i go out to the world, and the world comes in to me

[stormsewer]

I joined a community. This makes me nervous for two reasons: 1) I don't need another temporal black hole, and this community certainly is one. (And though it's fun sometimes, arguing metaphysics is not exactly what I'd call productive, not something I want to spend large chunks of my life doing.) 2) I notice a lot of people who are active in communities have friends-only LJs. The only reason I can come up with for this is that they encountered people in communities who didn't like them who then proceeded to harass them at home. I'm hopeful I won't have to deal with that, myself, but a community like convert_me seems like an easy place to make enemies...

Comments

[still-just-me.livejournal.com]

Might be he was referring to your post. I thought he was referencing this discussion. (http://community.livejournal.com/convert_me/734733.html?thread=33604109#t33604109)

[stormsewer]

Ah, that would make sense. I had only read that when it was just beginning. Wow, that dorianezra is annoying. He shoulda read my post... 'Cause if he were really a Taoist, he wouldn't be starting sentences with "If you were truly a Taoist..." (And if he knew gsage at all he wouldn't try to pull shit like that on him.) I dunno, something about that kind of condescension rubs me the wrong way. And yes, gsage can be just as bad, if not worse, when it comes to that, though he usually does it in intellectual terms, not spiritual terms, which is a lot less annoying to me, personally.