Earl Grey

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@Trunk since you're focused on newcomers and not banning anyone, at least please add PPJ requests to your priorities and with the gender sub-forums too!

The implication of this thread feels like that you are motivated primarily by money and I just don´t get that feeling from you. I doubt anybody else does either. Unfortunately, the very thread where he posted and disappeared before he supposedly left was one where Spotless said that that's what he thought about me in no ambiguous terms, and was supported by Silent Thunder and Steve in response, referring to me without naming me as a "sheriff" preying on others and their spiritual seeking or claiming that my way was the correct and only way. All totally untrue about how I operate here. As far as you and Steve, who clarified elsewhere that you didn't share this view, you can imagine how when Spotless said he was indeed referring to me how much of a slap in the face that was (and Silent Thunder even more so). This was why I posted the Blake poem A Poison Tree. I see you as someone who cares a lot about cultivation, has educated ideas of how people might best go about it, and cares enough to offer guidance to newcomers -- all good things. This is indeed how I do operate. It will be a great loss for the forum if he´s truly gone. Anyway, I don't think David Doyle and his copyrighted posts here are going anywhere. He will return at some point in time and he will stay in his own lane as I stay in my own lane--which was supposedly how things operated until he began starting the bullshit in the bans thread and then the setting up shop thread.

FYI “I’m sorry you feel that way” is not an apology, it’s usually an insult that is victim-blaming. Your intention though appears to convey something more along the lines “I feel for you and it sucks you’re upset” so I’ll take it as this and please leave me be. You are willing to make time to understand David but I will say no further and that a few people on this forum have their own challenges right now that have not been considered as well too, and there is nothing more to be said besides that this sensitivity is not extended to them too.

I can ignore many slights, but David Doyle's problem was that he claimed to be a master and above that all, while calling martial practitioners and others immature or without knowledge--referring to me and people like freeform among others. I hold him to a higher standard based on how he presented himself, and he failed. A platitude, how nice. I do forgive him for being a pompous idiot--but that doesn't mean he is not one. I separate cultivation from moral philosophy. I do not make them synonymous nor do I need to act any way other than my actual nature, and I do not suffer fools. I can ignore the idiots who send threats or taunt me across threads, but I can't ignore someone who is a hypocrite like David Doyle.

I started no conflict with Spotless. But he made no attempt to hide his disdain for me across multiple threads before I responded directly and called him out. I have every right to defend myself.

Higher, actually. The country is both easily influenced and they actually have many unfortunately uneducated people who like strongman politics. They want authoritarian rule because they equate democracy with oligarchy and that oligarchy is what leads to inequality. They believe a noble tyrant will crush the oligarchy.

It took a dive last year because he banned vaping, and his most ardent supporters actually went against all his policies, including ones they supported because it personally affected them. As of now, the propaganda machine actually is losing steam because the lockdown now is so aggravating that complaining trended more than propaganda on social media, and the propaganda machine couldn’t make up for the resentment, even with Chinese and Russians backing their PR firms for trolling.

pretty much.

What I am finding is it’s more for Chinese citizens propaganda than Filipinos, much like the anti-Islam and violent Hindi pop in India: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/world/asia/india-hindutva-pop-narendra-modi.html This is state-funded in China as opposed to encouraged by India under Modi.

The issue is that the territory China has been seizing since their puppet Duterte ignored the Hague victory in 2016 is recognized there. It's not keyboard warriors--it's been years of the most common and number one complaint Filipinos have for Duterte selling out to China. I can post more articles here if necessary to show it's not trivial. This includes ramming fishing vessels and last week a military ship, building on disputed islands....

Police continue to violate rights and threaten even wealthy people on private property to make arrests without warrants among other things: https://www.rappler.com/nation/259138-pnp-says-man-dasmarinas-village-makati-went-berserk-cursed-police Martial Law: partying like it’s 1984 because people forgot about 1986. https://www.rappler.com/nation/259164-human-rights-watch-asks-dilg-rein-in-out-of-control-cops

Being a cultivator or not isn't important for the points I've made, but being a cultivator does make me hold people to higher standards because they should and do know better. Being a non-cultivator doesn't faze me much because I treat it the way a college kid reacts to a middle school kid insisting that he knows more because he saw something on YouTube (or, more specifically, look at the way a number of us rolled our eyes at some Heartbreak threads). The sincerity is the only key point that matters to me, especially in this context, CT. This context-specific engagement was quite clear seeing we had two conversations simultaneously and different tones entirely the other day! This should be expected of everyone--sadly, the Trump threads and people like joeblast or the WMP boys seemed to do this frequently. None was needed on my end because I already knew this, but it is at least a nice direct statement for others to see in case they didn't.

