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[rockinrehab]

Remember when you (general) were in junior high and some kids were mean to you for no reason and you cried about it to your mom and she said, "I'm sorry but those bullies are just immature give them a few years and they'll grow up and be nice and respectful because that is how adults are." but mom was wrong so wrong because people never stop being

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[lesion]

yeah, but some kids never get teased. so they grow up without that experience to draw from. when i'm a parent, i hope that children will ridicule my babies so they develop compassion and empathy beyond that of the average bully. well no, i won't hope for that. but you get what i'm saying. anyway, the old adage of "it takes all kinds" really applies here. i know i've been a huge dick before (and it always makes me feel guilty and self-hateful which is one reason why i try not to be cruel), but occasionally, it emerges. it does with almost everyone, once in a while. and that's when i think it's important to call on our old friend malcolm x when he said, "i have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than one who comes up like an angel, and is nothing but a devil."

[monkeytonic]

that's a really good quote. I've been completely fascinated with civil rights activists and what they wrote and said and honestly? most of it has nothing to do with civil rights specifically, but more to do with human nature and interaction between people and it's tremendously thought provoking work.

[rockinrehab]

great icon!!
did you make it yourself?

[monkeytonic]

unfortunately, I am not that creative. I found it on this website that had a whole bunch of icons and took it from there. I credit the site in the user-pic description.

[lesion]

p.s. if you need drew's number let me know.

[hydrallus]

Oh i've got that experience downpat lesion.. :D
ha ha.. oh well. good advice though, i'd rather have people say shit to my face then behind my back.. thats what i got from it.

Ok, now that we're done with Jr High, if someone can help me re-live college.. that would be so great. Seems I sorta forgot most of it.. they tell me I had a good time though.

[boilingbabies]

Okay. For starters, this guy sought ME out, I never went out looking for him. He bugged me to friend him so I did. I thought I was being nice. Eventually I got sick of reading his journal because it was all a bunch of screen caps about vides games and stuff so I commented on a post being like, "Dude, this is why I was reluctant to add you." Any normal person would've de-friended me instantly, but hydrallus kept on. So I linked to his post and (without any encouragement on my part) people made fun of him. You'll notice that I didn't take part.

To be honest, I don't know why I didn't just take him off my list right away. He always kind of annoyed me. And then shit like this and this started happening, the latter occurring on what turned out to be one of the worst days of my life. It was right around the time when he threatened Audrey that I stopped being entertained by the guy. And now I hear that he recently threatened another one of my female friends at a comedy club the other night and my opinion of him remains the same. It

thanks for the links

[rockinrehab]

Well I'll take it as a compliment that you wrote that much in defense of yourself. I'm especially impressed by the html. That really shows you care

Re: thanks for the links

[boilingbabies]

Unfortunately I did take the time to look over links and wasn't able to find anything that would make him a target of real-life ridicule.

Well then I guess the funny thing about all this is that I never DID ridicule him in real life. When I met hydrallus, I was polite and nice and courteous. We talked for a while and it was awkwards as hell, but not at all mean. I don't recall anyone being rude to him that whole night, really (not that i can know for sure). We hardly even talked to the guy, just like how we never said more than two words to those other chics that were never introduced to us. So if you're saying that Internet ridicule is perfectly all right whereas real life ridicule is not, then I don't see how I'm in the wrong at all in your book.

certain inferences you made from a comment on hydrallus' journal weren't written with anyone but him as an intended reader.This goes back to the age-old debate about whether livejournals are written for others to read or written for oneself. I believe the former. Mainly because they're

Re: thanks for the links

[hydrallus]

Dude, I didn't go looking for any sort of fight. The way LJ works is you see somebody say something interesting that may somehow make you think about shit you dont' think about in your day to day life and you add them to your friendslist. This is why I added rockinrehab

Then I later saw some people, on his list, that looked interesting, so I applied for a boilingbabies subscription. Its a good read. Apparently you get off on other people's misery, so the one time I post about a video game that brings me happiness, you decided to 'rally the troops' and took the time to create a custom filter so I wouldn't see it.

Everyone is suddenly on my LJ attacking me, so of course I'm gonna fight back. Unfortunately, nice people like lesion got thrown into the frey. I was allready on the defensive/offensive when I made this "threat."

So yeah, I asked for the subscription but not the additional ridicule. I asked to go to the party, but not for anyone to be nice to my face and then shitty to my back. I didn't ask for moxx to confront me about said ridicule on the boilingbabies journal

[point40bac]

You were never bullied. I was always there protecting you.

[rockinrehab]

That's because they don't call it bullying when it's your family doing it. They call it domestic abuse.

[point40bac]

I prefer "tough love"