Who the hell is . . .

[Spiral Zer0]

my screen name is spiral zer0, I am black, I like futanari, I say it all the time, I have a nasty temper, but I'm easy to get along with.

yo

[JohnnyTwoEyes]

Ugh. I hate these "confessional" threads. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fucked with a rusty nailbat.

I take no small amount of offense at that for a couple reasons. Number one being that it's not a confession, number two being that you don't have to participate if you don't want to, and number three being go fuck a duck.

Jerk.

Oh no no no, you must've misunderstood. He's a dom, "fucked with a rusty nailbat" is a compliment. And uhhh "hate" means "love". But really, Slandy poo isn't so bad, but he comes off as an ass sometimes. I should know!

It was still a mean and spiteful thing to say, and reading it made the world less bright.

[Lund]

My name is actually Lund. Parhaps a strange name for a guy living in Gothenburg but that the way it is. My first name is so common so I have got used to get called by my last name.

I study history at gothenburg university. Before that I studied philosophy. I have no idea what to do with my future so I do what seems interesting now instead. That being said it does seem like people like me ends up teaching others in the end.

My interests seem to the somewhat unfocused. Art, both painting and sculture is someting I really like but seldom do. Brewing beer is also something I do. Mostly darker beers in the porter/stout style these days, this is because I am also a member of PDA, Porter Drinkers Association. A slighty odd student organisation that in a very Mark Twain anglophilic way expresses it's members love for porter. http://www.porter.se for the interested. The pic section is the real treasure and it is sadly not functioning.

I have no need for labels of sexual orientation. What makes me horny makes me horny. Right now I'm in a relationship and have been for the last 3.5 years with the guitarplayer in http://www.hatakatten.se[/url]

[Awkwardschoolgirl]

Right now I'm in a relationship and have been for the last 3.5 years with the guitarplayer in http://www.hatakatten.se

HOT! Hot hot hot hot hot hot! You're a very lucky person! *drools*

[The Cheshire Dragon]

The name's Karen, though I do respond to TCD or Cheshire. Currently I'm attending the University of Wyoming. Undeclared major at the moment, though I'm pretty sure I want to go into the non-profit field. (Volunteered for years and just realized this summer that helping make the world better is what I want to do for the rest of my life.)

Interests...I do a bit of tabletop gaming, a hobby I picked up because of my roommate, other than that it's just school and hanging around on the forums. I also would like to get into costuming (yeah, fursuiting) but at the moment I don't have anything in the way of room to do so. Perhaps when I move into the apartment.

Sex and sexuality: As far as I've figured out...well actually I haven't figured out. I'm leaning towards straight, but that may be because I haven't had a real relationship with a female. (Unless you count the online open relationship that ended in a dramabomb bigger than Hiroshima, which I don't.) I figure I'll get to it when I'm not so busy with school; and after said dramabomb, I'm not really interested in relationships with anyone. I also identify as a submissive, though nothing is ever set in stone.

Yes, I consider myself a furry. My currernt fursona is a maned lioness with dragon wings. (*points at avatar* Seen there.) No, furry porn doesn't do that much for me; I much rather enjoy reading and watching about humans getting it on. That's not to say I don't have a collection or have pictures of my former fursona in various states of undress, though. >.> <.<

[Slander]

I take no small amount of offense at that for a couple reasons. Number one being that it's not a confession, number two being that you don't have to participate if you don't want to, and number three being go fuck a duck.
Jerk.

My favorite quote of all time comes from an oft-misunderstood, always-underappreciated philosopher.

"Never take life too seriously: it'll kill you in the end."

-Bugs Bunny

So, sorry if my sarcasm didn't turn your world into a bright and sunshiny place, friend. Maybe I should have added some sort of silly emoticon after "nailbat" to signal to the world, "Hey, kids. Slander doesn't mean it when he says you should be sodomized with an iron-studded cudgel!"

I didn't, and that makes hurting your feelings my responsibility. I apologize for ruining your day, Johnny. I hope you'll gain some further cheer, and maybe we can both learn something from this.

[CJBurgandy]

Guess I'll get in here.

