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	<title>Comments on: It&#8217;s 4/20 &#8212; Do You Know Where Your Medical Marijuana Is?</title>
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		<title>By: Marx Dudek</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2009/04/its-420-do-you-know-where-your-medical-marijuana-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-66018</link>
		<dc:creator>Marx Dudek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And when Josh finally succumbed to AIDS, Prokofy Neva stalked the corpse of Deadly Codec to the funeral parlor where his body lay, waiting to be interred.

And required proof from the funeral director before she was able to cross off his name from her Enemies List.

And defended her actions, claiming to be acting in the interest of &quot;journalism&quot;.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And when Josh finally succumbed to AIDS, Prokofy Neva stalked the corpse of Deadly Codec to the funeral parlor where his body lay, waiting to be interred.</p>
<p>And required proof from the funeral director before she was able to cross off his name from her Enemies List.</p>
<p>And defended her actions, claiming to be acting in the interest of &#8220;journalism&#8221;.</p>
<p>But the internet never forgets.</p>
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		<title>By: Prokofy Neva</title>
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		<dc:creator>Prokofy Neva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Curiously, editor Tom Grant has not written back to me, although he seems a rather open and gregorious sort of fellow on the website where he gives his address publicly: tom.grant@metrospirit.com

So any other readers may wish to write him, too.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Curiously, editor Tom Grant has not written back to me, although he seems a rather open and gregorious sort of fellow on the website where he gives his address publicly: <a href="mailto:tom.grant@metrospirit.com">tom.grant@metrospirit.com</a></p>
<p>So any other readers may wish to write him, too.</p>
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		<title>By: the west is the best</title>
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		<dc:creator>the west is the best</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Well, out here in the West, all us Country Folk are very hospitible, and don&#039;t you forget it pilgrim...&quot; thats my best John Wayne impression. That quote from the old west (hollywood circa 1960) leads nicely into me wondering how many more lies this Codec is going to tell, because right here in the good old USA marijuana IS legal. I will say that again. Don&#039;t believe it when someone writes that he can&#039;t get relief from life because he cant smoke pot legally. He can. Right here in the USA. I have been sitting in someone&#039;s living room talking to them when all of a sudden the Police come barging in to his house unannounced. They just open the door and come right in. They say hello to the owner in the front room who is sitting at his coffee table smoking some bud from his water bong. Blurble blurble. After saying hello they proceed down his back hall into his back bedroom. The lights are already on in his back bedroom. A tinkly sound proceeds the cops as the aluminum foil that covers all the walls in the bedroom responds to them walking in. There are no beds or reclining positions in the room, only maturing Marijuana plants, sitting around growing under the lights. The Drug cops count the number of his mature plants and his seedlings and note just how big and juicy the coleus&#039; are becoming on the tops of the tall ones. A scent was in the air. They breathed deeply, smiled and then turned and walked back out to the front room where I was talking to the owner of the house. He was loading another bowl. The cops came back in where we were on their way out, which was the way they came in. They smiled at the owner and told him his plants were all the right number and were looking good. As they left one of the cops turned and filled in the time and date and his signature on a small Official Drug Police card which was attached to his front door warning any possible thieves that this was the home of a Medical Marijuana patient and it contained an Officially Protected Medicinal Marijuana grow operation. Out here in the west you dont need to hide and be all paranoid with Marijuana. You dont even need a prescription. All you need is a simple note from your doctor saying that the use of marijuana would be beneficial and medicinal for his patient. And this is happening in thousands of places as Marijuana is legal in most all of the western states as a medicine. So don&#039;t give us that bawwwwwwwww Codec you could be doing that too.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Well, out here in the West, all us Country Folk are very hospitible, and don&#8217;t you forget it pilgrim&#8230;&#8221; thats my best John Wayne impression. That quote from the old west (hollywood circa 1960) leads nicely into me wondering how many more lies this Codec is going to tell, because right here in the good old USA marijuana IS legal. I will say that again. Don&#8217;t believe it when someone writes that he can&#8217;t get relief from life because he cant smoke pot legally. He can. Right here in the USA. I have been sitting in someone&#8217;s living room talking to them when all of a sudden the Police come barging in to his house unannounced. They just open the door and come right in. They say hello to the owner in the front room who is sitting at his coffee table smoking some bud from his water bong. Blurble blurble. After saying hello they proceed down his back hall into his back bedroom. The lights are already on in his back bedroom. A tinkly sound proceeds the cops as the aluminum foil that covers all the walls in the bedroom responds to them walking in. There are no beds or reclining positions in the room, only maturing Marijuana plants, sitting around growing under the lights. The Drug cops count the number of his mature plants and his seedlings and note just how big and juicy the coleus&#8217; are becoming on the tops of the tall ones. A scent was in the air. They breathed deeply, smiled and then turned and walked back out to the front room where I was talking to the owner of the house. He was loading another bowl. The cops came back in where we were on their way out, which was the way they came in. They smiled at the owner and told him his plants were all the right number and were looking good. As they left one of the cops turned and filled in the time and date and his signature on a small Official Drug Police card which was attached to his front door warning any possible thieves that this was the home of a Medical Marijuana patient and it contained an Officially Protected Medicinal Marijuana grow operation. Out here in the west you dont need to hide and be all paranoid with Marijuana. You dont even need a prescription. All you need is a simple note from your doctor saying that the use of marijuana would be beneficial and medicinal for his patient. And this is happening in thousands of places as Marijuana is legal in most all of the western states as a medicine. So don&#8217;t give us that bawwwwwwwww Codec you could be doing that too.</p>
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		<title>By: deadlycodec</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2009/04/its-420-do-you-know-where-your-medical-marijuana-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-5580</link>
		<dc:creator>deadlycodec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And I&#039;m not upset about being asked about the truthfulness of my diagnosis. I am upset about being asked by someone who would refuse to see the truth no matter what happens because you&#039;re sitting there on your fat fucking ass trying to make it sound like there is actually a chance that I could prove my diagnosis if it&#039;s true while at the same time you&#039;re making it impossible for me to prove it by calling every single means I could use to prove it into question. I can&#039;t defend myself in this situation and YOU are the one counting on the fact that another real life journalist won&#039;t come here to see if I&#039;m being honest. I hope they do but I have my doubts as to whether or not it&#039;d be satisfactory for you. Nothing would. You are speaking out in a conscious effort to ruin my reputation while I am sitting here DYING.

