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I agree this posting was slim in detail........

What?

Thanks digital, how did I know you would be the first to comment? Your being so articulate and all. I know a gal who will not post due to NPD responses. She is afraid and vulnerable to your simple form of making people feel small. She won the bet, she actually wrote the post. The NPD and other forums are full of people bashing each other, she says. Yes the previous post was slim in detail. for a reason. Please remember you are dealing with fragile and hurting people. She just left a bad relationship with a NPD person and would like to post her story without fear.

toughtobme wrote:Thanks digital, how did I know you would be the first to comment? Your being so articulate and all.

*grins* Take of the kid-gloves. I wanna taste some blood.

I know a gal who will not post due to NPD responses. She is afraid and vulnerable to your simple form of making people feel small. She won the bet, she actually wrote the post. The NPD and other forums are full of people bashing each other, she says.

Really? I usually don't bother replying to the assorted sob-stories. Partly because I don't enjoy indulging in the needless harm of others (anymore), and partly because i find it insufferable when people post in threads with the basic theme of "I don't care". I do not pursue the engaging sport of belittling others, simply for the inherent implication it has on the sportsman himself. I would be interested to know if I did indeed hurt someone's feelings unintentionally, perhaps only to justify my own case in my own mind, though also on some level to attempt some self-moderation if need be.

Yes the previous post was slim in detail. for a reason.

Slim? I genuinely did not understand a single prevailing theme at all. Perhaps it was my own lack of perception, but it seemed to be a loosely collect jumble of half-sentences and syntax errors amounting to a general unintelligible gesture towards an undefined group for an undefined contribution to the forum. Even that is a stab in the dark. However, rather than whipping out the rapier of belittlement, I merely attempted to communicate as breifly as possible (so as to eradicate any chance of inadvertent faciciousness. Really it happens so easily, without myself even realising). It seems, however you agree that your post was a little disjointed. Perhaps if you could rephrase whatever it was that you wanted to say, (rather than posting a passive agressive acknowledgement of my correct assessment of you post), then we could actually move on to the actual content of this thread.

Please remember you are dealing with fragile and hurting people. She just left a bad relationship with a NPD person and would like to post her story without fear.

Oh, I remember. What you see here is the pinnacle of my restraint, (mainly through non-participation). I simply am not interested into playing inot the self-perpetuating, bleeding-heart games of sympathy feedback that these victims demand. I will either ignore their posts (most of the time), or if I am feeling generous and feel that the said 'victim' seems to have a hope of actually making something of their situation (usually based upon a percieved intelligence or minimum level of respect I feel they have earned), then I will offer my insights to their situation, however still sans-victim-feeding-nonsense.

To round up 'toughtobeme' (you account name itself requires a level of patience), I have no problem with you, or this thread. I did not understand what in FSMs name it was about, and am curious as to what indeed the theme is (indeed, perhaps because I did not understand). If you or your friend feel that it is impossible to withstand the relentless and groundshattering taunts from a mob of insecure tough-guys, maybe the correct decision is indeed to abstain from posting. However, the sheep immensity of the sensitivity required for such a sentiment is dubious, for one, and most likely disingenuous.

What can i say, I suppose my stance on social self-management is comparable to the michigan school of management philosophy. Demonise me, and see where your princeton equivalent gets you.

Thanks, I win..............................

No kidding digital, I needed to vent. I do enjoy your reading your in sites even when they rub me wrong. I am glad you shed the other side onto the situation.