I'm 24 years old and my name is CJ Burgandy. I'm a lesbian cartoonist who is currently trapped working at a used car lot to pay bills. I am dating the ever wonderful KIsai (not that I'm bragging or anything <_< >_> <_<) and in November we'll be having our 2nd aniversary.
I was born and raised in the Tundra city of Anchorage, Alaska and I hate snow, Ice and being cold.
I was in Canada at the beginning of the month and it was pleasently hot there. Must be all that southern sun they get

my life truely revolves around my girl, my art and my dogs. That's about it. oh and I recently started a new comic called Action Porn and this seemed like a good time to suddenly plug it.

[Honor]

I think it's interesting in some disturbing way that I am far more interested in replying to other's posts than making my own introductory post myself.

...I purpously keep my real location and name secret, to prove a point. Europe is now devoid of culture....

Anyway, as you might have noticed, I'm quite lefty.

What I find interesting here is the contrast between liberal and conservative, as a reminder than none of us is all one way or the other... The "Oh Noes!! We are having no cultures!!" being the ultra-conservative, of course. It's not that Europe has no culture, it's just that - like all dynamic, living things - that culture is changing.

I'm with you, for the record... Individual places having their own hnts of individual culture is one of the things I wish didn't have to change. I just found the contrast interesting.

I have two brothers, one is in the army (navy, to be exact)

This one I comment on because it's linguistically interesting... Where "army" becomes a synonym for all armed forces, while, here, "army" only means one specific ground force... Saying that here would be like saying "I have a pet cat. (a beagle, to be exact.)"

My goal is to be the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.

I love your goal... It rocks very much and makes me smile. Can I come to the ceremony with you?

...I am also a virgin (saving myself for marriage...

Don't take this personally, but I think this is one of the saddest and most tragic mistakes commonly made (or aspired to) by human beings, and it's very nearly perfectly illustrative of why I so very deeply dislike religion and all the terrible things it does to people.

It's like saing "I want to make sure that, whoever I marry, I marry them before I find out if we like the same foods or movies or even speak the same language."

First, the whole "don't you have sex 'til you're married now, or you're going to hell." is a very clear and obvious social control blackmail manuever (anyone not wanting to be hit in the head by flying debris might want to duck when Toawa sees this). Second, while sex isn't everything, it's sure as hell too important a part of a happy long term relationship to be left completely and totally to chance...

I hope your right slutty girl comes along for you, hon

...Oh, and also to someday eradicate every single John Norman book from the face of the earth...

Another excellent and laudable goal. Next to the "Left Behind" series, John Norman's GOR books are some of the most poorly crafted pathetic crap I've ever tried to read... And, like the "Left Behind: series, if it weren't for an admiring throng of mindless sycophants who cling to the books because they help to shore up a particularly pathetic fetish, they never would have survived much beyond first contact with the market.

(*sigh* even at that, though, I can't say "burn them all!"... Censorship is -so- repulsive to me, it's difficult to even joke about eradicating all record of even the most disgusting book.)

I will admit to having had fantasies with girls in them, but never tried it in real life; not ruling it out entirely though.

And, I can tell you, at least one girl has now had small fantasies with you in them, too...

I have this... Thing... With some names. Sometimes, someone's name just pushes my buttons. It's not that I'll be attracted to everyone with that name, but sometimes the unique combination of a name with the person carrying it just...

Some combination of the things used to paint the outline of you (army girl, officer, smart, Intel, reader, and this sense of... kind of sweet and a little quiet somwhow, all are very attractive to me... Some because of previous relationships, some for other reasons.) and they combine with "Bri" (Mmm. Very nice.) and "Sabrina" ( O.O *blush* Ok... I need a... Um... I'll be in my bunk.)

Yes, I know. It's very wierd, and I don't know how or why it works... But I like it when it does.

I love reading, and have since I was young. Considering that I was young at very early age, I've been reading for some time. I adore Humour, horror, fantasy, science Fiction, historical fiction, history, mythology, and comics(eastern and western).

Okay, since he put that in, I don't feel so bad about admitting it myself. *chuckles* Been reading since I was about three and half, according to my mother, and more or less taught myself (yes, I am a geek in that sense). Most of what he mentioned is what I read, except take out historical fiction and comics and put in romance novels. I gotta get me a good romance novel in order to feel complete in life. And now that I've admitted that, feel free to tell me how pathetic I am and bring on the tentacle rape!