If a real life journalist came to my appointment and wrote a story on how I am telling the truth, we both know you&#039;d call his or her credibility into question too. If you attended my doctor&#039;s appointments in person, you&#039;d likely insist that the doctor was bribed. I don&#039;t know what to make of it. Are you really as paranoid as you make yourself out to be, or are you just the most vindictive person I have ever come into contact with?

I wish I understood fully WHY this bothers me so much. It does though. It bothers me because this is all so real to me. I am experiencing it every single fucking day. God knows, of all people, I SHOULD care less what you have to say.

It&#039;s fucking amazing. The first time you called me a liar on this shit, I thought it was funny. The irony is there for sure. It isn&#039;t funny anymore though. It&#039;s god damn frustrating.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And I&#8217;m not upset about being asked about the truthfulness of my diagnosis. I am upset about being asked by someone who would refuse to see the truth no matter what happens because you&#8217;re sitting there on your fat fucking ass trying to make it sound like there is actually a chance that I could prove my diagnosis if it&#8217;s true while at the same time you&#8217;re making it impossible for me to prove it by calling every single means I could use to prove it into question. I can&#8217;t defend myself in this situation and YOU are the one counting on the fact that another real life journalist won&#8217;t come here to see if I&#8217;m being honest. I hope they do but I have my doubts as to whether or not it&#8217;d be satisfactory for you. Nothing would. You are speaking out in a conscious effort to ruin my reputation while I am sitting here DYING.</p>
<p>If a real life journalist came to my appointment and wrote a story on how I am telling the truth, we both know you&#8217;d call his or her credibility into question too. If you attended my doctor&#8217;s appointments in person, you&#8217;d likely insist that the doctor was bribed. I don&#8217;t know what to make of it. Are you really as paranoid as you make yourself out to be, or are you just the most vindictive person I have ever come into contact with?</p>
<p>I wish I understood fully WHY this bothers me so much. It does though. It bothers me because this is all so real to me. I am experiencing it every single fucking day. God knows, of all people, I SHOULD care less what you have to say.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s fucking amazing. The first time you called me a liar on this shit, I thought it was funny. The irony is there for sure. It isn&#8217;t funny anymore though. It&#8217;s god damn frustrating.</p>
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		<title>By: mootykips</title>
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		<dc:creator>mootykips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yeah obviously you should take fat women trying to be men in video games so seriously you publish your medical records so you can prove you have a terminal illness to them. obviously otherwise you&#039;re a faker. go back to eating haagen dazs, porkofy.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeah obviously you should take fat women trying to be men in video games so seriously you publish your medical records so you can prove you have a terminal illness to them. obviously otherwise you&#8217;re a faker. go back to eating haagen dazs, porkofy.</p>
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		<title>By: deadlycodec</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2009/04/its-420-do-you-know-where-your-medical-marijuana-is.html/comment-page-1#comment-5578</link>
		<dc:creator>deadlycodec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um, I&#039;ve already made it quite clear that I&#039;m not gay. Maybe you didn&#039;t get the memo, Prok. And what the fuck do you know about dying or how a dying person should act? What the fuck am I gaining from sympathy here at the herald? Tell me what the fuck my motivation is, Prok?

