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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    So I am thinking tonight about how we are all acting in this forum. Is it possible for us all to just be normal? Can we have a conversation like adults without insulting one another? I have noticed that the 10 members or less on this forum who are hard core trolls have worked so hard trolling and insulting people, that the only way for you to be able to stay here and post is to take a tougher stance. But I am not liking that tougher stance. I am finding it quite distasteful, I am talking about even my own posts.

    If we argue back politely we are called whiny babies. If we get tougher and become obnoxious in order to be able to post. Then we have become just as low as the trolls. Cant we all just grow up? Could the trolls just calm down? Could we all just post like adults?

    I am reading through the threads and it just seems appalling. The way that we have all ended up talking to one another. It is non productive and very distasteful. I don't know I feel like this is not who I am. I think we are all better than this. It would be nice if we could all try to be decent human beings to one another. There is no need for us to tear one another down. We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. There are a few people here who are very decent posters, like @Trish, and @Dr. Who. You are not the kind of people I am talking about here. But we all know who we are. We can all afford to grow up a little, myself included.
    Remember growing up? When you were little , if you are like most of us , when you strongly disagreed with someone you could not do so without disliking or at least being angry at them. But as you got older normal developmental processes helped you be able to disagree but not disrespect. Some people, for whatever reason, never seem to go through this developmental stage mentally or socially. Therefore when they disagree with you the insults , dislike and disrespect fly as if they were 10 years old. Because in this particular way, they are. That's my opinion anyway and it certainly seems to explain the behavior of the types you are speaking of.
    Naturally after a few rounds of that we can all find our "inner child" and respond in kind out of frustration once in a while.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Remember growing up? When you were little , if you are like most of us , when you strongly disagreed with someone you could not do so without disliking or at least being angry at them. But as you got older normal developmental processes helped you be able to disagree but not disrespect. Some people, for whatever reason, never seem to go through this developmental stage mentally or socially. Therefore when they disagree with you the insults , dislike and disrespect fly as if they were 10 years old. Because in this particular way, they are. That's my opinion anyway and it certainly seems to explain the behavior of the types you are speaking of.
    Naturally after a few rounds of that we can all find our "inner child" and respond in kind out of frustration once in a while.
    Well the NEA also identified a reading comprehension problem starting in the 4th grade and runs past graduating High School for those in public education. So about 80-85% of the leftness. Some areas of the country it is over 90%.
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    "Disagreeing by using personal insults is trolling."

    That's not trolling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    Disagreeing by using personal insults is trolling. When you argue your point with that person and they decide that they don't like your stance and they follow you from thread to thread insulting every OP you make is trolling. Your post here is a fine example you are not trying to discuss like normal, you come at it with insults right off the bat. That is what makes people have to become obnoxious in order to post.

    Why should the "so called" Left have to take down the "so called" right just to earn the right to make a post without being insulted? That is what is happening. I think there is room for all of us. We can disagree without being A-holes to one another. This behavior is childish and for an adult it is unacceptable. Out of the 70 or so people who post here, there are only less than 10 to 15 people who are trolls. I have disagreed with many people and not called them trolls. But there are 10 to 15 who are disrupting this whole forum.

    I think we are better than this all of us.
    You don't know the meaning of troll.

    You say you are being followed when a member posts on most things.

    Anyone who disagrees with you is a troll.

    You call people names as much as you get called anything.

    Let's see you lead by example. I doubt you can go more than a few days without doing the very thing you say you're opposed to and without starting it.
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    JAP, you went into the Hole to defend one of the grossest posts I have seen here.

    Do you ever consider that you just get on people's nerves?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Please, kind madam, more eplanation.
    None forthcoming, I dismiss your entire thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Well the NEA also identified a reading comprehension problem starting in the 4th grade and runs past graduating High School for those in public education. So about 80-85% of the leftness. Some areas of the country it is over 90%.

    So to be clear you are saying that only left leaning people are effected by poor public education? BTW, I think you're numbers are too high. We have a reading level problem as well as an attention span problem but I'd say basic math illiteracy is even worse. That was not in response to your numbers, I'm referring to things like people who can't guestmate the price of a chunk of carpet, figure cubic feet or even make change without electronic assistance
    Last edited by donttread; 01-10-2019 at 02:47 PM.

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    I pretty much respond in kind. If someone is rational and can disagree without insults, I'm just as cordial. If another person wants to get in an insult match, I'll outwit them on their own playing field.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captdon View Post
    You don't know the meaning of troll.

    You say you are being followed when a member posts on most things.

    Anyone who disagrees with you is a troll.

    You call people names as much as you get called anything.

    Let's see you lead by example. I doubt you can go more than a few days without doing the very thing you say you're opposed to and without starting it.

    Maybe we are getting caught up too much on the word "trolling" rather than the particular behaviors JAP describes ? How ever you define those behaviors they are counter productive to civil discourse

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