I was reading around that age, too... Kindergarten marked the beginning of a long tradition of me sitting in a classroom, bored out of my mind, while teachers taught other kids stuff I already knew. (There is absolutely no excuse for that, by the way... It'd be a trivial matter to separate kinds by intelligence and knowledge rather than age. Opps... Tangent.)

I'll add to the list of "things I like to read" with Legal thrillers, spy books - everything from James Bond (which I'd finished my first reading of all of by about age 10) to 'factual' stuff like Wolfgang Loetz' the Champagn Spy - and lots of history and non-fiction stuff... Jefferson, Madison, Hobbes... Food and culinary technique history has been a big thing for me again lately, too...

I've long ago largely (and happily enough) given up dreams like riches, fame, and power and accepted that my only real and important goal in life is to learn and know and experience as much as possible... My big regret is that I don't have as much time to read as I'd like.

I'm Christian by choice, not by upbringing, and it's very important to me that people have the freedom to choose their faith, their sexual orientation, and their way of life without judgement or prejudice. I believe in freedom.

I hold all those freedoms to be absolutely needed... But the faith part of that always dumbfounds me... I have a few other christian friends who say things like "choose to believe in god", and I simply don't in any way understand how anyone can even think that is possible.

"Belief" is a state of being... That acceptance that something is true, without proof, isn't and can't be something that one can choose... You can't choose whether to believe the sun is up, or whether dogs exist, or whether you have a left hand...

So I dont see how anyone can choose to believe there's a magic man in the clouds who'll get mighty pissed off if you don't say the right little incantation five times a day, or whatever...

Either you are capable of believing that, or you are not... Based on a combination of native intelligence and sum of your life experiences to that moment... (Have you been taught skepticism? Have you been raised to accept authority? Hve you been exposed to a wide variety of ideas, with the understanding that all of them might be equally valid? etc. etc.)

You can be convinced of something, you can be persuaded... But I don't see how anyone could think that you can choose to believe. You cannot, in any intellectual honesty, choose to believe something... Either you believe it, or you don't. Either you've never questioned it (in the case of those raised to it) or you've been convinced, whether convinced by yourself, by some other person or persons, or by some combination of events (as is very often the case... 1) I am probably going to die in this situation, 2) I ask god to help me get through the situation without dying, 3) I survive the situation, therefore, god exists and loves me.)

I just... *sigh* I don't understand how someone could think they could "choose" to believe something. There's no possibility of intellectual honesty to it. How does it work?

...I think most modern Libertarians are Republicans who don't want to admit it to their liberal friends...

Most libertarians are dupes... The ones who aren't are closet republican extremeists in jackboots... Made worse by the fact that so many of them -think- they are liberal. The libertarian platform is, basically, "I should have all the freedom I want, even if it means you are grossly inconvenienced or restricted. I should have all the government assistance I need, and the rest of you can get fucked, because I shouldn't have to pay for any government assistance for you, and you shouldn't have any freedom that inconveniences me in any way."

[WangyJohn]

...I purpously keep my real location and name secret, to prove a point. Europe is now devoid of culture....

Anyway, as you might have noticed, I'm quite lefty.

What I find interesting here is the contrast between liberal and conservative, as a reminder than none of us is all one way or the other... The "Oh Noes!! We are having no cultures!!" being the ultra-conservative, of course. It's not that Europe has no culture, it's just that - like all dynamic, living things - that culture is changing.

Well, my major problem with Fortress Europe is the part where we're drifting towards a anglo-american culture, instead of an all-european rainbow of some sorts.

I'm Not against multi-culturalism, I don't think that "the foreigners" "corrupt our culture", instead, the xenophobia of Europe is ruining the culture from the inside.

I have two brothers, one is in the army (navy, to be exact)

This one I comment on because it's linguistically interesting... Where "army" becomes a synonym for all armed forces, while, here, "army" only means one specific ground force... Saying that here would be like saying "I have a pet cat. (a beagle, to be exact.)"

Well, I'm used to referring to the whole armed forces with the word Army.

Meh, english, not my first language. Though I know it better than your avarge guy-on-the-street where I live.

[Honor]

Ok...