The problem with being polite is that it doesn't eliminate passive-aggression-- which is harder to deal with than bluntness. Sometimes, it does take a fair bit of rudeness when individuals like deranged, perverted, and dangerous people come.

All things considered, the vitriol between the people you mentioned calling for bans is still nowhere near the animosity and hostility that happened with the Trump threads, as it not only went across multiple threads but led to outright poisoning the entire forum. Here it looked more like a few people had a big argument akin to shouting at each other in a restaurant, with Trump discussion, it looked like people needed to have a restraining order for everyone else’s safety.

I do not know if Spotless actually left at all. All I know is that after his extremely passive-aggressive post not only directed at me, but grouping me with people as some sort of agenda-driven misfits on setting up shop and then mysteriously hiding his thread after I responded to it seemed more like he had an about-face realization and went to that new forum dwai opened up that seems more like further splintering as OD and WMP and LMP and LU all have their own members. While WMP, LMP, and LU seem to mostly keep to themselves, OD has lurkers come here from time to time and the new forum dwai started seems more like a retirement home for gossips who can’t speak up directly to people whom they have issues with, as one thread is the EXACT. SAME. THING. with the same people continuing their imaginary complaints about an imaginary group of mine that doesn’t even exist, of which Spotless and his fellow gossips are griping about. So to me, I don’t think he left, I think he just found a place with other grumpy gossips who are either too passive-aggressive but can’t handle when someone calls it or want to sit in a room and play bingo together safe and far away from the imaginary big bad wolves who don’t exist here. So likely he is there for bingo and will be back here offering unsolicited advice while criticizing those he believes offer unsolicited advice, setting up shop with his copyright notice in his signature while complaining about others here who set up shop long ago like Flying Phoenix or how this whole forum was already from Healing Tao originally and had an open love for Stillness-Movement and Spring Forest, not to mention Kun Lun.

His genocide post was an unambiguous goodbye letter.

As expected, dawei attempts to take a smug and aloof air to self-aggrandize in order to create an air of mystery and intrigue around him, in the hopes of creating the illusion of significance long after he’s proven he’s nothing but an opportunist and sycophant. And whomever he’s trying to impress is neither important nor going to make any difference given that he’s already revealed he’s as useful as worn shoes and as essential as a wet towel.

I am surprised you’re still able to type with how long your nose is growing from all the lies you’re telling. It must be getting in the way of your keyboard when typing or the screen you can’t see clearly.

One reason I stopped going on popular Hong Kong forums was in the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were pictures and posts about their hatred for mainlanders, from a couple letting their child urinate on the streets or spitting on the floor and scuffing it with the sole of their shoes in a restaurant. This comedian here has an interesting perspective: But then there are some sillier moments like this:

I think the old 70s and 80s children's books honestly have artwork worthy of galleries. The author of Strega Nona to me has more feeling and soul to it than a lot of the digital stuff made using Flash vectors and PhotoShop.

Yes, hearing overseas mainlanders in the Philippines, they call locals “barbarians”. Remember the old stupid forum Power Apple? Really racist shit.

Oh simple: Jim Crow laws in the US, Apartheid in South Africa. My friends from KL also joked that the kind that is in Malaysia is akin to affirmative action for the majority (Malay) due to hostility towards the minority (Chinese and Indian in particular).

If you're speaking generally, I don't agree that China is the most racist nation in the world, but you're referencing dawei who above said then it's indeed a stretch. I'd actually say South Africa comes off as more racist, institutionally still, though Modi's India is looking pretty similar with how they treat Muslims and Myanmar is pretty bad now with how they treat the Rakhine.... This is a bit unclear--can you clarify? I so far understand this to mean, "China's policies do not encourage racism from the Han majority towards others"--is this what you are saying? If so, my response is that societal racism and institutional racism at times seem like they go hand in hand. Populism has indeed become a global crisis! Though it seems more reactionary as it is part of the carefully orchestrated machinations of predominantly Russian trolls as Malcolm Nance talks about in his presentation here:

Read already. No comprehension issues. Sad when you can't comprehend your own writing or even spell check for that matter.