Small minded people

[GIjoeKungFUgrip]

This is for the small minded people who didn't like my posts (any one of the six posts). I was hesitant about joining a discussion group because of negative things people reply just because you have a different view. To the person(s) who posted like a negative million on my karma...how pitiful you wasted that much time when it could have been used better elsewhere.
But that's OK cause there is no such thing as "karma"....but there is Good AND Evil....You are what you practice...

[vraiblonde]

Relax. It's a newbie hazing ritual. They hit you with red to see if you complain. If you do, they'll hit you with more. However, some people (like myself) will hit you with welcoming green to make up for it.

[camily]

Me too! Welcome to the forums.

Paranoia will destroy ya....

Green to ya Sugar!

[rack'm]

Welcome to the asylum.

[crabcake]

Originally Posted by ManWearingStraightJacket

Welcome to the asylum.

You're so kind to the noobs.

noob!

[SamSpade]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Relax. It's a newbie hazing ritual. They hit you with red to see if you complain. If you do, they'll hit you with more. However, some people (like myself) will hit you with welcoming green to make up for it.

Exactly. If you can take it, you're welcome here - if you can't, you're gonna get pounded a lot. It's the nature of discussing things online with those who disagree with you (as opposed to forums where dissent from the group is actively disallowed - as in ejection and censorship).

If you disagree with people, expect to have to defend your opinion. Expect to have to back up your words with facts. I'd have no patience with ANY online discussion where facts were irrelevant. I'm not too crazy where political OPINION is substituted for fact, but people are gonna do that anyway.

It's not censorship for people to vigorously disagree with you, and if you can't discuss your opinion with those who disagree, you don't have the cojones to have those opinions at all.

It IS censorship to kick people off forums (cough! Democratic Underground..) if they disagree. Such behavior is illuminating - it reveals that their arguments cannot stand up to scrutiny.