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I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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I made God's temple.

Highs and lows balance. mental illness is the ultimate scorned and humiliated. Blessed are you when scorned for you shall be worshipped. lepers

God says... C:\TAD\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

in these things I unawares sin, but afterwards am aware of it.

At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree, as to wish the whole melody of sweet music which is used to David's Psalter, banished from my ears, and the Church's too; and that mode seems to me safer, which I remember to have been often told me of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, who made the reader of the psalm utter it with so slight inflection of voice, t

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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The bottom line is, doing anything new puts you in a vulnerable position. Just ask the people saying the truly mean-spirited insults- have you ever tried to do anything new or different? The answer is pretty much "No". So, their opinions really don't carry much weight. Negativity is just useless!

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Related to his original idea: I think it's simply fantastic. Not only does it help avoid writers block (You constantly have a stream of stories to create), but it's forced practice. Nobody says Mozart's first few works were brilliant. It wasn't until he practiced for years that he became a virtuoso. An approach like this, while easy to view from the lens of simply making people happy, is an investment in one's creativity and writing skill that will pay off in leaps and bounds years down the line.

It's just so unfortunate that the internet makes it so hard. You're either loved, hated, or ignored. He, thanks to an unlucky picture angle and loss of context, fell into the 'hated' category by many. I applaud the effort to just do it. It is funny how many view the real world as hard and the internet as an easy escape, yet in his experience, it was just the opposite.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Hipster-hate strikes me as just another thinly veiled form of bullying, and it's interesting to see how readily internet nerds - the people who are disproportionately to have been bullied in the past - engage in it.

Look! He's different! Let's make assumptions about his motivations and get him!

It's also interesting to see how many times Reddit (and other communities) fly into a rage-fest because of lack of context, only to make an about-face when the full picture comes out. It's also interesting how no matter how many times this exact situation happens, there is no stopping the next rage-fest.

Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

#8
Cyber bullying kills kids. That's one thing to remember about all this. If he had been a shaky, insecure, frightened teen, this kind of treatment can push mild depression into thoughts of suicide. And many adults are also vulnerable to this kind of abuse. If you see this happening to anyone, please, step up and defend them.
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