I think that Cult of Lauda gang needs their new supreme leader fast [...]
There's already a few wannabe "leaders" trying to create a Cult of Lame and Inane Tripe or perhaps a Cult of Utterly Nauseating Textwalls but I predict failure.
suchmoon, your passive-aggressive behaviour is unbecoming. It is also revealing: It shows that you fear me.
I do not think that I have ever before seen you so assiduously avoid direct conflict with someone toward whom you seethe with such venom.
Just to reassure you a bit, I have no intent of wasting my life on a forum war to unseat you from your DT fiefdom.
Unfortunately, I do need to address this hereby. Not so much your calumny against me, as the dangerous suggestion being bandied about.
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I knew Lauda much better than most of the people engaged in various speculations and pronouncements. Moreover, I will take as her public endorsement her choice to draw on things that I made for her as her
final, permanent avatar and
personal text. Wherefore officially, hereby, I declare myself to be the new
Grand Prophet of the Cult of Lauda.And by my authority as Grand Prophet, I hereby declare that insofar as DT is concerned,
the Cult of Lauda is dissolved.
Lauda is gone. And upon her apotheosis from a mere witch to a deity, the Catbat Goddess Herself decreed her own wishes as to her name and reputation:
I have one of the highest name-recognition accounts on the forum. This places on me a responsibility. It is not to feed my strong ego that I say, it is a valuable account with a high reputation - a trust that people place in my unseen body, through the name of "Lauda". If I cease to be "Lauda" then according to my well-known principles, I must affirmatively prevent anybody else from using this name and forum account ever again.
Although that was said in the context of money, I knew Lauda well enough to know that she would also not want for
anybody to take up leadership of the “Lauda gang” for purposes of trust and reputation.
That includes me. And it includes everybody else on this forum.
Moreover, if she had wanted somehow to pass the torch of her DT position to me or anybody else, then she would have told me, and provided appropriate instructions for a line of succession. She did not.
As such,
my authority as Grand Prophet is limited to the ritual maintenance of Laudatory Lore, in memoriam—to keeping the eternal flame alive at the Altar of the Catbat—to the arcane study of crypto-
sourcery—and also, to guarding Lauda’s reputation against misappropriation.Signed,
nullius
Grand Prophet
Cult of Lauda
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I have been contemplating, and am beginning to prepare something Lauda-related. It may take awhile.
The god of Bitcoin commands, you shall keep safe your private keys. An ye lose your private keys, the god of Bitcoin shall curse ye. An ye let your private keys be stolen, the god of Bitcoin shall bless the thief and curse ye.
I am too much of a lone wolf to run a forum “gang”. Furthermore, I lack Lauda’s unlimited devotion. The cat got where she was, because she spent years of her life doing mostly thankless grunt work for the benefit of the community! I am not that altruistic.
If you want to worship my cult, HoDL.
If you trust me, then trust me. If not, not. I will stand on my own reputation, thank you very much.
Although Lauda’s trust of me, and her trust of my judgment, are no doubt a considerable part of my reputation, I am not her. I had many amicable disagreements with her; and we have very different personalities.
She was
brilliant—and even moreso in private than on the forum! A rare mind, truly unique—and
irreplaceable.
I am nobody.
← Nobody said this in mid-2018, and “nobody” was not here to say the obvious. ...“trust nobody”, “ask nobody’s permission”, “let no one be the eternal dictator of the world”, etc.
Let nobody enslave you. Nobody is entitled to seize your wealth, your freedom, and your virgin daughter. No one is a god.
Fear nothing.
No man is immortal. No one is invincible. And nobody understands women.
* nullius pleases nobody.
Gazeta, upon the foregoing, I respectfully request that you amend OP to note that the “Lauda gang” is
officially disbanded, upon authority of its Grand Prophet. As Lauda would have wanted.
Edit: since October 19th, 2020, the supreme leader of the gang made a step behind, retiring in a better place, away of the hard life of the forum
where even the founder is banned! But who will lead the army of the followers now? And who will control the system from now on? Could that be Foxpup, which already controls the merits system? Would that be an overwhelm for this gang leader which is known though for being a strong one? Could Foxpup reunite the two gangs into a single one which would become
a legion? Or will this gang be another defunct one and the followers will spread away...? Only time will tell.
Answer: Whoever comes to lead various individuals who have been following Lauda will need to succeed without involving Lauda’s reputation.
Edit 2020-10-26: Added anchor tag. (No substantive changes.)
Foxpup's ways are unknown to all of us.
This way, those with the ill imagination will believe even stronger about the existence of these gangs. You know who they are, right?
