Hi! I'm Kevin. I'm an Apostate.

[Maya]

Hi Kevin... this is a great site and will continue that way only if people respect one an others beliefs. Everyone can choose their own way of mixing but flaming and other over actions that are against the rules of the site will be taken care of by mods squard. Most here want a calm discusition... you are welcome to keep the rules.

Enjoy

[simrodiel]

Hi Kevin,

I wonder if anyone would hate you off the bat...

I found something similar, you looked for 20 years for an all- encompassing religion, like me........

just that my search ended where yours began..

I suppose everyone has that question sometime...

keep looking.............

nice to have you here..

[MorningStar]

Welcome, Kevin! You're going to have to do a lot more than be an apostate before I hate you. I have quite a few apostates in my family and I love them. Even my uncle who sticks candy up his nose.

[EarthyAngel]

Welcome, Kevin! You're going to have to do a lot more than be an apostate before I hate you. I have quite a few apostates in my family and I love them. Even my uncle who sticks candy up his nose.

Does it help that I'm also a heretic? :)

[dazed-and-confused]

good one earthyangel...about the fanatics.....couldnt agree more

[Misshalfway]

I think being a heretic gets you extra points.

[Elphaba]

It was hard to get through without the use of any standard punctuation, but I was strong.

You were "strong"?

You were also rude.

Elphaba

[EarthyAngel]

You were "strong"?

You were also rude.

Elphaba

Let me rephrase.

I have been having some reading comprehension problems crop up recently, which make it difficult for me to follow text formatted in certain ways. Particularly, I need text to be broken up into sensible "chunks".

The format of that post by "dazed_and_confused" was extraordinarily difficult for me to process. I had to re-read each phrase over several times. It took me several times longer to get through than if it had contained some standard sentence and paragraph formatting.

I could have easily given up on it, choosing not to read it at all. If I had left it without comment at all, no one would have ever known.

Instead, I chose to honor the poster's intention of sharing a part of his own life's experiences with me. So yes, I was "strong" in that I had to steel my nerve to the task of getting through it all, rather than giving up.

So, your accusation of being "rude" falls on deaf ears here, because I felt I was being particularly considerate by even attempting to read that post.

Thanks,

Kevin

[EarthyAngel]

good one earthyangel...about the fanatics.....couldnt agree more

Thanks, dazed, it's an original of mine. I've wanted to have a bumper-sticker made of that for a long time. Never got up the drive, though, to see that desire through.

[NeuroTypical]

Hi Kevin!

I sure hope you're a nicer guy than the last pagan, mystic, shaman, buddhist, wiccan, gnostic, unitarian-universalist I ran into. Jerk still owes me twenty bucks.

LM

(joking)

[melissar]

Welcome to the site! I hope you enjoy your time here

[john doe]

I think that if you read the site rules and are determined to keep them, you will do fine here.

[EarthyAngel]

I think that if you read the site rules and are determined to keep them, you will do fine here.

Because we all know that the secret to a fulfilling life is following the rules.

[Guest Moderator]

Hi Kevin,

Please understand that the rules here have a purpose and no one is being forced to participate here. Thank you.

~Moderator~

[MorningStar]

Does it help that I'm also a heretic? :)

You mean you stick candy up your nose too?

[candyprpl]

The only problems I have encountered here are when posters will misinterpret what another poster is saying. Like your problem with reading one of the posts. No one knew you had a problem as you explained, but you were jumped on right away.

We all need to remember that what we are trying to say in written words does not always come across the way it was intended.

I welcome your input here.

If we choose to be offended, we will be. Our problem, not your's.

[EarthyAngel]

The only problems I have encountered here are when posters will misinterpret what another poster is saying. Like your problem with reading one of the posts. No one knew you had a problem as you explained, but you were jumped on right away.

We all need to remember that what we are trying to say in written words does not always come across the way it was intended.

I welcome your input here.

If we choose to be offended, we will be. Our problem, not your's.

\

Thanks for your welcome.

Unfortunately, it becomes my problem when someone doesn't like what I've said, and interprets their dislike as me violating the rules. Then I'll get smacked by the moderators.

Thanks,

K

[EarthyAngel]

You mean you stick candy up your nose too?

*snort*... you nearly made me squirt my drink out my nose!

(Not going to mention what I'm drinking... as some might interpret it as advocating sin).

K

[MorningStar]

*snort*... you nearly made me squirt my drink out my nose!

(Not going to mention what I'm drinking... as some might interpret it as advocating sin).

K

I bet it would've sprayed the candy right out. You should've let it happen in case it's stuck in there.

[Elphaba]

Like your problem with reading one of the posts. No one knew you had a problem as you explained, but you were jumped on right away.

Since your comments refer to me, I'd like to take a moment to respond.

AE was not “jumped” on at all. He wrote a rude post, and I immediately responded, telling him so. There was nothing wrong with that, because it was the truth, given the information he had provided up to that moment.

If he had taken the time, in that post, to explain his readability problem, (which was his responsibility, not mine), then of course it would have put everything in its proper context. But he did not, and thus the misunderstanding.

Elphaba

[Misshalfway]

The only problems I have encountered here are when posters will misinterpret what another poster is saying. Like your problem with reading one of the posts. No one knew you had a problem as you explained, but you were jumped on right away.

We all need to remember that what we are trying to say in written words does not always come across the way it was intended.

I welcome your input here.

If we choose to be offended, we will be. Our problem, not your's.

I don't think that I could totally agree with this. I love the idea of giving someone the benefit of the doubt.....but sometimes such jumping is warranted. What I mean is that each poster is responsible for their posts.

[EarthyAngel]

If he had taken the time, in that post, to explain his readability problem,

I thought I did... just not to the excruciating (and, in my mind, a bit embarrassing) detail that you seem to have needed.

I said it was difficult to get through the post, did I not?

Rudeness is really kinda subjective, don't you think? Which is most rude...

A-- Me saying I was strong in getting through a post I had difficulty with, or

B-- you jumping on me, which forced me into a situation of having to reveal what might very well be a reading disability?

Benefit of the doubt is a good thing.

[Moksha]

So, just how earthy are you? Is there effluvium?

Elphaba

It's sedimentary my dear Elphaba.

[pam]

Moving on now.

[Guest ceeboo]

Moving on now.

Hi Pam,

Another possible option

Moving on up::::::::: to deciiiiide::::::: we finally got a piece of the piiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaa