A Modest Proposal - Concerning "The Pornfield"

so now I'm teh troll?
I am truly getting tired of comments about my typing. Okay my actua history here for all to read/ I type two-fingered now. Whether you believe me or not I had a serious i"event" when I was 21. It was caused by my lifestyle but I have puled through. Now in my late 20s I have small motor problems and nerve damage in the extremities of my finges and the messages being sent to my brain from my hands. It doesnt directly impact my career but my constant shaking hands (tiny movements that I can hide in my reality) means that it appears that I have tremors after a long night of booze. In September of this year I had a seizure. I think this as added to the problem. I have got used to the teh myself and my friends and anyone I communicate with understands teh issue. For complex documents I use a peronal assistant. I dont use any repairs in my threads coz frankly I thought as adults you would realize that it sis a prob for me. I try and remove teh letters I type double but teh teh I just forgeet - its so common, Its not affectation - its illness or the results of illness, I am not asking for sypathy Tegg )or any other of the perfectly alighned and super small motor controllers in this forum) but would you please refrain from commmentaing on it now? Its jus me, I learnt to type when I was six. I guess I am from teh last century then. It is particularly worse when I wake up and before I sleep - teh times I usually use sl.

PS if you knew me well (as my partner does in sl) you will notice my typing is getting worse. I am aware of that. Yes. It does concern me But there is not much I can do about what causes it. The micro tremors dont disappear.

I greatly admire you...with this and yet you continually produce threads and active in them...good girl, don't let them get you down. Best wishes-

Thank you Ashe.You are very kind. And I have told the truth. My lifestyle was truly self-destructive in my teens and I have a legacy from it. In my real I do what I can in speaking (when I can) to teens and young adults about my past addictions and my recovery process, But damage does remain and I doubt it will disappear.

Yes, I remember the past experience you told the other day, I feel miserable for anyone who has suffered in such a way, especially at such a young age. I was one of the lucky ones, I guess. Had wonderful parents and a wonderful childhood.

Just keep being strong, both physically and mentally...whatever you believe in will see you through, I have no doubt of that. Be well

Aw shewt...there ain't no cause ta be lookin' down yer nose at us gud ole boys. If'n ya 'spect all that high fallutin' hunnert dollar word chit-chat all the time, yer barkin' up th'wrong tree feller.

But they's a fair bit 'o difference atween ignorance, honest mistakes, and jest not carin' 'bout how ya present yerself. If y'ain't gonna care 'bout puttin yer best foot forward, why shud ah pay ya any mind?

Hang in there Jig, and fight the good fight.

As a serious question...do you have word processor with auto-correct? It might help your typing as you could set it up to correct the key sequences that you really do have a hard time with.

Thanks Ashe. So I shall continue to post and shall (hopefully) make people alert to diffrent ideas. In serious to all of you reading this, keep yourselves "clean" and tell your children that also. If you are (liek me) young then honest honest honest dont do as me. Recovery is not just a comfy rehab centre in a lovely park setting. Recovery is public humility and weeks and months of agony. And its digging far deper into the "self" than any sl troll can make you go.

SL has been kind to me. And so has my partner here. He has shown teh patience of Job to stay with me into the third year. At 64 he never expected to have to deal with my constant questions and my attitudes at times. My questions are NEVER designed to harm or insult but I am concerned for sl and do think this can be valuble as a place on a computer world. Look at my thread not at my typing skills. I ask us to conisder what we are creating. Please stop the abuse of each other and hiding it by calling it "sarcasm" or "pointing to a problem in case you didnt know you had it."

Jig, I've stayed out of this one for good reasons. You already know how I feel. As a couple of others have said, hang in there. Feel free to send me a friendship request inworld if so moved to do so, and I don't say that lightly. I'm not much into hanging out in general there for the most part (and lately, find myself not logging in as much as I used to). I know our time zones are opposite each other, but if you need someone to talk to, feel free to IM me. I think you and I share some interests in common and I do understand where you've been in life, and have no judgements.

No one was owed an explanation, but thank you for it. I'd rather continue to decipher your posts than not see them at all.

The friendship off will be coming Elora and Brenda already knows I am always there if she ever feels she needs to vent about something
But must work now.
Lol I meant "Offer" !!!
(Just as well I am not a doc. writing presecriptions! or a judge, or a pilto or a...

I thought unreadable handwriting was a requirement for that...

I disagree with all your comments, but they are so inconsequential that I won't bother to refute them in detail.

Pep (I am more worried on your behalf that you have misunderstood some of the content, but I refuse to dumb down my posts to satisfy the lowest common denominator)

LOL...I couldn't get past the errors to the content.

Ari (--enjoying mingling with the lowest common denominator, and, in fact, preferring them to the snobbish elite.)

I can't sign anything without being asked if I'm a doctor. *sigh*

Leaving all the grammar drama aside, this is one discussion that has plagued every art history class I have taken. What is pornographic and what is "art?"

I finally came to an answer, one that seems to sum up everything I've heard on both sides of the fence and that is: Pornography is in the mind/eye of the beholder.

My moral standards wouldn't bat an eye at a guy or girl walking nude in public, but that same moral standards would take issue with a nude guy and girl going at it hot and heavy in public. But one of my friends long ago would have taken issue with the nudity, period.

*shrugs* I honestly think that we put waaaayyy too much emphasis on the human body as being sexual and sex as being "disgusting."

As I said, there were no errors.

Pep (other than your comments)

Personally, I think that's a category error. The right question should be "when is pornography art?"

Piss Christ, anyone?

Excellent example Brenda.

"Piss Christ" isn't pornography.

It isn't art either, in my opinion.

No, not in my eyes or many others, however, there was that entire crusade against the painting as to whether or not it was or wasn't.

I was going to say that I do not see red dots (normally use IE, throwback I am, I know, but am currently on Firefox). Then I saw little red dots under your name. Did you know that you misspelled your name Qie Niangao? Oh, now I misspelled it. Darn.

I have, in the past, had advertisements slipped into my computer which causes lines to appear under words. The words become clickable and lead elsewhere. That issue is, I believe, knock on wood, gone now. My eyes still, though, glaze over when I see colored lines under words in a forum.

I'm not talking about whether it's obscenity, I'm talking about whether it's sexually arousing... or even intended to be sexually arousing.

You're right, I stand corrected. That happened so long ago. Obscenity and pornography do not go hand in hand necessarily.

hmmmmm...

Second Life is a platform, not a game.

Freedom of speech is the most sacrosanct right the US bill of rights establishes, even if that speech (or art) offends someone else.

'Teh' is an affectation, not a typo.