My name is Honor. Yes, really. You can look at my driver's license, if you want.

I'm a fourty year old reluctantly white girl who lives in Arizona.

I have had a thoroughly stigmatizing quantity of lovers. I identify as "lesbian", but I fantasize about certain types of boys sometimes, and I identify even more strongly as a "xenophile", so I've also dated / flirted with / played with drag queens, trans-women, trans-men, intersexed people, genderqueers, etc, and people of all "races" and most cultures... I've fantasized about aliens, robots, androids, anthropomorphosized animals, giantesses and miniature people, and mythical creatures...

I've also held a bewildering number and array of jobs, a great many of them just long enough for me to learn them and become bored... Many times, I've been honest about this goal from the beginning of the interview process... "Once I'm better at this than the other people who work here, if I get bored, I'll probably leave... But I always give full notice if it's wanted." Most managers, if they enjoy their line of business, think they can keep you from getting bored in it. Mostly, they're wrong.

The only overriding theme to my "career" has been creative work... I've tried almost everything you can do without a degree, and some things you need a degree I don't have to do, normally, but most all of the real money I've earned over the years has been for some form of creativity prostitution. Draw a picture, design a website, craft a theme for an advertising campaign, write a book... Whatever. It's all getting paid to do something for someone that you might enjoy doing for free for someone else. Prostitution.

Another forum I post in coincidentally had an "introduce yourself" thread a couple days ago, as well... While I was writing that post, it occurred to me that the single greatest influence in my life (one person, one experience, one book, etc.) was probably reading Heinlien's "Time Enough for Love" when I was about 14-15... Especially the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" sections. If you haven't read them, I can't suggest strongly enough that you do. It'll only take about five minutes. You can find them here, amoung other places.

I have to say it was my mother, reinforced by Heinlein, who taught me that no idea of "fact" should be accepted - or discounted - on face value alone... It should, at very least, considered, thought about, weighed and measured, so to speak... Investigated, experimented with, explored, discussed... So the ideas presented in the Notebooks cause my young brain a lot of hours of reflection and consideration, for a very long time... Sometimes, to this day.

My goals are to learn everything... Go everywhere... See everything... Experience everything... I've no intention of stopping at the edge of the solar system, either.

That, and, of course, the best line from a pretty bad (but entertaining and well loved) movie... "Sleep all day, party all night. Never grow old. Never Die."

Fun Facts: If I had the choice to grant freedom from poverty and disease to everyone in the world, or effective immortality and youthful vitality to myself and those I chose... There would still be poverty and disease in the world tomorrow.

If I could kill people with a thought, without "getting caught", there'd be a lot of people killed with thoughts over the next few years... Furthermore, if I was able to "reward" one person, anonymously, with wealth, health, or some important opportunity once for every time I thusly killed someone else, I'd probably be busy for a very, very long time. I would very, very much like to spend my life this way, wandering the earth, being this kind of... Cosmic Robin Hood of Doom.

[Lictor]

Hello, I am Paul, I'm 27 and I live in Norfolk, England (If you hadn't already noticed ). I work full time as an electronics technician and drive a Toyota MR2. I am also currently in the process of buying my own flat and developing a severe and deep loathing of estate agents and solicitors. I also support and I am a season ticket holder for the local football club, Norwich City.

The nickname as some of you have pointed out before is from the Tyranids in Warhammer 40K and liking that creature, I adopted it for the web (Also when playing I used to be able to get behind the opponents lines and attack from the rear. Until my team mates started boasting this bit of luck and skill to the opponents when we first arrived.)

I currently think this country is in a complete mess so recently I have become very political to the point of joining a party (If you want something done right you have to do it yourself sort of thing.) and registering to become a constituency representative.

[Xnapalmxmorningx]

I'm a freshman at Drexel in Philly. I hail originally for the Bay area and then moved to Tucson, AZ, when I was three, and lived for the past 15 years.
One of my wonderful traits is my male dominate mind. I prefer logic and reasoning over emotional reactions. This has amused many a male friend over the years and horrifed most of my female friends. Although my boy is the only one who can claim the ablity to make me feel all soft, squishy and to giggle like a school girl.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for nerds, coffee shope filled with smoke, graphic novles and godzilla.

