I’m not in a hugely tolerant mood right now. I’ve spent the best part of the last 24 hours searching for the woman down the road who disappeared last night on her way to the garage (about 150 metres from my home) to buy a packet of smokes and a bottle of Coke ™.
Quite literally, at least a hundred people in this neighbourhood last night gave up their plans and their sleep to go searching for this woman.
By 8:30 this morning her (4, pretty young) children were absolutely convinced that something really bad (read “mummy is dead”) must have happened to mummy because mummy would simply not have gone to the garage to buy smokes and coke ™ and not come home.
Well, guess what? Mummy did exactly that, and I am so fucking angry that I have watched those 4 children go through a night of thinking their mother must be dead (not to mention what her husband has been through, walking the streets overnight and trying to cope with the children’s uncertainty) that I just want to walk down the road right now and smash the fucking shit out of this woman. And because there is such a thing as the SDMB, and because there is such a place as the Pit, I can ventilate my anger here tonight and still be an effective person in my neighbourhood tomorrow.
To all of you people who want the Pit wiped off the face of the Earth - this is EXACTLY why it exists. You really think that my acting on my intuitive impulse to go down there and bash the crap out of that woman right now would in some way benefit her children? It wouldn’t. I know that, you all know that - I’m just glad that I have a “safe” place in which to ventilate.
The Pit can be a very valuable place - I’ve often times found it so - and I’d like to quite seriously ask those members who argue against the very existence of the Pit to remember that us Western kind of people are right here and right now fighting a WAR which essentially boils down to the issue of the right of the individual human being to think what they want, believe what they want, and behave how the choose.
Y’know - in the grand scheme of things, a lot of threads on this messageboard have become irrelevant. I can’t think of any threads which have become more irrelevant at this point in time than the “why was (insert your current, favourite, jerk) banned?” threads.
I’m sorry and I’m angry (bad combination), but we don’t live in the Fox Maulder world of “I want to believe”. This is here, it is now, deal with it. Or if you’re having trouble dealing with it (and I wouldn’t blame you in the least for that) then come here and ask for help. If you trusted this community to be there for you and tell you the truth pre- S11, then you have no reason to not trust us now.