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Didn't you turn 93 last week? .. must be 94
Bloody cheek ... (I keep forgetting I'm 93 next week ... or is 94?).
"Elders" or "The Elders" has been used to refer to the older people in some religious groups and perhaps people in tribes, etc. The connotations are often that these people are wiser, more knowledgeable and respected.
"Elderly" does not carry any connotations of wisdom, knowledge, etc.
It is often used in a "kind and caring" way, and often when talking about taking care of the elderly. So it is not completely bad, it is just that it does not usually connote independence, intelligence and those sorts of things......so I think that many people would prefer NOT to be referred to, using that word. 2 cents.
I know that he regards some of his biggest trolls as a handful of ESMBers who've been here almost from the beginning. That's because his biggest critics are long time members who don't like how he came here and started posting thread after thread after thread of his long winded pontifications. Remember how he would BOLD TYPE the titles of threads? Paul laid into him for that practice. Lol... But Paul is a naughty troll. Very, very naughty!
Basically MB regards any critic of himself as a troll.
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So he's not happy about trolls not admitting they're trolls.
A true troll won't admit it. Anyone read 4chan...wwp tdome, encyclopedia dramatica...etc...will know that.
If they don't think they're a troll, then they aren't going to "admit" it.
Advice to Mockingbird: Take people as they present themselves.
True, but I don't think it's possible to be a troll and not know you are one. By definition, if you're trolling a board you're on a windup of some kind and part of that is deliberately misrepresenting yourself or your intentions when posting.
Here's what Wikipedia says;
"In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, often for their own amusement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
It's quite different from posting things in good faith which you know are going to be upsetting or arouse controversy but which you nevertheless feel need to be said for the good of the discussion. As with many things in life, intention is everything.
True, but I don't think it's possible to be a troll and not know you are one. By definition, if you're trolling a board you're on a windup of some kind and part of that is deliberately misrepresenting yourself or your intentions when posting.
Here's what Wikipedia says;
"In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, often for their own amusement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
It's quite different from posting things in good faith which you know are going to be upsetting or arouse controversy but which you nevertheless feel need to be said for the good of the discussion. As with many things in life, intention is everything.
All that being said, I like Mockingbird. Seems like a nice chap. I think having a blog like that is healthy in the long run.
Using said blog to "fair game" ESMB'ers isn't by definition "nice."
Free Being Me you keep using false equivalents . I didn't say things you attributed to me and I am not ruining utterly or disposing of anyone quietly and without sorrow .
You continue to disagree and then innacurately describe my statements and actions. I am not hiring PIs, telling people's neighbors lies, trying to get them fired, depriving people of property or rights, but hey I understand when you have a weak argument, using a different one can be more appealing.
I don't like trolls, you can quote actual remarks if you want, but they haven't been suitable for your strawman arguments.
I don't care for people trying to pretend to be superior in relationships and having the sacred infallible authority to criticize and order around others, to ruthlessly project with no consideration for their own responsibility for their choosing to read the posts they read and their emotions and problems not being entirely caused by the posts they read.
You are free to say anything you want, just as I am free to disagree.
New post up today Trolls Are Fucking Assholes.
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/10/trolls-are-fucking-assholes.html
Mockingbird said:>snip<Several authors have written extensive articles calling trolls sociopaths and narcissists. I won't go so as far as to say every troll is a bona fide narcissist or sociopath every second of their lives from birth until death.
But I will say the double bind the woman pointed out and the issue with trolls comes down to the same thing: one person thinks they are superior to another. In the cults it is in the doctrine and subjugates a gender. By any individual who follows the doctrine.
Trolls while they are trolling are exhibiting narcissistic and/or sociopathic behavior. They are over long distance acting as gutless cowards, asserting a false superiority entirely to deny their own feelings of inadequacy, impotence and worthlessness, if narcissistic. If sociopathic they are without compassion and see infuriating others as a game, since they have no interest or success at forming bonds of attachment through empathy. The sociopath has no consideration for fairness, human decency or compassion.
A) Any Ex disagreeing with you is a troll.
B) Trolls are assholes, narcissists and sociopaths.
C) Ergo Ex's are trolls.
D) Blog a hissy fit justifying defamation and disconnect.
Extreme fail reminiscent of $cientology:
A) Any Ex disagreeing with you is an Espee.
B) Espee's are antisocial and evil.
C) Ergo Ex's are Espee's.
D) Issue a Declare justifying defamation and disconnect.
WTF kind of logical reasoning is that? You don't even have the balls to name people with contextual quoted conversations instead running with a long blogged paranoid rant of generalities linked here at ESMB. Your blog page is a Magnum Opus foot bullet misrepresenting the Ex community that will come back you haunt you.
*It's not too late to offer a heartfelt Mea Culpa.