But have you read some of the shit he posts? He doesn’t get abused for his views; he gets abused for asinine shit he says to other people under the cloak of his views, and the threads he dumps irrelevant and unhelpful preaching into. Yes, yes, you think God is the answer to all personal and societal ills, but what the everloving hell has that got to do with a thread about what color someone should dye her nose hairs? As you say, to what purpose does he post those comments? To be helpful and informative doesn’t really seem like that likely an answer to that question, if you see what I mean. Especially since, when it’s pointed out that his input is irrelevant and unwanted, he doesn’t shut up and go away, or confine his comments to things that are relevant to the discussion at hand.
When someone does something irritating or inappropriate, chronically, it’s either because they don’t realize it’s a problem, or they just don’t give a shit. Typically, you give people the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s the former. So you ask them politely to stop. Most folks who truly are clueless, that’s enough to key them into the fact that it’s a problem. But some are just clueless enough that politeness doesn’t get through. So you ask them less politely to stop, and if that doesn’t work, you escalate to telling them they’re bugging the shit out of you and need to knock it off, right the fuck now. At that point, they really don’t have any reasonable claim to the ignorance excuse, and they either just don’t give a rat’s ass about anybody else, or they’re deliberately being provoking. And at that point, your patience with this person is just SHOT, and you really no longer care if you hurt or upset them because the feeling is clearly mutual. So you say whatever the bloody hell you feel like, and what you feel like saying is rather unpleasant. That’s where people are with kanicbird. If he’d showed any remorse about his blatant threadshitting, or any effort to reign it in at all, I’d feel bad for him getting a multipage pile-on, but as it is…I have no sympathy whatsoever.
I have read his posts, but only some of some of them, because, to be honest I find them incomprehensible, repetitive and just so outside my experience that I can’t relate to virtually anything he says. And not just because I’m a commited aetheist, either. He’s clearly a monomaniac - here on the board. I sometimes wonder what his real life is like. Is he married? Does he have kids? Does he wear a hair shirt? Is his life devoted to his (apparent) religious mania?
I’ve never posted in a thread where he has been active, so I haven’t suffered the frustation of trying to carry out a normal conversation when you’re constantly being interrupted by his prognostications. So, I’ve always had the luxury of being titillated at a distance. Because, in a funny way, it is fascinating watching the…umm…interactions.
What I’m saying is that, yes, I understand what you’re saying. And I understand that you’d need the patience of Job not react to him, but I still think the better way would not to allow oneself to be goaded into anger and frustration. But I recognise that we’re not all saints. By constantly reacting to him, aren’t you feeding him? I’m not sure that by ignoring him, he’d go away, but he might. He has something to say; what I’m not sure, but we all know that religious mania is all consuming, and that neither reason nor anger will be enough to sway that sort of person in any direction you’d want him to go in, so why bother?
As a side note - and I don’t know if this is because of my age, or my upbringing - but I still find it a little strange that we’re talking about someone behind his back. And for the same reason (whatever it is), as I have said before, I have always believed that, whatever your thoughts, blindly, petulantly abusing someone is not right. Constructively, wittily - now, that can be different.
Oh, OK then. I’ll pit you. Could you tell me which aspect of yourself you’d like pitted? If you’d like to lie down on this couch, I’m sure we’ll be able to sort something out soon.
I’ve never been pitted, to my knowledge. Part of that is that I have so few posts relative to the amount of time I’ve been here, and because it’s so obvious to everyone that everything I say is right.
