Experiencing JD syndrome and my experiences on the moot - Page 9

Lief Erikson · 12-13-2005, 10:23 PM

I accidentally passed my post #4,000 in the Teacup Café, without noticing

. I will post now to express a little of my experience at the 'Moot.

4,000th post sort of

My first couple years here I spent in the RPG Forum, focused upon the fantasy RPGs my friends and I were playing. In time, I entered General Messages as well, focusing almost exclusively upon the debate threads. I was very, very bad at arguing. I knew almost nothing about my Christian beliefs. However, I was also very confident. With my zip experience and equal-to-that knowledge, I challenged the most brilliant atheistic and agnostic minds on the website. As I did, I talked with the Lord, and he said, "It's high time I taught you a thing or two." And so I lost

. And lost.

My atheistic buddies here happen to have indirectly taught me much of what I know about my religion. Their challenges against my beliefs forced me to research, and researching, I began to gain a foundation. I learned also that it wasn't very intelligent to go and challenge everyone on every viewpoint I happened to automatically, Christianly, disagree with. I learned that it was smarter to research the issues and learn about them before taking a stance on them, otherwise like an overinflated balloon, I would keep on bursting with all the dramatic sound effects that balloons make when passing away.

So I began to withdraw from certain debates and remain in others. When I knew what I was talking about, I would argue. If I didn't, I would just look at the arguments every now and then and learn. I'm doing better now, than I was.

Eventually, I left the RPG Forum, because I wanted to remain true to Tolkien's world in the games I played, but I also felt as though I was bumping against the tight boundaries of what he had written. With a good friend named Arat-Falathion, I went and created a new website, at which I do my primary roleplaying:
http://www.atharonrpg.com/phpBB2/index.php
On that site, myself, several of my family members, and some other friends have a general great time. On this site, I continue to debate and to learn! My Entmoot experience has been wonderful, and I look forward to many more pleasant years here

.

Acalewia · 12-19-2005, 09:34 PM

This is my coming of age post in a way. I think I should start from the begining of my experiences on the Moot

I first found Tolkien Trail while doing research for my famous person speech for Speech class my Junior year of High School. I had choisen J.R.R. Tolkien. I vowed to return when I got my own computer. Fast forward 1 year, my aunt persents me with a computer and soon after I'm connected online. One day, being bored off my rear-end, I decide to go back to that site i'd found the year before. Problem was I couldn't remember the address

I Googled Tolkien and I soon found it. Traveling along the trail on the adventure, I discovered this message board called Entmoot. Using a name I'd found on a name generator, I registered. My first post was in RPG with Eowyn. I soon found myself posting nonstop. I loved it. This was my first message board and I considered the Mooters like family. And today, I leave behind the elven warriors and join the ranks of the elf lords!

I don't think my time here would be great without Butterbeer, Doc, Spock and many others I couldn't possiblely list here. I 'll be back for an update at post 1000!

Love y'all
Acally

Spock · 12-20-2005, 04:42 AM

Most kind. We look forward to many more posts.

Butterbeer · 12-20-2005, 06:29 AM

Nice posts and my thanks too Acalewia and Lief

- heh, the tradition is catching on - i didn't even have to hound those two!

..

best all BB

now if only Gordis would do her 1,000th (plus) moot experiences ...

edit: btw when i am gone ...keep your eyes peeled for mooters not here represented near landmark figures... and bring em on over...

Elanor · 12-20-2005, 04:45 PM

Time for a custom title, Acalewea. That is, if you want one... *notices Butterbeer never got one*

Butterbeer · 12-20-2005, 04:59 PM

ahhh - the conspiracy theorists are up and running, heh?

best BB

Acalewia · 12-22-2005, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elanor

Time for a custom title, Acalewea. That is, if you want one... *notices Butterbeer never got one*

I PMed Ben for one but I don't think hes been on lately.

Lotesse · 12-22-2005, 02:21 PM

You should PM Sister Golden Hair! She'll do it for you, for sure.

