Whew! We got bailed out. My 2nd ex-hubby didn’t want the mother of his elder daughter to be homeless, so he sent a check to our landlady. She should have it in her hot little hands by the time you read this. But this doesn’t let you off the hook. We need readings, classes, and research. Thanks to all of you who helped or offered help. As Stephen said, “Tegwedd’s ex-husband took a lot of the pressure off of us, but we still have SMUD, AT&T and PG&E to grapple with. Now that we don’t have the threat of eviction hanging over our heads, we can begin to feel hope again.”
We’ve lost a lot of ground because of the rent crisis. We have Facebook, Googlegroups, Paganspace.net, Paganspace.com; Myspace, but it’s still going through reorganization, Wiccantogether, and blessedbeuk.ning.com, and Avalon, which Stephen has taken over our groups. We’re in the process of rebuilding our “empire”. Of course, there’s are very own ning network, abbottsinn.ning.com. Like the phoenix, Abbotts Inn International is arising from its ashes, spreading its beautiful plumage across the Pagan Internet. At the present time, we need more staff members. Counting Stephen and me, we have 6. The other four are: Walt & Julie, SilverRaven, and Tony son of Crystal. We cannot pay cash money. What we can offer are readings, classes, and research for as long as you work for AII.
We need a house mate yesterday. Well, actually, 19 months ago. We’ve already sent a free ad to the local Self-Help Housing agency, and will have done a craigslist ad by the time you read this. If you know of a free place to place ads, please tell us. We are limited by the transportation issue too, since neither of us has a vehicle.
Stephen just said, “This has been a good day.” I knocked on wood so as to appease the Gods and the spirits. I always do that when someone utters a positive assumption. Now that the pressure is off about eviction, it’s time to start thinking about a positive future.
We have been given a special gift by Andy. Andy has given of his generosity. We must show that we are worthy of this. So we’ll do a special payback system. Since I don’t have a job, I’ll pay something like $50 a month, and Stephen $100 a month, once we get a housemate, and things stabilize.
Stephen was doing a reading on his new job for two lesbians, and all of a sudden Christian rock comes blaring out of his speakers and headset. The system was hacked into and being attacked by right wing jesoids! Then you wonder why we have such a low tolerance for Christians. It’s not only because of what their ancestors did to our ancestors, but what they’re still doing to us. Things like jamming us with their poison when we’re just trying to make a living so we can pay our bills. The reason Stephen got into such a hole with SMUD to begin with was because of, you guessed it, a Christian house mate who didn’t pay his share of the house bills. He thought that just because he was right with Jesus, he could skate through without paying his share. From all the calls that Stephen is getting about people looking for him with hostile intent, we’re guessing that his kharma is about to catch him very soon, if it hasn’t already. Maybe the Christians among you are saying, ”Don’t paint all of us with the same tarbrush, or that isn’t a typical Christian. But it’s typical of the quality of Christians we see. We’re skeptical enough of your message that we don’t believe what you say, since it’s proven to be a bunch of lies, at least for us. We go by what we’ve experienced. The biggest lie of all is that Christianity is for everyone. It isn’t. Few are those who can actually do it right. The vast majority of Christians are nothing but hypocrites. This is because Christianity was forced upon the majority back in the 4th through the 11 centuries. It’s still being forced upon people today. So if we’re not real tolerant of you, I hope you’ll be a true Christian and forgive us. Christianity today is about having power.
Our secondary focus is to find social networks to put our groups on, and write our blogs on. To contact us, call us at 1-888-611-7982 or 916-455-2267. You can find us at http://abbottsinn.com/ or http://abbottsinninternational.com/ or http://abbottsinn.ning.com. We offer Tarot readings, readings with other forms of divination, Pagan and magickal classes, and Pagan/magickal research in our 12,000 volume library. Prices won’t be mentioned here, because a lot of the hosts of the networks I’m posting this on don’t want us to mention money unless we’ve shelled out big bucks (which we don’t have)for their pro-memberships, and besides I told Stephen I would no longer post his begging blogs.
We want to thank all of you for being with us and helping us in this time of crisis. As I said before, we now look forward to a more positive future. .
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
IMVU Ripped off Thousands of People on Monday
Monday morning January 31st at 6 am (PST) IMVU changed the codes that enable the triggerless music so that only 20 seconds of any song will be played. If they were having copyright infringement problems, they should have said so in the beginning. But no, they just did it without giving anyone advance notice or reimbursing anyone for the music they had bought. And when Stephen called to complian about it, they were quite happy about what they’d done. They fairly crowed about it, and gloated. Stephen is just hopping mad. This is not the first time that IMVU has ripped off its 150,000 customers. They will take things from people’s inventories they they have paid good money or credits for, and refused to reimburse them. And yet, they do nothing to the scammers who hack people’s accounts on IMVU, nor to the child porn ring that thrives on IMVU. For all of IMVU’s moralistic posturing, and blather about making the GA (General Access) areas safe for children, it makes one believe that that the hackers and child porn ring members have a sweetheart deal with the people who run IMVU.
