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Thor
Anti-Theist OVERLORD



Registered: 08/12/98
Posts: 10,017
Loc: Iceland
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Some thoughts, and yes a post from me..........
#6644286 - 03/07/07 05:09 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've been thinking alot about my last nearly 10 years from this amazing website. Most of it is about my own place in this community, the people I've met and the future for my relationship with this community.
So I thought I'd at least speak about the Shroomery as its been to me for the last decade.
10 years ago I moved to Iceland, my homeland to live a new life, this is where I first discovered my interest in mushrooms as I had heard of liberty caps.. I searched online for them and found this website. Next thing I knew I was spending every week looking at the mushroom hunting forum, learning all I could. mjshroomer was able to fill me full of useful local info so that I could go hunting for my own local mushrooms.
Anyhow, before I knew it I became interested in the community part of this website. The alt.drug.mushroom wars, the lyceaum drama, and more importantly the interesting characters of the shroomery of the day.
I became active, I took up an almost activist role sending countless PM's to a seemingly inactive admin by the name of Aphex. I was that annoying over zealous mod of the day who moderated mushroom cultivation and who spent a lot of his day's trying to 'improve' the shroomery at least in my own mind.
So the time came for Aphex to leave, he told the moderators of the time that he was intending to leave, and asked for anyone interested in taking the admin job to send him a PM.
Next thing I knew me and 3dshroom (both mods) were given the responsibility of the shroomery. So immediately I'm made aware of the financial difficulties of the website. Basically Ryche Hawke supported the monthly bills of about $150 USD a month.
Within months I knew we no longer could live on co-location and needed to move on, 3D was the man who pushed for our new home.
In the first few years I spend thousands of my own dollars, at a time where those were certainly huge figures. But at the time I believed strongly in the website and its future. I couldn't let it fall by the way side.
Early on I was beyond active, I felt my opinion and passion was needed in any/all debates. I was part of some serious vendor wars, some 'website' wars and it drained a lot of my own passion.
The site began to really grow, by our own statistics it grew by 4 or 5 times the previous years stats (2001) and was seriously becoming a player in the online drug community.
I was at this point starting to make money, seeing finally a financial return on what was an investment. Then a day that will live in infamy occurred, one of our old admins died in a chartroom for all the world to see.
The world in its infamous ignorance converged upon us and I was standing there mourning the loss of a friend and faced with stopping what I felt would be the media destruction of what I called home for so long.
The greatest triumph was trusting a journalist by the name of Helen B Kennedy at the NY daily news, who approached me on AIM and was the initial news source to make the ripper story worldwide news.
She agreed to keep the name 'shroomery' out of the news and for that I agreed to speak to the only journalist that I've ever spoken with honestly. To this day, the Shroomery has a real debt of thanks to her, and the fact she is so cool about our website and the social taboo that it involves.
After the end of this ripper 'era' I was burned out. CNN, BBC, John Walsh, etc.. All the media that had called me, emailed me, aim'ed me, etc.. I spent literally weeks upon weeks dealing with them as I could, turning attention from the website and onto what I thought was the real problem, prescription drug abuse.
After all this I went away from the shroomery, only to be asked to 'retake' the shroomery again when it was felt 3dshroom was abusing power. The shroomery regained its former self after my help and its become a juggernaut that has been moved/improved by the talents of its original creator Ythan. Not to mention my old roles were taken upon and improved upon by Geokills.
I'm honored to see the state of our home today, I feel unfortunately more distant from it due to the sheer size of it all now; but I always feel an affinity to it.
I guess the decade of this website's existence has me so melancholy for the past and the future.
I wanted to say that even though I may be not be a public admin, and a man of few words, I still check in every day with the admins of this website in order to help move our home in a direction that I'm sure will be towards a great future.
I hope you all take in the time we've had here, and the time we will spend together and realize how unique this place just is.
To the shroomery; I am and always will be your biggest admirer.
To the future. There is a many great things that we can become, I hope that all of you follow wherever we go; because there is greatness here and we will always do what is right move ourselves into the future.
Regards;
Thor.
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Wasteland
Elektromeister!


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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644299 - 03/07/07 05:14 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm not sure how to respond to that, as a newbie.
But, yeah, the shroomery rocks.
-------------------- The Mad Shroomer said: People are always promising the apocalypse. They never deliver.
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Brainiac
Rogue Scientist



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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644300 - 03/07/07 05:14 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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10 years, where has the time gone.
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Jenny
part of thewhole


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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644316 - 03/07/07 05:20 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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We all love you too and I can personally say you have been a true friend since I've been here. I LOVE YOU MAN!!!!!!!!!!! <3
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Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
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Thor
Anti-Theist OVERLORD



Registered: 08/12/98
Posts: 10,017
Loc: Iceland
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Jenny]
#6644328 - 03/07/07 05:24 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Love you too Jenny 
You'll always be someone I keep in touch with, and I'm hoping one day soon we get to meet up for once.
BUTTSEX!!! hot.
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usg543
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Registered: 02/11/07
Posts: 5,192
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644366 - 03/07/07 05:37 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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"i told u i was hardcore"
i didn't know that happened here!!?? crazy.
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trendal
J♠



Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644370 - 03/07/07 05:39 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thor man! Mad props to you for ALL you have done to the website! I think the greatness of the Shroomery as it is today is at least partially your doing!
Thank you
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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uno
enthusiast

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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644374 - 03/07/07 05:41 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I know I was talking to you on msn about this post, but some of it brought tears to my eyes. I was there for the Ripper thing. I was there when 3dShroom went over the top. (i donated hundreds of dollars to the shroomery on his request... ughhh) You were always there and was there for me at 7 am when I needed a friend to talk to. I don't know what else to say, but thank you.
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Individual
Bass Addict



Registered: 12/20/06
Posts: 6,666
Loc: Reality Loophole
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: uno]
#6644381 - 03/07/07 05:47 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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It seems we all owe you some gratitude.
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Acidic_Sloth
Acidic poly-Sided Di-slothamide


Registered: 05/29/02
Posts: 43,732
Loc: ainrofilac
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644383 - 03/07/07 05:50 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thork, i love you man. you're truly an awesome person with an awesome soul.
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Brugman
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644391 - 03/07/07 05:56 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wicked post Thor.. got me all lumpy throated since it caused me to reminisce.
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In(di)go
People of the sun.



Registered: 10/29/00
Posts: 8,157
Loc: Cologne, Germany
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644397 - 03/07/07 06:03 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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much love man...
and thank you... for everything...
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LosAngelesGraff
Ca Shroomite




Registered: 06/09/06
Posts: 7,047
Loc: Califas
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644424 - 03/07/07 06:26 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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John Walsh, wow. once my mom went to NY to be on his show. i never knew that the shroomery had such a history. I'm glad to hear it, you guys should put to gether a shroomery origin and build it as it grows. ROCK ON!
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Not here


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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: Thor]
#6644450 - 03/07/07 06:56 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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stefan
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Re: Some thoughts, and yes a post from me.......... [Re: trendal]
#6644453 - 03/07/07 06:58 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
trendal said: Thor man! Mad props to you for ALL you have done to the website! I think the greatness of the Shroomery as it is today is at least partially your doing!
Thank you
yeah man if it wasn't for you and your big hammer this place woulnd't be the same
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