Acalewia · 01-06-2006, 02:35 PM

Thanks for the advice, Tess.

inked · 01-16-2006, 06:09 PM

I saw this and thought of JD, not because of the prayer, mind you, but FRANCE.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...3/ixworld.html

One cogent blogger suggested that if you don't want grace at your meals, don't ask bishops to lunch (or at least not RC bishops, because aI'm not sure and ECUSAN one could do grace at meals, given their lack of grace nationally).

Spock · 01-16-2006, 08:42 PM

The thread title has been modified to fit into current reality.

Serenoli · 03-10-2006, 11:54 PM

Hurray! I'm an elf lord! *does sprightly jig on bedroom carpet*

I LOVE ENTMOOT!
... and all MOOTERS!

...And, now without further ado, I go in seek of a title... I would like to include a thank-you list, and write down everything fun that I did, and all the people who made entmoot feel like a home... but I'd get misty-eyed, and besides, I'm saving it for the more momentous 1,000th! If I ever reach it, of course!

***Rían*** · 03-10-2006, 11:57 PM

congrats, Serenoli!!!!!!!

Lotesse · 03-10-2006, 11:58 PM

Here it is! I was wondering where BB's "JD Syndrome" thread went -

Again, Congratulazioni littleadanel! Before you know it, you'll be at a grand. It goes faster the more you moot; it's just like time - or the concept of time. Now I'm starting to sound like trolls' bane!

Anyone else around here think this thread sounds an awful lot like the Academy Award Oscars ceremony when the winners are accepting their awards onstage?

I swear!

Serenoli · 03-11-2006, 12:11 AM

I know! I felt exactly like that when I was thinking what to write for the 500th... it was starting to sound just like the traditional: 'thank you to so-and-so without whom none of this would be possible... and, of course, so-and-so... we had the best times ever... etc etc'

Lotesse · 03-11-2006, 12:19 AM

I will keep stirring the bubbling cauldron of my thoughts, as they simmer away, and soon enough I'll think of a nice post to plunk here for my official 5k "I'd like to thank the Academy and my mother" post, but in the meantime, I thought it bore remembering who started this thread in the first place, and why, and to give respect to old BB who's thread name was altered against his wishes, because someone who weilds the mod wand - oh, you know the rest.

following as posted by Butterbeer, when starting this thread -

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Experiencing JD syndrome and my experiences on the moot
(this being my 500th post even if it still says 499?)

In times of adversity, in times of emotion and stress i wearily and somewhat accidently stumbled across the Entmoot. Having but today overcome the terrible and deadly on-line virus that could well be the scourge of the 21st century, and wishing JD well with this crippling syndrome (Jd-itis) I am now free for another 500 posts before I get another (much lesser) case of this disease than the great man himself even now is heroically fighting.

This then is my story: it is my small victory against JD syndrome: may it be a hope to those in dark places … or new Joisey … or wherever in the world they are sadly afflicted … Our communal Moot thoughts go out to you.

This 500th post is therefore dedicated to jersey devil, who on the moot has been on occasions a friend in need and an unofficial mentor (who, having sometimes to put up with some incredible rambling rubbish from me always found the time to get back with some good advice) and it is also a personal piece on my moot experience from unsuspecting entling through to Elf Lord.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~

**Nurvingiel** · 03-11-2006, 12:32 AM

Edited because my original comment is no longer relevant. This is a good thing though since I also forgot to congradulate Lotesse on her 5000th post!

Congrats on your 5000th post Lotesse! I made you pie.

littleadanel · 03-11-2006, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serenoli

Hurray! I'm an elf lord! *does sprightly jig on bedroom carpet*

Congrats Serenoli!

We got there almost at the same time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Again, Congratulazioni littleadanel!

And again, thank you. And congrats to your 5000!

I posted my 500th in the Teacup Café, because it is an awesome place.

>I hereby take the opportunity to say congrats to Nurvingiel again!

