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Calliope Simon was the obvious target for a sim-wide ban. She had been totally open in her disgust of and opposition to Carlton and Adam and others. However, she was not the only causualty of this hypocritical witch hunt.
I'd been painted as an unbeliever, a fraud and somebody trying to "bring Truth down". I was therefore treated with great suspicion and mistrust by Ben and Mariposa who seemed incapable of coming to an understanding of reality. Therefore I was watched closely.
For instance, one day I found myself being asked by a supposed Roman Catholic who came up to me as I was inside the Truth church, to tell him about the gospel. I thought it strange, but took him into the Dokimos cafe to help him. California Condor turned up and tried to control the conversation until I gave up. Afterwards I was convinced this man was a "plant" testing my Christian doctrine and values. But they found nothing they could pin on me - so they decided to invent it!
Carlton was still allowed unrestricted access to Truth. California Condor was also prowling around, itching for reasons to eject those he held responsible for his friend's downfall. Unable to accept the truth, they hid behind the lie, and Benjamin and Mariposa were dragged along behind them, afraid to resist.
Griefing Attacks
Carlton and friends thus adopted a new tactic. They had publicly humiliated me and accused me of "mocking and defaming God" but they had not been able to get rid of me. They therefore started circulating rumours and gossip that I was a "griefer" and had "attacked the Truth sim". To support their claims, they set me up, waiting until witnesses were preesent, then griefing the sim themselves and claiming it was me. Unfortunately, they did not know that Audrey Claxton (posing as an innocent and unknowing new visitor) was in fact Calliope, powerful and knowledgeable enough to discover the truth behind their weaponry.
In addition, the very fact that I and my husband had been allied with Calliope in the opposition to Carlton and 777 was enough to damn us ALL. The groups we had in common, innocent as they were, started to be seen as "evidence" that we all worked together as griefers. PARANOIA WAS SPREADING!
Invent The Evidence
On several occasions, when I was on Truth chatting to friends, we would be inexplicably set on fire, bombed or orbitted. You can see one instance above. Sometimes a "new" avatar would be there to record (for the sake of the log) that griefing had happened and suggest that I was to blame.
On one occasion Res Sands (who had tried to implicate Calliope in the griefing of Wings of Hope) arrived to insinuate that it was ONLY ME who did not get orbitted during these attacks (therefore suggesting to everyone that I was to blame). Likewise, A man called "Lasher Mayfair" turned up on Truth to tell me "I've heard bad things about you" and that I had been orbitting people. And so it went on.
In the schreenshot below I was reading the SL "bump" log to see who had attacked us, but unfortunately this simplistic log doesn't list the major weaponry like a PsiTech. However, it's obvious to see that Anya Heberle was still up to his old tricks.
Carlton supporter, Garron Shepherd, also accused me and others of griefing, and MorelloCherry Raymaker (a friend who was close to Calliope) reported from her travels to Adam Soler's JAMPL organisation that "you are pegged as a griefer - I defended you but it landed on deaf ears..." but "they think the sun shines out of Anya's bottom". That was the strange upside-down thinking of "christians" on Second Life.
A Christian fighting against false teaching and fraud is suspected of griefing, while a cross-dressing anti-Christian known griefer is welcomed with open arms!!I had rare victories, such as this:[5:59] You: have you been to Truth lately?
[5:59] Zeke Chaffe: umm...can't remember - maybe not for a few days?
[6:00] You: seems like every time we are chatting nicely, dancing, having fun, it gets spoiled
[6:01] You: yes, I agree, it gets too much
[6:01] You: we were all okay, then Anya Heberle turns up and first thing she does is attack me
[6:02] You: and then Garron Shepherd accused me of orbitting other people, and wouldn't take it back, even though I don't have the weapons.
[6:04] You: Audrey fixed him in the end.
She has a weapons scanner and told Garron all that there were only two ppl on Truth that had a psi tec weapon - she does, and Garron himself (HA !!)
[6:04] Zeke Chaffe: i don't even know wot they are!
[6:05] You: they are the things that can set on fire and blitz etc.
[6:05] You: I bought a shield against it
[6:05] You: quite expensive too (psi tecs) so - who has that kind of money?
The "Great Day of God 070707" passes without notice
The "great day" of 7th July 2007 finally arrived and went without much notice. It was a damp squib.
Now Carlton and California Condor were even madder! They blamed Calliope and myself for the abject failure of not only the 777 project, but Adam Soler's JAMPL vsision (now drowned in debt).
Not one single new church sim had been set up, the actual 777 meeting on 7th July was a fiasco, and Carlton's self-important ministry was in shreds. However, those who still believed it was "a mighty move of God" started viewing its opponents as devil-possessed unbelievers with minds brimming with hate, and as being part of the "Jezebel spirit" they claimed was coming against their works.
California now took to muting myself and my husband when we were online, and told everyone "it's much more peaceful now that they are muted" and in our presence apologised to Carlton "for the hurt they caused you".
Everytime Calliope invented a new avatar, she was banned all over again and her presence wasn't tolerated on Truth any more. She had so many alternative avatars that she set up a group for them, called "The Process Combine" and then loved to scare people by telling them it was a "Griefing Group" that she belonged to. Rumours were circulating and gossip was rife, so that nobody knew quite what or who to believe. I was getting sick of the whole thing, especially the hypocrisy of Truth.
Just when you thought it was safe to come out!
We all drifted back into our usual routine of messing about, chatting and passing the time on Truth. (I am the tiny bunny in this screenshot) We heard on the grapevine that Carlton had left Secondlife - and even that a burglar had broken into his trailer and stolen his computer.
Later on, we heard that his wife caught him with a girl and they had divorced.Calliope would turn up in various guises and it took us about a minute to spot her each time, to which she would say SHUSH. The list of her banned avatars grew steadily longer, while she grew more and more angry with the whole Christian experience. Instead of giving her a positive, helpful, loving and open image, she had been rewarded for her fight against Carlton with insults and bans. She now hated Christians and was plotting to "get rid of them all on Second Life".
Her bitterness is understandable. The opportunity to show her what Jesus Christ is like had been lost.In addition, a new "authority figure" was turning up on Truth and winding everyone up - his avatar was called "Abner Ibbetson" and you'll read about his adventures shortly. He had dressed his avatar to look like a wizened up old grey-haired man in a pringle sweater.He arrived in the lull after the storm, but shortly before I myself became a casualty of the revengeful, unforgiving spirit on Truth.
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