continue on as always. ;-)
Friday, August 06, 2004
Windchime karma
I know, it sounds goofy, but here's the story:
A friend of mine gave me a windchime a few months ago; I didn't like it very much, but I like HER alot, so I hung it up, so that when she came over she could look outside and see it and feel good about her gift. A month or so ago, someone STOLE it; I kid you not, someone actually took the time, and risked being seen, to steal a $5 windchime. (My next door neighbors got arrested a few days ago, and I'm willing to bet that one of them took it because his girlfriend liked it, as this isn't exactly a high-crime neighborhood. It's odd that the thieves ignored the many windchimes of mine that I like, and that are more expensive ones, to take the one that I DON'T like; was that karma, or scumbags just having bad taste?) My husband and I agreed that we needed to replace the windchime before she noticed it missing and felt bad, or, worse, felt it necessary to replace it for us, at a time when every penny counts in her life.
We knew what store she'd gotten it from, so we went there; they no longer were carrying it. We checked their website; the item we wanted wasn't offered for sale online. We checked to see if it was still in stock at any of their other stores; it was at a couple, but this particular chain doesn't transfer items between branches. My husband had TWO different potential trips to places near stores that had the item in stock that ended up not happening. We checked on eBay, and no one had it. No one else online had it either.
Time passed, and we were seeing this friend at her house, or out at various places, and then finally plans were made for her to come to our house, but she wouldn't be here until after we got back from dinner when it would be dark, so it wasn't a worry... until she announced to me that HER windchime (yes, she got herself the same one) had fallen apart, and she wanted to bring it over and use OUR windchime to compare it to, so that she could re-assemble it properly. I managed to change the subject without letting on that we didn't have her gift anymore, and when I got home I announced to my husband that we HAD to have that windchime by the time she got to our house; we went on eBay, and... there it was.
We bid. We WON. There wasn't much chance that we could get it shipped here in time, but we told the seller the situation, and he got it shipped out the next day, and... we got it TODAY, and it will be hanging up when she gets here!! :-)
The amount of time, effort, stress, and $ that we spent replacing the silly thing is sort of embarrassing, but it's worth it to know that she'll never guess what happened... and, I'm betting that I'll be getting some good "windchime karma" for my efforts. I'll keep you posted.
A friend of mine gave me a windchime a few months ago; I didn't like it very much, but I like HER alot, so I hung it up, so that when she came over she could look outside and see it and feel good about her gift. A month or so ago, someone STOLE it; I kid you not, someone actually took the time, and risked being seen, to steal a $5 windchime. (My next door neighbors got arrested a few days ago, and I'm willing to bet that one of them took it because his girlfriend liked it, as this isn't exactly a high-crime neighborhood. It's odd that the thieves ignored the many windchimes of mine that I like, and that are more expensive ones, to take the one that I DON'T like; was that karma, or scumbags just having bad taste?) My husband and I agreed that we needed to replace the windchime before she noticed it missing and felt bad, or, worse, felt it necessary to replace it for us, at a time when every penny counts in her life.
We knew what store she'd gotten it from, so we went there; they no longer were carrying it. We checked their website; the item we wanted wasn't offered for sale online. We checked to see if it was still in stock at any of their other stores; it was at a couple, but this particular chain doesn't transfer items between branches. My husband had TWO different potential trips to places near stores that had the item in stock that ended up not happening. We checked on eBay, and no one had it. No one else online had it either.
Time passed, and we were seeing this friend at her house, or out at various places, and then finally plans were made for her to come to our house, but she wouldn't be here until after we got back from dinner when it would be dark, so it wasn't a worry... until she announced to me that HER windchime (yes, she got herself the same one) had fallen apart, and she wanted to bring it over and use OUR windchime to compare it to, so that she could re-assemble it properly. I managed to change the subject without letting on that we didn't have her gift anymore, and when I got home I announced to my husband that we HAD to have that windchime by the time she got to our house; we went on eBay, and... there it was.
