Earl Grey

My desire to fight you over your personal disrespectful behavior towards me may have worn me out, but, YOU, sir, DO NOT EVER talk or act like that towards a lady. Let me tell you about a concept known as the Southern Gentleman: he is a distinguished gentleman, with dignity and respect in good manners and sensibility, who will happily put his hand around your shoulder at the bar to pull you aside and privately give you a run down of what is expected of a gentleman, before he crushes your testicles so that you don’t ever forget this little lesson and reminder. Whether you’re in places like the fine cities of Louisville and Knoxville, or in the slums of Statesboro and Copperhill, a Southern Gentleman does not care about your social class, but instead on keeping it classy. So keep it classy, as even Gomer Pyle is smarter than you to see how consistently rude you’ve been to everyone.

Very arrogant and certain of themselves, too. I'm done fighting, given he won't ever change or recognize where he was wrong personally with me and with all the nonsense he continues to spew. Can't teach those who are unwilling to learn, and he has proven he not only is unwilling to learn, he is incapable of seeing it because he's too engrossed in his inflated sense of self, the cult that accepts his idiosyncrasies, and his unethical system.

Your behavior.

If you still can't see why this is wrong, you are totally hopeless. And it shows your trailer trash life is why you have no social skills and sensitivity.

At the very least you should apologize for the thread name calling me out. That was 100% wrong, and just changing it does not address the transgression or acknowledge wrongdoing. You can next apologize for what I've said before, but you disregarded in earlier posts here. We know you won't apologize though.

The beef I have is in the thread you called me out in, and you’re conveniently ignoring that still as your crimes are all on the first three pages. You love conflict. And that is why you create it.

And this is why your conflict continues: because you simply can’t offer an apology or seek to be reconciliatory, or to understand. You derailed the original thread and I wasn’t even talking about Mo Pai. You sought to create conflict and I even initially tried to be friendly and was steering away from it, but you couldn’t stop. You enjoy conflict. Simple as that. And you’re not willing to be a better man. Perhaps it is impossible for you to get along with others since you’d rather continue to fight than own up to your ill-bred behavior.

Yet, you can't bring yourself to apologize. It's so easy for you to fight and argue, act like a jerk, and say move on, or a dismissive "k". You brought this upon yourself. "Pride cometh before the fall...."

"Jeremy" is a new nickname that I suggested with the Offspring and Korn and Stabbing Westward songs a few posts earlier. Because you sound like the kid who lost it in this Pearl Jam song. This song is about a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle, 16, who shot himself in front of his 30 classmates in his 2nd period English class. To know a bit about the background and history of Jeremy. He attended Richardson High School in Texas and his English teacher was Faye Barnett. Jeremy had only been at Richardson for a little more than 3 months before his death, he had some problems at his previous school and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Apparently the insurance money ran out at the hospital and he was deemed as "cured" and released. Subsequently he went to live with his dad and was transferred to Richardson HS. Shortly after arriving at Richardson Jeremy's locker was searched and some controversial but not illegal religious items were found. Also, Jeremy had made some statements regarding two Richardson faculty members that may have gone over the line. As a result, they placed him in ISS (In School Suspension. You have to believe that being moved around like this and immediately being labeled a trouble maker would have a profound effect on a 16 year old. They pretty much put him in ISS because of the locker search and because of his stay at the psychiatric hospital, were I understand he was happier and got along with the other patients. In the ISS program he had been in contact with a girl, Lisa Moore, and they had become friends. Lisa stated that Jeremy wanted to discuss the boy she was dating and also mentioned he was having trouble with one of his teachers. She was probably the closest person to Jeremy at the time. Anyway, he was assigned to the ISS program and from what I've read the ISS was pretty bad. It was pretty much solitary confinement, they didn't talk to you and you couldn't talk. Considering Jeremy was described as a quiet, lonely and distant boy, isolation was the last thing he should've been given. Lisa and Jeremy would secretly write notes back and forth at ISS and he would alway write "Write Back" on the bottom of each note. On Monday January 7th, he wrote "Later Days". On the Tuesday morning of January 8th, 1991 Jeremy was supposed to be in ISS the day he attended Faye Barnett's class and Faye knew he was supposed to be there. She told Jeremy that he needed a principle pass to even be in her room. By this time Jeremy's life was in turmoil and he was unhappy, his parents divorced at an early age and his Dad barely knew he was even there. His school life was no better. Plus I believe there may have been underlying psychiatric problems. Jeremy got out of his seat and was gone for less than 10 minutes, Instead of going to the principle's office he went to his locker and retrieved a .357 magnum and hid it under his shirt. When he returned to Barnett's class he quietly entered the classroom and walked to the front. With no emotion he said, "Miss, I got what I really went for". He placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger before anyone could react. Now, here's a magic trick: Just own your shit. Drop this fight. Apologize. A simple, "I'm sorry, I was an ass, I may not understand it or agree, but you were upset by it. And everyone else involved got mad too. I'll stop posting now, and would appreciate if we stop this now, and I won't bother you or anyone." Just apologize. Stop posting. I'll stop too. I'm sure the others will if you make that effort. I know you won't though, as you're too arrogant and self-pitying to do so. You'll probably say "If you say so" or "k" or "There is nothing to apologize for" as you have done and tell me "Move on and get over it." But hey, prove me wrong and show me you can be a better man!

