Re: Can we make MN more hostile?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 4:47 pm
If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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14. Frame your thoughts as absolute as possible, use declarative sentences and words like "always, never, zero, completely..." avoid questions.RZehr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:09 pm 1. Practice assuming the worst motive of the other people, and interpret their posts accordingly.
2. Verbally grab people by the lapel, and shake to reset their cognitive dissonance back to normal.
3. Imagine the other person to be a glaring, hateful ogre, who never was a child. And that they are purposefully choosing to be obtuse.
4. Learn their true identity and address and post it publicly.
5. Rephrase their words to say something they really didn’t say. And then attack that with vigor.
6. When shown a new bit of information that isn’t inline with your preferred reality, ignore it completely. Never acknowledge mistakes.
7. View posts through conservative and liberal lenses instead of Biblical lenses.
8. If someone leans politically differently that you, do not allow anything they say to be taken outside of the political box. Doesn’t matter if they say that snow is white, they are just saying that because they were told that.
9. If someone generally agrees with your favored positions, never call them out when they are out of line, such as mocking someone else. Don’t be a peacemaker.
10. Use mockery and belittlement. Even if your own credibility takes a hit, it is worth it.
11. If someone does call you out, someone on your “side”, answer immediately with fire. They broke the rule number nine, and must be held to account before time is spent in contemplating exactly what they said.
12. Try to keep your online persona separated from your real life persona. Say things with a dull machete instead of a sharp scalpel. Use no filter or grace. Assume no one will know who you really are. This won’t happen, but pretend it does.
13. Post when you are having stressful day, have a bellyache, are hungry, have a headache, are tired, or after a particularly bad church decision.
Dr. Scrooge, I presume?
I determine that you have a Jezebel spirit.joshuabgood wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:19 pm Yes we can. We should start by denouncing heretics and heresies clearly and firmly. We should also denounce the vast right wing conspiracy and the godless left. We should make clear explicit connections to Hitler, Trump, and the Bidens. We should call out demonic darkness, demons, and witchcraft and spirits of OT wicked characters. We should create a fundamental lost of doctrines with which everyone must agree if they are real Christians. We must not associate with fake news, fake media, or fake Christians.
Actually, people seem to be missing the point of the thread. The "less hostile" thread was getting more hostile, so I thought maybe a "more hostile" thread could be less hostile. Contrarians that we are, we do the opposite of the thread title.
I was unironically on board with most of this until the part about wicked people from the OT. It went downhill from there.joshuabgood wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:19 pm Yes we can. We should start by denouncing heretics and heresies clearly and firmly. We should also denounce the vast right wing conspiracy and the godless left. We should make clear explicit connections to Hitler, Trump, and the Bidens. We should call out demonic darkness, demons, and witchcraft and spirits of OT wicked characters. We should create a fundamental lost of doctrines with which everyone must agree if they are real Christians. We must not associate with fake news, fake media, or fake Christians.
By the way, I was outraged to discover that the management of this forum is not nearly as committed to free speech as they claim to be: