basicwiz opened this issue on Jan 24, 2013 · 104 posts
templargfx posted Thu, 31 January 2013 at 6:48 PM
Quote - Yeah, on balance, I think I am inclined to agree with Khai-J-Bach.
I've never subscribed to that adage "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me".
As human beings, our language, written or spoken, is surely one of the most powerful tools... and by extension, weapons... we have.
So, in context, words typed on a page, whether shouted out in a public space, or whispered menacingly in a private one, can be very potent things, can't they?
Words are only as powerful as you personally let them be to your life. Something is only offensive if you allow yourself to be offended.
As long as people continue to take the expressions of some meaningless faceless individual on the internet as personal affronts to your very being as an individual, things will never change.
I used to be one of the most "famous" online identities in relation to a computer game community. The community of the games main rival collectively trolled and abused me online for many months. I just ignored them (and occasionally had an incredibly fun time poking them to intensify their rage). None of the personal attacks, death threats, comments to my manhood, redicule of my work had any effect on me at all. I found it all quite funny. Why? because I DID NOT let it effect me.
Control of your own emotions and reactions is the most powerful tool you will ever give yourself in your life.
TemplarGFX
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