Tell you what, I&#039;ve been open enough that I really don&#039;t give a shit if a real life journalist follows me around. If they feel inclined to do so they can meet me at my next appointment on 4/28 at the University Hospital in Augusta, GA at the Retroviral Disease/Disease Management Program at 1pm. If they feel inclined to do so they can also call ahead to find out exactly where the program is.

And telling you to be respectful if you have the gaul to come in my home to verify that I&#039;m telling the truth about all this shit isn&#039;t bullshit. We&#039;re talking about you cutting in on my time just because you&#039;re fucking paranoid. What do you do when someone is disrespectful in your home? Tell them to get the fuck out.

I am getting really sick of this shit. I read your huge fucking rant on &#039;cyberpaths&#039; and people faking deaths online. I&#039;m not faking and the Metro Spirit isn&#039;t a shopper and I&#039;m not just an online columnist. My work is in print all over town also.

I never ridiculed gays either. I ridiculed furries. Apparently you are under the mistaken impression that all gay people are dressing like animals and sucking e-dogcocks. I&#039;ve never met a single gay person in real life that does that shit. Furries are the weirdest.

I do spend time with friends and family but *SHOCK* most of them have full time jobs, which I don&#039;t because 1) I have enough cashflow from occasional writing and other projects to sustain me and 2) I am too fucking sick to hold any sort of full time job, obviously.

I&#039;m not saying journalism should be nice. It rarely is. I AM saying that if you&#039;re going to call me a liar you should at least have some follow-through and be prepared to verify whether I am in fact lying. I&#039;m not.

You have absolutely no idea how you&#039;d react if you were in the same situation and some stupid bitch wrote long rants about how you were lying. There is something infuriating about that and I am unable to understand why that is so, but it is.

Your whole approach really pisses me off because you&#039;re all like &#039;omg he can&#039;t prove it online because shit can be forged and you can&#039;t believe everything you read&#039; and then you come out with shit like this:
&#039;The idea that someone who questions this mythologizing is somehow harming some family somewhere is all part of the idiotic manipulative game. &#039;
Discouraging people to check in person because you&#039;re make believing that it&#039;d harm some innocent person. In essence, you&#039;re trying to make it lose-lose for me. I believe that you know the truth and I am convinced that this is a conscious effort on your part to inflict pain because you&#039;re just an evil soul sucking bitch. I have really had it up to here with you and your paranoia.

Another thing, I never stalked anyone. I dropped dox on a few people but none of that is STALKING. Wrong in a mild sense? Yeah but it doesn&#039;t equal stalking.

And my family does care about what is being said about me because they&#039;re hypersensitive about me right now which is actually fucking NORMAL for a family in this situation.

