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Revenge Rating
07:11 Aug 22 2023
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I see revenge rating is still a thing among adults on VR. lol
I rated a guy who just had 2 pictures on his profile and nothing else, no layout or anything a very very generous 8, simply because it's an active account.
He gave me a 7 lol.
I can't say I don't care for ratings; I do if they are childish. But if someone really thinks my profile is not worth more, so be it. Not everybody has the same taste or thinks what I have on my profile is worth a higher rating. I know there are a lot of profiles that have better layouts and with the help of Mandalorian, I'm trying to improve mine.
Someone rated my profile a 1, because I was new. They sent me a message and told me they would change the rating if I asked them to. I'm not bothered by it.
Everybody has different ways to rate a profile.
I usually give a 10 if I see some effort in the content, not so much the layout. The basic VR profile is good enough for me to give it a 10. You don't need lots of images and design, but it's a plus.

What I'm looking for is content, write about yourself or what you like or even dislike. Keep rantings to your journal. I do understand and can relate to the frustration. I've been twice on VR. People can be petty assholes and it can drive you crazy.

Over the past 20 years, I ran several chat rooms, fora and websites. I dealt with people from all ages and trust me, the older ones can act like teenagers almost more often than teenagers themselves lol.

But sometimes just talking to each other helps to solve a problem or to figure out why someone acted the way they did. And sometimes it's just not worth the trouble :)

So, if you think I gave you a too low rating, improve your profile and let me know and I gladly re-rate you, if it is important to you. I just want you to know, that I'm not rating the person, I'm rating a profile. I don't know the person behind the profile, so I can't and refuse to rate them.

COMMENTS

dwaynemcgriff01
21:42 Aug 24 2023

I don't do revenge rating at all. That's not my thing

Ard
08:59 Aug 28 2023

I give a 10 or don't rate if there is nothing in profile (actually the most of new profiles).
Because I know I cannot be objektive/impartial. 🙂

Bastet (Bast) the egyptian goddess
13:55 Aug 17 2023
Times Read: 136

Cats: beings that combine grace, beauty, strength, lissomness, power and danger, have been worshiped already since thousands of years ago. They have been recognized as fascinating creatures, who are almost perfect.

Since about 3050 – 2686 BC, the time of Pharaoh Tut-Ench-Amun and Ramses, they have been worshiped in Egypt. Bast (also written as ‘Bastet’), the wife of Re the son god, mother of the lion god Mahes and in several traditions, mother of Nefertem and Anubis, is referred as goddess of love, fertility, strength and good. Her duty as Mooncat was, amongst other things, to protect the sun by night and to fight the snake of the darkness, the deadly enemy of the sun.
In the beginning she was often portrayed as female with a lion head and put equal with the goddess Sekhmet. Sekhmet, however can be described as the bad side of Bast. She is bloodthirsty and displays the destroying side of the sun, while Bast is seen as the pleasant strength of the sun. Bast and Sekhmet are a good example of Egyptian duality. Sekhmet was the goddess of Upper Egypt and Bast of Lower Egypt.
Later the cat was declared to be the holy animal of Bast and she was portrayed no longer with a lion’s head, but with the head of a cat.

Bast was also known as the goddess of the moon – the light in the darkness. Once a year the worship of the cat goddess peaked in a big festival. Thousand of people made a pilgrimage to Bubastis (from Pi-Bast = House of Bast), which was the capital of Egypt in 945 BC and was where the worshiping began. Most of the pilgrims brought carefully embalmed dead cats with them, to bury them at this place of pilgrimage. They put, among other things, small bowls with milk and embalmed mice into their graves. Rich people laid their cats into a small coffin, which was decorated with gems and gold. Within time, big cat cemeteries developed in Bubastis and other places of worship.
The Egyptian cat cult wasn’t a short-lived phenomenon, but lasted over several hundred years. The Greek historian Diodorus, who lived in the first year BC, wrote: “Who kills a holy animal against their will or willing, they will be killed cruelly and without sentence, by the people who come running. Therefore, who sees one of this dead animals, stays far away from it out of fear, calling loud and with lamentation, that they found it like that.”

A legend tells that the Persian king Kambyses used the following stratagem: he told his soldiers to put cats in front of their shields. The besieged city fell without bloodshed, because the Egyptian soldiers feared to hurt the holy animals.

Her name has the hieroglyph of a ‘bas’-jar with the feminine ending of a ‘t’. This jars were heavy perfume jars, often filled with expensive perfumes. It was very valuable in Egypt, considering the need of the Egyptians of makeup, bathing, and hygiene, and of course perfume.
Bast seemed to be related to perfumes in some way. Her son Nefertem, a solar god, was a god of perfumes and alchemy, which supports the theory.

Our modern names for the cat are derived from the word utchat: cat, chat, cattus, gatus, gatous, gato, katt, katte, kitte, kitty, etc. One variation of her name was Pasht, and from this we get the remaining Indo-European words for the cat: pasht, past, pushd, pusst, and puss. (Source: http://articles.pointshop.com/pets/15073.php)

Take a moment to honour this ancient Egyptian goddess. Light a green candle, her sacred colour, and be affectionate to a cat, her cherished animal. When you address a cat, remember you are speaking to a little divinity, and a creature beloved of Bast.