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New Some other percepts you need to add
3) Common Sense
4) Decency
5) Respect
6) Humility
7) Pride
8) Humanity
9) Grace
10) Class

Then it would be a kick *ss forum.

Of course since the thread makes me look bad and attacks me, it stays. Anyone else have this happen to them and the thread gets nuked, I've seen you nuke threads before and there are many threads that just plain vanished from this forum. So don't try your games with me.

[link|http://games.speakeasy.net/data/files/khan.jpg|"Khan!!!" -Kirk]
New If you don't like it around here, you don't have to stay.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."

New I'll stay alright
to make sure that justice is done, that you all know how I feel and you see the results of your actions towards me. You cannot ban me, you cannot censor me, you cannot get rid of me, so accept me for who I am or just plain igore me.

Or else, it gets worse, and I haven't even begun to fight yet. You haven't seen my dark side released yet, be glad you haven't. I am holding back, pulling punches, trying to be nice, but it isn't easy.

[link|http://games.speakeasy.net/data/files/khan.jpg|"Khan!!!" -Kirk]
New Re: I'll stay alright
You cannot ban me
Yes, I can. Do not confuse "can't" with "won't".

you cannot censor me
See above.

you cannot get rid of me
No one is trying to.

Or else, it gets worse, and I haven't even begun to fight yet. You haven't seen my dark side released yet, be glad you haven't. I am holding back, pulling punches, trying to be nice, but it isn't easy.
All right, Norm. DO NOT MAKE THREATS. This will get LEGAL in a hurry if you try to pull anything. And that is NOT a threat, it is a fact. We're not here to play games in your fantasy worlds. If you want to have this Forces of Good vs. Forces of Evil (yes, I'm well aware of where you get your login aliases) fight in your own head on your own time, fine. Keep it off these forums. This is your one and only warning.

Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Yeah right
right now my net worth is -15,684.34 US Dollars, sue me and maybe you can pay off my debts for me. That does not include my house or car payments.

You want a legal battle, I used to work for one of the best law firms in St. Louis, MO and I know a lot of good lawyers. So what do you got?

I am not here to fight you, yet you keep on insulting me. I haven't really intentionally fought back yet, but I could. I know you don't want me to, but I am really getting tired of your attitude and sassy mouth and false use of the word "Regards" in every post and email you make!

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Re: Yeah right
I can change the signature just for you, if you like. Last time I did that it was for Bryce.

I don't intend on suing you. However, closing your ISP accounts and getting a restraining order for harassment sound just about right.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New I have to say
working in law, he could just as easily sue you and get your server taken down for allowing users to harass him online and posting his personal info and your refusal to remove the offending posts. Orion, call a lawyer right now and shut down this den of terrorists against you!
New Muah ha ha...thats a good one Norm.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New That was not me
I am not sure why you seem to think it is me, I swear that it was not me.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Bullshit.
Time to post the REST of the server logs, I wot.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Go ahead and post them
it was not me. Let's see whose IP address it was this time, I know it was not mine unless someone found a way around my DSL router or got into my house. Prove that it was me, I bet that you cannot!

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Yooo.. Norm...
*SHUN*

[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]

Your friendly Geheime Staatspolizei reminds:
Use your computer, we'll sample your DNA and imprint your eyes.

SELECT * FROM politicians WHERE iq > 40 OR WHERE ego < 1048575;
0 rows found
New Really mature
did your mother teach you that, or did you think it up by youself? Got some help from Peter did you?

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Hmmm...
*sHuN*

[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]

Your friendly Geheime Staatspolizei reminds:
Use your computer, we'll sample your DNA and imprint your eyes.

