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rainerann

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Idk whats going on.
I think an argument turned ugly. So emotions took over. Cooler heads prevail.


I PMed a poster trying to understand as much as them. In the end, we put our best foot forward. Everyone is happy. We get paid, get laid and snort some cocaine, lets party.



*I don’t condone snorting cocaine as that is against the law. Any cringe within aforementioned post is for entertainment purposes only and is trademarked by Maes17LLC. Any action taken upon aforementioned post is not advised and prohibited
You’re a sweetheart as always Maes. This person Johnny is trolling me, not to be confused with calling someone a troll. You see my robot pic that I put there as a badge of honor and reminder of the time awoken called me a bot. That is the dim witted bot he is talking about and he is wanting you to explain to me that this place is a cess pool of people who have targeted this forum because of all the wisdom and truth the people share here.

he wants to help me understand what a serious subject this is because my comments and one of the people in the letter gave the impression that I’m not taking this seriously. For all the big brains out there worried about every poster being a troll around here. You’re not jumping through hoops to make sure that you share the plans for cold fusion to save humanity or something. Few people will ever care what you have to say about Covid or politics or religion. The lot of you that seem to think that you are some variation of an instagram influencer with an audience as a member of a forum, is just ridiculous at this point.

most of the people who come here are going to be regular people because this is a small place that isn’t really that much of a threat to anyone. This is like the Equivalent of a small chain store that only exists in the Midwest and most people have never heard of before. Take your ego down a notch. There are only going to be a handful of people in this world that are ever going to be interested in being a shill or a troll around here.

since I have been here, there has been one primary troll. Most everyone else struggles because we all struggle with extreme bias from time to time. And you are not really dealing with shills or trolls. This is the way you imagine a conflict that you have with someone who has a bias you don’t agree with, to be larger than life so you can imagine yourself in a more heroic sense.

so it had nothing really to do with the pm that seems to demonstrate that some people are way too vested in identifying these people around here.

I also must be a very very very advanced internet bot to scan for and identify myself within a post that isn’t quoting me. I would be worried about this if I were you, but wait, you are clearly very worried about this already. So I should say that you should be even more worried than you already are.


and if a high post count is an indication of being a shill, I would suggest looking at the list that shows who has the most posting. There is someone on this list that also fits this description, but I know this is always okay when they are people you agree with. It has nothing to do with being a shill most of the time, and an ego check would do many of you some good. No one wants to troll most of you. Like seriously, there are places getting thousands and thousands of more views and exposure to concern themselves if the point is to shut down alternate opinions.


it doesn’t make this a safe place, but let’s be a little more realistic about the size of your audience please.

Hopefully, they will keep their discussion about schooling this bot in their pm’s from now on where they can indulge in their delusions that every one with a different opinion is a threat to their message or that the people with different opinions care at all about making sure that there is something to counter the loads of crap some of you have been posting. I don’t. I do not care about whether the casual observer has a counter view to whatever crap you are posting. I feel no obligation to protect them from this nonsense evidenced by my frequent breaks and ability to leave threads that become repetitive and join new ones instead of rehash how and why we disagree every time I come around.

but sure I’m a Professional forum shill or a bot. Take your pick. I’ve been called both and more than this in the years that I have been here at this point.

tldr: I don’t care, and Maes. You’re a sweetheart. The rest of you. The looming threat of a shill behind every new poster is in your head. I’ve been here for years now. It’s in your head.
 
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rainerann

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The primary thing that you will get out of this forum is going to be on a personal level. Sure you might learn something at the same time as someone else. Something may click for you simultaneously, but it is important to not confuse this to mean that being here is not really self serving because posting on this forum is entirely self serving in reality.


it is good to share things with others. It helps you grow especially with subjects that we talk about around here and there is a reason People say to keep religion and politics out of things in regular life. People end up fighting. They end up saying things they don’t mean, but you can’t really grow as a person unless you can share some of the things that you know or have learned with others, even if most people would find them offensive otherwise. Even if you wouldn’t end up disagreeing with yourself in 10 years.

change doesn’t usually happen in isolation and people want change where politics and religion and even pop culture is concerned. Why we want this might not always be clear, but that is why people need a place to discuss things. So that something might become clearer. A forum helps things become clearer for yourself and sometimes a handful of other people, but you are really deluding yourself to think it will be more than this.

any one of you could stop posting today, never come back, and in a few years, your posts would get lost and replaced with new ones. People might see your name here and there and they might even like a post your wrote from a few years ago from time to time. but if you’re not ever here and they don’t ever talk to you personally. They won’t ever know you the same way you know the people you have had conversations with and this won’t matter because you are just a forum member. This isn’t your blog. You will not be significant at some point if you were to stop posting. That is just the reality of the situation.

the major bonus for people on a forum is that offending me who is just a random person for you, is not going to ruin Christmas If you don’t want Christmas to be ruined. If you don’t care whether Christmas is ruined, or you have already ruined Christmas because you shared a post about lizard people on Facebook. Well, I still hope that you will get something out of being here on an individual level even if you are a shill or a troll.

if this was also too long for you, I will be nice and summarize that what you get out of this place is more than likely going to be on an individual level in the long run. You will probably never really influence other people the way you might think, but life is an individual race overall. The sooner you accept this, the better. So no one needs to worry about reminding the bot of nothing. I know why I still come here. I have realistic expectations. I recommend that you get some as soon as possible as well
 

Maes17

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@rainerann thanks. I try. :)

This forum will prosper. I hope.
I’m not concerned. We all have differences. How people choose to accept them is on them. I try to be open minded and see from their respective lenses unless they get really hostile, then there really is no point.
 

Maes17

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Investing in a home gym pretty seriously now.
Buying olympic plates and specialty bars.

@Johnny5 the J’s are on hold this holiday season.
Daddy needs a home gym and to spoil the youngsters
 

Maes17

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I put in a home gym two years ago. No one uses it lol. It’s very frustrating
I posted my home gym in the favorite things thread. It’s an investment that’s for sure. Here in NM we are shutdown. So the gym was my little escape
 

justjess

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Our gyms are still open but the weather gets so bad here in the winter and the closest gym at the time we did this was a half hour away... it just didn’t make sense. So we put it in. Now there’s a gym within walking distance of the house so my son signed up there and my husband is just too damn busy for either. An expensive investment indeed.. especially if no ones going to use it lol. I’m happy that you have a little escape place in your home tho that can keep you sane and healthy. It’s important
 

Maes17

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Our gyms are still open but the weather gets so bad here in the winter and the closest gym at the time we did this was a half hour away... it just didn’t make sense. So we put it in. Now there’s a gym within walking distance of the house so my son signed up there and my husband is just too damn busy for either. An expensive investment indeed.. especially if no ones going to use it lol. I’m happy that you have a little escape place in your home tho that can keep you sane and healthy. It’s important
I’ve been to western PA in the winter months before. I know what you mean. Those east coast winters are no joke.

Yes it’s an expensive investment. I’ve actually been setting money aside for a home gym for years. However some of the specialty bars are an arm and a leg. I recently bought a ss yoke bar from elitefts. The gym I go to has all the specialty bars. Jeez it was a $500+ bar lol
 
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