Hi folks, Continuing the narrative...
Charles wrote: > YOU are the one who CHOSE to take my simple observation it the > wrong way. People tend to do that when confronted with a reality that > they are trying to hide from. Mary Ann responded: > **** And YOU are the one who CHOSE to butt into a conversation I was > having with someone else, and spew your negative attitude and rudeness > into something that had nothing to do with you. Most people tend not > to do that, Simon. The fact that you do makes your anti-social nature > very evident. The *reality* that you refer to is one of your own > making. I'm not hiding from anything -- you included. Charles further retorts: > All I did was provide a link to what you were looking for... and made a > casual reference to your not having looked very hard... As long as we're interpreting each others' attitudes, let me try: "In every online forum I've ever joined, people take needless offense when I point out their inadequacies. I only try to help them and they get mad at me. They're all just insane..." Part of that reality you can't hide from, Charles, is that people do take offense when you're rude to them. And, guess what? *THEY* decide what is rude and what isn't, not you! It's usually considered a good idea to make some effort to figure out what's likely to piss people off and then *not* do it. Then you don't end up being banned from group after group after group for the same hopeless, pointless behaviors. If it was just me, I could get along with you okay, ignore your irascibility and appreciate the philosophical fine points of your arguments, maybe even join them sometimes -- but this forum *hopefully* will attract new people and attempt to meet *their* needs as well. I cannot expect them to be willing to run the gauntlet of your criticism on the way to getting help. Defend yourself all you want, sir, the results speak far more eloquently. You make people mad at you all the time, and that won't change until you change your behavior. I think you need to seriously reconsider whether your participation in the Silver List is appropriate. It does not seem like you're comfortable with what it demands. Having said all that, it is just as important for every one of you to learn to be thick-skinned enough that something like Charle's gracelessness does *not* defeat you or interfere with your use of online resources. There will *ALWAYS* be rude or thoughtless people in any but the most strictly controlled online environment. You should routinely expect to have to ignore more nonsense than you'd ever be willing to tolerate in person. Most of you already do that, of course, but we've all seen people get chased off by the first unthinking remark somebody throws their way and lose any chance they might have had of getting help from a forum. They weren't prepared for the coarseness of the behavior and reacted as if they were slapped in the face, instead of ignoring it for the nonsense that it is. If lives and people's health didn't depend on these situations, sometimes, I wouldn't care so much. So, Mary Ann, I hope you feel you've explained yourself thoroughly enough? I can now understand perfectly why your initial search effort didn't yield much of anything useful. Really! Can you now restrain yourself from further demonstrations, please? <smile> Thank you, everyone, for your patience. Be well, Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
