Constant Healing: Everyone is Fighting a Hard Battle
(Maybe we should spend less time trying to prove points and instead share more of our stories. We all have struggles that we endure and challenges that we have overcome, these moments of our lives can give hope to others and be less weighty for ourselves as we tell them.)
I once had someone here seemingly annoyed with a reply I made here one day over a comment he made on a post of mine here. It was a short comment of no substance that offered me only a means to attempt to draw out more information, towards extending the conversation. I took the comment as a negative towards the article posted, feeling it deserved more than a handful of words to degrade it. Outside of that it is a cheap easy measure trolls use on social media to quell support for a person or issue. So my attempt was also a means challenged it to see if that was where it was leading. After the seemingly annoyed rebuttal my reply was much of that in the first sentence above, on the sharing our own experiences and or ideology for a means in which the issues I try to bring forth here can add meaning to/for others who come here to participate, or at least read. Or hopefully learn if they are new to the ideology of empire building, our fake main stream media, the agenda of our 2 establishment parties, and the perception management that comes from those entities. Which is why I also on occasions attempt to encourage people to read the comment sections on the articles I post. Common Dreams has probably the best comment section I know of. Consortium does well on certain issues. And Caitlin Johnstone has quite a good following also. You can often learn a lot from others this way and it also gives a sense you're not alone knowing others are out there who are on the same fence looking down on the insanity being forced upon the world. I've been a moderator of a number of groups over the years and know everyone in a group is not going to participate in all the groups activities provided. Rarely do many comment as only lurkers. But they're here for a reason, and also deserve a good reason to stay. Part of that good is relying on good comments to feel needed, even a sense of security for some. A large amount of comments and replies involving bickering and fighting, or those that provide no substance can be a group killer. Well thought out meaningful comments with some sense of intelligence can make a group last even if it's only a few. "Out Of The Illusion " Group
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I agree with what you are saying. I don’t expect everyone to agree with my posts and I would be disappointed if that was the case. I don’t want just people who agree with me to reply, there is no point to that, and I would prefer a counter argument to no reply at all. If we only replied to those we agreed with, we would just become like a mutual admiration society. On the other hand I expect anyone who disagrees with my point of view to articulate their point in an intelligent and polite manner. Too often, in fact just this morning, I was called an idiot by someone on this site, something I feel is completely discourteous and unacceptable. When I told him so, he answered with Blah ! Blah! Blah!....! You cannot call yourself a freethinker and think that is an intelligent response. Above all other things I think we must maintain a certain standard of debate which at all times must show respect for each other, we will lose members if we don’t.
Marionville
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Nov 25, 2018
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I'm sorry to hear you went through that. It is an issue this internet society of ours deals us well to often. All I ask for is some substantial thought and fact based reality, over a trained response of empty rhetoric that often includes childish name calling and a means to degrade another. I thought when I first came here this type of behavior would be quite limited compared to that of the basic social media outlets. Unfortunately I was wrong. And even more disturbing, this behavior comes mostly, or more often, from my fellow Americans.
@William_Mary I am able to handle the abuse...even though it is unnecessary...by non response. I think blocking childish, ignoring is better. Don’t beat yourself up over your fellow countrymen, you are in the majority here and if the reverse was true Im sure the number of rude and boorish Brits would outnumber you guys. I find it is the younger men who show the most discourtesy, 5O and under....the arrogance of youth perhaps.