Fondest memories of GITMR

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Permalink Reply by Finnegan Kelley on October 25, 2009 at 12:56am

From what I remember, he made that rawhumour when the drama here was at its height. Loads of people, including me, deleted their profiles around then.

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Permalink Reply by Rawk and Roll Princess on October 22, 2009 at 12:11pm

I LOVE PETE!!!! He is incredible!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 22, 2009 at 6:11am

i guess dhru gave up on the whole thing because it turned out to be not fun and too competitive..

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Permalink Reply by Uti on October 22, 2009 at 6:02am

I found GITMR when it still had around 500 members in it's infancy. I was mostly involved in the Living and Raw Foods Forum that a close friend moderates for the owner, John Kohl. I was looking for more social interaction in a Raw Food lifestyle community when I found GITMR.

I loved the high spirit and energy of this forum leading up to the 2008 Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona. The Raw Humour Group was my favorite place. I am sorry that some of the best threads ever had to disappear when Pete left and the Raw Humour Group's archive disappeared. There were some threads so hot and the posting rate was phenomenal as were all the ROTFL's and LMAO's and Barefoot Artist's number of "spewing barley max over her keyboard"'s or someone else's peeing in their pants they laughed so hard. We were really having a good time and I now have real life friendships that grew out of those cyber interactions.

Then came the shit storm when so many melodrama kings and queens got caught up in the posts over 80-10-10 versus David Wolfe, or whoever and a little war broke out. This grew out of people's reactions to Doug Graham's and David Wolfe's presentations at RSF '08. People felt they has to chose sides over ideology. Worse than that, people felt like they had to be right and prevail in their opinions. None of the perpetrators of those emotional and heated exchanges was willing to bend their knee or just walk away and be happy with their own personal preference on what works for them. Out of this came the melodramas with Durian Rider and others who are no longer here. Some left in disgust and pain having felt abused and some finally got booted off this site for their abusive style. And sadly, some people felt it was no longer safe to share their experiences here.

The negative energy created by these little "wars" spawned the creation of splinter groups, 30BAD and the Raw Humour Club are the two examples. Maybe that's a good thing. Everything changes, it's the only constant in the universe.

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Permalink Reply by aishwarya on October 22, 2009 at 6:05am

Yes. and am glad your presence is still here. ~~~ :)

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Permalink Reply by Uti on October 22, 2009 at 6:12am

When I should be sleeping I might add my friend on the other side of the planet.

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Permalink Reply by aishwarya on October 22, 2009 at 6:17am

night night :)

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Permalink Reply by LOVEBUG on October 22, 2009 at 11:15am

right on Uti! :)

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Permalink Reply by Barefoot Artist on October 22, 2009 at 4:19pm

You still have me spewing BarleyMax all over the place Uti! Pete and Charles and Pink Lady Apple too! We just don't do it here anymore, but I have to be honest. I consider my Raw Humour friends to be my extended family. We all have our little positions in the family. The RSF Sedona '08 trip was the best trip of my life just being with everyone and then after that it all seemed to come apart. I love you guys. All of you.

Thanks for sending me here today Uti. I rarely ever come here, but I owe this site for giving me my tribe. For that I will be forever grateful. We grow and we move on, but our little family lives on. We're a bit scattered in the wake of everything, but we still are.

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Permalink Reply by Uti on October 23, 2009 at 9:08pm

I love you Barefoot, such sweet words go straight to my heart :-)

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Permalink Reply by Pink Lady Apple on October 25, 2009 at 10:13pm

B.A. We definiitely need to get together and have another durian party. And, wasn't there supposed to be some sort of tent with cacao wrestling? Can't remember.

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Permalink Reply by telefunken on October 22, 2009 at 8:47pm

*searches around for PLA.....*

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