vixstile

Man that sucks

Will ii do some kind of tribute?

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Lady MacDuff

How awful.

Bloop

agapeo

Diana -- anyone who has ever lost a family member or a dear friend will most likely understand your grief even if it's grief over someone you haven't met face to face. Friendships transcends geography. It's a matter of the heart. And when the heart is touched by another it matters not the venue. Even this venue of on-line discussion. So I understand your grief and in my encounters with grieving for those I've lost over the years I can whole-heartily say -- you have not only my sympathy, but empathy.

xstvn

That is very sad.

I looked through some of his posts and found this:

He seemed like a smart, funny, intelligent guy.
Maybe he
Oh hell, I dunno

My heart goes out to his friends

Sakpo

MadMordigan / Steven was a great guy and I felt a certain degree of pride when he told me he counted me amongst his friends. He once said, in a thread on these boards, there was no real limit to how much we could learn to care about people we only knew through the internet, except the limits we imposed on ourselves. He said this with a tone of optimism, that the internet would help people establish deep, meaningful, caring and supportive relationships. He was right. He was a person I communicated with a lot, almost every day, and I did care about him, a lot. I know he cared about this community, which we was quick to point out was the best online community he'd ever found in well over a decade of internet use. Unfortunately, internet relationships (and I mean that term in its broadest sense, not one limited to romances) fall prey to many of the same pitfalls of traditional relationships. Amongst these pitfalls are that we cannot ever know for sure what another person is feeling and also that ultimately we cannot save people from themselves. I will miss him; I wish I had more profound words to mark this event.

There are lessons I have taken from MM. Treat people well, respect that their silly feelings about silly things can be important so don't be a total asshole, never take yourself too seriously, there can be great insight in seemingly trivial humor...boiling them down to actual lessons robs them of their meaning and their essence. I already miss him. I've already been far too self indulgent in this post, I wish MM could come by and take me down a peg.

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Wyz_sub10

I want to repeat something I said elsewhere - MM was one of the most passionate posters on this board.

He treated every issue with importance. I saw in him a lot of anger at times, but then I would go to SLS and see this outpouring of care and concern for someone.

This is a loss to the forum, and a loss to anyone who enjoyed a challenging and thought-provoking discussion.

Cheers to you, MM.

LianaLi

I'd just gotten to know Mordigan when my life turned itself upside down and back, so to find out that this vibrant person I'd just begun to know is dead is more than a little shocking and strange at once. What's really ironic is that he failed to realize the depth of his affect here and the respect he commanded as a person. Cutting both ways with that irony, it also goes to show how words fail to express our appreciation for others. A toast, then, of the life Mordigan would have appreciated.

Hail mary, concieved without sin, help us to concieve without sinning! &lt;raises a glass&gt;

-Liana, the recovering catholic

Bumble Bee Tuna

I have barely just started posting here and I already had gotten to like MadMordigan...Seeing this message was a terrible shock even for me, and I barely got a chance to know him.
He will be missed...

Bubba

I'm very saddened by his loss as well.

Chris