I think I was fairly naive when I first came online and really put myself out there. I went through a more closed period after a couple of flame wars and nutjob experiences but these days... I think I'm largely WYSIWYG!
In the very early days (funny to think of the mid-90s as the very early days of enything), I found my way to common-interest bulletin boards, one of which was an astrology forum.
Innocently posting away about horoscopes, I was astonished one day to get an email from an apparently fundamentalist Christian lurker. YOU ARE A IDOT, the note read, and went on to tell me about how I was going to go to hell, etc., for my satanic beliefs, etc., all in similarly literary style, all in caps.
It didn't stop me posting about whatever I damn well pleased, but ever since then, if I'm particularly annoyed with myself, I mutter that I am a idot.
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Date: 2006-02-14 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-14 05:13 pm (UTC)Innocently posting away about horoscopes, I was astonished one day to get an email from an apparently fundamentalist Christian lurker. YOU ARE A IDOT, the note read, and went on to tell me about how I was going to go to hell, etc., for my satanic beliefs, etc., all in similarly literary style, all in caps.
It didn't stop me posting about whatever I damn well pleased, but ever since then, if I'm particularly annoyed with myself, I mutter that I am a idot.
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Date: 2006-02-14 05:18 pm (UTC)By their works shall ye know them. Brilliant. Up there with: "I am a genius and always rigt."