SELECT * FROM politicians WHERE iq > 40 OR WHERE ego < 1048575;
0 rows found
New your whining about a 16k debt?
I owe over 200k and have 1100 amonth in income with a rent of 1350 a month before utilities, wtf are you whining about!!!!
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


GRAYBOAR-Strangleur Extraodinaire
"Have Thumbs Will Travel"
Customised Asphyxiations
No Gullet Too Big, No Weasand Too small
My Motto Satisfaction Garoteed, or the Chokes on Me!
Eric Flint
New To quote someone else here...
Talk to the hand.

'Cause the face isn't interested.

Wade.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."

New The face cannot hear
it is the ears that hear. You'd better clean those ears out, because they are dirty.

Talk to the hand, only if I can use "Sign Language" which is the only way that a hand can talk.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New You are right... that *DID* catch a few *ONs*

[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]

Your friendly Geheimes Staatspolizei reminds:
Continue to look at your monitor and continue typing,
we'll just sample your DNA and scan your eyes.
New Either way you are foresworn
A month or so ago you were promising to never come back. No and's if's or but's. You were gone.

Now you are back and are promising never to leave.

Either way you are a liar, and on the whole I preferred the first state (you gone). You were significantly less annoying that way.

Regards,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New I am back for more
call me a liar if you will, you are twice the liar that I will ever be. Traitor!

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New I know you are but what am I?
I'm rubber, you're glue.
Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

And other associated childhood things. Go away.
-YendorMike

[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
New Re: I am back for more
Norm, give it a rest, please.

The initial post was a direct attack on you. And, as you can see, I spoke in your defense, and said I would support it being deleted.

I've read most of your posts, and I've read most of the replies to your posts. Some of your posts are good, some not so good. Same with the replies. I've especially followed the depression postings. My wife suffers from depression, and refused to acknowledge it or seek treatment.

Other than Stryfe, I've not seek any other such direct attacks. I've seen you get slammed for "bad" posts, and I've seen you slam others in return.

For the most part, I think that this is a community of which you are a part. And I think that most of the community accepts you for who you are. But when you start to retaliate, to a direct attack, by attacking every member of the community, then you do everyone a disservice, and discredit yourself.

In Scott's defense, I think he is doing a great job running this site. I'd have deleted Stryfe's post, but Scott's reasoning, for not deleting posts, is valid and should be respected. Doesn't mean you have to like his reasons.

Nobody, with the possible exception of Stryfe, hates you, wants to "get" you. He, Stryfe, tried to provoke you, and it worked. Best thing you can do is to ignore him. I did and I'm sure the other members of our community have done the same.

Go back to posting thoughtful, intelligent, humorous and readable posts. And I will continue to read and enjoy them. Keep up with the attacks and I'll end up ignoring you and your posts.

Good luck.
[link|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com|Joe]
New Oh maybe you missed it?
The IWETHEY Mailing list where Ben Tilly flamed me multiple times a day? The deal was that if I left ZIWE and stayed on the Mailing list, that he would leave me alone. Only he did not, so back I go to ZIWE because Ben Tilly betrayed me.

The Norman you knew, died that day, betrayed and murdered by Ben Tilly and the rest of the "Goon Squad", what you see now is the result of the tourture that I had to endure at the hands of the ZIWE and K5 communities.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New You need a proctocraniotomy.


Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
New Alas there is not much hope for me
by the way it is "Postcraniotomy" and not "Proctocraniotomy", at least get your medical terms right you Armchair Psychologist!

My blood pressure may be high enough to get a stroke, but it hasn't happened yet. You are not helping matters any by making statements like that.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New No, it's "proctocraniotomy"
You need your head removed from your ass, in plain English. Otherwise known as Rectal-Cranial Inversion Syndrome.
-YendorMike

[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
New I hope someone else has a copy of that email
Because I deleted mine while cleaning out my inbox. And your portrayal of it in no way matches my recollection. Of course this would not be the first time that you have turned out to be a little..reality challenged.

Isn't a reputation as a liar a horrible thing to get?

