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Idiots
Neopoet.com is a poetry workshop. How do I know this? It says so in the title bar on the home page.
Since Neopoet.com is a poetry workshop, I will interact with people as if they are here to participate in the classic definition of a workshop. This means that I will offer critique and that critique will be geared toward making the submitted work better and the submitter a better writer, not toward making the submitter feel good or better.
Over the last year or so I have realised that my time is better spent interacting only with those who request that I do so or with those with whom I have established working relationships and I am OK with that.
Yet I still have people who reach out to call me names and feebly point accusations at me for my daring to have an opinion that may be opposed to theirs. This always both puzzles and amuses me. I am puzzled that anyone could be offended by my opinion and I am amused that their reaction to this is to claim I must be talking about them personally.
Once again people, if I am talking about you personally you will know because I will have used your name and directed the conversation to you. If that does not happen, i am not talking about you personally. I may be talking about a situation or attitude you might share and if you feel strongly about it I encourage you to write your own damn blog post explaining or defending your position.
But pretending that you alone are the focus of my blogs? Really? think about that for a second and realise who I am and how I behave and the manner in which I act and the tone in which I write and answer me this:
"Is Jonathan the type of person who insults people indirectly?"
If you do not know the answer to that question in an unequivocal "no" then you do not know anything about me and should pause before you decide to accuse me of anything. I promise you, the best you can hope for after your accusation is my dismissing you as an idiot.
And now we come to my usage of the term idiot. I use the term to describe people who go out of their way to be offended where no offense is offered, who preach compassion while sowing hatred, who wear the badge of tolerance while working to quell any opinion but their own. These people are, in my mind, idiots and I do not desire to waste my time with them.
But hell, you don't have to agree with me. If you find everything I do offensive or worthless, ignore me, after all, it's exactly what I am doing.
Some people will take this blog post as a personal attacks. Now you may understand while these people are idiots in my mind.
Since Neopoet.com is a poetry workshop, I will interact with people as if they are here to participate in the classic definition of a workshop. This means that I will offer critique and that critique will be geared toward making the submitted work better and the submitter a better writer, not toward making the submitter feel good or better.
Over the last year or so I have realised that my time is better spent interacting only with those who request that I do so or with those with whom I have established working relationships and I am OK with that.
Yet I still have people who reach out to call me names and feebly point accusations at me for my daring to have an opinion that may be opposed to theirs. This always both puzzles and amuses me. I am puzzled that anyone could be offended by my opinion and I am amused that their reaction to this is to claim I must be talking about them personally.
Once again people, if I am talking about you personally you will know because I will have used your name and directed the conversation to you. If that does not happen, i am not talking about you personally. I may be talking about a situation or attitude you might share and if you feel strongly about it I encourage you to write your own damn blog post explaining or defending your position.
But pretending that you alone are the focus of my blogs? Really? think about that for a second and realise who I am and how I behave and the manner in which I act and the tone in which I write and answer me this:
"Is Jonathan the type of person who insults people indirectly?"
If you do not know the answer to that question in an unequivocal "no" then you do not know anything about me and should pause before you decide to accuse me of anything. I promise you, the best you can hope for after your accusation is my dismissing you as an idiot.
And now we come to my usage of the term idiot. I use the term to describe people who go out of their way to be offended where no offense is offered, who preach compassion while sowing hatred, who wear the badge of tolerance while working to quell any opinion but their own. These people are, in my mind, idiots and I do not desire to waste my time with them.
But hell, you don't have to agree with me. If you find everything I do offensive or worthless, ignore me, after all, it's exactly what I am doing.
Some people will take this blog post as a personal attacks. Now you may understand while these people are idiots in my mind.