We bid. We WON. There wasn't much chance that we could get it shipped here in time, but we told the seller the situation, and he got it shipped out the next day, and... we got it TODAY, and it will be hanging up when she gets here!! :-)
The amount of time, effort, stress, and $ that we spent replacing the silly thing is sort of embarrassing, but it's worth it to know that she'll never guess what happened... and, I'm betting that I'll be getting some good "windchime karma" for my efforts. I'll keep you posted.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
What seems "magical" to you?
I don't mean the old saying about how any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic, I mean what seems magical to YOU... or, if you're so "adult" that the world seems gray and pedestrian to you, what seemed magical to you as a kid?
MY biggest one is things that glow; the first time I saw something that glowed in the dark (it was some little toy that came in a box of cereal, but I can't remember the details), I was a little kid, and I was in absolute AWE of that soft green light whose existence was utterly inexplicable. The toy got lost in one of our many moves, my parents couldn't be bothered with making a little effort to find me a replacement, and by the time I was old enough to have my own income I was buying clothes and records with my "mad money," so I didn't have the thrill for many years... until I met a man who thought that it would be cool to buy me "fun" things like these (and yes, I married him). These days, I have lots of glowing toys and assorted doodads, and, even though I know how they "work" now:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question388.htm
they still "feel" magical to me.
Another example is magnetism... not in things like refrigerator magnets, which my mother always had, but in things like a music box that has critters that look like they're "skating" because of hidden magnets, and various educational toys. I don't know why seeing magnets and metal leaping towards each other, or repelling each other, is more exciting than, say, dropping something and watching it fall to the floor due to gravity, lol, but somehow it IS. I also have a set of rare earth magnets that are so powerful that it's literally impossible for me to pry them apart; I fastened them onto my husband one time (I won't say where, hehehehehe), and we were afraid we weren't going to be able to get them off without help... we can do some pretty wild things with those. I even have toys that are magnetic AND glow in the dark; they're extra-magical, and extra fun.
What started me thinking about this in other than a vague subconscious way was a catalogue I got a couple of days ago that has all sorts of spiffy toys in it (including a magnetic one and some glow in the dark doodads that I'm going to get) that I was flipping through when I was writing my essays on 3's, and thinking about what influences people to get the idea that certain things were of spiritual importance, or magical, and a question occurred to me; in many parts of the world, there are natural things that emit a glow (such as various species of fungi, worms and jellyfish) that primitive peoples wouldn't be able to explain, and at some point magnetism had to be discovered and wouldn't have been explainable either... isn't it sort of weird that you don't see references to these things as having special meaning or powers in every belief system, at least in the days before science explained them? They saw all sorts of forces as being at work around them, but things that glowed without heat, and rocks that were drawn to each other and wanted to stick together, these things were NOT seen as magical or imbued with spiritual significance?
Weird, huh?
MY biggest one is things that glow; the first time I saw something that glowed in the dark (it was some little toy that came in a box of cereal, but I can't remember the details), I was a little kid, and I was in absolute AWE of that soft green light whose existence was utterly inexplicable. The toy got lost in one of our many moves, my parents couldn't be bothered with making a little effort to find me a replacement, and by the time I was old enough to have my own income I was buying clothes and records with my "mad money," so I didn't have the thrill for many years... until I met a man who thought that it would be cool to buy me "fun" things like these (and yes, I married him). These days, I have lots of glowing toys and assorted doodads, and, even though I know how they "work" now:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question388.htm
they still "feel" magical to me.