Regards,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New Moi.___As if that matters, in context.___What to do? (new thread)
Created as new thread #65643 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=65643|Moi.___As if that matters, in context.___What to do?]
New A liar
if saying I would not come back here, and I came back here anyway was the worst lie that I ever told, then I am not that bad of a liar. Not like some professional liars out there I could name.

Call me a liar if you wish, everyone lies in some way. At least I am honest about it, I do admit to lying. If I did indeed say I would "NEVER" come back, obviously I lied. Big deal, what do you make such a big issue out of it? Desitter said the same thing and he came back, and you aren't mentioning it every other day to him. They way I see it, I just took a vacation away from this place, but in your cussing at me on the mailing list, it invited me back. :)

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Were that your only lie, it would not be an issue
But it is not. :-(

Very relevant to this moment is that you not only lied then about whether you would come back, but you lied a couple of posts ago at [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=65590|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=65590] when you described what happened. And that lie was deliberately designed to try and cause as much guilt as you possibly could. Lies on top of lies with nastiness as the overall aim!

That is a follow-up lie, and a nasty one to boot. You lie about what happened, where, and when just so that you can deliver a lie about how you felt (it had to be a lie because your decision to leave IWETHEY came before the flames that you were pissed off about). If I catch you in lies like that, what else should I believe you on? If this is a repeated pattern, does it even make sense for me to try to figure that out?

This does appear to be a standard pattern with you. Therefore you lie. And my answers to the above questions are that I shouldn't bother taking your word on anything that I can't independently verify, and that there is little point in my worrying about what is and is not a lie.

In short, as I said at [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=61743|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=61743], I have written you off. Your behaviour since you came back has not given me any reason to re-evaluate that decision. Yeah, that sucks. But I don't really see what I can do better than that.

Regards,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New Drop it already Ben
unless you want me to start it all over again.

I saved some of your emails from the mailing list, don't make me use them. One where you said I was not sick and not suicidal, but I ended up trying to take my life anyway and ended up in a hospial. This proves what a liar you are and how much you do not know about me.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
Expand Edited by orion Nov. 29, 2002, 10:28:12 AM EST
New Take your own advice, please.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New I will if they leave me alone
that was part of the deal, remember? If they cannot keep their end of the deal, why should I?

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Re: I will if they leave me alone
To show us all that you're a bigger man than we think you are. That's why.
-YendorMike

[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
New They won't leave me alone
what must I do? I am trying real hard not to slam them back for slamming me. What can I do when they falsely accuse me of being other accounts here?

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New You desperately don't want to be left alone.
If you did, you would just have not responded to the latest posts, and that would have been the end of it all. Done. Fini.

Instead, you meticulously searched out each and every one and responded to it to elicit yet more posts.

You aren't living a lie, you're living a whole bunch of them.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
New I am a lie
I have become the lies you all have told about me. I want to be the truth, but you all are not telling the truth about me. More lies, more false accusations, and more evidence tampering.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Uh... Norm
*SHUN*

[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]

Your friendly Geheime Staatspolizei reminds:
Use your computer, we'll sample your DNA and imprint your eyes.

SELECT * FROM politicians WHERE iq > 40 OR WHERE ego < 1048575;
0 rows found
New Dear and noble hearts, consider...
By responding to him whilst he is in whacko mode, you are only encouraging more of such behaviour.
Please! filter line noise and only respond to reasonable posts.

HughOk, so nobody's talking to me again... Oh well...

New Hard to determine...but good advice all the same.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New Good advice
too bad they are too stubborn and ignorant to take it. But then it has been said before and they did promise to leave me alone, and yet broke yet another one of their promises. I have no reason to trust any of these Bozos.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Bullshit.
Prove it, asshole.

NOT ONE POST has been deleted here.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New RIght back at you!
You only lead two things right now:

#1 Jack

#2 Shit

Too bad that Jack left town.

So you are full of #2, you did delete some posts and remove some threads. Wish I could prove it, but how can I disprove lies stamped with an official seal and all the evidence was detroyed with the posts?

