MurphyClox
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Please accept my apologies, this is usually not considered to be proper ADD-material but I kindly request the ADD-admins to leave this thread open for once or at least let it stay in this subforum.
According to my profile I have/had >1600 posts, of which only 10-20 were placed outside ADD. Hence, out of the borders of this certain subforum nobody at Bluelight knows Murphy anyway. I really can't imagine any more suitable subforum at Bluelight were I could place this resp. were I should place this. I feel that I really should write these last lines, to thank some members adequately, who have given me so unbelievable much help, insight, inspiration and motivation.
I promised recently elsewhere that my last post in this forum was written, but well, I have to renege on this promise of mine for this single occasion.
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Obviously I disagreed sometimes with certain opinions and statements spoken out publicly in ADD, and due to this I put up in the past with being accused as "elitist", "arrogant", "educative" and "pejorative"*. I'm not such a fragile soul that this has affected me significantly in the past, well, except for making my contributions a bit more well-mannered (...because I still consider myself adaptive despite my age).
But I'm really fed up with this kind of ignorance. I'm fed up with molesting the shit out of my dictionary only to get misunderstood again (for the ones who didn't know: I am not a native english speaker). Did I make myself really so unintelligible? It became so extraordinarily exhausting to deal with this (..."fed up" was probably not the most appropriate term).
My patience has gone its course with imbecile and ignorant backseat drivers (and yeah, that is actually a term from my aforementioned dictionary), who prefer to complain and insult rather than invest only a second in trying only to understand my point (I never really demanded agreement though, unless we were talking about hard scientific facts). A recent and entirely pointless dispute marked the last straw! But it is definitely not the sole reason for my leaving.
I came to the conclusion that my nowadays rare sparetime needs a more appropriate focus than trying to persuade people of something they apparently don't want to be persuaded of. I'm still having a hard time to grasp, why so, maybe I'm really as narrow-minded as I was told by some folks.
Hence:
Goodbye Bluelight!
Most of the time it was a real joy to be part of this marvellous forum for more than two and a half years! The positive responses of many Bluelighters fueled my motivation to go on and on, and I'm glad that on some occasions I could give something back.
I would use this very last post of mine to explicitly thank some people:
As final note - if there is something at all I'd like people to associate with the name "Murphy" - I will express for a last time, in very few and hopefully clear words my sole base for arguing in a 'harm reduction'-way, as I propose it. Some folks smiled at me with contempt for thinking so, but am convinced that I'm totally right in this respect.
This is actually the main motivation of all my posts, whose content did not deal with dry, stodgy, scientific facts, but which dealt with giving advice and personal opinion:
Take care of you, all you drug enthusiasts, junkies, nerds and psychonauts!
Murphy Clox, over and out
* I admit, I agree to some limited extend to have acted "pejorative" on certain occasions. My tone was sometimes inadequately offensive, but fortunately were the ADD-admins always able to get me back on track with a single comment. That said, I'm still an unreasonably insistent nerd.
According to my profile I have/had >1600 posts, of which only 10-20 were placed outside ADD. Hence, out of the borders of this certain subforum nobody at Bluelight knows Murphy anyway. I really can't imagine any more suitable subforum at Bluelight were I could place this resp. were I should place this. I feel that I really should write these last lines, to thank some members adequately, who have given me so unbelievable much help, insight, inspiration and motivation.
I promised recently elsewhere that my last post in this forum was written, but well, I have to renege on this promise of mine for this single occasion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obviously I disagreed sometimes with certain opinions and statements spoken out publicly in ADD, and due to this I put up in the past with being accused as "elitist", "arrogant", "educative" and "pejorative"*. I'm not such a fragile soul that this has affected me significantly in the past, well, except for making my contributions a bit more well-mannered (...because I still consider myself adaptive despite my age).
But I'm really fed up with this kind of ignorance. I'm fed up with molesting the shit out of my dictionary only to get misunderstood again (for the ones who didn't know: I am not a native english speaker). Did I make myself really so unintelligible? It became so extraordinarily exhausting to deal with this (..."fed up" was probably not the most appropriate term).
My patience has gone its course with imbecile and ignorant backseat drivers (and yeah, that is actually a term from my aforementioned dictionary), who prefer to complain and insult rather than invest only a second in trying only to understand my point (I never really demanded agreement though, unless we were talking about hard scientific facts). A recent and entirely pointless dispute marked the last straw! But it is definitely not the sole reason for my leaving.
I came to the conclusion that my nowadays rare sparetime needs a more appropriate focus than trying to persuade people of something they apparently don't want to be persuaded of. I'm still having a hard time to grasp, why so, maybe I'm really as narrow-minded as I was told by some folks.
Hence:
Goodbye Bluelight!
Most of the time it was a real joy to be part of this marvellous forum for more than two and a half years! The positive responses of many Bluelighters fueled my motivation to go on and on, and I'm glad that on some occasions I could give something back.
I would use this very last post of mine to explicitly thank some people:
- First and foremost, I need to adress my thanks to Hammilton. You really were (and actually still are, just not here) my main motivator and I honestly consider you as something as kind of a 'mentor'. It was not so much what you wrote here, but the way how you did so, plus all the new and fascinating ideas, which gave me a sense for working my own brain. I have the feeling that some people here may not really like good ol' Hammi for his...errrr...sometimes a bit 'direct' way of phrasing his posts, but everyone inclined in thanking me is invited to send Hammilton some flowers on my behalf.
- Many many thanks to Vecktor, Nuke and FastandBulbous for keeping this place together, for upholding law and order, and after all, sanity. And of course, thanks for the wisdom and knowledge you shared with me. The expertise of these 3 guys taken together would suffice on its own for an entire forum.
- Furthermore, regards to MeDieVil, Hamhurricanes, Seep, Dread, rocknroll714, Matt_Psy, mad_scientist, wungchow, ebola?, slapdragonx, Limpet Chicken and - of course - Jamshyd (in random order), for the insight, your appreciated opinion and the help that you unselfishly provided on so many occasions. I'm sure I forgot some names, sorry 'bout that. I have learned so incredible much from you that this can never be payed off adequately. We did not always agree with each other, but you bore with me, which was surely not easy.
- Also thanks to melange for the entertaining parts and the occasional interspersed one-liners, which brought already far out discussions back on track.
- Last but not least, I have to thank /navarone/, too. There were some moments when I acted rudely on him (...although I still insist it was justified
), but his forgiving approach really thought me a lesson about human nature. I apologize for the hard words that were spoken out, but by waiving to be resentful, you demonstrated real moral superiority. That's probably the issue in which you beat me most, beyond any doubt.
As final note - if there is something at all I'd like people to associate with the name "Murphy" - I will express for a last time, in very few and hopefully clear words my sole base for arguing in a 'harm reduction'-way, as I propose it. Some folks smiled at me with contempt for thinking so, but am convinced that I'm totally right in this respect.
This is actually the main motivation of all my posts, whose content did not deal with dry, stodgy, scientific facts, but which dealt with giving advice and personal opinion:
MurphyClox said:
Take care of you, all you drug enthusiasts, junkies, nerds and psychonauts!
Murphy Clox, over and out
* I admit, I agree to some limited extend to have acted "pejorative" on certain occasions. My tone was sometimes inadequately offensive, but fortunately were the ADD-admins always able to get me back on track with a single comment. That said, I'm still an unreasonably insistent nerd.