[BriHahn]

I will admit to having had fantasies with girls in them, but never tried it in real life; not ruling it out entirely though.

And, I can tell you, at least one girl has now had small fantasies with you in them, too...

I have this... Thing... With some names. Sometimes, someone's name just pushes my buttons. It's not that I'll be attracted to everyone with that name, but sometimes the unique combination of a name with the person carrying it just...

Some combination of the things used to paint the outline of you (army girl, officer, smart, Intel, reader, and this sense of... kind of sweet and a little quiet somwhow, all are very attractive to me... Some because of previous relationships, some for other reasons.) and they combine with "Bri" (Mmm. Very nice.) and "Sabrina" ( O.O *blush* Ok... I need a... Um... I'll be in my bunk.)

Yes, I know. It's very wierd, and I don't know how or why it works... But I like it when it does.

Holy shit.

Honor thinks I'm hot.


I'll be in my bunk.

I love reading, and have since I was young. Considering that I was young at very early age, I've been reading for some time. I adore Humour, horror, fantasy, science Fiction, historical fiction, history, mythology, and comics(eastern and western).

Okay, since he put that in, I don't feel so bad about admitting it myself. *chuckles* Been reading since I was about three and half, according to my mother, and more or less taught myself (yes, I am a geek in that sense). Most of what he mentioned is what I read, except take out historical fiction and comics and put in romance novels. I gotta get me a good romance novel in order to feel complete in life. And now that I've admitted that, feel free to tell me how pathetic I am and bring on the tentacle rape!

I was reading around that age, too... Kindergarten marked the beginning of a long tradition of me sitting in a classroom, bored out of my mind, while teachers taught other kids stuff I already knew. (There is absolutely no excuse for that, by the way... It'd be a trivial matter to separate kinds by intelligence and knowledge rather than age. Opps... Tangent.)

I'll add to the list of "things I like to read" with Legal thrillers, spy books - everything from James Bond (which I'd finished my first reading of all of by about age 10) to 'factual' stuff like Wolfgang Loetz' the Champagn Spy - and lots of history and non-fiction stuff... Jefferson, Madison, Hobbes... Food and culinary technique history has been a big thing for me again lately, too...

I've long ago largely (and happily enough) given up dreams like riches, fame, and power and accepted that my only real and important goal in life is to learn and know and experience as much as possible... My big regret is that I don't have as much time to read as I'd like.

You and me both hon.

I'm going to be going through withdrawl for the next week or so while I get my stuff moved to DC; about half to two-thirds of my books are in storage, and while I have a bunch with me, I've read them so many times over the course of the past nine months whilst searching for a job, that I'm actually kinda sick of them. This is not something I EVER thought would be possible.

At least I finally found an apartment. *sigh* Now if the damned military would just PAY ME THE MONEY THEY OWE ME, maybe I could get my internet and cable set up!!!

Oh, one thing I should add that will probably get me brutally sodomized with a spiky dildo; I despise J.R.R. Tolkein, despite loving most fantasy series. He is the one author I cannot stand to read. Why you ask? Because I can't deal with the way the man writes. I don't like having to wade through fifteen pages of descriptions of the surrounding landscape in order to find out what happened to Frodo, dammit! Too wordy for me. I should also add that in the course of my life, there have been four books that I have attempted to read that I could not finish to save my life. One was All Quiet On The Western Front; guess what the other three were? That's what really made me mad; I WANTED to read the LOTR series, unlike AQOTWF (which was an English assignment in high school), and I COULD NOT FINISH THEM!!! So Tolkein pissed me off and now I avoid the books of that man like the plague. But I adore Ann McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, L.A. Banks, and numerous other authors in the fantasy/sci-fi category.

Holy shit I'm rambling on; shutting up now and going to weep over my lack of funds before moving.

[Nate L]

Hello, I'm Nate. I am 32, and I live in Kentucky in America. I stand 6'7" and weigh about 220 lbs. I constantly wear a fedora and leather jacket and jeans. I also keep my head shaved. I also smoke. A LOT.

I'm white, male, American, and a total bastard, and I make no apologies for any of that. In fact, I like it a lot. My descent is Irish. I like to get laid, draw, watch old Noir movies, and documentaries. I voted for Bush in the last election just to piss some self-important snobbish cocksuckers off. I voted Democrat the rest of the way.

