Zaxor;1785124 said:
I think what Hos (my friend) and others are missing is that people are different...
not exactly sure why that is hard for some people to understand...
some can see the great Hoover dam... others see it has leaks... it takes all kinds
What gets my goat is the audacity of some to tell others how to think or try and belittle them for expressing thoughts...
If someone complains about Roy...you can read or not read, agree or disagree, discuss or not discuss, but no..... we got to have people on here that have to complain that others are complaining...and others that complain about the complainers complaining...and then to top that all off... we get to hear from others who believe they have a better insight into life from where they sit and want to depart their wisdom upon all...
This is a discussion board!!!!! were you are suppose to have a free exchange of information... but it is becoming less and less so because of the stu & pid crews that continue to attack the free flow of information...
If you don't like negative comments...tough... don't read/discuss/agree with them... but for sanity's sake quit attacking or belittlin the poster... you cannot change the posters views by such means but you can spam up the board...If you wish to try it with reason you chances of changing the poster's views are greater but by no means great...
same goes with the pollyanna poster
it takes all kinds people... this wish of only being around your type and those that agree with you is selective segregation and if history has taught us anything it is that...that is not the way you should wish to be...
so enjoy the ride the best way you as an individual can...whether that is to praise or to curse, to comend the glory or condem the faults... do not let yourself be swayed by the will of others but to use your own mind and heart as the guide for your own actions.
Rejoice in you individuality and know that those who ridicule you for not following the crowd are weak of will...
I understand individuality better than anyone. I'm someone who prefers to read the thoughts of people who don't think like me. It isn't individuality that is getting me down. It isn't the complaining and the complaints about complaining.
I said it before, I think there are posters who genuinely dislike each other and want to make sure everyone knows it. They aren't enjoying the ride as you suggest. At least, it doesn't look like it from where I sit week in and week out.
Put them in the same room watching a game and don't tell them who each other are and they'd exchange high fives and yell and shout and have a ball celebrating. Put them on a forum with the free exchange of ideas and they can't stand each other.
Someone said this to me yesterday and there was some truth to it. "The Political Zone is more peaceful right now, than the main forum, and we're 10-1." Politics is where people love to hate each other.
I don't know, I look at this as a brotherhood. This year, more than any other I can remember, it seems dysfunctional. The worst part is, some seem to be enjoying the dysfunction more than the team. I confess, I don't get it. That's what this thread is. My admission that I don't get it.
I'm not saying we should all group hug and sing Kumbaya. But damn, at least have fun. This team is fun.
"Naw, can't do that. I need to eat my fingernails and Maalox and worry about the Patriots. it isn't bad enough that ESPN and every other media outlet out there is riding their jocks, I need to ride their jock too."
No thanks.
