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...

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[stormsewer]

theswede often says things like "your beliefs are an abomination before humanity," "I am truly ashamed of being the same species as you," "Fuck [your] god, fuck it up the ass with a shovel, sideways," and, like gerbilsage, is generally very fond of using variations on "you're wrong" as an argument, which approaches I consider "less effective." His utter certainty in the correctness of his opinions kind of bothers me, as well, to the point where he comes off as dogmatic as those he fights against. (This is the nexus of the argument I had with him, incidentally.) In many cases I applaud him, though. Not always.