I think it really is attention. They need to create a bad guy as they are basically losers who are tough on the Internet and reinforced by a SeCrEt SuPeRdUpEr AwEsOmE pOwEr that they appropriated and claim ownership over. In the battle for personal relevance, negative attention is still attention, which is what reality TV revealed to us and only reinforced as social media and the lack of community contributes to, sadly.

Yeah, I think that's a good name to call him since he sounds like the headcase in that Pearl Jam song of the same name that I linked earlier. Except there are times you think you're defending when someone wasn't even attacking you--which is how you began the feud with me and tell me to "get over it and move on" instead of apologizing. Like I said before, two words ("I'm sorry") spoken sincerely can change the world. But you're too arrogant and prideful to even do that.

For the first couple levels, probably. But we don't know for sure as you only have two outsiders who were already dealing with a guy who was not the most honest person in his school. No, it's because you don't belong to the school in Java. You're not in Harvard just because you took the syllabus for a couple classes from the first semester. Of course, you will probably say that it all comes down to whether the techniques work or not, and that everyone was a student or teacher before, which ignores the essence of the question and reinforces the idea that you're unable to explain how you see yourselves as legit when you aren't wanted by the school in Java, or how Harvard doesn't even have you in the student registrar, but wonders why you call yourselves students of their school. Strange, because the amount of effort it takes to maintain your servers and material while keeping it secret sure takes a lot of time, and time is money... Funny enough, your definition of bullshit overlooks the fact that you create a lot of bullshit.

As far as the school in Java is concerned, you are not part of their lineage, even if you share a few techniques in common. WMP refers to your group as a cabal, not a difference in basic level techniques--but we know that this means absolutely nothing to you. Only to an extent for the beginning levels--and this is assuming Jim did learn what the others did since we know he and JC are not the most reliable narrators. Except for things like server space and research or other resources...

Don't know if this was posted yet... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/science/head-cones-ancient-egypt.html

Sensation's a trap: the five senses mystify, deceiving the mind

The heart that knows love understands and accepts all and gives, never takes

please read the first post. use the last line of the previous post as your first line and follow the 5-7-5 structure.

I’m going to do what everyone is wishing for right now: I’m calling upon the community to say right here and right now that we take action and let it be known to Sean that we want Everything out. As Taomeow so sardonically observed, at least 16 out of 20 unread topics have been invaded by Everything. No conversation can be had without his interruption and disruption of the same garbage again and again, and while he may think he’s polite and cute, he is ultimately causing too much grief for everyone trying to have a simple conversation. It is analogous to a group of friends having a nice conversation at a table only to be approached by an unwelcome pest who butts in and won’t shut up or go away even when he’s told to get lost. This is our forum, our community. Let’s take it back. If you agree with what I’m saying, sign here by posting in this thread and end it with, ”GET LOST, EVERYTHING!” No need to discuss it. Say what you want all in one post and sign off as written above—you know he will come and start posting more nonsense and feed off of our reactions and engagement. GET LOST, EVERYTHING! Pandora's Box was opened, and I did it.

"If you say so" "k" and "There is nothing to apologize for" All words you have used to dismiss what I have asked multiple times. Along with telling me to get over it and move on. Try your best to me nice to me? Yeah right.

