[Wants2Fly]

10 Ways to Get Endless Attention on the Forums

1. Blame the world. Whatever you are feeling and whatever is going on in your life (or not going on that you wish were) is due to outside forces, conditions, and other people’s behaviors. You are not responsible for your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; your life, your mind, and your emotions are completely are the result of things outside yourself over which you have no control.

2. Be a victim. You are the center of the universe for everyone alive, and they have devoted their lives to being mean to you, slighting you, ignoring you, insulting you, and making you miserable any way that they can.

3. Identify your biggest defect as something over which you have no or very little control – such as your age, your racial or ethnic group, your sexual identity, an incurable disease. Insist that other people victimize you because of this defect.

4. Explain the universe in terms of this defect over which you have no control. Everything that happens, or that you believe happens, must be interpreted in terms of the single-defect explanation.

5. Be consistent. Never, ever waver from the underlying story that you are a victim, that you have one and only one defect, and that the world is a mean place for people with your defect.

6. Keep people interested in your problems by posting occasional progress. This makes people believe that they are helping you. Then, when you go back to your conviction that you are a victim and blame the world, they will work all the harder to persuade you otherwise.

7. Bring your point of view into every thread. Ideally, keep track of comments that trigger people’s frustration and anger. Use these over and over again to ensure that people will drop everything to discuss your intransigent views with you.

8. If anyone ignores you or posts any criticism of your ideas, point out that this is exactly the kind of victimization you always confront. Make other people wrong, ignoble, and mean so that they will lavish attention on you to prove you wrong.

9. Refuse to consider alternative points of view. You are right, dammit, and the world had darn well better wake up and see it.

10. Never do anything to change, to help yourself, or to engage in self-examination and introspection. Do not utilize any proven techniques for self-help, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, working with a therapist, or any kind of counseling. This maximizes the frustration level of other people, ensuring they will lavish endless attention on you to persuade you to try something different. This has the added benefit of keeping you mired in your misery forever, guaranteeing you endless sympathy and help from others.

[h0kie]

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[sqrlb8]

ROTFL!!!! OMG, That is so hilarious. A thousand inappropriate remarks spring to mind....

Good one. Thanks, I'm still laughing. You really nailed something there.

[SweetCrusader]

Wow.

Don't know what else to say

[Fuzzybear]

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[wisewoman]

Hmmm, I resemble that remark! Just kidding. Pretty profound and obviously triggered by something. Love to you, Nothing is black and white and ain't that a bi t c h? What a long strange trip it's been.

[kimmydawn]

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[Kathyanita]

Heres a Psychotic Break:

Nothing is black and white because black is the absence of light ; and white is the abcense of color-
either state is lacking--- breaks over i'm done being profound.

[gracetoo71]

so true, thank you.

[angel04]

ROFLMAO

[SeptemberMorn]

That's a great one! I love it! Goes to prove that "black or white" thinkers are wrong! LOL

[SeptemberMorn]

You flew again! It's been my experience that we do our best writing when we are in pain. That's great writing! I understand what you're going through. Please don't give your power away. You know what I mean?

Love ya!

[vacantangel]

I understand you are upset and I feel for you, I really do but this is hardly supportive. I think it was posted in very poor taste. I'm sorry if that upsets you but it's how I feel. I hate to see anybody put down and hurt.

I think this thread should be deleted.

[vacantangel]

I just want to add that I like you and my reply is not about you personally. I just don't like a thread started that is obviously directed at a specific poster that you are upset with. I just don't like to see anybody hurt and I understand that you are hurt. hugs.

Bravo!!!

[vacantangel]

Is that Bravo for me?

Wow - it never occured to me that this could have been written about a specific user. In fact, I didn't realize that it was an original post. Actually, I made the assumption that it came from another source, and was just copied here! But now that I look again, there is no author, so I guess it IS original?? If so, it sure was a lot of work.

Isn't it funny how different people interpret things differently?

Take care. emmy

[vacantangel]

Let's just say that I witnessed the beginning of this situation and I understand both sides and feel for both sides but I can't stand to see somebody hurt deliberately. And as I said before, I like both of the people very much and both have been very supportive towards me as I am towards them. Not sure my comments here will be interpreted that way though.

[SS8282]

((((((((((((wants2)))))))))) thanks for posting this. I have been having a bad time lately, and this posting made me smile. See? I badly need something to make me laugh. Thanks again.

P.S. - I know you've posted this because it's funny, and not meant to hurt anyone. Big hugs.

[Wants2Fly]

AngelGirl -- It appears that many of us see our own foibles in this list. I am not going to be guilted into an apology because you have made an interpretation that makes you feel upset (see #8).

The Bravo was for Wants2Fly....I admire her sense of being in the present and her tremendous clarity....

[vacantangel]

I'm not asking for an apology. This thread is NOT about me.

[lenjan]

Right behind ya, Wants2. Way too true.

Candy

[Kathyanita]

My point about deciding on a position which is devided like black and white was that this constitutes an error in critical thinking because neither position- when taken- affords a complete picture- each is inherently negative to some extent. I hate to see arguments and debates and defensive stands taken over something written to the general public yet interpreted personally. Black and white is a fallacy and are not opposites thus we don't need to take "sides" on such things. Its not life or death (which I would argue are true opposites and worth fighting over)

[vacantangel]

it wasn't written personally about me but somebody else. i could easily provide a link to the post where this all started but i'm stepping out.