weird spammish behavior

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Weird prosyletizing, off-topic for the subboard. After someone asked, I was happy to lock the thread, although if people raise a stink I'm fine with unlocking it too. I have no idea if further moderation should be done, or what -- any ideas? ILBooks has gotten used to the homework help requests but this is a bit different.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I was going to post about a Bahai party I once went to, but then the thread got locked. I don't care too much either way though.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 26 December 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't that exciting. We ate chicken and danced to Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" twice.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I met an Indian woman there (I think that's how I met her). We went out to lunch once or twice. Later, she invited me to a party she had, but it turned out that she had a boyfriend as well. I noticed there were lots of single guys milling about and got the sense she collected male admirers, though quite possibly she only did so buy accident. She was not even a Bahai herself.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Did Celebration play twice in a row, and if so, how could you tell?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

At R's party, I met an Indian guy who had some good weed. I was apparently the only one there interested in it. I put on some Mikey Dread. The guy's girlfriend asked me what kind of music it was, and when I said reggae, she said, she thought it was but wanted to make sure. She didn't especially like it. (Maybe she wanted to know so she could avoid it in the future.)

I met the same man several years later, up on the roof with the pot-heads, at a different party. I hadn't seen him since that other party.

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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

We danced to it twice, with full awareness that we were doing so. I don't think they hired a professional DJ.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

was there any weird spammish behavior at these parties?

― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

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― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

if rockist comes back - where was the party, may i ask? philly? i have been to parties like that, both when i was an active + fervent believer (back in the day) and since i have sort of fallen off the wagon (lately).

thanks again for locking that thread, chris.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

All parties mentioned were in Philadelphia. I didn't know you had ever been a Bahai (but then why would I). Should that ("Bahai") have an apostrophe in it, by the way? The Bahai event/party was held at Temple University somewhere, I forget which building. Possibly a former church. Aren't half the old buildings former church buildings? Or maybe they are just built to look that way. Actually, my father's father was a Methodist minister in that location at one point. I mean he actually served a church that later became one of those buildings, and my father later took classes at Temple in a room that had once been his bedroom (or more accurately, one of his bedrooms, since it was a large house and he moved around from room to room). That would have been pretty freaky.

God, why this outpouring of autobiographical detail on the moderator forum? WTF?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I went to a Bahai wedding once. It was held in a barn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

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