Defensive Personalities

[P3nT4gR4m]

Laz if a thread dies before you could post your response
you could always bump it

many threads have died many deaths just to be revived again

That would be Return of the Living Thread?

[AFK]

Ugh, you just murdered the funnay. 

[Triple Zero]

That would be Return of the Living Thread?

groan.


(good one)

[LMNO]

That would be Return of the Living Thread?

groan.


(good one)

(not)

[Triple Zero]

That would be Return of the Living Thread?

groan.


(good one)

(not)

(nuh-uhuh)

[B_M_W]

You know, Laz, you seem to have a fundamentally skewed understanding of what we are doing here. Some of us call these things 'builds' for a reason; its because one of us shoots off an idea, and we all add to it or not. And once we have our initial responces, usually someone says "but what about so-and-so?" and maybe an all new line of subdiscussion start among the main one. And there are arguements here and there, sometimes alot, sometimes none. Sometimes a person starts a thread, and it won't be till months later that anyone replies to it, and then the build starts. Same think happened with old dead threads that some dude or dudette digs up and finds interesting. And we keep on going.

And SOMETIMES, something really REALLY interesting happens. We get one of those legendary threads like Birth of the Lie (RIP) where it increases our mutual understandings of each other and the things that keep us from seeing and being reality as it really is and as how we want to realize it, things like the BIP, the Machine, the System. The reason we keep coming back is because we get so much outta it. And it kinda becomes something important for us. So when some newbie walks in and does the same thing that so many newbies before have done, and since we're old farts on this site, it got a little old a ways back, so react much the same way we did to you just here.

Cause, truthfully, we really don't mind newbies joining in. You just have to keep in mind, that we've been doing this and keeping this up for a while now, and we move fast yo.

Anyone that directs you to the search button, or the archives, is doing it in your best interest.

Just sayin'.

[LMNO]

Thanks, BMW.

We should sticky that somewhere.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Thanks, BMW.

We should sticky that somewhere.

Course if you did that then we wouldn't get to see the noobs making an arse of themselves.

[LMNO]

Trust me, it gets boring after a while.

[AFK]

amen.  especially when you have a good flow of discussion going, and then all of a sudden you have to start 'splaining what you're all about.

Rule of Thumb:

Lurk before you Leap. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Trust me this aint just a PD phenomenon. I been on countless boards and it's always the same. Only variable is the quality of noob. This one has lasted 8 pages. You gotta tip your hat to that. I never get bored with it. And cudos to "Lurk before you leap" never ceases to amaze me how many see to miss such an obvious thing.

[Mangrove]

SSOOKN backtracking in this thread.

I believe that L Ron Hubbard was in the OTO with Jack Parsons. However, the lodges in California got raided (as did ones in London & Germany if I'm not mistaken) and Hubbard then made up some bullshit about being an intelligence agent gathering info on Crowley to distance himself from the fall out.

I don't even think that Crowley & Hubbard ever met and while I'm too lazy to go and get my copy of 'Perdurabo' (the really good bio that is stupidly out of print), I think there was a letter in which Crowley was getting annoyed at people like Hubbard. He seemed to think that he was a doofus.

ok...carry on...sorry for the interuption.
So while Crowley certainly had his faults, being close to L Ron Hubbard definitely wasn't one of them.

[LMNO]

If you find some free time, I'd love hear more about that.

[vexaph0d]

if we live in a black iron prison, is this thread a foodfight in the cafeteria?

where are the guards?

[AFK]

the key is not a key, the lock is not a lock, and the security guards are not security guards?