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Redball:
Allie, you're a good addition to the forum. Don't judge it by some comments in one thread. The forum strives to be welcoming, accepting and inclusive, a safe place. It takes some work.
If you're going to judge by one thread, judge by the entirety of the discussion, including comments from the administrator.

Allie_Allie:
I suppose you're right. There's always some "bad eggs" everywhere.

Redball:
And not necessarily "bad eggs," just some eggs that haven't yet been entirely sensitized. You could see the sensitization process going on in the thread as you read it. At least I could. It is a problem sometimes that the numbers of things to be sensitized about can be a little bewildering, but those who read the most lively threads and get a feeling for who's who sort it out eventually.

Metope:
Yeah, when I joined this forum I had a lot of pretty stupid, ignorant opinions, and I still probably have a lot of stupid, ignorant opinions, but hopefully less than I did then. It's about not thinking things through properly, and when someone says something that makes you think, you actually let yourself think about it instead of taking it as a personal insult and refusing to change your opinion. That's a good thing about this place, most people are open minded enough to see that they're not all knowing. Of course, it also means realising that people with opinions you find stupid and ignorant aren't necessarily stupid or ignorant, they just haven't gotten to the point where some other people are yet.

I don't mean to sound condescending towards anyone, and I know age isn't always an indicator when it comes to knowledge and maturity, but I sometimes check people's ages on the forum and if they're younger I cut them some slack, since I remember how much of an idiot I was just a few years ago. With this forum I usually find people who are younger than me to be a lot more mature than I used to be at their age though.

Sorflakne:

--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 02 Oct 2013, 15:30 ---
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 02 Oct 2013, 13:10 ---My mother and I visited a street tarot card reader in New Orleans about 14 years ago and I got to see this first hand as he read mom's cards.  Got everything right except for one thing: He was pretty convinced that I was the middle child of a set of fraternal triplets (older brother, me, younger sister).

I've asked mom about this at various times over the years and she's said that I was the only one, and my birth certificate confirms that I was a single birth, but even so, I still wonder about it.  And then I learned some time ago that it's actually sort of common for one twin to "absorb" the other in the womb before development gets too far along, so now I occasionally wonder if I actually was part of a set of triplets and ended up consuming my siblings in the womb.

--- End quote ---

Were the other things that the Tarot card reader said so accurate that you feel that this must be accurate too?

I'm just curious. It is a really random thing for a fortune teller to insist on, but it seems like you would have seen some evidence of... absorbed siblings... by now. Maybe not, I don't know that much about the medical stuff.

--- End quote ---
The only info mom initially gave him was her name.  He then had her select which cards were drawn and he basically went off of what was drawn.  She specifically answered questions with Yes or No, except for those that required clarification.  Now I'm not saying there was anything mystical going on, but it was a little uncanny when he pretty much immediately extrapolated that my grandpa had died the previous year without digging for info when mom drew the Death card.

As for the sibling thing, I dunno.  AFAIK, one twin can reabsorb the other after the zygote splits, or one can die in vitro and is simply broken down by the mother's body (if it happens early enough in the pregnancy).  I dunno if it actually happened to me, and it'd be nearly impossible to find out now, I guess.  Tbh, I've even gone as far as giving my imaginary siblings personalities as to how I'd imagine them if they were real (brother seems to be dark, scheming, not exactly a good person even though he means well, whereas my sister is more of a strong-willed tomboy sweetheart). 

The thought of it has actually given me a few story ideas, but I haven't developed them beyond missing siblings or person with MPD because his fraternal twins live inside him (though one RL Stine Fear Street book explored exactly that topic...imagine having your evil twin living inside your mind :meh: ).

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