[link|http://games.speakeasy.net/data/files/khan.jpg|"Khan!!!" -Kirk]
New To prove it:
zIWT posts are numbered sequentially. Start at '1' and work your way up to '65304'.

The only gaps you will find are those created when the database interface library went south and we had the 'posts that are too long go into never-never land' bug. That interregnum will be quite plainly demarcated by the test posts.

Or, come up with the supposed post content and we'll employ the search tool. Not nearly as conclusive as the above method, however.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Ironically those posts
vanished, right, and the other posts got to be renumbered. It is very easy to renumber a column in a database. You forget that I know about these things. CMSOPEN had a utility called KEYFIX that any idiot could run that renumbered identity or autonumber or whatever you call the columns that had the numbers in them and filled in the gaps.

So when you did the fix for the "database interface library" you renumbered the posts, after removing a few, admit it! It was all a cover-up!

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New No posts were renumbered.
The system here doesn't work that way. I use nested set trees to represent the hierarchy here. Regardless, had I done so, the results would show up in broken links to the content here. Can you find any?

I didn't think so.

There is no cover-up, Norm.

Still no examples of those supposed deleted posts? Haven't had enough time to make any up yet?
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Actually, I didn't.
Leave town, that is.
--\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton                            jake at consultron.ca *\r\n* [link|http://consultron.ca|http://consultron.ca]                   [link|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] *\r\n* Laval Qu\ufffdbec Canada                   [link|news://news.consultron.ca|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
New C'mon buddy.
One or 2 days and its back to this?

I asked for this to be removed because it was an attack on you. Whether you think so or not...that was in deference to YOU. It was not meant to censor you...just to get rid of an unecessary attack against you. And, AS I EXPECTED, Scott refused...because he has NEVER and continues to NOT EVER remove posts.

Then, in one coherent set of keystrokes, you paint everyone here as indecent, incoherent, classless disrespectful folk?

How long do you expect everyone to sit back, laugh and brush this type of behavior off? Really Norm...how long?

I am a very...very patient man (I have no choice!)...others are not...and you already know who those are...but you >are< straining the rest.

You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New You have all forsaken me
you made up this "Stryfe" attack on me to try to trick me into doing something or going away or something like that. Your games will not work on me, I will stick around here until Doomsday, Kingdom Come, The End Of Days, or until I die whatever comes first.

Face facts, you never cared about me, only made fun of me, and only insulted me when I asked for help.

You want a piece of me? Come get some!

[link|http://games.speakeasy.net/data/files/khan.jpg|"Khan!!!" -Kirk]
New norm take it off line for several weeks
no one of the regular group has any animosity towards you, they do not like the forums to be filled with norm attacks and norm counter attacks, it is neither useful or interesting. If you want to track this stryfe guy and do him Im in. But privately not in public where evidence can be tracked. Go off line please.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


GRAYBOAR-Strangleur Extraodinaire
"Have Thumbs Will Travel"
Customised Asphyxiations
No Gullet Too Big, No Weasand Too small
My Motto Satisfaction Garoteed, or the Chokes on Me!
Eric Flint
New I am tired of being pushed around
and told what to do, etc. I will hang around. Jerks like Stryfe get off Scott-Free and nobody does anything about it. So I am calling the little chicken shit out of his hidey hole, and will see if he is a coward or not. You hear me Stryfe? I am not afraid of you!

Anyone who does a Norm-Attack like this will be delt with. Either by me posting against them, or something else. I refuse to be bullied online and your admins are too chicken shit to do anything to help! Maybe you won't do anything because you are all behind it, trying to get rid of me? Well I can calling your bluff, show me Stryfe or shut up!