In 2001, I created a comic called NSITMC. I have a new one called BAD END which you can access in my sig. My art skills have gotten way better in 5 years, but still aren't quite what I want them to be. I seem to have a way of pissing people on the internets off, but by amazing coincidence, it's just me being myself.

I don't believe in political correctness, tolerance for the sake of tolerance, giving respect automatically, or being nice to people because it might make me look better in the eyes of someone who I could give two runny shits about. I believe in being real. I believe that if you're as badass or great as you say, you don't need to brag. Actions speak louder than words.

I believe the internet has mutated into the worst fucking thing on the planet, and that it will eventually cripple modern society into whiny, anonymous malcontent shitheels. It's a fun as hell thing to use, and way better than television as far as being both entertaining and informative, but it's taken a downward turn since I started using it 12 years ago. But it's places like this that at least make it a little more tolerable.

That's me. Take me as you will.

[MNsane]

Ok...

My name is Honor. Yes, really. You can look at my driver's license, if you want.

I'm a fourty year old reluctantly white girl who lives in Arizona.

I have had a thoroughly stigmatizing quantity of lovers. I identify as "lesbian", but I fantasize about certain types of boys sometimes, and I identify even more strongly as a "xenophile", so I've also dated / flirted with / played with drag queens, trans-women, trans-men, intersexed people, genderqueers, etc, and people of all "races" and most cultures... I've fantasized about aliens, robots, androids, anthropomorphosized animals, giantesses and miniature people, and mythical creatures...

I've also held a bewildering number and array of jobs, a great many of them just long enough for me to learn them and become bored... Many times, I've been honest about this goal from the beginning of the interview process... "Once I'm better at this than the other people who work here, if I get bored, I'll probably leave... But I always give full notice if it's wanted." Most managers, if they enjoy their line of business, think they can keep you from getting bored in it. Mostly, they're wrong.

The only overriding theme to my "career" has been creative work... I've tried almost everything you can do without a degree, and some things you need a degree I don't have to do, normally, but most all of the real money I've earned over the years has been for some form of creativity prostitution. Draw a picture, design a website, craft a theme for an advertising campaign, write a book... Whatever. It's all getting paid to do something for someone that you might enjoy doing for free for someone else. Prostitution.

Another forum I post in coincidentally had an "introduce yourself" thread a couple days ago, as well... While I was writing that post, it occurred to me that the single greatest influence in my life (one person, one experience, one book, etc.) was probably reading Heinlien's "Time Enough for Love" when I was about 14-15... Especially the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" sections. If you haven't read them, I can't suggest strongly enough that you do. It'll only take about five minutes. You can find them here, amoung other places.

I have to say it was my mother, reinforced by Heinlein, who taught me that no idea of "fact" should be accepted - or discounted - on face value alone... It should, at very least, considered, thought about, weighed and measured, so to speak... Investigated, experimented with, explored, discussed... So the ideas presented in the Notebooks cause my young brain a lot of hours of reflection and consideration, for a very long time... Sometimes, to this day.

My goals are to learn everything... Go everywhere... See everything... Experience everything... I've no intention of stopping at the edge of the solar system, either.

That, and, of course, the best line from a pretty bad (but entertaining and well loved) movie... "Sleep all day, party all night. Never grow old. Never Die."

Fun Facts: If I had the choice to grant freedom from poverty and disease to everyone in the world, or effective immortality and youthful vitality to myself and those I chose... There would still be poverty and disease in the world tomorrow.

If I could kill people with a thought, without "getting caught", there'd be a lot of people killed with thoughts over the next few years... Furthermore, if I was able to "reward" one person, anonymously, with wealth, health, or some important opportunity once for every time I thusly killed someone else, I'd probably be busy for a very, very long time. I would very, very much like to spend my life this way, wandering the earth, being this kind of... Cosmic Robin Hood of Doom.

you're 40 ? od damn, i had you pegged as being in your mid 20's

[Slander]

I don't understand how someone could think they could "choose" to believe something. There's no possibility of intellectual honesty to it. How does it work?