Monday afternoon we went to the IC3.govwebsite that the FBI agent Stephen talked to provided him with, and filed a formal complaint against IMVU. IC3.gov is run by a consortium of three agencies: the FBI themselves, along with the Internet Crime agence and the agency fighting white collar crime. We urge you to go to IC3.gov and file a complaint if you’ve been victimized by IMVU’s ripoffs. You don’t have to capitalize the I and the C. I just did it to make it stand out, and be easily seen.
Our new 2nd website came up last night. It’s http://abbottsinn.com/. That final forward slash is very important. Be sure you also go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and sign up for a reading, a class and or research. For $60, you can have 2 out of the three. Or you can donate through Paypal. Call either number: 1-888-611-7982 or 916-455-2267. Also come to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com. Upgrading it so that you can have music on your pages is going to be delayed by this rent crisis.
Our new website is the conduit that unites all three. I would like everyone to boycott http://blessedbeuk.ning.com/ and http://ceridwenscauldron.ning.com/ (Avalon). All they care about is getting their sticky hands on your money. They don’t care about their members as people. They are selfish and greedy.
Stephen’s IMVU software crashed several times on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I’m glad I got out of IMVU when I did. It was just causing a lot of stress. I wasn’t getting any enjoyment out of it. And why does someone do IMVU or anything like like it, if not for entertainment? Sure, there are those who work for IMVU as developers, but even they are getting disgusted and also leaving. The group Save Our Music is growing by leaps and bounds. We don’t know whether its member ship has reached 2000 yet, but it’s getting there. Stephen loves it, and is very active in it. He came up with the battle cry “F___ you, IMVU, pay up or face the music!” I don’t feel comfortable using the F word online. I came back with a counter line, “If you’re going to screw them, use a condom, they probably have a disease.” There are many plans for civil disobedience against IMVU, demonstrations, boycotts, and petitions being signed. Stephen is very impressed by these plans. He wants to see as many people join as possible. So iff you who are reading this got ripped off by IMVU, join the group. It’s not Stephen’s group. It’s not in any way connected with us.
Our newest staff member, Tony, son of Crystal, said, “Some people only have internet at work, not at home. Others, like me, do have internet at home. We like to have our music on IMVU because we don’t have stereos, and the music relaxes us, and helps us to think better.”
It’s obvious that IMVU doesn’t care about its members, except as cash cows. So why do people still belong? Stephen says “Leaving is what they want us to do. I want to fight IMVU from the inside. That’s where I feel we can do them the most damage.” But people are leaving in droves. Last night we estimate that the online population was down by at least 28,000. “I want IMVU shut down.” What I’d personally like to see is IMVU in the same situation we’re in, in poverty, facing eviction, and seeing no way out of their predicament. .
Monday afternoon we went to the IC3.govwebsite that the FBI agent Stephen talked to provided him with, and filed a formal complaint against IMVU. IC3.gov is run by a consortium of three agencies: the FBI themselves, along with the Internet Crime agence and the agency fighting white collar crime. We urge you to go to IC3.gov and file a complaint if you’ve been victimized by IMVU’s ripoffs. You don’t have to capitalize the I and the C. I just did it to make it stand out, and be easily seen.
Our new 2nd website came up last night. It’s http://abbottsinn.com/. That final forward slash is very important. Be sure you also go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and sign up for a reading, a class and or research. For $60, you can have 2 out of the three. Or you can donate through Paypal. Call either number: 1-888-611-7982 or 916-455-2267. Also come to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com. Upgrading it so that you can have music on your pages is going to be delayed by this rent crisis.
Our new website is the conduit that unites all three. I would like everyone to boycott http://blessedbeuk.ning.com/ and http://ceridwenscauldron.ning.com/ (Avalon). All they care about is getting their sticky hands on your money. They don’t care about their members as people. They are selfish and greedy.
Stephen’s IMVU software crashed several times on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I’m glad I got out of IMVU when I did. It was just causing a lot of stress. I wasn’t getting any enjoyment out of it. And why does someone do IMVU or anything like like it, if not for entertainment? Sure, there are those who work for IMVU as developers, but even they are getting disgusted and also leaving. The group Save Our Music is growing by leaps and bounds. We don’t know whether its member ship has reached 2000 yet, but it’s getting there. Stephen loves it, and is very active in it. He came up with the battle cry “F___ you, IMVU, pay up or face the music!” I don’t feel comfortable using the F word online. I came back with a counter line, “If you’re going to screw them, use a condom, they probably have a disease.” There are many plans for civil disobedience against IMVU, demonstrations, boycotts, and petitions being signed. Stephen is very impressed by these plans. He wants to see as many people join as possible. So iff you who are reading this got ripped off by IMVU, join the group. It’s not Stephen’s group. It’s not in any way connected with us.
Our newest staff member, Tony, son of Crystal, said, “Some people only have internet at work, not at home. Others, like me, do have internet at home. We like to have our music on IMVU because we don’t have stereos, and the music relaxes us, and helps us to think better.”
It’s obvious that IMVU doesn’t care about its members, except as cash cows. So why do people still belong? Stephen says “Leaving is what they want us to do. I want to fight IMVU from the inside. That’s where I feel we can do them the most damage.” But people are leaving in droves. Last night we estimate that the online population was down by at least 28,000. “I want IMVU shut down.” What I’d personally like to see is IMVU in the same situation we’re in, in poverty, facing eviction, and seeing no way out of their predicament. .
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