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Edited on Mon Oct-30-06 04:01 PM by superconnected
Unlike the photography group, the main threads seem to be full of hostile people.
It's so bad, I even start being rude to people on them, they're being so rude. I have to pull myself off to become civil again. I only spent a few mintues there today and already remember why I don't go to the main boards. The truth is, I don't like a lot of the DU'ers on the main boards.
Latest breaking news reminds me of a group of gawkers, where the news comes in and they gawk and flap their wings, then do it again with the next news, over and over until there's a fight - then they bite and tear at each other. And that's the ONLY one I can stand to look in on - to see what's in the news. It's still pretty bad - gun owners against non-gunowners and vice versa, athiests against christians(I've yet to see christians against athiests on there), men against women, women against men.Okay some hostile gay men with actual mysognistic views. Abortionists against people who don't believe in abortion - haven't yet seen an actual anti-abortionist there. I'm for women having abortions but not in the abort the day before it's born crowd - so I get attacked.
General discussion is so bad I don't go there other than to vote on photography contests and really, I should protest that because that crowd really is a bunch of angry pitbulls.
I have to remind myself of my athiests friends in real life and how they can tolerate other religions without insulting them. I lean toward Buddhaism. But I can handle everyone else doing what every they want. It's hard seeing others who can't. Ie knowing there are christians on the board and using terms like ja-zues and saying Jesus Christ intentionally in vain while defending athiesim, etc. It's shallow juvenility just to get a knife in to insult the other persons religion, while they're claiming the athiests aren't getting respect. I've even had people go after zen buddhism which mystified me.
I guess my biggest gripe is the people that are tolerant are going to come to the main boards and leave immediately because, who sane, want's to hang around all that hate. If I wanted that I'd go to freerepublic. But alas, it's here every bit as it is there. At least here there are still a few people who stand up to it.
anyway, that's my rant. I don't care what thread you were being attacked on. Chances are it was a typical ogre, out there trying to invent a fight with you. I know how they accumlate like zombies in a horror movie - who bite people to make them a zombie and then there are practically all zomibies and only a few normal people left and they're running away. I would have been happy to have taken your side. And then of course suggested you avoid the place like the plague, because, well there's flesh eating zombies out there.
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