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New maybe time to post any logs
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


GRAYBOAR-Strangleur Extraodinaire
"Have Thumbs Will Travel"
Customised Asphyxiations
No Gullet Too Big, No Weasand Too small
My Motto Satisfaction Garoteed, or the Chokes on Me!
Eric Flint
New Re: maybe time to post any logs
What logs will convince him? He'll just claim they were doctored up. He's already claiming I renumbered the entire database(!) to cover up posts (that he can't name) that provide some evidence for something or other.

Norm: I have better things than to spend my time jerking your chain. Kindly spend your time doing things other than jerking mine.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Sorry Scott
maybe you are right, my mind is a little scrambled from the medicine and the "Stryfe" attacks have gotten me all paranoid.

I've contacted that network place you told me to, and we shall see what they say.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Re: I am tired of being pushed around

Straight from the z.iwethey.org logs:

67.28.94.193 - - [24/Nov/2002:02:28:25 -0600] "POST forums/actions/user/addNewUser HTTP/1.1" 302 17
67.28.91.103 - - [26/Nov/2002:08:15:37 -0600] "POST /forums/render/content/new HTTP/1.1" 302 2338

There you go. IP address and timestamp of two of his recent attacks on you. Level3.net should be able to help you out; in fact, here's their abuse report page: [link|http://www.level3.net/568.html|http://www.level3.net/568.html]

Knock yourself out, tiger.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New nslookup
[105-112:~] boxley% nslookup 67.28.94.193
Server: ns2.tampabay.rr.com
Address: 65.32.1.80

Name: dialup-67.28.94.193.Dial1.SaintLouis1.Level3.net
Address: 67.28.94.193
boxley% nslookup 67.28.91.103
Server: ns2.tampabay.rr.com
Address: 65.32.1.80

Name: dialup-67.28.91.103.Dial1.SaintLouis1.Level3.net
Address: 67.28.91.103
definately from STL so you could report abuse as needed.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


GRAYBOAR-Strangleur Extraodinaire
"Have Thumbs Will Travel"
Customised Asphyxiations
No Gullet Too Big, No Weasand Too small
My Motto Satisfaction Garoteed, or the Chokes on Me!
Eric Flint
New Scott, you should show the...
"Conversation" and how many phone calls the Alleged person made during that time frame. Or when login requests came...

You have to remember I also have a fair amount of forensics ability. I used to have to go through 365 days worth of ~120MB each day of Compressed test logs. Something about correlation of data confounds even the best of us... or worst of us that never thought *ANYONE* kept thier butt covered THAT long.

zcat is my friend, as well as grep -e and sed-n-awk

[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT
[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]

Your friendly Geheimes Staatspolizei reminds:
Continue to look at your monitor and continue typing,
we'll just sample your DNA and scan your eyes.
New Clearly then it could not be me
as that is not my ISP and I do not use Dialup and I have DSL instead.

Plus if I recall, Stryfe was posting at the same time I was a few days ago. So it means that I could not possibly be Stryfe, like those K5 Posers seem to think I am.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New since he is attacking you could you not request
his ID from the provider? He did make threats. Get the name on the account and I will help you.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


GRAYBOAR-Strangleur Extraodinaire
"Have Thumbs Will Travel"
Customised Asphyxiations
No Gullet Too Big, No Weasand Too small
My Motto Satisfaction Garoteed, or the Chokes on Me!
Eric Flint
New I just did
and they should reply to the email address I gave them. I hope that I find out who it is. I really want them to stop.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Re: Clearly then it could not be me
DSL is still point-to-point. Most likely the machine on the other end hands out IP addresses to all point-to-point connections.

Norm, you have no bigger supporter than me. But you will never improve unless you drop this stupid act. You're busted, get over it. Grow up. If you burn this bridge, you will regret it later. You can fulminate, cry, whine, scream, laugh, piss yourself, and no one here will care - but if you treat people like fools, they will resent it. That's a life lesson.