How does it work? I have a choice between A, B, and C. I examine the options and choose which suits me best. Sometimes, if B doesn't work, I can go back and take A or C for a spin. If a choice D comes along later, I can try that out, too.

How do I know my choice is right? When it feels right. And I've got a choice to ignore that feeling or to run with it, but my heart never steers me wrong.

Because I choose my beliefs, I can change them. Some people choose not to be flexible in their beliefs, but, right or wrong, it's their choice and it's not my place to judge (because I choose not to judge.)

You've made your own choice. You've chosen to believe that my choice of beliefs is unbelievable. In a way, you've chosen reason as your religion, and your religion seems to be quite a bit more restrictive than mine, because it denies even the possibility that someone else's choice is right and yours may be wrong.

I choose to believe, in spite of the lack of tangible evidence, in spite of the fact that Jesus doesn't knock on my door for a weekly house call. I choose because the choice feels right, and that's called faith.

I choose to believe that what feels right for me does not necessarily feel right for someone else. I choose to believe that that does not necessarily make their choice wrong. On the contrary, I believe this to be a vast and mysterious universe, big enough for more than one correct answer.



Oh, also: I like pie.

[JohnnyTwoEyes]

So, sorry if my sarcasm didn't turn your world into a bright and sunshiny place, friend. Maybe I should have added some sort of silly emoticon after "nailbat" to signal to the world, "Hey, kids. Slander doesn't mean it when he says you should be sodomized with an iron-studded cudgel!"

I didn't, and that makes hurting your feelings my responsibility. I apologize for ruining your day, Johnny. I hope you'll gain some further cheer, and maybe we can both learn something from this.

I never said you made MY world less bright, I said you made THE world less bright. With a medium like the written word (which leaves no space for the normality of voice inflection) I can't just assume sarcasm. Even if I did, your entire action seems fundamentally flawed. "Grr, I hate these kinds of threads. I'll bitch about it, then join in and add to the thread!" It's like saying that you hate parties, and then joining in just to get some cake. It's not a nice thing regardless.

I don't think there is anything for me to learn from this except that I can't trust you to mean what you say and I can't trust you to not be an ass whenever you have the chance. That sort of action is the thing that makes the world less bright.

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Now then, fun fact about John!

I am currently writing a backend for several pen and paper RPGs. They are at the testing phase, and I hope to eventually create some sort of compendium for the stories of each.

[Swordsman3003]

If I could kill people with a thought, without "getting caught", there'd be a lot of people killed with thoughts over the next few years... Furthermore, if I was able to "reward" one person, anonymously, with wealth, health, or some important opportunity once for every time I thusly killed someone else, I'd probably be busy for a very, very long time. I would very, very much like to spend my life this way, wandering the earth, being this kind of... Cosmic Robin Hood of Doom.

In other words, God.

[Fnyunj]

Long time casual lurker, long time Ghastly fan (from back before SexyLosers changed to SexyLosers).

Age: 39
Occupation: IT Systems Engineer/student (computer science) - with a pretty broad-based skillset (platform wise) but unfortunately, mostly doing Windows security and administrative work.
Hobbies: currently: Mountain Biking, being a dad. That's about it. In the distant past; SCA, RPGs, BDSM (straight/dom - rope-art), wargaming, cars, mid-1980's indy comics, model rockets, yep, I've dabbled pointlessly in just about everything.
Location: semi-rural California.
Education: Art school drop out.
Religion: Raised ELCA Lutheran, spent some time believing I was an Atheist, until I caught myself praying. I guess I'm what you'd call a Deist now.
Politics: The labels have become clubs used to bludgeon opponents with. Some call me conservative, some call me liberal. Yes, I believe in Progressive taxation. If that's "redistribution of wealth" than so be it. Call me a communist. But most of all, I'm just a big, unashamed Bush-basher. I think that politics and mass media has perverted language so that it's no longer a useful tool for debate. So it's best just to fight fire with fire, and slander and assassinate character, because that's the level it has come down to now in this country. A pox on both their houses.
Status: happily married (wish we had more time to play like we used to).

[Awkwardschoolgirl]

*glomp rapes!!* Hiii newbie!! *stuffs black lace panties into your mouth and wiggles her gigantic tentacle shaped dildo in your ass* Welcome!