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....While I support your idea that the very nature of the discussion topic here is contentious, it need not be a personal attack or go so far as to make someone feel stupid or feel that their opinion is not as valuable as anyone else's. The Golden Rule has nothing to do with any of your arguments - its how you go about arguing them, in my opinion, that Damaged may be addressing.
There have been times I withheld my opinion because of how people have been treated here. Thank you Damaged for saying this.
We're all here to expose LGAT's and educate people who come here to learn about them.
The integrity of the thread is of the utmost importance to me, and sometimes I overreact to [i:c3cacfd2d9]any[/i:c3cacfd2d9] perceived threat to that integrity. I apologize if I have seemed unnecessarily heavy-handed at times, but sometimes I have to go on the offensive to defend my positions.
You know, as a teenager, growing up with my mother was rarely easy. She was one of those people that only heard tone and not content. If I was pissed off because of some injustice she threw at me, she couldn't hear a word I said unless I spoke quietly and nicely. She was absolutely unreasonable at these times, and I felt manipulated into being calm and accepting when I was anything but! Because she would only listen to nice tones, the fact that I was angry because of something she had done was completely lost on her.
Believe it or not, in real life, on the whole, I am an exceedingly nice person. Unless you want to talk about Impact, LGAT's and the degrees of [i:c3cacfd2d9]rampant stupidity[/i:c3cacfd2d9] they spawn.
Everything on this website aside, my deepest wish is for anyone who has been directly or indirectly damaged by Impact and the new-age/LGAT mindset to find real health, well-being and happiness.
If your opinions are not strong or potent enough to brave this apparent "lack of niceness" tone, it is my opinion that hearing them is not necessary, simply for the fact that, notwithstanding criticism, you don't think they are important enough to be heard or that they cannot withstand scrutiny. So it comes down to either people withhold what they have to say for fear of criticism, or I hold back what I want to say for fear that I will be criticized for being critical.