Ha ! 'Slackers', 'lazies', 'losers' ...

[Turtle]

In particular, please see #1:

1) Respect. Compassion. Loving-kindness. Empathy. Trust. Goodwill. Desire to serve. Embracing each other. Opening our heart. Participants are asked to keep the thought in the forefront of their minds at all times that each on this forum IS the Creator. Please keep communication respectful at all times and in all ways. The participant may disagree to the bone with an idea without personally attacking the author of the idea. Please remember that we are all here to expand our knowledge, deepen our understanding, and support one another by reflecting our divinity to each other. We are One being -- we are not here to forget the real.

Whether it is consciously being disregarded or not is unknown to me, but this guideline is most definitely being overlooked from time to time. It ruins the atmosphere, if you understand my meaning of the word, on this board. This site, this forum, is purposefully designed to be a more harmonious place to communicate with others. We are all still human, and I understand this as well. However, it is quite obvious to me that sometimes members on this site purposefully provoke others, without heeding the forum guidelines.

I do believe everyone is intelligent enough to understand that if you feel your pride is hurt, or your intelligence insulted, that you can still participate on this forum without provoking or attacking other members...

I highly recommend the approach of ignoring those who provoke, no matter how tempting it may seem to speak back to them, and let the moderators see for themselves who is trampling on guidelines and let them do their job of moderating this site.

....it may not be easy or even desired by some...but I also suggest forgiveness, of self and other self, on this board.