Well, since Garthor's extremely insensitive remark towards me, I'm a bit angry and frustrated. A lot of you are mad at me, and I don't understand why. Sure, I've done a lot of stupid things in the past (spamming, etc). But if anyone is to be mad at me, it's Dan/Tom.
You may not notice it, but you people keep pushing me and pushing me, hiding behind your computer.
Now a few of you are actually pretty cool people - SuperSaiyanGokuX, Mellifluous, hell, even Lummox JR can be a pretty cool guy at times.
I think it is appropriate to quote Spuzzum in saying "People find it a lot easier to hurt those whose faces they cannot see.".
When do you page me and call me a 'waste of air'; when you do taunt me for certain things wrong with me I may have; it does hurt me. Just because we communicate over a computer, does not mean that I'm not real, or that I don't have feelings. So please, before you make some remarks to me, stop and think. Wiether you believe it or not, I am a sensitive individual. =/
Thank you for reading...
-Chris
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 Jan 6 2003, 9:19 am
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I have found that the people that get "depressed" are the ones that take things way too seriously, namely other's comments towards them.
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I don't think I've ever intentionally insulted you Dracon, though if I have I'm sorry for it. Your exactly right, and people who say you just take things to seriously should stop and think if they're taking things seriously enough.
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Well, on the one hand, you have done a lot of thoroughly annoying things in the past. On the other hand, however, that does not come close to justifying pager harassment, so at least you can console yourself with the knowledge that people paging insults at you aren't any better than you and are probably a good bit worse.
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LOL. "It's okay Dracon, you're bad, but they're a little bit worse." I hope you're not trying to make him feel better.
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Good for you Dracon, more power to you!
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If you mean Garthor's remark on the "I'm depressed" thread, I couldn't even figure out what he meant by it. To be sure, though, insensitive remarks are not uncommon from him.
Well, I try.
I agree that it's all too easy for people to treat others online as nothing more than words on a screen. Not everyone thinks that way; when I read someone's words I know an actual person is writing them. I suspect those who treat people worse online, however, can grasp that people are writing those things but have difficulty applying that knowledge to how they treat those people. I wish I could say what it is that makes these people tick; there's a certain sense of anonymity to it all, that maybe they tap into and overindulge in, but it'd be hard to pin everything on that. I can't really say that I understand their mentality.
Of course, I can't honestly say that I come across the same way online as in real life, either, but vocal conversations are different for a lot of reasons; I communicate better with text than with voice, and understand better in return. That has an up side and a down side, because while it's easier to converse, it's also easier to let something slip that could do damage--unless you spend a lot of time carefully thinking out everything you write.
Lummox JR