Has being part of this community changed you in any way?
I'm finding that I have less patience for any kind of ignorance, especially involving politics and religion, and am much more likely to speak up about it. The covid years, and just getting older may be playing a part as well.
Atheism seems a much more sensible worldview to me now. That's a big change, as being in recovery is all about developing one's spirituality.
I'm a little apprehensive about these changes. But in some way I feel like I've really come into my own. It's not wrong to speak up-strongly if necessary-if I'm willing to shoulder the consequences.
I certainly don't have any desire to create unnecessary conflicts for myself, or those around me. And I have friends who will check me if I get too far off the mark.
Am I going in the right direction?
Yes it has changed me. Like you I feel for the better in many ways but also taking a lot of my empathy and taking me lower than I have ever been before. tRUMP was the original impetus, for certain as I never hated ANYONE before ... only Hitler. And then he came and my lifetime of thinking that all people were worthwhile and had a good side if you looked for that light was put the window. I worked so hard compiling info and and trying to keep him out of office. When it was announced he had won, I was under the knife getting a tumour removed. I am sure that the bad news didn't help in my recovery.
His reign of terror and COVID really hit me. This place was like a haven. No, it was a haven.
I know I piss off some people who call me a know it all. That makes me laugh because my brain fog has dimished by memory. If I don't write things down, I can forget. But compiling information and data and searching is something I can always do... even if it pisses people off, and so I will add the URLs that people are remiss to add, call out mis and dis information, fake pictures, tweets, studies, "journalists" and more. I am a lot less inclined to help people than I was given the reponse,
There is a troll here who has as many as 6 or even more accounts and who Vaxxlady banned because she threatened to dox someone... and keeps coming back. She has an offsite list that people flocked to which I could normally give 2 shits about, but they are actively tormenting me. I have no idea if this one of her sock puppets, but... I felt threatened. I still do. There are a lot of people on that list... Are any of them hackers? Doxxers?
I am not a fucking mod here. Never was and never would be. Who would want to be a mod on a site with no rules or even guidelines?
I saved 2 of her posts where she showed Bigotry... and EVERYONE on the internet has access to this person's posts. https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/mark-friesen-48-saskatoon-sask-ca-ppc-candidate-sask-riding-intubated-with-covid?commentId=f8fbb4e0-0f6b-45c8-9240-1792d8dc69d9
And are they actively doxxing me? What poker game and fucking pot?
ADDENDUM: Note that there are some members who have a lot in common... female... give out flirtatious vibes, say fuck politics, this site is dead and then proceed to add many posts on this supposedly dead site and those posts are not only political, but are from antitRUMP Republicans.
They also "like" their own posts and "like" them when not signed in. One of them literally added 5 posts which duplicated what was on the previous page, all from a REPUBLICAN's perspective, but got "liked" many times more. WHY? Sock puppets signing in? People on the lists saying who they can like? 2024 is is right round the corner and I can see already how easily people are duped.