valo wrote:The game I'm playing is to not lie, be sincere, and authentic. You broke the rules and refuse to repent. Until you apologize for treating me like crap you will be ignored.
Look, Valo, I really have to point out that not only do you break your own rules all the time, but even worse, your true expectation is that we should break your rules, NOT abide by them.
You lay these rules down on forums where you know you'll encounter resistance to your grandiose claims. You know that if people are telling the truth, they'll tell you you're full of crap, and they will do so authentically and sincerely. It would be rare indeed to find anyone anywhere who is going to say, "Oh yeah? So 19 symbolizes the unbounded father? You know, that makes a lot of sense." Obviously, the likelihood is that if anyone tells you that your typical idea has merit and is worth considering at all, they are lying just to be nice. Which is what you want, right? Sure, you'd be overjoyed if someone authentically and sincerely tells you that 19 is totally the unbounded father, or that God totally would fill the universe with portals bordered by architecture unique to 12-16th century Europe on earth. But that's not going to happen, and so you demand nicey-nice and blowing sunshine under the guise of truthfulness and sincerity.
As for your own part, telling people that the Holy Spirit tells you this and that is outright lying. Telling people that you have great powers is lying. LARPing as a prophet is basically living a lie, depending on how serious you're really taking it. Authenticity is hard to define, but you're certainly not the first self-proclaimed prophet to prance around the Internet telling everyone that you are better than they are and listen to you, or perish. It's predictable, not authentic. But "authentic" is a tough word to pin down.
Sincerity could go either way. Your flippant dialog practice is insincere, and it is actually you who owes Dr. Steuss the apology. I don't know Steuss that well, but I suspect he's pretty damn tough and isn't terribly damaged by your poor treatment but nevertheless, if somebody owes an apology on this thread, it would start with you apologizing to Steuss. At a deeper level, I do think you are a sincere person, as High Spy is also. Which is why, of course, you will both fail as prophets. From what I've stumbled across, your DS guy is the authentic Denver Snuffer wannabe, which isn't a compliment. Becoming a cult leader is a super niche market space, and so it's unlikely that anyone will succeed, but he's got a slim chance. Both you and Spy of course, are targets for cult membership where you end up getting taken advantage of. I'd only give it about 15% odds, but joining a cult is a rare thing for a person to do, and so you're still in a somewhat at-risk category.
Making up a list of rules before a person can have a conversation with you is ridiculous, Valo. I'm not saying that I'm always truthful or sincere, nobody is, but that nobody would ever be able to have a conversation again and the world would come to a halt if people had to abide by your three rules before they conversed.
