Just skip Deathboy notes
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- SteveJobs4
This is one of the main reasons I rarely come here anymore. It's not posts like deathboy's or those any of you have labeled and tossed over to his side of the fence. It's not really even the intolerance of views other than your own, as closed-minded and hypocrytical as that is.
It's the outright attacks, name calling, and ostracizing that makes many of you (who's viewpoints I often do agree with actually), just as much of the problem here as those you disagree with. When a young child doesn't get what it wants it might cry and throw a fit, but as it ages it learns restraint and compassion for others and their viewpoints. Well, that's how it should be in my opinion.
QBN is a microcosm of the problems of the world. The inability to control our emotions and react based on how we feel toward others, simply because we can.
You don't know what people have gone through in their lives. What they've had to deal with. What they've accomplished. What they've had taken away. You've only lived your own and project your own experiences on them. It's normal, and it's human, but so is a child's way. I challenge all of you to first, read this with an open mind (should I have opened with that?), and second, consider exercising the golden rule when addressing others, particularly those who get under your skin and anger you because they think differently.
@Nairn, this post is actually directed less toward you and mostly to others here guilty of the things I've said. In fact, you strike me as one of the most intelligent and articulated people here, and self-aware enough to at least recognize situations you've antagonized and have in many instances been accountable or reversed your opinion or statements toward others. I respect that and you.
Btw, I just reread this and I come off like someone with a messiah complex, but honestly, it's seeing these dynamics played out every day all over the internet for as long as it has existed, and long before it, that's taught me be more accepting of others. It's something that has bothered me for a long time. I know it's the human condition, but for me it goes to the core as a cause of many of our world issues, rather than the effect manifested as the surface issues we all try to fix.
- Well now i feel shit.
Thanks,
xNairn - Good post and an important message. But seriously...have you read deathboy's notes?yuekit
- Cheers, mate. Totally agreeGnash
- yuekit, no I haven't. If he's crossing the line with his remarks, maybe moderators can/should take action.SteveJobs
- It's not so much crossing the line, he just deliberately drags you into a long pointless conversation. I think that is what Nairn was reacting to.yuekit
- Read his diarrhea now. Come back when you’re done. You might feel sick and disturbed at how morally corrupted and ignorant it is. It’s overwhelming.monospaced
- And I wholeheartedly disagree that calling him out on strong language is somehow worse. Fuck that nonsense you messiah complex preacher. ;)monospaced
- pretty much.
If i'm entirely honest - i'd suggest that a bit of interpersonal-fricti... not a bad function of a healthy community. shows it's alive.Nairn - I don’t disagree that we can rise above it as adults. I’m guilty of stooping low to engage. My bad.monospaced
- "rarely come here anymore" - some of us fools live this shit daily.fadein11
- :)fadein11
- "QBN is a microcosm of the problems of the world." [claps]grafician
- As a non-white communist man, I never felt deathboy forced me into any behaviour I wasn't comfortable with. There are other users with far worse communication sdeadsperm
- than his. His problem for QBN is clearly the side he stands on as with other prominent users.deadsperm
- I got nothing against the guy, but it's pretty obviously his hijacking of conversations with 1000+ notes people object to, not the fact that he's a right wingeryuekit
- Who are the other users with far worse communications? lolyuekit
- @SJ thank you for this. QBN was more fun when it was filled with inquiry rather than than ideological preening.MrAbominable
- Well now i feel shit.