They should really give you some kind of award Prok because you have trolled the fucking shit out of me. Congratulations, you stupid fucking woman.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um, I&#8217;ve already made it quite clear that I&#8217;m not gay. Maybe you didn&#8217;t get the memo, Prok. And what the fuck do you know about dying or how a dying person should act? What the fuck am I gaining from sympathy here at the herald? Tell me what the fuck my motivation is, Prok?</p>
<p>Tell you what, I&#8217;ve been open enough that I really don&#8217;t give a shit if a real life journalist follows me around. If they feel inclined to do so they can meet me at my next appointment on 4/28 at the University Hospital in Augusta, GA at the Retroviral Disease/Disease Management Program at 1pm. If they feel inclined to do so they can also call ahead to find out exactly where the program is.</p>
<p>And telling you to be respectful if you have the gaul to come in my home to verify that I&#8217;m telling the truth about all this shit isn&#8217;t bullshit. We&#8217;re talking about you cutting in on my time just because you&#8217;re fucking paranoid. What do you do when someone is disrespectful in your home? Tell them to get the fuck out.</p>
<p>I am getting really sick of this shit. I read your huge fucking rant on &#8216;cyberpaths&#8217; and people faking deaths online. I&#8217;m not faking and the Metro Spirit isn&#8217;t a shopper and I&#8217;m not just an online columnist. My work is in print all over town also.</p>
<p>I never ridiculed gays either. I ridiculed furries. Apparently you are under the mistaken impression that all gay people are dressing like animals and sucking e-dogcocks. I&#8217;ve never met a single gay person in real life that does that shit. Furries are the weirdest.</p>
<p>I do spend time with friends and family but *SHOCK* most of them have full time jobs, which I don&#8217;t because 1) I have enough cashflow from occasional writing and other projects to sustain me and 2) I am too fucking sick to hold any sort of full time job, obviously.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying journalism should be nice. It rarely is. I AM saying that if you&#8217;re going to call me a liar you should at least have some follow-through and be prepared to verify whether I am in fact lying. I&#8217;m not.</p>
<p>You have absolutely no idea how you&#8217;d react if you were in the same situation and some stupid bitch wrote long rants about how you were lying. There is something infuriating about that and I am unable to understand why that is so, but it is.</p>
<p>Your whole approach really pisses me off because you&#8217;re all like &#8216;omg he can&#8217;t prove it online because shit can be forged and you can&#8217;t believe everything you read&#8217; and then you come out with shit like this:<br />
&#8216;The idea that someone who questions this mythologizing is somehow harming some family somewhere is all part of the idiotic manipulative game. &#8216;<br />
Discouraging people to check in person because you&#8217;re make believing that it&#8217;d harm some innocent person. In essence, you&#8217;re trying to make it lose-lose for me. I believe that you know the truth and I am convinced that this is a conscious effort on your part to inflict pain because you&#8217;re just an evil soul sucking bitch. I have really had it up to here with you and your paranoia.</p>
<p>Another thing, I never stalked anyone. I dropped dox on a few people but none of that is STALKING. Wrong in a mild sense? Yeah but it doesn&#8217;t equal stalking.</p>
<p>And my family does care about what is being said about me because they&#8217;re hypersensitive about me right now which is actually fucking NORMAL for a family in this situation.</p>
<p>They should really give you some kind of award Prok because you have trolled the fucking shit out of me. Congratulations, you stupid fucking woman.</p>
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		<title>By: Prokofy Neva</title>
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		<dc:creator>Prokofy Neva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t believe in invading any one&#039;s real life. That&#039;s unjust and improper for any SL avatar.

But when you have someone who griefs and destroys property and stalks and harasses, it is absolutely just and proper for the free media to examine what this person is up to -- not give them the blowjobs that the Herald endlessly does. Uri set down those sacred principles himself when he went to invade Evangeline&#039;s private life and talked to Evangeline&#039;s mother -- and sicced a RL journalist after the whole sordid mess (I&#039;ve always thought that it was the mom who was really the character, whom I don&#039;t think anyone, RL journalist or Uri or anybody, has ever actually met.)

If a griefing group that constantly makes as an element of their griefing a ridicule of gays and those with AIDS, and an obsession with AIDS, produces someone who led that group who now claims he had a gay encounter and now has AIDS and seeks sympathy, you have to question it. That&#039;s what journalism does. It&#039;s not about being &quot;nice&quot;. It&#039;s not about &quot;somebody&#039;s mom&quot;. It&#039;s journalism.

Internet histrionics -- people making up stories just because they can online, and getting others to believe them -- and manipulative, psychopathic legends told to harm people -- these are rampant online. So it&#039;s absolutely right and proper for me to raise the questions that I do here. Absolutely.

If you don&#039;t want your RL invaded, don&#039;t get on the Internet and tell everyone you have AIDS suddenly because you suddenly turned gay, after, um, recanting from being a griefer who used to go around harassing everybody with obsessive themes relating to gays and AIDS. Duh!

