I'm afraid I am about to leave Wrongplanet.

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haha love these comments I am getting.

The rant was deleted bc it didn't say what it should've. Of course I could spit nails. But that's beside the point.

1. I know when I come in PPR to expect maltreatment, verbal abuse and disparagement of my opinions. That's ok. I can take it. I've been here long enough. And I know that is the way it is. There's a kind of psychological armor that can be engaged prior to coming in here if you know what to expect.

2. But when newbies are given the exact same treatment I'm given, it isn't fair. And I explode with rage. This kind of rage should be contained, I suppose, because it is disruptive and not really in alignment with when I'm cool and calm. I'm still not totally settled down.

3. For me, it's very sad that the new people I really like are scared away by rude obnoxious commentary and older members ganging up on them. I want these new people to stay because I, for one, enjoy their contributiion.

4. I think the majority of WP members avoid PPR like the plague. This is very upsetting to me....but, like I said, I can handle it. What bothers me is when the pond scum members have absolutely no sensitivity toward new members. That's when I go ballistic.

5. I would like to apologize to everyone on the thread for going off like that...and will try to keep a lid on it in future.

6. We really should make an effort to treat each other with consideration, respect and patience. There's no reason why we can't.

7. Please don't assault the noobs.

I'm one of those people who almost never comes here, mostly because I have limited time and the forum is too far down the page to grab my attention.

That said, I've read this last page and want to note a few things.

First, facts can be funny things. You can find facts to support almost any theory, if you pick and choose carefully enough. Facts alone do not win an argument, and asking people to study one's unique set of facts is asking them to invest a incredible amount of time in your perspective. I have done that at times, when I have reason to believe there is something important there. But my time is precious, and to honor that I've made what I feel are rational and intelligent decisions on what sources of information, what conveyers of fact, I choose to trust. I will not take to being called lazy, misled, unintelligent for making a carefully considered decision on how to use my time, but that is exactly what happens when I choose not to invest a few full days studying the one particular person's theory. That is unfair, but it is exactly what happens whenever I start to tangle with someone who believes in a theory that is far out of the mainstream. Hence, I avoid such discussions, as do many others like me. It does not mean we have not investigated or given it thought.

Second, I have no problem with Reiki, but I did post caution on the parent threads where the method was being sold. That is because, simply, parents already waste an insane amount of money chasing rainbows for their spectrum kids. If they have the money or find the concept enticing, give it a try. I cannot imagine it doing any harm. But the worry is that the families don't have the money, and start to obsess over what they may have missed, what wonderful thing they may be failing to do for their child. They don't need this. It's unproductive.

And that extends elsewhere in this forum. People worrying they are missing something great that they don't have the money for. In that way, it can be destructive. I know that no one here means for that to be the case, but it IS the case. Which means that when it comes to spending money, there had better be solid research showing proven benefits. If there isn't, you've got something that worked for you - wonderful, I'm glad - but isn't a miracle that needs to be sold at every opportunity. When Reiki becomes free, let me know. That would change everything.

So ....

Have fun arguing. But do it nicely.

The problem is mass confusion.
My comments and replies all seem to get misunderstood.
I try to correct what I've said but it only causes even more confusion.
Just a series of confusions followed by even more confusions.

Here great quotes. Hopefully it will open some eyes. Most likely not.
People dont read these days.

"Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. --Wendy Kaminer, 2003

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." --Aldous Huxley

"If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month." -- Julian Sanchez of Reason.com

"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell, 1945

"You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." --Cesar Chavez, 1984

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --Abraham Lincoln

That government that governs best governs least

"The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it." --Sam Smith

Nature created neither servants nor masters. I want neither to rule or be ruled.

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles Austin Beard

"If we don't speak up, we are cowards and accomplices." -- Judith Hertog

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison, while a U.S. Congressman

"Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!" -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

" I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong." --former Congressman Newt Gingrich on the "Commission on Presidential Debates"

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -- Harriet Tubman

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." -- President Harry Truman

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. -Lord Acton

No freedom for the enemies of freedom

"It is horrifying to think that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

In a society that abolishes adventure, the only adventure is in abolishing society.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law." -- former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away." -- Elvis Presley

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability, or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." -- U.N. Convention Against Torture