by FishbellykanakaDude » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:42 pm
John wrote:** 27-Mar-2020 World View: Fishing
Guest wrote:
> People get the government and country they deserve.
> I left. I'm better off.
> So long and thanks for all the fish.
To FishbellykanakaDude:
The above was posted anonymously, but I assume it was from you.
Back in the 1980s, I joined one of the world's first online forums,
called "Participate on The Source." I was going through a very rough
time personally, and I became emotionally addicted to Participate, and
started attacking people irrationally. I hurt some people's feelings,
and got a number of people mad at me. Some of the things that I
posted could only be described in retrospect as near-psychopathic. I
began to realize that I must be going crazy, so I finally turned off
my modem once and for all. I was actually afraid to turn on my modem
again for any reason, for fear that just that just flipping the switch
to "on" would suck me back in. It was a long time before I was online
again.
So I have the feeling that you're going through something similar, but
with a difference that when I left it was permanent, but I hope your
leaving won't be permanent, as you'll be missed by me and a number of
others.
Please take some time off to evaluate, and then come back, when you'll
be welcome. In this crisis, we need all the friends we can get.
John
Actually, if I post anything, I post it as myself. That was not my posting (as should be obvious as I'm NEVER that concise! <chuckle!> ).
It was one of your precious unregistered unaccountable "Guests".
I'll be here, or not, as I wish. As I find it interesting, or not.
Thanks for the concern for my mental health. I really do appreciate that, sincerely. As everyone SHOULD know by now, my "habit" (and philosophy) of never making my happiness contingent on ANYTHING prohibits my contributing to this forum, or not doing so, having any effect on my mental health whatsoever.
I would suggest you "alter" (improve?) your philosophy to be more "tragicomical", than the flat-out full bore "tragedy" that it (may be as informed by word from you yourself) seems to be, as I get the feeling (quite probably an illusion on my part) that you are FAR more tragicomic than the "tragic" that you let on being.
..then again, I could be wrong. I VERY often am.
And I prefer it that way, as I tend to imagine worst case dire and truly tragic scenarios from the revealed facts of life on this planet.
See!? I told you I just CAN'T be succinct! <chuckle, chuckle, chuckle..!>
At any rate,.. Hurting people's feelings does not concern me in this venue, as the implicit contract between participants in forums is that being "insulted" is merely the starting point for further clarifying conversation that will reconcile the conflicts/incongruities that led to perceptions of "insulting behavior".
I don't "insult". I "propose".
..and the corollary of that is that I'm not capable of being insulted. You wanna talk t' me? I'll TALK t' ya'..!! Know whadduh MEAN,.. do ya',.. do ya' pal...? <chuckle!>
[quote="John"][color=blue][size=120][b]** 27-Mar-2020 World View: Fishing[/b][/size][/color]
[quote="Guest"]
> People get the government and country they deserve.
> I left. I'm better off.
> So long and thanks for all the fish.[/quote]
To FishbellykanakaDude:
The above was posted anonymously, but I assume it was from you.
Back in the 1980s, I joined one of the world's first online forums,
called "Participate on The Source." I was going through a very rough
time personally, and I became emotionally addicted to Participate, and
started attacking people irrationally. I hurt some people's feelings,
and got a number of people mad at me. Some of the things that I
posted could only be described in retrospect as near-psychopathic. I
began to realize that I must be going crazy, so I finally turned off
my modem once and for all. I was actually afraid to turn on my modem
again for any reason, for fear that just that just flipping the switch
to "on" would suck me back in. It was a long time before I was online
again.
So I have the feeling that you're going through something similar, but
with a difference that when I left it was permanent, but I hope your
leaving won't be permanent, as you'll be missed by me and a number of
others.
Please take some time off to evaluate, and then come back, when you'll
be welcome. In this crisis, we need all the friends we can get.
John[/quote]
Actually, if I post anything, I post it as myself. That was not my posting (as should be obvious as I'm NEVER that concise! <chuckle!> ).
It was one of your precious unregistered unaccountable "Guests".
I'll be here, or not, as I wish. As I find it interesting, or not. :)
Thanks for the concern for my mental health. I really do appreciate that, sincerely. As everyone SHOULD know by now, my "habit" (and philosophy) of never making my happiness contingent on ANYTHING prohibits my contributing to this forum, or not doing so, having any effect on my mental health whatsoever.
I would suggest you "alter" (improve?) your philosophy to be more "tragicomical", than the flat-out full bore "tragedy" that it (may be as informed by word from you yourself) seems to be, as I get the feeling (quite probably an illusion on my part) that you are FAR more tragicomic than the "tragic" that you let on being.
..then again, I could be wrong. I VERY often am. :) And I prefer it that way, as I tend to imagine worst case dire and truly tragic scenarios from the revealed facts of life on this planet.
See!? I told you I just CAN'T be succinct! <chuckle, chuckle, chuckle..!> :)
At any rate,.. Hurting people's feelings does not concern me in this venue, as the implicit contract between participants in forums is that being "insulted" is merely the starting point for further clarifying conversation that will reconcile the conflicts/incongruities that led to perceptions of "insulting behavior".
I don't "insult". I "propose". :)
..and the corollary of that is that I'm not capable of being insulted. You wanna talk t' me? I'll TALK t' ya'..!! Know whadduh MEAN,.. do ya',.. do ya' pal...? <chuckle!>