between this group and those "counter" to us. They say the same in their TOS/SOP or whatever alphabet-soup acronym it's called, but it comes across as nothing more than lip-service. It's there because it's required to be there, not because they have to adhere to its principles.
I'm sorry that you have one of them stalking you 
I can only think of one instance where that happened here, and their post was deleted before I had a chance to see it (I was followed back here from a Lounge thread, again on the topic of "wu".)
I readily admit that some of the stuff in which I believe is not only "out there" but downright bizarre! 
At the same time, I have no trouble analyzing it and laughing at myself (or with myself?) I am also "using" this wealth of weirdness in our world as fodder for story ideas, or plot points in my stories. They don't get mocked, but they do get 'twisted' in ways to make them either good or bad or whatever. The majority of the reading public hasn't heard of much of the stuff we read, so I can introduce them to all these bizarro things without doing do in a mocking manner. I'll probably buy all of Delores Cannon's books soon so I have a literal encyclopedia of weirdness to use in fictional settings 
I will tell you that if I had been in on that Shroud discussion I'd likely have announced that all those wishing to fight would go on ignore so as to whittle down the thread to only those willing to have an actual discussion versus a fight. That's really about the only way to have a discussion anymore. Without looking up the full dictionary and etymological definition of "discussion" my personal definition is that when people have a discussion, two or more people walk away from it having learned something. Whereas my definition of "discussion" on DU is it's all about winning the debate. The point is pointless and moot 
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