"Everyone who talked about how wishy-washy I was because I have an open mind or generally had a good time making fun of my various quirks - I hope you had fun. I hope that running down who I am as a person made you feel better about what's going on in your lives. I hope that every hurtful thing you said made you feel better about yourselves."
If you really meant that and not as a sarcastic remark, I'd have to say, "How very Buddhist of you." If it was sarcastic then not so much with the being like a Buddhist thing.
The Trolls do what they do because they're insecure and need to be right. But not just right about any old thing. Anyone can be right about subject A by saying x, but it takes real brains to be right about subject A by saying y. And it's usually right on a technicality that doesn't hold up in the real world. A Troll needs to "win" in a big way because they have so little self esteem that they need something big to pump themselves up. Then they crash again and have to find something/one else to troll. That's just the nature of the beast that is a Troll. Sad people with sad lives who have nothing better to do than to try and tear someone else down to build themselves up. A Troll is an incomplete person. They are incapable of producing enough self esteem to sustain themselves. It's like being diabetic. Too much sugar, not enough insulin. Too much ego, not enough self esteem.
I'd be lying if I said that I never trolled. I wasn't always so secure in who I am. But I can say that I quickly realized that I didn't recognize that I needed to do it over and over again just to feel good about myself. I recognized that I had found a temporary solution to a (ultimately) temporary problem. Once I figured that out, then I went searching for a permanent solution that didn't involve hurting anyone else.
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Date: 2010-10-02 02:00 pm (UTC)If you really meant that and not as a sarcastic remark, I'd have to say, "How very Buddhist of you." If it was sarcastic then not so much with the being like a Buddhist thing.
The Trolls do what they do because they're insecure and need to be right. But not just right about any old thing. Anyone can be right about subject A by saying x, but it takes real brains to be right about subject A by saying y. And it's usually right on a technicality that doesn't hold up in the real world. A Troll needs to "win" in a big way because they have so little self esteem that they need something big to pump themselves up. Then they crash again and have to find something/one else to troll. That's just the nature of the beast that is a Troll. Sad people with sad lives who have nothing better to do than to try and tear someone else down to build themselves up. A Troll is an incomplete person. They are incapable of producing enough self esteem to sustain themselves. It's like being diabetic. Too much sugar, not enough insulin. Too much ego, not enough self esteem.
I'd be lying if I said that I never trolled. I wasn't always so secure in who I am. But I can say that I quickly realized that I didn't recognize that I needed to do it over and over again just to feel good about myself. I recognized that I had found a temporary solution to a (ultimately) temporary problem. Once I figured that out, then I went searching for a permanent solution that didn't involve hurting anyone else.