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Originally Posted by carlweathers
you should definately stop posting in this thread AJ. bryn is obviously a bit of a scumbag, but you're still an idiot for spitting on him and participating in an e-fight on 2+2 because nobody is going to win.
I mean, I agree w/this for sure. I have acted stupidly. It was ******ed and self destructive any way you look at it, and I never should have even gotten involved publically. I do not have some huge ego, believe it or not. I just strongly felt like I was entirely in the right and needed to defend myself, but this is not a reasonable excuse. I'm not the one sided angry individual online haters might like to portray me as. I think people are a little more complex than that, and I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt in online squabbles after my experiences on this forum and p5s the last 5 years. People do things for emotional reasons, people have different life experiences and values than you, and you rarely know all the details. I have had people I have argued with on here extensively who I ended up becoming great friends with. I know people who are considered to be scumbags or who are just relentlessly hated on by 2p2, who I would probably have the same opinion of, had I not met them and found them to be very nice, genuine people. It's just that, in real life you typically don't have so many people judging you, attacking you, and treating others generally disrespectfully, and some people don't handle it very well. Most communication is non-verbal, after all. The fact that there are people behind screens saying terrible things about someone they don't even know can be very frustrating and enraging. I've found this to be the case for myself no matter how good I try to be. My whole family is like this.
I will take your advice and finally bow out. Man. Bad times.
Jeff
Last edited by ActionJeff; 01-21-2010 at 12:29 PM.