Sorry, but I&#039;m not required to get involved in newspaper investigations in Augusta, and certainly not with all kinds of caveats like &quot;but you have to be respectful&quot;. That&#039;s bullshit. My job here as a member of the reading public of this rag is to ask the Herald to do due diligence. That they can&#039;t or won&#039;t is clear. Perhaps someone else will pick up on it. I&#039;ve fired off a letter to Tom, who of course may be in on the conspiracy himself, much like the Woodbury professor was.

Calling the editor of a shopper in Augusta to ask whether his manipulative online columnist really has AIDS or not is not the way to gain the truth of this story. Interview this faker in real life, and accompanying him to a doctor&#039;s office to get some documentation is really the only way the truth could be established, given the very, very high probability here for a very, very deliberate and sinister Big Lie that even that editor could have been duped by.

Calling a person&#039;s doctor is never, ever the way to get medical information. Everybody knows in this day and age, with medical privacy forms signed multiple times during treatment, that no clinic, especially a reputable one attached to a university, will ever, ever do such a thing. And that&#039;s what this hoaxer is counting on -- the inability to anybody to really get themselves to Augusta and come along with him to a doctor&#039;s appointment and get it proved there on the spot. You don&#039;t prove anything by calling some clerk answering a phone, that&#039;s retarded.

No, I&#039;m crying &quot;foul&quot; on this very hard, because I think what&#039;s going on here is really a nasty piece of griefing manipulation, and I don&#039;t see why anyone should be falling for it. It&#039;s purpose is to get more attention for this sick psychotic -- a &quot;cyberpath&quot; as they have been aptly called.

If I were dying from a terminal illness one of two things would happen:

1. I wouldn&#039;t tell people, because I&#039;d likely prefer to spend my last days with family and close friends, not yacking with idiots online.
2. If I chose to tell people online who are essentially strangers, and I found they didn&#039;t buy it (having been exposed many times to the Big Lie of Internet Histrionics before), I&#039;d have absolutely no problem telling the truth, and publishing my medical statements online. I&#039;d work with a reputable journalist if I had to, to give them permission to get my records, if that&#039;s what it took.

What I *wouldn&#039;t* do is act all butthurt, neuralgic, and defensive about even being asked, invoking more drama and histrionics, or say that &quot;here&#039;s a number of someone who may be in on this with me who is also a cynical geek, go ahead, call it, I double dare you.&quot;

No sane and reputable person would do that.

People who are really dying, in my experience, generally don&#039;t have time or inclination to come online and tell you all about it.

I&#039;ve had quite a few friends and colleagues die of AIDS. I&#039;ve never known any of them to die quickly, except for one who suffered AIDS from a bad blood transfusion. I&#039;ve known some who thought they were dying and then didn&#039;t. I&#039;ve known some that had lymph nodes swell up and go through all kinds of suffering. They never sounded flippant about this as this psychopath is doing. That&#039;s why I smell a rat.

The idea that someone who questions this mythologizing is somehow harming some family somewhere is all part of the idiotic manipulative game.

In real situations where people with online lives get sick and die, family members not involved in that online community could absolutely care less what is being said online. They are obviously preoccupied by other things. There&#039;s a basic illogic to all the statements here, as anyone can see, but that&#039;s because they are done with only one purpose: to shame and bully and harass people with a new form of griefing, called &quot;I&#039;m dying of AIDS, and don&#039;t you dare question it or I will try to make you look like an unfeeling piece of shit&quot;.

Um, go ahead. I don&#039;t care. I cry &quot;bullshit&quot; on this top to bottom, and I also am not interested in continuing this conversation and continuing to feed this sick mind online. I thought it was worth flagging for Uri. Uri loves a good story, and has a nose for bullshit, too. He may have gotten sinusitis, however, and not be smelling this one.

I didn&#039;t forget anything about this asshole. I don&#039;t know where that idea came about. We all know the RL name was given, and we&#039;ve all heard ad nauseum the &quot;gay harasser turns gay and gets AIDS himself&quot; line.