Another example is magnetism... not in things like refrigerator magnets, which my mother always had, but in things like a music box that has critters that look like they're "skating" because of hidden magnets, and various educational toys. I don't know why seeing magnets and metal leaping towards each other, or repelling each other, is more exciting than, say, dropping something and watching it fall to the floor due to gravity, lol, but somehow it IS. I also have a set of rare earth magnets that are so powerful that it's literally impossible for me to pry them apart; I fastened them onto my husband one time (I won't say where, hehehehehe), and we were afraid we weren't going to be able to get them off without help... we can do some pretty wild things with those. I even have toys that are magnetic AND glow in the dark; they're extra-magical, and extra fun.
What started me thinking about this in other than a vague subconscious way was a catalogue I got a couple of days ago that has all sorts of spiffy toys in it (including a magnetic one and some glow in the dark doodads that I'm going to get) that I was flipping through when I was writing my essays on 3's, and thinking about what influences people to get the idea that certain things were of spiritual importance, or magical, and a question occurred to me; in many parts of the world, there are natural things that emit a glow (such as various species of fungi, worms and jellyfish) that primitive peoples wouldn't be able to explain, and at some point magnetism had to be discovered and wouldn't have been explainable either... isn't it sort of weird that you don't see references to these things as having special meaning or powers in every belief system, at least in the days before science explained them? They saw all sorts of forces as being at work around them, but things that glowed without heat, and rocks that were drawn to each other and wanted to stick together, these things were NOT seen as magical or imbued with spiritual significance?
Weird, huh?
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
3's, part 2; WHY 3's?
I'm still focused on 3's today, as, karmically, my friend with by far the most focus on both religion and spirituality, who I'd been wishing I could talk to late last night when I made my previous post, called me on her way home from working a late shift, and we had a fascinating conversation about them. It began with me asking "Have you ever noticed how 3's turn up over in over in..." to which she eagerly responded before I could even get the entire question out, not just because she knew what I was going to say, but because she's seen it countless times herself, in her intensive Bible study, in her readings on metaphysics, and in her own life. Much of what we covered is what I've already posted on, but there are a couple of new points:
Let's say that the wildly disproportionate appearance of 3's in spiritual beliefs is NOT based on something that exists as part of reality that we're picking up on subconsciously; what then made people think 3's were so important? Where in nature were people seeing 3's to bring them to mind as being central to how things work in the universe? 5 would seem a better choice; 5 fingers on each hand, 5 toes on each foot. Or 4; we have 4 limbs, 4 main facial features, and lots of critters have 4 legs. 2 would seem good, too, as so many things occur in pairs. But where were they seeing 3's? All we could think of is the trifurcate nature of male genitals... and, although we know that men LOVE their gleesome threesome of naughty bits, that seems insufficient to base spiritual perceptions on.
It just doesn't make SENSE to imagine that people were looking around them and deciding that 3's were so wildly important when so few things come in 3's; we concluded that there HAD to be something, or many things, in the actual structure of the universe and/or karma that contained 3's, that people have been perceiving pretty much since the dawn of spiritual thought... perhaps the entire omniverse is, at its most basic level, modeled on 3's. What if, say, quarks turn out to be, not just solid blobs of energy as they're currently seen, but honeycomb-type structures, with 3 sides instead of 6, or perhaps intricate lattices of triangles? What if bits of karmic energy travel around locked into threes, the way oxygen atoms do in the ozone?
That line of thought makes my eyes bug out of my head, but whether because it's totally crazy or because it would make something deeply puzzling and sort of freaky fall beautifully into place I don't know. My husband would vote for crazy, but this is the same guy who thought that my friend calling me for the first time in several weeks at the first possible moment after I expressed the wish to talk to her is a coincidence, so what does HE know, lol?
Let's say that the wildly disproportionate appearance of 3's in spiritual beliefs is NOT based on something that exists as part of reality that we're picking up on subconsciously; what then made people think 3's were so important? Where in nature were people seeing 3's to bring them to mind as being central to how things work in the universe? 5 would seem a better choice; 5 fingers on each hand, 5 toes on each foot. Or 4; we have 4 limbs, 4 main facial features, and lots of critters have 4 legs. 2 would seem good, too, as so many things occur in pairs. But where were they seeing 3's? All we could think of is the trifurcate nature of male genitals... and, although we know that men LOVE their gleesome threesome of naughty bits, that seems insufficient to base spiritual perceptions on.
