--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], zarzari_786 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Curtis, ask Alex, anonymity is garanteed here: one solution > > to this is, that you use a different screen name, than your > > professional name, and then INSIST, that nobody here who knows > > it, could address you with your real/artists name (which could > > be everybody). This will be then enforced by the moderators. > > You could possibly have all mentions of your artists name, > > which are denigatory, removed. > > Thanks for the kind intentions. I post here with my sincere > beliefs in a way that gives me a little internet search engine > room from my professional life. > > I don't believe that any insistences work here. People have > been respectful when I have asked that my full name not be > used. The truth is that these posts are forever. Our anonymity > is long gone. So we try to do a little patch work here and there, > but ultimately, we who have chosen to post on boards like this > are searchable and can't stop that. We can only try to be proud > of what we post and let the chips fall where they may. > > I appreciate your post, thanks!
Have any of you in the FFL audience ever been blacklisted? I mean really, as in seeing an actual physical copy of a list circulated to potential employers with a big DO NOT HIRE printed across the top in bold, 24-point type? I have. A friendly technopimp in New York once showed me the list that had my name on it. He, aware of my on-the-job perform- ance and my actual talents, laughed it off and described it as the work of "cult cranks." Fascinatingly enough, the list itself was created and circulated among NYC employers by people who called themselves "anti-cultists." They had a burr up their butts about Rama - Frenderick Lenz, and had decided that the way to put him out of business was to make it impossible for his students, most of whom worked in IT, to find jobs. So they stole a list of all his students, put their names on their DO NOT HIRE list, and distributed it widely in New York City. It never really affected me personally, but it did affect a number of my good friends at the time. Now think about some of the things that have been said, on equally as public a forum, about some on this forum. I have been called in the past a tax criminal, a liar, a pervert, and many other things. When I applied for residency in Spain, the first thing the official in charge of my application did when I left his office was Google me, to see what the Internet had to say about me. A month later, when I went back to the office to pick up the residency card he had approved for me, he showed me printouts of a few of the things he had found. Several of them were from Willytex or Nabby; the vast majority of them were from Judy Stein. He referred to all of them as "Internet cranks." He looked at me and said, "CIA agent," and laughed. I laughed, too. I was fortunate. Not everyone is. WTF can people who feel that it is their prerogative to make up things about the people they don't like to *hurt* them, either emotionally or professionally, be *thinking*? When I say something about someone here, I try to be conscientious enough to always include a bit "IMO," to make it clear that anything I say IS opinion. Others do not. As Curtis says, the things said here are fuckin' FOREVER, and they have effects, both karmic, and real-world. Catch a fuckin' CLUE, people. Your personal desire to "get" someone on your Enemies List doth not give you the right to try to "get" them in real life. That just makes you insane, not spiritual, or moral.
