Gevaudan wrote:I don't want any more people to leave.
That's exactly what's going to happen, though.
No offense to anyone here, but I like to stress that everyone has a subjective understanding of reality, and that
all Werewolves are valid. Is your were strong, is it weak, does it have lots of weakness, is it prone to acts of hostility, is it a hippie, are they very different to the Werewolves of the past? None of this matters, none of it. It doesn't matter if a were is incredibly resistant or as weak as an old bloke, because each and every individual here is entitled to their own dream of a Werewolf
by right.
Yet if there are those who are actively going to go after and attack people with a certain kind of belief, then people are going to leave, people are going to think that it's just not worth having something that means so much to them assaulted and insulted, they're just going to trickle away and the Pack's Den is going to become an unknown again, just a place where only a few people hang out and post, largely forgotten to the World.
I'm not afraid to say that these kinds of arguments are why my posting has been so lax lately, and I'm
terrified to look in the 'What should a Werewolf be?' subforums sometimes just because I don't really feel like facing another argument, where one person, or more than one person will be showing a blatant lack of regard and respect for their fellow man and woman. I don't want to listen to someone mouthing off, insulting people's lifestyle choices, their beliefs, the things that are important to them.
It's easy to take someone's side, but if there was someone here insulting religion every day and arguing the bad points of it, you wouldn't feel very welcome, Gev -- and that's exactly how all these therian and spiritual people are going to feel: like they're outsiders, like they're being forced away, that we consider their view to not be valid. And that's simply
not true.
If this kind of behaviour keeps up, I fear to think of what will happen to the Pack's Den. I respect Vuldari's opinions too, but he needs to
stop insulting people, he has no right to attack someone because of what they choose to do, because of their lifestyle, or because of their beliefs, no one has the right to do that. So I hope he takes what the moderators have told him to heart and realises just how wrong it is to do so.
If Vuldari could lay off insulting what a person believes or chooses as a lifestyle choice in presenting his opinions, then maybe I could even really like him. I want him to have some kind of revelation one of these days, and become a more rational and even-handed person because of it, to undergo his own renaissance and to come out of that cocoon as a butterfly.
For if things continue are they are now... then like I said, I don't see this turning out for the best.
--Edit--
The whole point of this was to stress to anyone with therian or other spiritual beliefs that you
are welcome here, this kind of behaviour isn't acceptable. Your Werewolf is as valid as mine, as valid as Vuldari's, as Gev's, as that of anyone who posts here--you're welcome to see Werewolves in whatever light you want. Please don't believe that there is some kind of enforced way that you should approach Werewolves here, because that's not what this forum is about.
