Quoting vineyards:

Alameda, you know this whole thing is a waste of time. Let's not answer this duo anymore. They will obviously try to go on with their show. So be it. Let them do their thing. Don't bother trying to get your message through, All you wil get is anger and frustration.

Quoting vineyards:

Alameda, you know this whole thing is a waste of time. Let's not answer this duo anymore. They will obviously try to go on with their show. So be it. Let them do their thing. Don't bother trying to get your message through, All you wil get is anger and frustration.

Initially, I was a bit puzzled because one of them was our moderator and I thought moderators would have to be very mature people who would sort out problems cooling down angry people. Having met such a phenomenal moderator for the first time, I reacted naively only to find out that the whole thing had already turned into a pig circus at the hands of these xenophobic teenager mutant ninjas who pose like feminist psychiatrists.

I keep receiving PM's from people advising me to ignore them. Now the real problem is that these guys are not aware that they have a problem. All they care is zapping you right when you show up.

Life is beautiful and there are more important things in it.

Quoting alameda:

I agree Vineyards... Although I can't say I'm angry, just perplexed.

Quoting Gizli Yuz:

I think it's the voice of common sense rather than a gang.

Quoting vineyards:

I have seen messages from a wealth of people - those quoting words from their learn-one-word-a-day subscriptions to pour their derisions upon things others say, in a bombastic manner. Those people are hardly ever short of such sarcastic remarks and they spit them out at will.

Outside the forum, the situation is not any better, the guy who parks his car next to mine is an asshole and, he will not heed my polite warnings. It is a world full of ignorance and rudeness not to mention deceit. That must be the reason why one Alan Parsons song from the 70's moans: "I don't want live in the real world". The real world is so full of problems...

Obviously, the Internet made its debut in a very timely manner just as humanity was getting fed up with the unbearable consequences of an industrial life style.
As a result, almost everyone has jumped on the Internet band wagon. Here, people feel as if they are demigods who are entitled to saying things normally they shouldn't. At this point, politeness, thoughtfulness and all the excellent aspects of the human trait are put aside.

Somewhere on the Internet there must be a file entitled “Net Etiquette”; I suggest that everyone should read it at least once.

Coming back to me, at this stage in my life, I am beginning to question myself fearing that I might have a previously undiscovered social dysfunction -one that has lingered in me for years waiting to be unearthed by a catalyst which in this case is the Internet. Admittedly, I was initially concerned more about falling victim to a state of procrastination induced by spending long hours in front of my computer screen. Presently, I am more or less convinced that I am a sociopath just like millions of others who kill time similarly -cursing and ridiculing people in the hope of freeing themselves of the boredom caused by their unbearable lives. Nevertheless, my reasons are probably the other way around. I am standing in the middle of this sad world and watch it collapse piece by piece.

When I was a little child, I was confident that tomorrow would be much better than today. I believed in progress and the benevolent effects of it on society. Today I am not sure about what future holds for us.

That being said, there is still some room for optimism; as it is expressed in a famous Livaneli song:

I gazed at the world from a coast
Hands all salty and a pearl sits on my palm
A blue vision stretching in vast space
And a yearning for freedom is tingling my heart
It is beauty
That will bring salvation to this world
It will all begin when one loves another.

Quoting vineyards:

Teaschip, you misunderstood that post.
You are taking things literally; I might as well call myself an elephant if I knew I could express myself more emphatically. Oh my God, I am tired of making these explanations. Why don't you start a thread and curse me everyday as the first thing in the morning.