It just doesn't make SENSE to imagine that people were looking around them and deciding that 3's were so wildly important when so few things come in 3's; we concluded that there HAD to be something, or many things, in the actual structure of the universe and/or karma that contained 3's, that people have been perceiving pretty much since the dawn of spiritual thought... perhaps the entire omniverse is, at its most basic level, modeled on 3's. What if, say, quarks turn out to be, not just solid blobs of energy as they're currently seen, but honeycomb-type structures, with 3 sides instead of 6, or perhaps intricate lattices of triangles? What if bits of karmic energy travel around locked into threes, the way oxygen atoms do in the ozone?
That line of thought makes my eyes bug out of my head, but whether because it's totally crazy or because it would make something deeply puzzling and sort of freaky fall beautifully into place I don't know. My husband would vote for crazy, but this is the same guy who thought that my friend calling me for the first time in several weeks at the first possible moment after I expressed the wish to talk to her is a coincidence, so what does HE know, lol?
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Do good and bad things really happen in 3's?
Of course not, how could they? Then again...
What is it about the #3? Why does it show up over and over in the spiritual, metaphysical and magic traditions of so many cultures? Lots of people throughout human history have clearly sensed something about the #3, but what? We can't look at the fabric of the universe to see if there are patterns of 3's there, but we CAN look at an easily-observable phenomenon concerning 3's; the idea that good and bad things happen in groups of 3. Let's assume for the sake of argument that there IS a reason that all these different peoples saw/perceived something special about 3, and in particular that there IS a disproportionate tendency for good or bad events to occur in 3's; how could it be happening?
For no reason that I can explain, when I realized today that *I* had had 2 "threesomes" over the past 24 hours (wipe that dirty thought out of your head, you know what I meant, lol), this thought popped into my head; it's like how ions and electrons work, or how some molecules form. In other words, in the same way that a certain # of electrons would ALWAYS be attracted to a specific ion (because it's always lacking a specific # of electrons), in the same way that atoms ALWAYS grab onto each other in the same ratios (ie an oxygen atom will always grab TWO hydrogen atoms to form water), maybe, just maybe, the way the architecture of karma works is that, when it's your time to have something good or bad happen to you, THREE "slots" open up instead of one, making the tendency be for 3 good or bad things to happen to you in a short period of time (but NOT a certainty, in the same way that ions can STAY ions if no electrons happen to come along). OR, it could be that good or bad things are "charged" such that they "prefer" to come together in groups of 3... which would amount to the same thing, numerically speaking.
But, couldn't it just be that people all over the world have latched onto 3 at random, and that they're just waiting however long it takes for 3 things to happen, telling themselves "look, a 3" and then "resetting" back to zero in their minds? Of course; there was a time when *I* was SURE of that, in fact. Scarily, though, as I've opened my mind to new ideas and broader spiritual perceptions, I HAVE seen a powerful tendency for good or bad things, often thematically related, to happen in groups of 3 within a VERY short period of time... 24 hours or less is typical.
The 3's I've just had, which I'll tell you just to be sure you don't suspect me of teasing you before (lol) are; 3 friends of mine that I hadn't heard from in a while, all of whom have major health problems, all contacted me, and 3 items that I not just wanted, but had had disastrous circumstances deprive me of having, all turned up cheap on eBay.
Coincidence? I reluctantly have to say... possibly not.
PS After I published the above, I read it to my sceptic husband, and we talked about it. Once we finished covering the subject, I picked up a mailer full of coupons that we'd received today, opened it and started going through them. One of the coupons (for Sparkletts water) said across the top, "Good things always come in threes." I showed it to my husband, who, somewhat shaken, had to admit, "That IS a little eerie." He's a very slow learner, but I love him anyways.