No more excuses, no more bullshit. I won't reply to or read another of your posts until you grow up. Live with your problems. We all have problems - some serious (I'm gonna lose my leg someday, for example). I have a quad friend in New Mexico who has a better attitude about life than 99% of the planet. He can't shit for himself or even choke his dead chicken, but he finds reasons to smile.

Grow up. Apologize and move on.
-drl
New I apologize for being sick
now would you all kindly leave me alone now?

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Norm, you are not sick
You need your head examined. You need to get back in touch with reality. But I (for one) am fucking sick and tired of hearing about how fucking sick you are.

You want to know sick? Take my friends with AIDS. They're sick -- living with what amounts to a death sentence, actually. I can't count how many people I know in that boat. I love 'em all dearly. And it fucking SUCKS BIG HAIRY MOOSE BALLS that they're going to die an early death.

The difference here is, though, that both they and I are attempting to do something about it. To fix the situation. Raising money to support people in that situation, for drugs to help them live longer (that they might live to see the day when a vaccine is found,) for vaccine research.

Speaking as a general rule, people who are sick do what they can to get better. Not you, though. You prefer instead to crow to all who will listen about just how fucking sick you really are.

That is complete and utter BULLSHIT.

Instead, you choose to return to your places of torment. Continually.

Norm, I have tried to ignore you. I have tried to not read your posts. I have tried everything I can to keep you out of my life, simply because yours is so fucked up. But you make that FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. You are ruining something that I love, and that is the community here. You are turning just about every fucking thread into a "look at how sad and sorry my life is" bitchfest. You have made threats of leaving. You have made threats of staying. You can't make up your fucking mind. I wish you would merely choose the former.

You might even find that getting away from us -- by which I mean all of us ([link|/forums/render/user?username=Yendor|me], [link|/forums/render/user?username=pwhysall|Peter], [link|/forums/render/user?username=admin|AdminiScott], [link|/forums/render/user?username=CRConrad|the Scandalahoovian], [link|/forums/render/user?username=Ashton|Ashton], et al) -- would be a good thing for you! Put you back in touch with reality -- and that is truly where one lives ones life. That's what REALLY matters. Not this online shit between you and Stryfe and whatever other characters are out there hunting you. Not the MacJihad. Not anything that ever happened on WWIVLink (and here you are definitely speaking about something I know a bit about -- WWIV RegNum 21283; still have the source code for WWIV v4.21 on the original floppy Wayne Bell sent it to me on.) And for Christ's sake, DEFINITELY not that Captain Picard held Mike's fucking cats hostage!
-YendorMike

[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
New But I am sick
not with AIDS, not with Cancer, but with a mental illness. Enough that my Doctor has ordered me not to work and applied me for disability.

Depression is just as real as AIDS, just as real a diabeties, and with the sucidial thoughts I get can kill me just as real as any other fatal diease. But you apparently don't care and tell me that I am not sick, and that there is no illness like depression and the other mental illnesses that I have.

I apologized, but that is not good enough for you apparently. You see, I cannot even try and stop it without at least one of you messing with me.

I am sorry to hear about your friends with AIDS, it depresses me even more to hear that. But not much I can do about it except pray for them. That is if you believe in a God like I do.

I've had my depression for 30 years now and it keeps getting worse. I've seen friends and family around me get sick and die. My best friend blew his brains out in May 31st, 1999 [link|http://www.geocities.com/meredith_mike2002/|http://www.geocities.com/meredith_mike2002/] because his depression was just as real as mine is. Except instead of using a razor blade like I did, he chose to use a shotgun. Maybe I should have chose the shotgun, and then maybe all of you would have been nicer to me after I am dead. Not that I could read it, but at least maybe you thickheads would understand the seriousness of my illness and not try to compare it to others?

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Sorry I wont be nicer after you are dead I wont think about
you at all. never again. nada. So threats of suicide do not move me at all.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
New No you're not...
I said...
Speaking as a general rule, people who are sick do what they can to get better.
For that definition of "sick," you are decidedly not. Why do I say this? Because you are not trying to get better.