<

The whole Entmoot is an awesome place, with awesome people who made me stick around. Before I stumbled across the Moot and peeked in, I never thought of the internet as a way of communication (apart from occasional e-mailing). Now I do.

Gotta love you Mooters.

ALL OF YOU. And by that I do mean ALL.

Julie Adanel

Telcontar_Dunedain · 03-11-2006, 10:55 AM

Congrats Lotesse and Nurv.

Gordis · 03-11-2006, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Telcontar_Dunedain

Congrats Lotesse and Nurv.

Indeed!

And Serenoli! It was so recently that you have been intimidated by Elf Lords around you... Do you remember? Now you are one yourself!

What would be your new title?

12-13-2005, 10:23 PM	#161
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I accidentally passed my post #4,000 in the Teacup Café, without noticing . I will post now to express a little of my experience at the 'Moot. 4,000th post sort of My first couple years here I spent in the RPG Forum, focused upon the fantasy RPGs my friends and I were playing. In time, I entered General Messages as well, focusing almost exclusively upon the debate threads. I was very, very bad at arguing. I knew almost nothing about my Christian beliefs. However, I was also very confident. With my zip experience and equal-to-that knowledge, I challenged the most brilliant atheistic and agnostic minds on the website. As I did, I talked with the Lord, and he said, "It's high time I taught you a thing or two." And so I lost . And lost. My atheistic buddies here happen to have indirectly taught me much of what I know about my religion. Their challenges against my beliefs forced me to research, and researching, I began to gain a foundation. I learned also that it wasn't very intelligent to go and challenge everyone on every viewpoint I happened to automatically, Christianly, disagree with. I learned that it was smarter to research the issues and learn about them before taking a stance on them, otherwise like an overinflated balloon, I would keep on bursting with all the dramatic sound effects that balloons make when passing away. So I began to withdraw from certain debates and remain in others. When I knew what I was talking about, I would argue. If I didn't, I would just look at the arguments every now and then and learn. I'm doing better now, than I was. Eventually, I left the RPG Forum, because I wanted to remain true to Tolkien's world in the games I played, but I also felt as though I was bumping against the tight boundaries of what he had written. With a good friend named Arat-Falathion, I went and created a new website, at which I do my primary roleplaying: http://www.atharonrpg.com/phpBB2/index.php On that site, myself, several of my family members, and some other friends have a general great time. On this site, I continue to debate and to learn! My Entmoot experience has been wonderful, and I look forward to many more pleasant years here . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 12-13-2005 at 10:26 PM.

12-19-2005, 09:34 PM	#162
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	My 500th Post! This is my coming of age post in a way. I think I should start from the begining of my experiences on the Moot I first found Tolkien Trail while doing research for my famous person speech for Speech class my Junior year of High School. I had choisen J.R.R. Tolkien. I vowed to return when I got my own computer. Fast forward 1 year, my aunt persents me with a computer and soon after I'm connected online. One day, being bored off my rear-end, I decide to go back to that site i'd found the year before. Problem was I couldn't remember the address I Googled Tolkien and I soon found it. Traveling along the trail on the adventure, I discovered this message board called Entmoot. Using a name I'd found on a name generator, I registered. My first post was in RPG with Eowyn. I soon found myself posting nonstop. I loved it. This was my first message board and I considered the Mooters like family. And today, I leave behind the elven warriors and join the ranks of the elf lords! I don't think my time here would be great without Butterbeer, Doc, Spock and many others I couldn't possiblely list here. I 'll be back for an update at post 1000! Love y'all Acally __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

12-20-2005, 04:42 AM	#163
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Most kind. We look forward to many more posts. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

12-20-2005, 06:29 AM	#164
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	Nice posts and my thanks too Acalewia and Lief - heh, the tradition is catching on - i didn't even have to hound those two! .. best all BB now if only Gordis would do her 1,000th (plus) moot experiences ... edit: btw when i am gone ...keep your eyes peeled for mooters not here represented near landmark figures... and bring em on over... Last edited by Butterbeer : 12-20-2005 at 06:37 AM.

