"Line up for your beating" - Michael Mayers

[FSEP]

If you haven’t noticed a problem in our society, perhaps the MMQ on the Boston LODDs will help you get there. We have become reliant on the sound bite, a single picture, or a video to judge others. Instead of understanding, we rush to be the first to promote our own ego and to assume our expertise. When I posted New Beginnings the other day, one of the themes I had in mind was that my posts were too long. I get it. You want shorter. If you want longer, you’ll buy the book.

There are an overwhelming of individuals in our midst that, when a bit of news floats out there, rush to the execution of others basing their total knowledge on snippet of information. And worse, they do it with this self-serving, smug, know-it-all attitude like they have never screwed up a day in their life. It reminds me a little of the recently departed Fred Phelps, “pastor” of the Westboro Baptist Church. He and his followers, in their haste to denounce others, failed to realize that they too were guilty of sin. In the end, seeing their own fallibility, there was a desire for mercy, which sounds like the textbook definition of “irony”.

View the full article at: Line Up For Your Beating | Firehouse Zen

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

While I agree with the Article, in all honesty expecting everyone on the internet to be civil is like expecting not to get wet when your pissing in the wind.


Every site has its Trolls, they exist and the illusion of anonymity allows people to say things they normally wouldnt say with little fear of reprisal.


Does this count as an excuse for peoples behaviors... not in the slightest but you gotta let it go.


my .02 cents