Here is life as I see it. Take it for what you will, but it's been working well for me for 28-plus years:
  1. You're born.
  2. Shit happens.
  3. You do what is in your power to deal with (2).
    • Corollary:Sometimes the wise choice is to simply walk away from what is bothering you. Especially when what it is that is bothering you has very little meaning in the Grand Scheme Of Things.
  4. You die.
My suggestion (and I'm sure I'm not the only one here who thinks this) is that you follow the corollary to (3) above. I don't think anyone here will deny that you've got issues. But you are not doing anything about them.

For reasons completely unrelated to anything to do with this, I was reading [link|http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html|ESR's FAQ on How To Ask Questions The Smart Way]. Towards the bottom, I came across [link|http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing|How To Not Act Like A Loser]. To wit:
On Not Reacting Like A Loser

Odds are you'll screw up a few times on hacker community forums \ufffd in ways detailed in this article, or similar. And you'll be told exactly how you screwed up, possibly with colourful asides. In public.

When this happens, the worst thing you can do is whine about the experience, claim to have been verbally assaulted, demand apologies, scream, hold your breath, threaten lawsuits, complain to people's employers, leave the toilet seat up, etc.
The suggested resolution?
Get over it. It's normal.
Think about your actions, both here and on [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|K5], and how they relate to what it is suggested you not do in hacker fora (of which this is definitely one.)

And that, my dear Norman King, is what we all (if I may be so bold as to speak for a large part of the group here) want you to do.

GET OVER IT.

-YendorMike

[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
New But he IS doing something about them.
He's working very hard and very successfully to build an ever bigger and stinkier cesspool to wallow in. He's getting a perverse pleasure out of all this, so there's no way he's going to change his behavior.

Every statement he makes and every action he takes is carefully crafted to make things worse, because that's what he enjoys. When reality doesn't suffice, he invents enemies out of whatever scraps he can find - the more enemies the better - real enemies (in short supply), fabricated enemies or imaginary enemies are all good so long as he can whine about them.

Threats of suicide are just a cheap trick to get attention, as is suicide itself. Preferably you survive (lots of attention), but if you don't, you go out enjoying the remourse you imagine the world will have for not having treated you better.

The cure for suicide is the realization the world isn't going to have one molecule of remorse - it's just going to be slightly annoyed that you left it with the bother of disposing of the remains of a moron who wallowed in his own stink.

[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
New I am doing smething about it
Ignore the crap Andy is spounting out.

I have seen a Doctor, I am taking my medication, I have been to a hospital, and like it or not I am getting better a little bit at a time.

I do not invent up enemies, nor do I live a fantasy life. Anyone who says those things are lying as they obviously do not know me.

