rumitoid

This is not absolute. I am testimony to that fact. Somehow I have reverted to taking offense. The usual entrenched ad hominem has no effect but others have found my buttons I thought in a sealed panel. It is annoying and embarrassing. I can be hurt by people here and I do not like it. Just a year or so back, I would have felt pity for one in my pathetic state of today. What happened? I am still actively working on that cause.

What I know from a few decades of personal experience is that taking offense is self-delusion and the most dangerous element on this planet. There is nothing worse under the sun. Wh**ever is considered sacred or good cannot possibly be diminished or tainted by others. To believe so actually permits that diminishment and taint to be possible. Think about it.

Yet offense taken comes in usual smaller magnitudes. A good friend of many years suddenly doubts your word. A spouse accuses you of betrayal. We can be hurt by these things, take offense, or be mature, looking to help free them of their pain and delusion. Taking offense will always have a measure of t***h but that is to free us from our own defects.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

ok?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

"We should be too big to take offense, and too noble to give it." [quote/Abraham Lincoln]

Easier said than done. :|

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

all you have to do is stop trying to be the thought police, you will find it takes a big load off that tiny little mind of yours

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

You are out of sequence.....this one is supposed to be about religion.... Your last pity party was only a few days ago....not more than 2 weeks. I know that your birthday is soon or has passed (by the way, nice touch in begging recognition on that), so perhaps making a list to rotate would be helpful.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

[quote=rumitoid]This is not absolute. I am testimony to that fact. Somehow I have reverted to taking offense. The usual entrenched ad hominem has no effect but others have found my buttons I thought in a sealed panel. It is annoying and embarrassing. I can be hurt by people here and I do not like it. Just a year or so back, I would have felt pity for one in my pathetic state of today. What happened? I am still actively working on that cause.[/quote]

No, you are not working on the cause.

I know the cause, as do you. Grief for each individual has its own time frame. I, personally, do not believe you have resolved yours, nor have taken the appropriate steps to resolve it. Think about how and what your lost friend would counsel you and think.

Billie S Loc: Pennsylvania

My grandfather used to say, "Your goat can't be taken unless you give it."

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

I know that there are many kind and wonderful people on OPP. And many of you show up to prop up an individual who is feeling bad. But my friends, in the case of Rumitoid you are being used as a crutch for a drama queen. You are being an enabler and not encouraging healing or emotional stability. Please look at his many threads he posts and consider::

1. Over-the-top reactions – “How dare you say that to me!” Have you noticed that his reactions to situations are waaaaaaaay more – passionate shall we say- than others?
2. He is the white tornado – “You won’t believe what happened to me today! Or How dare you not pay attention to me. And why don’t you all pay attention to me?” Every situation ends up being all about him.
3. He compares his life to others – “You think that’s bad? Wait until I tell you…” He craves rescue. “Tell me please how right I am and tell me you think as I do….”
4. He gets irritable when too much time has gone by between crises – And if no one responds to his posts he steals from other posts to start his very own thread….just for attention. Take a look at his posts… those that he creates. If no one responds to him, he responds to himself…
5. He is stuck in his story – He has told the same things over and over again so many times that now he really believe the story! But here’s the deal – it isn’t true! He is stuck in a loop and he questions why things do not change. He enjoys being a victim and he mines this site for sympathy for his life and for being in the wrong place all the time.

Let us encourage him to start living a healthy life and to stop having all these pity parties.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

You will be far better off financially and mentally if you just stop being drunk all the time and posting crap like you do. Your brain is about fried all to hell from booze.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Skid row is a hard place to be, is it not? Sober up. Seek good professional mental health help. Call a Priest and have them do an exorcism. Get rid of your bong and stop using meth.

rumitoid

Very true.

rumitoid

Not sure where I have assumed such a role but will take ur advice under consideration.

rumitoid

Make it a personal attack (as usual) or respond to the thread.

rumitoid

Nice detective work, Ginnyt. Now provide the actual sites to the quotes you assigned to me. You cannot! Your lies and h**e for me exposed. Pathetic. Get a life. Or if you can back what you claim I said, then do so. Until then, shut your lying and loathsome mouth. You are a spiritual malady.

rumitoid

If we are mature of mind and emotion, offense cannot be given. In the healthy soul, giving offense is impossible. But not all souls are healthy. The ignorant. immature, vulnerable, and conditioned will find offense given. If we take these words from scripture as true, "...those that cause the least of these to stumble," then influence or manipulation over another is possible, we can cause offense.