What is it about the #3? Why does it show up over and over in the spiritual, metaphysical and magic traditions of so many cultures? Lots of people throughout human history have clearly sensed something about the #3, but what? We can't look at the fabric of the universe to see if there are patterns of 3's there, but we CAN look at an easily-observable phenomenon concerning 3's; the idea that good and bad things happen in groups of 3. Let's assume for the sake of argument that there IS a reason that all these different peoples saw/perceived something special about 3, and in particular that there IS a disproportionate tendency for good or bad events to occur in 3's; how could it be happening?
For no reason that I can explain, when I realized today that *I* had had 2 "threesomes" over the past 24 hours (wipe that dirty thought out of your head, you know what I meant, lol), this thought popped into my head; it's like how ions and electrons work, or how some molecules form. In other words, in the same way that a certain # of electrons would ALWAYS be attracted to a specific ion (because it's always lacking a specific # of electrons), in the same way that atoms ALWAYS grab onto each other in the same ratios (ie an oxygen atom will always grab TWO hydrogen atoms to form water), maybe, just maybe, the way the architecture of karma works is that, when it's your time to have something good or bad happen to you, THREE "slots" open up instead of one, making the tendency be for 3 good or bad things to happen to you in a short period of time (but NOT a certainty, in the same way that ions can STAY ions if no electrons happen to come along). OR, it could be that good or bad things are "charged" such that they "prefer" to come together in groups of 3... which would amount to the same thing, numerically speaking.
But, couldn't it just be that people all over the world have latched onto 3 at random, and that they're just waiting however long it takes for 3 things to happen, telling themselves "look, a 3" and then "resetting" back to zero in their minds? Of course; there was a time when *I* was SURE of that, in fact. Scarily, though, as I've opened my mind to new ideas and broader spiritual perceptions, I HAVE seen a powerful tendency for good or bad things, often thematically related, to happen in groups of 3 within a VERY short period of time... 24 hours or less is typical.
The 3's I've just had, which I'll tell you just to be sure you don't suspect me of teasing you before (lol) are; 3 friends of mine that I hadn't heard from in a while, all of whom have major health problems, all contacted me, and 3 items that I not just wanted, but had had disastrous circumstances deprive me of having, all turned up cheap on eBay.
Coincidence? I reluctantly have to say... possibly not.
PS After I published the above, I read it to my sceptic husband, and we talked about it. Once we finished covering the subject, I picked up a mailer full of coupons that we'd received today, opened it and started going through them. One of the coupons (for Sparkletts water) said across the top, "Good things always come in threes." I showed it to my husband, who, somewhat shaken, had to admit, "That IS a little eerie." He's a very slow learner, but I love him anyways.
Monday, August 02, 2004
Why Americans are overweight
I went grocery shopping with a friend who's trying to lose weight; this is a woman with a PhD, a high IQ, and who has studied a great deal about weightloss, mind you. Her purchases, and comments, are a perfect demonstration of why her attempts at losing weight are failing:
She announced that her problem is "eating too may carbs late at night." I asked her what she was eating, and she said "ice cream." When I pointed out that ice cream has far more FAT then carbs, she insisted that she wasn't eating it for the fat, and thus that the fat didn't count somehow. I asked her what else she was eating, and she told me "nuts." I responded that nuts were all far higher in fat that carbs, and she again brushed the comment aside, telling me that it's the carbs that put the most weight on you. When I reminded her that fat has 9 calories per gram, as opposed to only 4 for carbs, she hemmed and hawed. When I added that if she just wanted carbs, she's be eating high-carb foods rather than high fat foods, she denied it... how SAD that even someone bright enough to get a physics PhD can be so easily brainwashed by the low-carb hoopla that she'll ignore the facts and keep believing that carbs are "evil."