My God is not cruel, sorry about yours.
New Well I'm tired of your games...so there :-P
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
     Hey Norm/Orion/Cable - (Stryfe) - (82)
         A probationary system would be nice. -NT - (folkert) - (80)
             Naw, just a delete key. - (jbrabeck) - (79)
                 Agreed. - (bepatient) - (78)
                     Problem should be taken care of now. - (admin) - (77)
                         Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott)
                         Also, thanks! - (jb4)
                         What is with the database optimization BS? - (orion) - (74)
                             Old web page from the database migration. - (admin) - (71)
                                 Could this entire thread be removed, oh mighty Spork? -NT - (bepatient) - (70)
                                     No. - (admin) - (69)
                                         Some other percepts you need to add - (orion) - (68)
                                             If you don't like it around here, you don't have to stay. -NT - (static) - (39)
                                                 I'll stay alright - (orion) - (38)
                                                     Re: I'll stay alright - (admin) - (11)
                                                         Yeah right - (orion) - (10)
                                                             Re: Yeah right - (admin) - (8)
                                                                 I have to say - (Scott Hacker) - (7)
                                                                     Muah ha ha...thats a good one Norm. -NT - (bepatient) - (6)
                                                                         That was not me - (orion) - (5)
                                                                             Bullshit. - (admin) - (4)
                                                                                 Go ahead and post them - (orion) - (3)
                                                                                     Yooo.. Norm... - (folkert) - (2)
                                                                                         Really mature - (orion) - (1)
                                                                                             Hmmm... - (folkert)
                                                             your whining about a 16k debt? - (boxley)
                                                     To quote someone else here... - (static) - (2)
                                                         The face cannot hear - (orion)
                                                         You are right... that *DID* catch a few *ONs* -NT - (folkert)
                                                     Either way you are foresworn - (ben_tilly) - (22)
                                                         I am back for more - (orion) - (21)
                                                             I know you are but what am I? - (Yendor)
                                                             Re: I am back for more - (jbrabeck) - (19)
                                                                 Oh maybe you missed it? - (orion) - (18)
                                                                     You need a proctocraniotomy. -NT - (pwhysall) - (2)
                                                                         Alas there is not much hope for me - (orion) - (1)
                                                                             No, it's "proctocraniotomy" - (Yendor)
                                                                     I hope someone else has a copy of that email - (ben_tilly) - (14)
                                                                         Moi.___As if that matters, in context.___What to do? (new thread) - (Ashton)
                                                                         A liar - (orion) - (12)
                                                                             Were that your only lie, it would not be an issue - (ben_tilly) - (11)
                                                                                 Drop it already Ben - (orion) - (7)
                                                                                     Take your own advice, please. -NT - (bepatient) - (6)
                                                                                         I will if they leave me alone - (orion) - (5)
                                                                                             Re: I will if they leave me alone - (Yendor) - (4)
                                                                                                 They won't leave me alone - (orion) - (3)
                                                                                                     You desperately don't want to be left alone. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                                                                                                         I am a lie - (orion) - (1)
                                                                                                             Uh... Norm - (folkert)
                                                                                 Dear and noble hearts, consider... - (hnick) - (2)
                                                                                     Hard to determine...but good advice all the same. -NT - (bepatient)
                                                                                     Good advice - (orion)
                                             Bullshit. - (admin) - (5)
                                                 RIght back at you! - (orion) - (4)
                                                     To prove it: - (admin) - (2)
                                                         Ironically those posts - (orion) - (1)
                                                             No posts were renumbered. - (admin)
                                                     Actually, I didn't. - (jake123)
                                             C'mon buddy. - (bepatient) - (21)
                                                 You have all forsaken me - (orion) - (20)
                                                     norm take it off line for several weeks - (boxley) - (19)
                                                         I am tired of being pushed around - (orion) - (18)
                                                             maybe time to post any logs -NT - (boxley) - (2)
                                                                 Re: maybe time to post any logs - (admin) - (1)
                                                                     Sorry Scott - (orion)
                                                             Re: I am tired of being pushed around - (admin) - (13)
                                                                 nslookup - (boxley)
                                                                 Scott, you should show the... - (folkert)
                                                                 Clearly then it could not be me - (orion) - (10)
                                                                     since he is attacking you could you not request - (boxley) - (1)
                                                                         I just did - (orion)
                                                                     Re: Clearly then it could not be me - (deSitter) - (7)
                                                                         I apologize for being sick - (orion) - (6)
                                                                             Norm, you are not sick - (Yendor) - (5)
                                                                                 But I am sick - (orion) - (4)
                                                                                     Sorry I wont be nicer after you are dead I wont think about - (boxley)
                                                                                     No you're not... - (Yendor) - (2)
                                                                                         But he IS doing something about them. - (Andrew Grygus)
                                                                                         I am doing smething about it - (orion)
                                                             Well I'm tired of your games...so there :-P -NT - (bepatient)
                             My guess is your browser - (jake123) - (1)
                                 No it is not the browser - (orion)
         I am not afraid of you, just try it! - (orion)

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