Offensive Behavior

[Hopper]

and aint, why does it matter how I would personally respond? I'd still think it's disgusting. Public urination is not something I would advocate as a general routine course of action.

There are probably millions of things which I think are disgusting and would not advocate as a routine course of action, but nonetheless would never try to make illegal or believe that someone should be arrested or "punished" for doing, ya know?

Eatin like a damn pig until you're fatter than a damn hog, for example.

 

[Hopper]

5. Are ya just gunna go on to your car and not really give it a second thought, or what?

Mo, I think I know you well enough to believe that this (#5) would be your response. So here's the real question: Suppose you're with some high-strung Babe who immediately starts screaming hysterically and insisting the police be called. Are you gunna indulge her, dial 911 on your cell phone, and give her 100% support because she has the "right" to be offended, or are ya just gunna tell the bitch to chill out?

 

[moevillini]

I didn't answer your question because I knew it would lead to another question.

 

[Hopper]

I didn't answer your question because I knew it would lead to another question.

Is axxin a question some kinda crime or sumthin, Mo? What's the prob?

 

[moevillini]

not a crime at all. i just have little patience for answering endless reams of them.

 

[billyshelby]

This is the thread where aint whines about other people who whine, right? But his whining is different than their whining because he's right and they're wrong? And this isn't about the past, but only because he just thought of a great intellectual debate he had to share about the nature of being offended? I think I got it. What a coincidence that it corresponds directly with the slight he incurred by being banned that he's completely above and can barely remember because he doesn't get offended.

 

[Hopper]

not a crime at all. i just have little patience for answering endless reams of them.

Well, Mo, there's a difference between answering one (or two, or three) fairly simple questions and "endless reams" of them, aint they? Just tell me how many you're willing to answer, and I will pick out the most important ones that I want to ax. Probably startin with your phone number and home address, ya know?

 

[Archie Moses]

Let us all take extra care to avoid both giving and taking offense.

Do not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage! Walk away from your investment in the penny stock of pride; it never pays dividends.

The key is to have our eyes wide open to our own faults and partially closed to the faults of others—not the other way around! The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

*bows head in shame.

I have a lot to work on.

 

[Hopper]

Archie, just in case you think otherwise, I didn't start this thread because of anything you did.

 

[Archie Moses]

Either way, I think it's a good reminder not to be offended. I've been studying for the past hour or so about being offended and this is what I found.

1. We are more easily offended when we feel insecure about ourselves.
2. Although we sometimes don’t like to admit it, the intent of someone’s criticism may be to help us.
3.

Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath

4. Don't seek revenge.

Once there was a group of teenagers who were picnicking in the desert outside Phoenix, Arizona. One of the girls was bitten by a rattlesnake. Instead of immediately seeking medical attention, the group pursued the snake and sought revenge by killing it with rocks. Unfortunately, during the precious minutes that the group wasted in exacting revenge, the poison had time to move from the surface of the girl’s skin into the tissues of her foot and leg; her leg later had to be amputated below the knee.

5. We need to take the initiative by seeking reconciliation with the person who offended us. The best way to do so is to quietly take the person aside and openly discuss the situation.

I know some might think this is stupid, but hey, it's helped me a lil.

 

[Hopper]

I know some might think this is stupid, but hey, it's helped me a lil.

Cool, Archie, thanks for sharing that. You appear to be a much bigger man than some of the pygmies who want to constantly attack you.

 

[Archie Moses]

Cool, Archie, thanks for sharing that. You appear to be a much bigger man than some of the pygmies who want to constantly attack you.

Not really. That's the problem. I wish I had alligator skin more often than not. Anyways, I'll at least try not to react so much to the hacks. FTH!