And what did Ms. Diet purchase? Grape seed oil to cook with; she told me that she wouldn't use cooking sprays, which add no fat or calories to food, because they have preservatives. A JUG of cherries in syrup, and jars of walnuts in syrup and jam that was mainly corn syrup. Then, we went to the deli counter, and she selected imported salami; to my comment that this was a high-fat item, she airily replied that it was "a treat." She also got a container of olives in oil (apparently, the fact that olives are almost all fat wasn't enough), telling me that the oil was healthy; at my rejoinder that all fats have the same # of calories, she rolled her eyes.
Does ANY of that make it sound like she's actually going to lose any weight? It sounds to ME like... every other overweight person in America, justifying eating the same high-calorie foods that made them fat and wondering why they aren't losing weight. {sigh}
She announced that her problem is "eating too may carbs late at night." I asked her what she was eating, and she said "ice cream." When I pointed out that ice cream has far more FAT then carbs, she insisted that she wasn't eating it for the fat, and thus that the fat didn't count somehow. I asked her what else she was eating, and she told me "nuts." I responded that nuts were all far higher in fat that carbs, and she again brushed the comment aside, telling me that it's the carbs that put the most weight on you. When I reminded her that fat has 9 calories per gram, as opposed to only 4 for carbs, she hemmed and hawed. When I added that if she just wanted carbs, she's be eating high-carb foods rather than high fat foods, she denied it... how SAD that even someone bright enough to get a physics PhD can be so easily brainwashed by the low-carb hoopla that she'll ignore the facts and keep believing that carbs are "evil."
And what did Ms. Diet purchase? Grape seed oil to cook with; she told me that she wouldn't use cooking sprays, which add no fat or calories to food, because they have preservatives. A JUG of cherries in syrup, and jars of walnuts in syrup and jam that was mainly corn syrup. Then, we went to the deli counter, and she selected imported salami; to my comment that this was a high-fat item, she airily replied that it was "a treat." She also got a container of olives in oil (apparently, the fact that olives are almost all fat wasn't enough), telling me that the oil was healthy; at my rejoinder that all fats have the same # of calories, she rolled her eyes.
Does ANY of that make it sound like she's actually going to lose any weight? It sounds to ME like... every other overweight person in America, justifying eating the same high-calorie foods that made them fat and wondering why they aren't losing weight. {sigh}
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Karma slays the psycho bitch
If you're new here, and haven't seen any of my posts about "the psycho bitch," she's an aptly-nicknamed individual who got away with rampaging over a forum, attacking people savagely and without provocation, despite which the admins were holding her up as a favorite who could break the rules with impunity... until just recently, when people finally, FINALLY, in response to her vicious public attacks on a KID, started ganging up on her and kicking HER butt. I was THRILLED. She then stormed off, came back under a different name, caused more trouble, got found out and BLASTED by the forum members. I was ECSTATIC. That's where I left off, until now:
She got quiet for a while after the last round of attacks on herself, and was posting politely; I waited for her next move, and it finally came, in the form of a post saying, in effect, that she wanted to get people back as friends, but she wasn't going to apologize for anything she'd done. (No, I'm NOT kidding, she really seemed to think that this was a valid approach.) The forum EXPLODED, and even people who hadn't said anything before have united in an all-out assault of a kind I've never seen in all my years online. There's an unbelievable extra twist this time, too; some members are so enraged, and have come to hate and resent her so much, that they're... brace yourselves... printing out a bunch of her psycho posts, and the NUDE PICS she had taken and has posted all over the place, and mailing them to her PARENTS, with whom she lives, and who pay for her internet access and pretty much everything else (she's in her 30's, unemployed, penniless, and lives online).
