Big Community Board Vent Here!

[mom2boys]

Guess I'm out of the loop. Oh well, it's the story of my life.

 

[JohnTBap]

Y'all are welcome to use this. I'm finished with it.

 

[EROS]

Freedom of Speech
Norman Rockwell

 

[Ricola]

"Freedom of choice is what you've got.
Freedom from choice is what you want."

-Devo

 

[luv2nascar]

Yes there are some that bother me too
I think it is the self rightousness of the posters
Their beliefs and views are always right
& they feel the need to tell everyone else
they are wrong all the time

I try not to read the posts anymore
cause I have come to the conclussion
that you can't win because they know they
are right


Putting the mad faces made me feel better
They know they are doing it & will be so brazen
as to post to this thread also
Go figure
must make them feel good to anger people &
hurt their feelings

 

[allicat]

You know, I was honestly just thinking about this very thing!
The issue is why must someone post their beliefs over and over in an insensitive and insulting fashion.
Sometimes I am reading a post that is very sad and then I see this particular posters response and its like a slap in the face. Dont put others beliefs down to showcase your thoughts.
Its done to the point where its just crass and rude. Its thoughtless.
We can agree to disagree but please have some tact. Posting your beliefs about what you feel to be "true" on a thread about a childs death or some other sad topic is just downright thoughtless.
Ive tried not to get too specific but I fear I might have been.

 

[Judy from Boise]

Yes, we have a right to freedom of speech
but, we have the priveledge of being kind.

 

[Planogirl]

I THINK that I know what you're talking about and if I'm right it puzzles me too sometimes. Why make the same point over and over again? It's like "OK, I know how you feel now give it a rest PLEASE!" However I suspect that it won't stop any time soon and that's really the way it should be as far as freedom to post goes.

Maybe the ignore feature would help at least for a while?

 

[epcotfan]

I am utterly confused

 

[Lucky4me]

I am clueless as usual too. I'm sorry you're upset Kristy!

 

[EROS]

The pope dies and goes to heaven. At the pearly gates, St. Peter welcomes him and asks if he's ready to enter heaven for all eternity. The pope replies, "Yes, but before I go in, I would really like to see what hell is like."

St. Peter thinks a moment and then responds, "I suppose it would be okay if you went down there for a half hour or so."

With that, the pope finds himself in hell, where, to his amazement, the inhabitants are having a huge party. They have the best of the best spread out: French champagne, Italian food, and music of all sorts, from Lawrence Welk to Jimi Hendrix. As the pope watches everyone eating, drinking and being merry, he starts to become very hungry and cannot wait to go back to heaven.

When the pope returns, St. Peter asks him, "How was hell?"

The pope replies, "Well, they were having such a big feast, I became famished watching them."

St. Peter then asks if the pope is ready to enter heaven, to which the pope replies, "Oh yes, I'm very excited. If the people in hell are having such a good time, I cannot imagine how great heaven will be!"

With that, St. Peter leads the pope into a small white room with a small white table and white chairs, and instructs the pope to have a seat. The pope looks a little puzzled but abides his host.

After a few minutes, Jesus enters the room carrying a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk, and takes a seat.

A moment later, St. Peter enters bearing two peanut butter sandwiches and glasses of milk. He hands a peanut butter sandwich and glass of milk to the pope, and sits down and starts to eat.

As they silently sit eating, the pope becomes more and more agitated, until St. Peter finally asks him why he is not eating.

"Well," the pope responds, "down in hell they are having a big bash, with all the finest food, drink, music and dancing. I imagined heaven would top even that!"

"Why," St. Peter queries, raising his eyebrows, "you don't expect us to do all that for just the three of us, do you?"

 

[Leota]

It's beyond me as well - it really seems to be some sort of sad, sick obsession with getting a rise out of people, almost in a control freak kind of way - the term sociopath comes to mind....
I try to ignore the rude comments & callousness - actually most of the time, I just cruise right over those posts - I'm not gonna bother reading them, because they are the same thing, over and over and over and over ad naseum........

 

[Goofyposter]

MaryAnnDVC:

The nice thing about the skunk in the middle of the street, tho, is that eventually the stench goes away and that's the end of THAT one.

LOL!!!
That's an 'unusal' expression of 'faith',
but I agree!

'course...the longer the stench sticks around...the more 'numb' yer become ter it...and it loses it's effectiveness.

 

[DVCajun]

I'm not even a regular on the CB, though I like to visit you guys occasionally. But even *I* get the drift of this thread. I agree too. It has inspired me to use my "ignore" feature! I hear it works quite well.

There's no accounting for a lack of class.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Another clueless poster here. Sorry you feel .

 

[snoopy]

There was a time when I let certain posters annoy me and rile me up. I finally let go of those emotions though, thankfully. I just figured life was way too short to allow someone's opinion bother me. After all, its only an opinion. I really started to examine why I was allowing it to anger me, and after alot of consideration, I finally let it go.

As a result, DISing has become fun again for me. I couldn't have said that a year ago. I urge all of you who have a problem with any one particular poster to try to let it go as well, I think your time spent on the boards will be a more rewarding one.

 

[glo]

standing up and giving Snoopy a standing ovation!!!

I guess we have to be reminded that this is an internet board and that no matter how much we love this placeis an internet board. Free for everyone to use, and post on. We can't all have the same views and ideas, what fun would that be. Think of how great it is that ALL of us have the right to post our opinions here. There are many places where differing opinions would not be tolerated. We do not have to agree with eachother all the time, we can choose not to read or post... I happen to think that is a pretty cool thing.


Snoopy, is right..... nothing here should interfere with life...this is supposed to be fun!!

 

[Kitty 34]

Kristy, I have to agree with Snoopy. Don't let this poster bother you. It's not worth it. There's too many good things about the CB to let someone like that get you down.

 

[EROS]

I LOVE threads like this one!!!!!!!!! .....

LIKE "THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING", THEY'RE SO FULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OF

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION

 

[Poohbear123]

I have NO IDEA WHO you are all talking about, BUT, I don't have any problems with ANYONE here on the Boards, so I will go back to reading now................................