NakedPluto said:
This is getting tiring and absurd. Voice of Enki is one of the most awesome SS, and I like him very much. He also is very correct and just in his approach as far as I saw his posts.
Aquarius has a laid back attitude and he is a SS as well. Same goes for everyone else.
Everyone is advancing as well.
This rebellion is put towards the wrong end, it would be more fruitful to base it on a real project or subject, in depth and not artificially just as a pure reaction.
Jrvan, you are perceived with an anti-hero charm as an attitude that is found many times in movies and patterns of psychology.
Your motivation while may be with an aim of fairness, fails the end of this by simply targeting low preoccupations and tete-a-tete personal interactions.
You have received advice. If you think something is ungodly developing while other people don't see it, you are free to contact the Gods. However your attitude of perpetuated self imposing over I would say quite intimate measures is damaging and tiring.
You warn that you may go of the forums etc, this is revealing of a problem that you need to fix. While we may not be all here very liking of each other, there is need for harmony and peace among ourselves,, ideally this should be accounted for anytime this is started.
These are baseless attacks and this should stop, in any and all ways. Fruitfull discussion can happen, yet being that it doesn't arise, one needs to ask why and the purpose of this.
Baseless? Personally, I'll object to that. How many times have jrvan been unfairly picked on, attacked, and ridiculed since he got here, and few if any, stepped in to stop it or say something against it?
Shall I count the numerous times he's had his arguments twisted to fit the personal narratives of other people's conditioned bias, called a cuck and other various insults, and had his personal life used against him to credit a lame argument against him?
Everyone is supposed to be different and individual, but the same group of guys seem to have a problem with the fact jrvan is not like you lot. That's how it all started in the first place. jrvan wasn't manly enough for you. He wasn't cold and iron hearted enough for you. He wasn't xian traditional mindset enough for you. He wasn't perfect enough 10+ years dedicated 5M posts enough for you.
No one seems to want to admit to their own behaviors towards others, but the moment jrvan gets fed up and frustrated by others behaviors towards him, fingers start pointing and he's labelled the boogy man. EVERYONE's communication can get better. But it seems the only people that advice is pushed on to is everyone on the receiving end of dog bites, not the ones who dish it. Relationships and communication is a two way street, not a highway and a bike path.
Can you imagine any other new people receiving even half the crap jrvan has gotten, but quieter personalities? Do you think they would survive their first year on the JoS without either turning away from the toxicity and abrasiveness, or become colder and hardened (negative meaning) when engaging with their brothers and sisters? Some might claim "well that just means they were weak and didn't deserve to be here, clearly." That is a highly anti-growth and expansion mindset, and toxic to anyone we are trying to reach.
I know this is not the topic to mention this, but personally, JoS has felt closed off and isolated - and I don't mean in the sense of literally in the way that we are the targets of all jewish programming and unaccepted by society. I mean this in the sense that established members seem unwilling and un-accepting of anything new entering into the forums. Maybe I'm crazy, but despite there being a post from HP Hoodedcobra about how we should treat new people, few seem to practice his wisdom towards people who don't have established years on their backs.
I've also noticed the mindset that people treat new people as ignorant and stupid without any experience, as if they are new born children. Some of them are, and I understand this tends to apply largely with spirituality, but so many forget or simply ignore there is a life and past for everyone who comes here outside of JoS. People come here already knowing life experiences, the only thing that is new is magick and spirituality. But they are treated as if they are lesser simply for not having grand spiritual experience under their belt. People attempt to impart wisdom of the outer world they have gained here, but often I see this get undermined or even dismissed or outright attacked, simply on the premise of one's level of spiritual experience.
We are meant to guide people, not beat into their heads spiritual concepts that they failed to automatically understand when they got here, and socially punish them for not understanding something or having karma issues, or simply being human.
The forums are meant to be a welcoming place for people to learn. A library of truth open to everyone, and help guide them to Satan. Honestly... if not for the efforts of a small few and the HP, this place would not feel very welcoming nor warm. Different approaches must be used, because there are some who seem to insist on methods and approaches that don't apply to most situations with people. You're used to trolls and overly reactive people who want to start things just because, and infiltrators, but you blind yourselves to those who are here genuinely to grow. Do people here not use their senses when engaging with others? Can you not immediately know from first engagement with another if they are genuine or sinister? Retaining negative energy, not dealing with certain inner issues, or not meditating and vice versa? Is it not part of your everyday interactions?
Believe what you want, but at the end of the day, too many are relying on logic and their physical eyes, and not trusting their spiritual minds and serpents. It would not be hard to understand that what you are seeing with jrvan is someone who is just trying to do their best among louder toxic and/or overly abrasive individuals, but gets the finger pointed at him saying "you're the problem, you're not good enough". You expect immediate change overnight, and set unrealistic expectations on those who come here. If people are not taking on your advice then they must be retarded or unwilling to grow. No one seems to consider that maybe some advice doesn't work for that person, their astrology, and their situation?
The only expectations on SS is that we grow and meditate, and aid the Gods in ways we can manage. Our pace is our own, and not for others to dictate. There is no delicacy or careful hand in how many here treat newer members (especially under the magick number of 10 years...). People are treated as soldiers, not people.
It is incredibly sad that the impression that has been presented in the time I've been here, is that the only people here you can trust their word on is the clergy and the Gods, because so often people can't practice what they preach.
I'm not angry at you, NakedPluto. This isn't directed to yourself and your behavior either. You've just given me an opportunity to say how I feel and what I've observed in general.