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the obvious exception of stalking and other illegal activities, this is by far the ugliest thing I've EVER seen done in the online world; I must admit, when I confidently predicted that karma was going to amply repay her for all the people she'd hurt, and for destroying the forum for everyone, I never imagined anything like THIS. In case you're thinking this is just a simple case of injured parties getting revenge, here's the kicker; as with the other well-deserved abuse she's received, this mailing to the parents is NOT coming from any of her victims, but from a sort of vigilante posse that has formed to try to force her totally offline, so that she can't dump on anyone else ever again... and when non-victims pay wrongdoers back, especially in ways and under circumstances that are surreal like this, that's karma making the necessary negative energy flow back to the wrongdoers in whatever way it can find.
I wonder if it'll ever occur to the print-and-mailers that it's nuts for THEM to be doing this, or if they'll ever ask themselves WHY they took this route. I doubt it; we rarely look that carefully at our actions.
There's a final tidbit of karma here; for no apparent reason, and apropos of nothing, several different people among those who are posting slams to the psycho bitch brought MY name up, referring to how admirably I'd handled it when *I* was attacked in the past, and calling for my return, or expressing hope that I'd return when the psycho was gone... and no other victim got these mentions. That's the wildest thing to me, in a way, because it shows clearly that this is tied up with MY karma, that I wished ill on her for what she did and now it's happening; this is further pointed to by the eerie fact that the leader of those responsible for the "mail plot" is the one who's been calling for me the loudest, and has even PM-ed me asking me to return and telling me about what they've done (it's still a secret from the forum at large)... and this is a guy I barely know, mind you.
Don't EVER mess with karma... or with anyone who knows how to manipulate it.
She got quiet for a while after the last round of attacks on herself, and was posting politely; I waited for her next move, and it finally came, in the form of a post saying, in effect, that she wanted to get people back as friends, but she wasn't going to apologize for anything she'd done. (No, I'm NOT kidding, she really seemed to think that this was a valid approach.) The forum EXPLODED, and even people who hadn't said anything before have united in an all-out assault of a kind I've never seen in all my years online. There's an unbelievable extra twist this time, too; some members are so enraged, and have come to hate and resent her so much, that they're... brace yourselves... printing out a bunch of her psycho posts, and the NUDE PICS she had taken and has posted all over the place, and mailing them to her PARENTS, with whom she lives, and who pay for her internet access and pretty much everything else (she's in her 30's, unemployed, penniless, and lives online).
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the obvious exception of stalking and other illegal activities, this is by far the ugliest thing I've EVER seen done in the online world; I must admit, when I confidently predicted that karma was going to amply repay her for all the people she'd hurt, and for destroying the forum for everyone, I never imagined anything like THIS. In case you're thinking this is just a simple case of injured parties getting revenge, here's the kicker; as with the other well-deserved abuse she's received, this mailing to the parents is NOT coming from any of her victims, but from a sort of vigilante posse that has formed to try to force her totally offline, so that she can't dump on anyone else ever again... and when non-victims pay wrongdoers back, especially in ways and under circumstances that are surreal like this, that's karma making the necessary negative energy flow back to the wrongdoers in whatever way it can find.
I wonder if it'll ever occur to the print-and-mailers that it's nuts for THEM to be doing this, or if they'll ever ask themselves WHY they took this route. I doubt it; we rarely look that carefully at our actions.
There's a final tidbit of karma here; for no apparent reason, and apropos of nothing, several different people among those who are posting slams to the psycho bitch brought MY name up, referring to how admirably I'd handled it when *I* was attacked in the past, and calling for my return, or expressing hope that I'd return when the psycho was gone... and no other victim got these mentions. That's the wildest thing to me, in a way, because it shows clearly that this is tied up with MY karma, that I wished ill on her for what she did and now it's happening; this is further pointed to by the eerie fact that the leader of those responsible for the "mail plot" is the one who's been calling for me the loudest, and has even PM-ed me asking me to return and telling me about what they've done (it's still a secret from the forum at large)... and this is a guy I barely know, mind you.
Don't EVER mess with karma... or with anyone who knows how to manipulate it.