12-20-2005, 04:45 PM	#165
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	Time for a custom title, Acalewea. That is, if you want one... notices Butterbeer never got one __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

12-20-2005, 04:59 PM	#166
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	ahhh - the conspiracy theorists are up and running, heh? best BB

12-22-2005, 02:21 PM	#168
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	You should PM Sister Golden Hair! She'll do it for you, for sure. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

01-06-2006, 02:35 PM	#169
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Thanks for the advice, Tess. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

01-16-2006, 06:09 PM	#170
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	I saw this and thought of JD, not because of the prayer, mind you, but FRANCE. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...3/ixworld.html One cogent blogger suggested that if you don't want grace at your meals, don't ask bishops to lunch (or at least not RC bishops, because aI'm not sure and ECUSAN one could do grace at meals, given their lack of grace nationally). __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

01-16-2006, 08:42 PM	#171
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	It's 2006 and time for a change. The thread title has been modified to fit into current reality. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

03-10-2006, 11:54 PM	#172
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	My 500th!!! Hurray! I'm an elf lord! does sprightly jig on bedroom carpet I LOVE ENTMOOT! ... and all MOOTERS! ...And, now without further ado, I go in seek of a title... I would like to include a thank-you list, and write down everything fun that I did, and all the people who made entmoot feel like a home... but I'd get misty-eyed, and besides, I'm saving it for the more momentous 1,000th! If I ever reach it, of course! __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

03-10-2006, 11:57 PM	#173
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	congrats, Serenoli!!!!!!! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

03-10-2006, 11:58 PM	#174
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Here it is! I was wondering where BB's "JD Syndrome" thread went - Again, Congratulazioni littleadanel! Before you know it, you'll be at a grand. It goes faster the more you moot; it's just like time - or the concept of time. Now I'm starting to sound like trolls' bane! Anyone else around here think this thread sounds an awful lot like the Academy Award Oscars ceremony when the winners are accepting their awards onstage? I swear! __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

03-11-2006, 12:11 AM	#175
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	I know! I felt exactly like that when I was thinking what to write for the 500th... it was starting to sound just like the traditional: 'thank you to so-and-so without whom none of this would be possible... and, of course, so-and-so... we had the best times ever... etc etc' __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

03-11-2006, 12:19 AM	#176
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	This Thread was Originally Named By Butterbeer, in Honour of JerseyDevil I will keep stirring the bubbling cauldron of my thoughts, as they simmer away, and soon enough I'll think of a nice post to plunk here for my official 5k "I'd like to thank the Academy and my mother" post, but in the meantime, I thought it bore remembering who started this thread in the first place, and why, and to give respect to old BB who's thread name was altered against his wishes, because someone who weilds the mod wand - oh, you know the rest. following as posted by Butterbeer, when starting this thread - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Experiencing JD syndrome and my experiences on the moot (this being my 500th post even if it still says 499?) In times of adversity, in times of emotion and stress i wearily and somewhat accidently stumbled across the Entmoot. Having but today overcome the terrible and deadly on-line virus that could well be the scourge of the 21st century, and wishing JD well with this crippling syndrome (Jd-itis) I am now free for another 500 posts before I get another (much lesser) case of this disease than the great man himself even now is heroically fighting. This then is my story: it is my small victory against JD syndrome: may it be a hope to those in dark places … or new Joisey … or wherever in the world they are sadly afflicted … Our communal Moot thoughts go out to you. This 500th post is therefore dedicated to jersey devil, who on the moot has been on occasions a friend in need and an unofficial mentor (who, having sometimes to put up with some incredible rambling rubbish from me always found the time to get back with some good advice) and it is also a personal piece on my moot experience from unsuspecting entling through to Elf Lord. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

03-11-2006, 10:55 AM	#179
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Congrats Lotesse and Nurv. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230