Why are ya so defensive now? Hmm.... The plastic surgery thing was something known years ago, and your desire to infiltrate the school in Java for higher levels has been known even by Kostas himself! And whoa: you're insistent on not being a "trailer-dwelling pothead cult leader" as you say. Were you bullied growing up? Are you sure you're not gonna go postal in the future? Are you from a town where nobody ever leaves? You poor fella. No wonder you're such a jerk when I was trying to be nice to you and help out your group in spite of your vitriol towards me in the past, but you ruined it with your arrogance and dismissiveness. You don't have to let your past define you, because people judge you for how you make them feel, not for your victim narrative. Maybe that's why you joined the WMP cult: to feel accepted amongst other denizens... I don't know if the most appropriate song for you is The Kids Aren't All Right by The Offspring, Jeremy by Pearl Jam, or Daddy by Korn. Then again, I Don't Believe by Stabbing Westward had wonderful lyrics that seem to describe your mindset.

Holy...What? All I did was make shit up and now you're freaking out?! My god! I must have struck a nerve calling you a trailer trash pothead cult member! I've met people who claim to open their third eyes from bullshit books and smoke a lot of weed, or people who do Reiki and smoke weed, and then think they're cultivators, but they're all mental cases! You've just shown you belong to the same demographic! This is priceless!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

The funny thing is that I was just making up as many random reasons for someone to feel insecure and act like a troll on the Internet! 😂

So, as we know, there's one racist joke that's acceptable. It usually goes like this: "How do all racist jokes begin? " The person saying it looks around as though they were checking if it's safe or if someone from the group they're joking about are in ear shot. Yes, that's the joke. All you do is look around suspiciously. I told this to a bunch of friends who were visiting from the states. Before I could do the looking around part... One said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Earl Grey! A racist joke! I didn't know that minorities told racist jokes too!" I told them, "Oh, we do, but the thing is, if someone hears it, the people they'll suspect and get mad at are you guys, not me."

The funny thing is, "Emma" isn't even a student, her dad at least was, and I don't know about her mother, because I don't know if women train in the Mo Pai. I haven't seen Em in years, and even then, Mo Pai practice wasn't really that big of a deal to her or her parents; they preferred other dukuns and saw JC as just one of many people who could do the weird and wonderful things that happen in the Ring of Fire. I witnessed a lot of it myself there, including dealing with a kind of no-face girl who sacrificed part of herself to have a lot of beauty and seduce men to replenish what she loses, but those who are immune to it see what looks like someone tore the flesh off their own face and it's rotting. Em didn't see Mo Pai as something fantastic, nor did her parents--that is already the life people commonly experience there, including turning into deer in the forest to hide from enemies, like they did when the Dutch came and they fought a guerilla war, or getting shot and nothing passing through them. It's also fairly common in Southeast Asia, not just for Chinese or overseas Chinese and Chinese heritage people, to tell white lies. I could show the book to my friends there and they could see how a typical Javanese cultural nuance is totally misunderstood in either Jim or Kostas' books. Kostas himself wrote it in a way to market and make money, frankly speaking, as he modeled his book after The Magus of Strovolos. Greeks are known to have their own way of telling stories, if their histories and mythology of antiquity and their pride in it are of any indicator. And anyone who can speak Greek with Kostas can known that guy loves to fuck with people in a jovial manner since he's decided he's a simple guy and wants to live simply after all the nonsense came from writing those damned books. I even gave Nei Kung to Em and she thought it was comedy, especially since her own life and upbringing being described by a foreigner to her made it seem like he could be talking about Middle-Earth. Her boyfriend, by the way, was one of those Asian American majors in Uni, so he wasn't terribly fond of white guys talking about Asian culture with this Oriental Mystique that betrayed a subtle racism that is still common today. That racism and Oriental Mystique is also what makes Mo Pai so appealing to the WMPs, who love to call other systems role playing fantasies for some bizarre reason. I mean, they could be trailer trash, balding, short guys with complexes who smoke a lot of weed and talk a lot of shit, totally insecure about their lives, but feel elite with this cult they've created that they believe is not a cult and the wonders of anonymity on the Internet. Because hey: the system attracts a lot of weirdoes who are on something for sure and have very little in their own lives, so they need to feel important. Ah well. Humility and openness are a lot more prevalent with people who have actual experience with other cultures, speaking other languages, traveling, and are willing to take a look in the mirror.