the mad as hell thread.
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Silverlily
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Hey CL! Thought this might fit in with your list.
People who assume everything is about them tend to piss me off.
People who assume everything is about them tend to piss me off.
CreamyLady
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G.R. -- Did I hit a nerve?
Really, it amazes me how callous I've grown since I've started posting here.
I started out hyper-sensitive and caring, and now I'm flaming people right and left. I wonder what, exactly, got into me?
That said -- and no, G.R., we don't "know" each other in any meaningful way -- I was commenting on the general behavior of rushing in to defend someone who is asking to be flamed, and then assuming a pathetic "don't hit me" posture. The fact that you had a very long post defending stud3;16, and then wrote an incredibly long post taking me to task, is suspicious in itself. It tells me, for instance, that you are willing to enable his behavior, and that you might need him to vent some of your own opinions and beliefs.
Since we only exist to each other as words on a screen, and your reaction was over the top, I can only assume that I did hit that nerve.
Really. I wonder what happened to my kinder, gentler persona? Middle age, perhaps.
Really, it amazes me how callous I've grown since I've started posting here.
I started out hyper-sensitive and caring, and now I'm flaming people right and left. I wonder what, exactly, got into me?
That said -- and no, G.R., we don't "know" each other in any meaningful way -- I was commenting on the general behavior of rushing in to defend someone who is asking to be flamed, and then assuming a pathetic "don't hit me" posture. The fact that you had a very long post defending stud3;16, and then wrote an incredibly long post taking me to task, is suspicious in itself. It tells me, for instance, that you are willing to enable his behavior, and that you might need him to vent some of your own opinions and beliefs.
Since we only exist to each other as words on a screen, and your reaction was over the top, I can only assume that I did hit that nerve.
Really. I wonder what happened to my kinder, gentler persona? Middle age, perhaps.
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Well said...
Please let me add that as a semi-sedentary Ex-smoker, pro-choicer, humanist, and gleeful shit disturber. When I pay the prices of these choices in cellulite, Ex-coughs, nasty looks, derogatory comments, flaming, etc...
"If that's adulthood? You are welcome to it!" said Peter Pan.
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RisiaSkye said:
Please let me add that as a semi-sedentary Ex-smoker, pro-choicer, humanist, and gleeful shit disturber. When I pay the prices of these choices in cellulite, Ex-coughs, nasty looks, derogatory comments, flaming, etc...
"If that's adulthood? You are welcome to it!" said Peter Pan.
EZ
Re: G.R. -- Did I hit a nerve?
Sorry, this is another long one, but I am not "going off"!
I am apologising!
I did do that didn't I? Rushed in, and enabled him.
I have been pretty upset about how not much has changed here, and people are still at it,(flaming) in a familiar mannar with unfamiliar people.
I am sorry for getting too worked up, but for awhile now I have been noticing that people have lost their patience with others faults. And no Creamy, you are not callus or mean. Are you a Mom by any chance?
Anyway, I actually, on a personal communtication level, have been trying to encourage Stud to come out of his shell, and talk more on the board, and when he does, he gets flamed. I have, conscienciously, never wanted to enable Studs faults. I just asked for people to be kinder to him, "to be nice" about it, when they criticize him. That's all I intended, intitially.
The reason why I became so offended was, because I have no problem expressing myself, and don't need him to speak on this matter, it was just appropriate timing to express at least the latter half of what I wrote, the be nice part... I just don't like pulling a bitch outta no where, because of possible irrelivence.
After I wrote that I began thinking about how I was wrong for the method I went about this, but I am still at a loss for expressing how I feel about this issue, in any other way that will matter..(any suggestions?)..and No, it isn't a personal agenda (anymore, I have fully recovered
)..just social concern now, that I have have had for years before I came to Lit.
I guess I am just worried that he will dissapear, because of the coldness, like some other nice people I have known here and in other situations in life.
Creamy, Thank you for saying what you think. You have helped me see the other side of my words and the actions they imply to others. I hope you know I do respect you, and actually admire you greatly, and hope we can be "friends" here at Lit. I am sorry for going off the handle and hope that you are not offended, as you don have the right to read into the meaning of my words to see my actions..
Sorry again, Love, Gretchen
[Edited by G.R. on 03-06-2001 at 03:27 PM]
'CreamyLady said:
Sorry, this is another long one, but I am not "going off"!
I am apologising!
I did do that didn't I? Rushed in, and enabled him.
I have been pretty upset about how not much has changed here, and people are still at it,(flaming) in a familiar mannar with unfamiliar people.
I am sorry for getting too worked up, but for awhile now I have been noticing that people have lost their patience with others faults. And no Creamy, you are not callus or mean. Are you a Mom by any chance?
Anyway, I actually, on a personal communtication level, have been trying to encourage Stud to come out of his shell, and talk more on the board, and when he does, he gets flamed. I have, conscienciously, never wanted to enable Studs faults. I just asked for people to be kinder to him, "to be nice" about it, when they criticize him. That's all I intended, intitially.
The reason why I became so offended was, because I have no problem expressing myself, and don't need him to speak on this matter, it was just appropriate timing to express at least the latter half of what I wrote, the be nice part... I just don't like pulling a bitch outta no where, because of possible irrelivence.
After I wrote that I began thinking about how I was wrong for the method I went about this, but I am still at a loss for expressing how I feel about this issue, in any other way that will matter..(any suggestions?)..and No, it isn't a personal agenda (anymore, I have fully recovered
)..just social concern now, that I have have had for years before I came to Lit. I guess I am just worried that he will dissapear, because of the coldness, like some other nice people I have known here and in other situations in life.
Creamy, Thank you for saying what you think. You have helped me see the other side of my words and the actions they imply to others. I hope you know I do respect you, and actually admire you greatly, and hope we can be "friends" here at Lit. I am sorry for going off the handle and hope that you are not offended, as you don have the right to read into the meaning of my words to see my actions..
Sorry again, Love, Gretchen
[Edited by G.R. on 03-06-2001 at 03:27 PM]
CreamyLady
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Peace.
G.R., you have mail.
G.R., you have mail.
Persephone
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Braceing for Flames...
Although I am not "mad as hell," I do find it questionable as well as annoying that Stud started the Diary of an Unborn Child thread last week, knowing it would probably provoke some degree of disagreement and then wimped out and ran away. Kind of like he's done with this thread, seems to me...
And if, as someone posted, this BB is his last hope, then he's DOOOOOOOOOOOMED.
Although I am not "mad as hell," I do find it questionable as well as annoying that Stud started the Diary of an Unborn Child thread last week, knowing it would probably provoke some degree of disagreement and then wimped out and ran away. Kind of like he's done with this thread, seems to me...
And if, as someone posted, this BB is his last hope, then he's DOOOOOOOOOOOMED.
Question for Stud 3: 16
This isn't a mad question, I just wanted to ask about your Username. Is it like based on a biblical verse? (Not the stud part, the numbers.)
"She took the fruit thereof and did eat and she gave also unto her husband"
Genesis 3:16
I'm not a christian or anything, just curious.
circe!
This isn't a mad question, I just wanted to ask about your Username. Is it like based on a biblical verse? (Not the stud part, the numbers.)
"She took the fruit thereof and did eat and she gave also unto her husband"
Genesis 3:16
I'm not a christian or anything, just curious.
circe!