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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t believe in invading any one&#8217;s real life. That&#8217;s unjust and improper for any SL avatar.</p>
<p>But when you have someone who griefs and destroys property and stalks and harasses, it is absolutely just and proper for the free media to examine what this person is up to &#8212; not give them the blowjobs that the Herald endlessly does. Uri set down those sacred principles himself when he went to invade Evangeline&#8217;s private life and talked to Evangeline&#8217;s mother &#8212; and sicced a RL journalist after the whole sordid mess (I&#8217;ve always thought that it was the mom who was really the character, whom I don&#8217;t think anyone, RL journalist or Uri or anybody, has ever actually met.)</p>
<p>If a griefing group that constantly makes as an element of their griefing a ridicule of gays and those with AIDS, and an obsession with AIDS, produces someone who led that group who now claims he had a gay encounter and now has AIDS and seeks sympathy, you have to question it. That&#8217;s what journalism does. It&#8217;s not about being &#8220;nice&#8221;. It&#8217;s not about &#8220;somebody&#8217;s mom&#8221;. It&#8217;s journalism.</p>
<p>Internet histrionics &#8212; people making up stories just because they can online, and getting others to believe them &#8212; and manipulative, psychopathic legends told to harm people &#8212; these are rampant online. So it&#8217;s absolutely right and proper for me to raise the questions that I do here. Absolutely.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want your RL invaded, don&#8217;t get on the Internet and tell everyone you have AIDS suddenly because you suddenly turned gay, after, um, recanting from being a griefer who used to go around harassing everybody with obsessive themes relating to gays and AIDS. Duh!</p>
<p>Sorry, but I&#8217;m not required to get involved in newspaper investigations in Augusta, and certainly not with all kinds of caveats like &#8220;but you have to be respectful&#8221;. That&#8217;s bullshit. My job here as a member of the reading public of this rag is to ask the Herald to do due diligence. That they can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t is clear. Perhaps someone else will pick up on it. I&#8217;ve fired off a letter to Tom, who of course may be in on the conspiracy himself, much like the Woodbury professor was.</p>
<p>Calling the editor of a shopper in Augusta to ask whether his manipulative online columnist really has AIDS or not is not the way to gain the truth of this story. Interview this faker in real life, and accompanying him to a doctor&#8217;s office to get some documentation is really the only way the truth could be established, given the very, very high probability here for a very, very deliberate and sinister Big Lie that even that editor could have been duped by.</p>
<p>Calling a person&#8217;s doctor is never, ever the way to get medical information. Everybody knows in this day and age, with medical privacy forms signed multiple times during treatment, that no clinic, especially a reputable one attached to a university, will ever, ever do such a thing. And that&#8217;s what this hoaxer is counting on &#8212; the inability to anybody to really get themselves to Augusta and come along with him to a doctor&#8217;s appointment and get it proved there on the spot. You don&#8217;t prove anything by calling some clerk answering a phone, that&#8217;s retarded.</p>
<p>No, I&#8217;m crying &#8220;foul&#8221; on this very hard, because I think what&#8217;s going on here is really a nasty piece of griefing manipulation, and I don&#8217;t see why anyone should be falling for it. It&#8217;s purpose is to get more attention for this sick psychotic &#8212; a &#8220;cyberpath&#8221; as they have been aptly called.</p>
<p>If I were dying from a terminal illness one of two things would happen:</p>
<p>1. I wouldn&#8217;t tell people, because I&#8217;d likely prefer to spend my last days with family and close friends, not yacking with idiots online.<br />
2. If I chose to tell people online who are essentially strangers, and I found they didn&#8217;t buy it (having been exposed many times to the Big Lie of Internet Histrionics before), I&#8217;d have absolutely no problem telling the truth, and publishing my medical statements online. I&#8217;d work with a reputable journalist if I had to, to give them permission to get my records, if that&#8217;s what it took.</p>
<p>What I *wouldn&#8217;t* do is act all butthurt, neuralgic, and defensive about even being asked, invoking more drama and histrionics, or say that &#8220;here&#8217;s a number of someone who may be in on this with me who is also a cynical geek, go ahead, call it, I double dare you.&#8221;</p>
<p>No sane and reputable person would do that.</p>
<p>People who are really dying, in my experience, generally don&#8217;t have time or inclination to come online and tell you all about it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few friends and colleagues die of AIDS. I&#8217;ve never known any of them to die quickly, except for one who suffered AIDS from a bad blood transfusion. I&#8217;ve known some who thought they were dying and then didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve known some that had lymph nodes swell up and go through all kinds of suffering. They never sounded flippant about this as this psychopath is doing. That&#8217;s why I smell a rat.</p>
<p>The idea that someone who questions this mythologizing is somehow harming some family somewhere is all part of the idiotic manipulative game.</p>
<p>In real situations where people with online lives get sick and die, family members not involved in that online community could absolutely care less what is being said online. They are obviously preoccupied by other things. There&#8217;s a basic illogic to all the statements here, as anyone can see, but that&#8217;s because they are done with only one purpose: to shame and bully and harass people with a new form of griefing, called &#8220;I&#8217;m dying of AIDS, and don&#8217;t you dare question it or I will try to make you look like an unfeeling piece of shit&#8221;.</p>
<p>Um, go ahead. I don&#8217;t care. I cry &#8220;bullshit&#8221; on this top to bottom, and I also am not interested in continuing this conversation and continuing to feed this sick mind online. I thought it was worth flagging for Uri. Uri loves a good story, and has a nose for bullshit, too. He may have gotten sinusitis, however, and not be smelling this one.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t forget anything about this asshole. I don&#8217;t know where that idea came about. We all know the RL name was given, and we&#8217;ve all heard ad nauseum the &#8220;gay harasser turns gay and gets AIDS himself&#8221; line.</p>
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		<description>&quot;Trying to decide if Prok was actually celebrating Lenin&#039;s birthday. I&#039;ve seen weirder from her and basically everything she says conflicts with something else she said earlier so I suppose it&#039;d come as no surprise.&quot;

