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**Naturist Mark** · 02-10-2007, 06:29 AM

The following letter posted on the DOMAI website was pointed out to me as coming from one of our new members. I think it has some nice points about the healing power of social nudity:

**simonsebs** · 02-10-2007, 06:42 AM

I'm happy for this lady. I just hope she comes back. I'm afraid she might have gotten scared off of this board because of what happened on another topic.
She posted on the Open Con. section about George Bush. When she said she supported him, she got made fun of for it, and also for poor spelling.
What's worse is that a few people accused her of being a troll. As I've said on another topic, we should give people the benefit of the doubt. Doing things like what has been done to this woman, may scare people away from the board and from learning something valuable.

**Sanslines** · 02-10-2007, 06:56 AM

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Originally posted by simonsebs:
I'm happy for this lady. I just hope she comes back. I'm afraid she might have gotten scared off of this board because of what happened on another topic.
She posted on the Open Con. section about George Bush. When she said she supported him, she got made fun of for it, and also for poor spelling.
What's worse is that a few people accused her of being a troll. As I've said on another topic, we should give people the benefit of the doubt. Doing things like what has been done to this woman, may scare people away from the board and from learning something valuable.

I agree with what you have said above. We should give everyone the benefit of the doubt even if a few turn out to be something other then what they claim to be. Being 100 percent certain that someone is mostly genuine or not can be a very tricky thing to determine on line.

As an aside to this topic, back in the not so old days, when MSN chat was alive and well, I was a 'gold hammer owner' in a naturist room. As a room moderator, I came into contact with a huge variety of people with very different backgrounds. On several occasions people turned out to be something very different then what they were in real life. In one case, an older woman with cancer pretended to be a much younger woman. She did this in order to gain acceptance. In another case, an older man with medical problems and who was obviously very lonely pretended to be a young woman.

Even though I do not condone deception, I have come to understand many of the reasons for it. In many cases, people who deceive feel rejected by the real world society for a variety of reasons (ie health, appearance, age discrimination, lack of social skills, etc) and feel compelled to come on line and create a new image that others will accept. Even though we might not agree with deception, I don't think that we should immediately use this as a reason to attack or ridicule someone for we might never know the real reasons for the deception.

**Unwired** · 02-10-2007, 07:09 AM

Those who read the other thread in its entirety then couldn't have missed the point that this "young woman" originally said that he or she was a 23-y/o male specifically seeking female naturists to hang with. And the original posting (which was subsequently withdrawn after another member tactfully and politely pointed out that it might be an uphill battle) didn't contain any of the spelling or grammatical errors or affectations that the more recent posts do.

I don't know the whole story, only what I've said before: there are people who love to leverage and take advantage of the attention and sympathy they might receive from pretending to be something they're not. Particularly if that something happens to be young and female in a nudist discussion forum. This probably wouldn't even be an issue had the member not pulled a gender-switcheroo in the first place. But I don't appreciate being deceived, and based on the original intent, I'm not buying it. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but a little healthy skepticism is a good thing.

UW

**tiger79** · 02-10-2007, 07:43 AM

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Originally posted by Unwired:
But I don't appreciate being deceived, and based on the original intent, I'm not buying it. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but a little healthy skepticism is a good thing.

Please see my PM to you.

**Naturist Mark** · 02-10-2007, 07:47 AM

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Those who read the other thread in its entirety then couldn't have missed the point that this "young woman" originally said that he or she was a 23-y/o male specifically seeking female naturists to hang with ... I don't appreciate being deceived

Understood, but I'm pretty sympathetic to the notion that a female posting on the internet, not to mention to a nudist board, might choose a male persona. Indeed I suspect that a few of the guys around here have two x chromosomes.

By the way Unwired ... your current avatar could get you arrested in Boston . I'm just saying.

**Unwired** · 02-10-2007, 08:24 AM

Let's just say that there are way too many holes in the story, both here and elsewhere. As for the letter to DOMAI, considering the source I would class that as about as credible as a letter to Penthouse...full of stuff that the intended audience likes to read, but ultimately without much basis in reality.

As for the Mooninites "terrorist scare" in Boston...let's just say that the people who called it in...which ultimately led to the resignation of Cartoon Network CEO Jim Samples...are a bunch of nerds.

UW

"You have deeply offended us and our god. And our god is a god of vengeance and horror." - Ignignokt

**Naturist Mark** · 02-10-2007, 09:53 AM

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let's just say that the people who called it in...which ultimately led to the resignation of Cartoon Network CEO Jim Samples...are a bunch of nerds.

LOL

I suspect the nerds recognized the Mooninites ... it was fools who let their fears carry themselves away, and were too pompous to back off once they knew their error. Then again, maybe their foolish over-reaction was calculated. Odd that there was no panic in the 10 other cities the Mooninites 'terrorized' - they must be full of nerds.

-Mark

**LamontCranston** · 02-10-2007, 10:10 AM

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Odd that there was no panic in the 10 other cities the Mooninites 'terrorized' - they must be full of nerds.

If you have lived in or near Boston, you'd understand.

They refer to that city as The Hub, as in hub of the universe.

Corruption top to bottom, unions, organized crime, training ground for bank robbery, the works. Decades of it, maybe centuries.

Where else can one brother run the state legislature while the other sits on the FBI's Most Wanted list?

Where else can they build a tunnel for $12 billion plus and have it leaking and falling apart within a year or two of completion?

Never mind global warming, that city still dumps raw sewage into Boston Harbor. Read about the Mass. Water Resources Authority (MWRA) sometime.

Boston's a joke... except for the baseball team.

**missouriboy** · 02-11-2007, 06:32 AM

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Corruption top to bottom, unions, organized crime, training ground for bank robbery, the works. Decades of it, maybe centuries.

And "Democrat" through and through. Hehehehehe...

**Naturist Mark** · 02-11-2007, 07:46 AM

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And "Democrat" through and through. Hehehehehe...

Yep, Weld, Cellucci, Swift, Romney. Democrats all.

-Mark

**walter05** · 02-13-2007, 10:38 AM

Unfortunately, the terrorist threat is real. The FBI would rather people call in possible threats than try to decide if they are real.

The people calling it in were doing the correct thing. One day, those people may save a lot of lives.

The people who think they are so smart that they can always spot the real threats will enable terrorists to strike.

**NudeAl** · 02-13-2007, 03:00 PM

If these same concerned citizens are too stupid to tell the difference between a childrens game and an obivious adolescent style prank then I don't want them calling anything in. I'd prefer they sit in there little bomb shelters and play Yahtzi while the rest of us get on with living. Seriously if you are too timid or too stupid to know the difference perhaps you should check yourself into a mental hospital at least there you'll have plenty of new people interested in your conspiracy theories.

**walter05** · 02-14-2007, 06:10 AM

NudAl;

Some of those devices were in tunnels. I am assuming that people driving by did not have time to see them for long. They would not have had a chance to see all of those details. Seeing something suspcious, they called the authorities.

This is what people in Israel, the U.K. and other countries where there have been more terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, the U.S. is now in a similar state.

I am thankful, that others put safety first. I am thankful that your life may be saved by one of those people.

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