{"id":253,"date":"2007-01-28T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T02:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2022-08-20T02:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:45:48","slug":"dances-with-loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/28\/dances-with-loons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dances with Loons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The head loon over at the PGS\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/images\/2006\/duh.jpg\" alt=\"The head loon over at the PGS\"><\/p>\n<p>This is (more or less) an open letter to the denizens to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paranormalghostsociety.org\"> Paranormal and Ghost Society.<\/a> You folks have had your fun, made a bunch of smacktalk and threats. That&#8217;s cool guys really! What I&#8217;ve had to say about your little bunch has not been particularly pleasant. You people appear to be a pack of yahoos who enjoy skulking around private property at night. So what? You got a problem with that? Take it up with the complaint department or better yet, stop being yahoos!<\/p>\n<p>What I object to is this outrageous talk about the Odd Emperor libeling you. No one&#8217;s libeled you! If you really think so than you probably don&#8217;t understand what the word means. (after reading all the crazy-half witted legal crap on your web page I have little doubt of that!)<\/p>\n<p>In publishing, it&#8217;s very important to understand which side one is on. To liable someone, one would have assert something with malicious intent which is also untrue. It&#8217;s certainly possible to accidentally liable someone, but that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I have not and I am not libeling your group or anyone else&#8211;<strong>I&#8217;m criticizing <\/strong>your group! Not quite the same thing at all. Just like when your fearful leader criticizes his local police department, the public library system, the local TV news company or some non-profit historical group that he knows nothing about. The ONLY difference is that <strong>I&#8217;m<\/strong> criticizing you and you people can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to deal with it. It&#8217;s not liable, it&#8217;s not going to harm you in any way, I&#8217;m not placing a hex on you, blighting your crops, hurting your business, stealing your cattle or corrupting your children.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just rendering an opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you over at PGS can&#8217;t handle an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/dictionary\/opinion\">opinion<\/a> which is not praising or validating your little group in some way. Your moderator (E.G.&#8221;Lord Rick&#8221;) is so afraid of criticism that he responds to it by screaming like a little girl.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? That&#8217;s tough-titty people. You want to be so restrictive that no differing opinion waifs into your little sandbox? You want to shout UNFAIR! &#8211; Leper-outcast-unclean when someone comes along and says &#8220;hey! You people are behaving like a bunch of unwashed goober-heads?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t speak for others but the reason I say that is because, <em>that&#8217;s what you look like.<\/em> The Paranormal and Ghost Society appears to be an entity that doesn&#8217;t exist outside Internet and Lord Ricks imagination. Your founder runs all over the place in his pickup truck, trespassing on private property, drinking beer and toking up. To me, that&#8217;s unbecoming behavior for almost anyone above the age of 19, that has been my experience and that is\u00c2&nbsp; my opinion. Live with it, stop worrying about it.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly suspect that I&#8217;m not alone in that opinion.<\/p>\n<p>To &#8220;Rick&#8221;\u009d, your illustrious founder I don&#8217;t have much more to say, except this.<\/p>\n<p>Dude; you need to start thinking about the important things in life. Not ghosts and goblins, that crap&#8217;s always been around and it pretty much takes care of itself. I&#8217;m talking about you <strong><em>Rich<\/em><\/strong> and the things you hold dear.<\/p>\n<p>When I see photos of you smoking your crack pipe, waving weapons around, sneaking into places you don&#8217;t belong, I roll my eyes and think that <strong><em>you look like a complete jerk.<\/em><\/strong> I don&#8217;t condone illegal drug use, but to tell you the truth, I also do not give a hot damn if you do drugs or not.<\/p>\n<p>However, I think it&#8217;s really stupid to brag about it on a public forum.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why is any of this my business Rich? <em><strong>Because you made it my business,<\/strong><\/em> You made it my business by putting photos of you and your buds lighting up pipes in public places. You made it my business and the business of 100 or so people who stopped by your web page today.<\/p>\n<p>You know Rick, I sent you some questions a week or so ago, some of them were silly, perhaps even, disrespectful. I&#8217;m sorry about that but, it&#8217;s difficult for me to be respectful to someone who is so full of himself, so convinced that he&#8217;s doing something that anyone gives a flying flip about.<\/p>\n<p>Rick, anyone can skulk around private property at night, anyone can smoke dope and anyone can throw a good party, anyone can take photos of closed cemeteries and write stories about them.<\/p>\n<p>The question I didn&#8217;t send you, the one I should have sent you would be something like this. <strong><em>&#8220;Rich; when will you think about growing up<\/em><\/strong>? For own sake, For your family&#8217;s sake? (BTW, that&#8217;s not a threat against you or your family so put your hackles down! Chill out dude!)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of threats, you write;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who knows maybe Ill just knock on his door wonder what he would do then see its all about principal he messaged me at first being all buddy buddy when his heart was full of darkness and bad intent its almost like premeditated murder its wrong. I don&#8217;t care ill call the guy 4am after I smoke a bowl lol what is he going to do kick my ass I highly doubt it. People like that don&#8217;t need to be taken to court they need to get served justice that is the only way anything gets done nowadays.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Rick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d be real careful on that score bud. I think \u201cthat guy&#8221; might mind very <strong>MUCH<\/strong> if you call him at 4AM. You can call him before 11 PM, as a matter of fact I believe he&#8217;s interested in speaking with you.<\/p>\n<p>Showing up on his doorstep to serve justice? Rick, I don&#8217;t wonder what he would see, A drugged-out loser with delusions of grandeur. You can come by Rick but not unannounced. If you call ahead, he might even have a cold one&#8211;waiting for you. (A beer Rick, not some other thing)<\/p>\n<p>You Rick are <strong>not <\/strong>an officer of justice and if you show up drunk and\/or stoned, the real officers of justice will be dealing with you &#8211; but I suspect you already know that. Sure hope you do! The paperwork&#8217;s a bitch!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s really all I have to say to you &#8220;Rick&#8221; take care and farewell, we will meet again only if you do something silly.<\/p>\n<p>To the members of the Paranormal and Ghost Society? You can stop by the Odd Empire any time you like. Your fearful leader doesn&#8217;t extend that offer to people he dislikes. That&#8217;s only one of a multitude of differences between us. I&#8217;m opened minded and can take a little criticism. Rick is not open minded and he&#8217;s evidentially pretty thin-skinned, so are most people over at the PGS, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, you-all are welcome to comment if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Share and Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is (more or less) an open letter to the denizens to the Paranormal and Ghost Society. You folks have had your fun, made a bunch of smacktalk and threats. That&#8217;s cool guys really! 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