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Are you guys quite finished being ?

Hi there. I'm Bodhi. I once ran this guild called the Lunatics. I worked very hard at building it up to something we were all proud of. My officers and guildmates were dependable and were extremely helpful in making this a terrific guild. According to my guild mates, I did an outstanding job of leading the guild.

Then one day, I made an error in judgement. Thinking my guild mates would would be capable of rational thought, I was sure we could rectify the problem. Instead, some guild officers had mental breakdowns and did some incredibly stupid and ignorant things that only inflamed the issue and created secondary issues. The whole thing snowballed out of control. The situation became ridiculously laughable.

I made several errors in judgement, no question. I put my vision of what the guild could be instead of remembering why we were here in the first place - a place where we, as friends, could hang out and have fun. I lost sight of that. For that, I am truly sorry.

However, I didn't lose sight of what it will take for a guild to succeed in WoW - accomplishing difficult challenges. Unfortunately, I realized that our guild didn't have what it takes to overcome those challenges and if they continued on the path they were on, they never will - whether in a new guild or on their own.

Positivity, cooperation, and structure are absolutely necessary to achieve the goals set forth in WoW. While some members of the guild could see the big picture of what it will take to achieve things in WoW, other members had no clue or no desire to be in this type of environment - to accomplish things in WoW as a guild of this size could do.

I realize now with the personality, maturity, and mental capacity mix of the guild members, this would prove impossible. But that's ok.

Currently, many people are pissed off with me. That's fine. Anger is healthy. I was angry, too. I ask my friends to forgive me for the many stupid mistakes I made in the way things played out. As well, I forgive them for the stupidity on their parts. It's what a real friend will do. Friends forgive friends of their flaws.

People have burned their bridges with me. That's fine. If you ever decide to cool off, as I have, I welcome your friendship again. I understand some of you better now, as perhaps some of you understand that I am a cranky ******* underneath my friendly demeanor. I don't like to be pushed as I'm sure that you don't.

I take full responsibility for the demise of the Lunatics. Again, I am truly sorry for my part in all this. This is not to say that others are innocent in the way things played out. I challenge them to accept some responsibility for their actions that also contributed to blowing this all way out of proportion.

At the end of the day, I tried the best I could. The burden of leadership, even in the most casual of environments, is a taxing thing. Kudos to those who can make it work. As for me, my leadership days are over. I'm relieved and a much happier person because of it. I also learned some valuable lessons.

I'm sure some of you that read this will be ecstatic as to how this all played out. That's fine. Everyone loves to see people fail. I failed, no question - but so did everyone else in the guild.

Positivity, cooperation, and structure. As a guild, we all failed at this.

Friendships will continue, if you wish them to. This is entirely up to you.

Bodhi
Guild Founder of
the Lunatics




PS I hate you Moe!!!!

ok can we please stop [:beatinghtheshitoutofadeadhorsesmilie:] and let this thread die?

pretty please with sugar on top?[Azure][/Azure]

Edited, Mon Mar 6 19:44:29 2006 by Aadynn Litefoot

So, Bhodi...when are you changing your title to what we discussed in Guild Chat?

I reserved a title many moons ago.

Not that it matters because the day I hit 10k is the day I stop posting. So enjoy the last 917 posts. They are all the bodhi you are gonna get.

This was a great read while I was waiting doing a bunch of recording. It's really good to see that the drama llama strikes all Asylum/Alla's based guilds leading to spectacular flames on the board.

First it was Followers of the Stars. Then Shards of Chaos. Now, this.

Awesome. Just awesome.

No good drama thread shall be left unbumped.

If this weren't the asylum, I wouldn't be able to believe you intentionally necro-bumped asylum guild drama.


[:golfclap:]

Like all old threads that get bumped/linked, I skimmed through and re-read all of my posts, then browsed through the good stuff.

@Aadyn: No, you can't have my gold. Just because I've switched servers doesn't mean I won't be back.

Bhodi wrote:

Apology accepted.

Dammit Aadyn, we almost made it to the anniversay of this wacky time in Asylum's history and you had to pre-ejaculate it. Bad Aadyn! Bad Aadyn!!

Meh... Joph had to link it in another post and make me read it again so i decided to Necro it...

/em goes to sit in a corner

=P

Edit: Credit properly given....

Edited, Jan 11th 2007 1:36pm by Aadyn Litefoot