SO TRUE!

BUT THEN AGAIN, IF YOU WERE &#039;that&#039; (as opposed to THEY) PERSON WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING WITH YOUR PATHETIC LIFE?  ROFLMAO


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<p>SO TRUE!</p>
<p>BUT THEN AGAIN, IF YOU WERE &#8216;that&#8217; (as opposed to THEY) PERSON WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING WITH YOUR PATHETIC LIFE?  ROFLMAO</p>
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		<description>I have several codecs for playing music. Some are new codecs and some are old. Some of the old codecs aren&#039;t used anymore. Their day is done. I call them Dead Codecs.
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		<description>While it&#039;s easy for people to say that I talk about AIDS and death too much, those people aren&#039;t realizing that I speak of it because it&#039;s factual and not in a &#039;omg why me&#039; sort of self-pity way. In fact, the knowledge that I am dying has made the time I have left infinitely more meaningful. It has also caused me to reconcile with the people that mean the most to me because I realize that I might not be able to do it tomorrow.

I know that there are some of you who like to think that OMG codec doing something right it must be fake because he dropped boxes and Second Life and that guy can&#039;t have a good bone in his body, but I have always understood that there is a very real difference between the things I did in Second Life and causing real life harm. Sadly, it seems like that is an understanding that many of the most hardcore Second Lifers seem to lack and it makes them pretty weird.

I think Prok is even worse than the weirder ones that cant seem to separate fantasy from reality because Prok has come to think that those who bothered her aren&#039;t even human. That they can&#039;t or don&#039;t suffer and have problems. Whose the real sociopath then though? Someone who recognizes that even Prok has problems and sometimes even feels sorry for her when she is abused or a person who regards their enemies as cardboard, without any sort of thoughts, dreams, or feelings? I know I did things that were wrong in a very mild sense but that doesn&#039;t mean that I am incapable of having compassion even for my enemies.


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<p>I know that there are some of you who like to think that OMG codec doing something right it must be fake because he dropped boxes and Second Life and that guy can&#8217;t have a good bone in his body, but I have always understood that there is a very real difference between the things I did in Second Life and causing real life harm. Sadly, it seems like that is an understanding that many of the most hardcore Second Lifers seem to lack and it makes them pretty weird.</p>
<p>I think Prok is even worse than the weirder ones that cant seem to separate fantasy from reality because Prok has come to think that those who bothered her aren&#8217;t even human. That they can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t suffer and have problems. Whose the real sociopath then though? Someone who recognizes that even Prok has problems and sometimes even feels sorry for her when she is abused or a person who regards their enemies as cardboard, without any sort of thoughts, dreams, or feelings? I know I did things that were wrong in a very mild sense but that doesn&#8217;t mean that I am incapable of having compassion even for my enemies.</p>
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