I don't understand what the big deal is exactly?
Fornits is here for people to meet/talk/reminisce/balls out flame/whatever else they want about the program(s) in question. It's a site pretty much dedicated to the bad side of the "cult" behavior of these programs.
If someone wants to remember the good, or feels as if the program was good to them, why is that a crime that you guys feel you haveta attack them constantly?
I mean, I don't care either way, just a question that popped in my head as I read this thread.
Good point and question. Think anyone will have an intelligent reply?"
I don't get it either. Sure, remember the good times, but when you
only want to remember "good times",
deny any bad times, then refuse to allow any dissidence
whatsoever in the absence of personal attack, then, that's a as indisidious of the program itself. It's almost like a VH-1-esque, "where are they now" cyber-rap session, and it's pathetic.
Think I'm kidding?
I responded to Heidi's board, in a neutral tone - never been verbally abusive to Heidi or anyone involved - unless they were abusive previously, then, I retaliated accordingly.
The response I got at first was a stock denial after sending a request with my intentions - which were to talk logically, but I don't agree that LIFE was a great place. I requested an explanation if they chose not to allow me access.
On top of the Yahoo stock "You've been denied" email, this was posted here on Fornits:
Sara
The reason you were denied membership to the LIFE board is because you have no business there. You aren't wanting to be there to chat with old friends, and reconnect. Probably just wanted to read the posts and come back to this board to report.
There's the explaination you wanted.
found at http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =41#172714
.
You can read forward and see where the intellectual conversation went from there.
This morning, Heidi herself sent me this email:
Sara;
I believe the reason the other moderator denied
you is because you did
not give us enough information. This group requires
us to verify your
participation in the Life program, to not only
protect the other members
from peolr pretending to be lifers, and this is of
course the whole point of
the site, for lifers. Perhaps if you resubmit with your full name and the
dates you were in Life we could be more
accomadating. You would not have to
use your real name however at the site. We still
practice and respect the
confidentuality rule.
Regards, Heidi
So I responded:
This doesn't sound very genuous to me Heidi,
especially since your co-mod posted the following to
Fornits:
Sara
The reason you were denied membership to the LIFE
board is because you have no business there. You
aren't wanting to be there to chat with old friends,
and reconnect. Probably just wanted to read the posts
and come back to this board to report.
There's the explaination you wanted.
The link:
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =38#172714
You'll also find a sandbox-grade personal attack in
the same thread.
And as far as confidentiality goes, I've seen and have
heard from others that one of the posters to your
board has used real first and names on Fornits. Two
of the people that she called by name no longer post,
or they do so anonymously. Those are the facts, if
you want to dismiss them, that's your call.
I really have nothing to say to anyone in your group.
But I do find it interesting that you and/or your
co-mod won't allow differing opinions. Reminds me of
Hussein's Iraq.
Good Day,
Sara
Boom! I get home and hear that Heidi's board is locked up tight (i.e.: posted messages aren't viewable unless you've been deemed worthy).
Heidi-babe, did you want to be on staff
that badly? Twenty years after the fact is a little
tooooooooo late to show your stones as a good little Junior Staffer.
Get over it!
The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.
--Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley, 1958
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