CrystalLight
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Why would anyone publicise the death of a loved one on something like the Tickling Media Forum?
Just because the name of the forum is the "Tickling Media Forum", doesn't mean that that's only what it represents. It started out as a shell and has involved into what many members here can comfortably call a community.
People have built friendships and some even solid relationships thanks to this forum. And it wasn't just because of the Tickling content, it was because of the side discussion that fills this place as well.
Due to the distance of many people, it might be more convenient to reach out through threads here, then sending mass E-mails. If that idea depresses you, then it's just as easy to pass the thread by. Although, I know for my own personal fact that it's a hard thing to do.
If it's not deliberate flame bait, then what really is the harm in posting things about the on-going's in one's life? There are plenty of people who would be curious to know what's going on in other folks' life. This place gives us all an opportunity to post those things, as well as those threads that contain such content as this one has.
Is it because, as is sometimes the case with me, these people have nobody else to tell? Does that reveal anything about the make-up of this group?
No. You're looking at this solidly through one side. There's another side to this, which I touched upon above. There are people here who find it a lot easier to reach out to others here, instead of sending mass amounts of Email. This place holds that convenience. The benefit also being, is that someone could post of an issue within their life and find themselves identifying with other's who could be going through the same or similar themselves.
Also - I believe in Darwinian Evolution, so sorry guys, but I do think that there is a dividing line between winners and losers. There always has been and there always will be. You may be happy as a loser, or sad as a winner, but you are still a winner or a loser.
Or perhaps you are one who has neither lost, nor won. You are one who merely just is. There's no title to you, and that's okay. Again, that all is in your opinion and you are welcome to it.
Attempting to force others to agree, however, is a whole different ball game.
I just wonder if we're a bunch of self-indulgent, fantasists that have no clue about the real world.
What evidence can you deliver to support your claim of this assumption? Certainly if you are doing nothing but assuming, doesn't that make you a self-indulgent fantasist?
Or do you feel better by considering yourself to be the exception to the rule.
I guarantee someone will quote me here and make a DIRECT ATTACK on me.
In fact, I have not made a direct attack on anyone. I have asked the general questin as to whether this group is made up of winners or losers, and since that group includes me, I felt entitled to ask it. I haven't attacked any one individual, and I would appreciate it if you didn't attack me.
There's an error within this statement. Although you haven't directly called any one person out, the delivery of your OP shows ill-will to be implied. Sometimes it's not always about the direct statement as much as it is about the intent of which it was delivered.
Asking someone to not get hostile about your developed and assumed opinion of them is a little obtuse.
Also - I asked the question - are we a bunch of losers, and since most people haven't exactly been enthusiastic about declaring themselves winners, I think I might have an answer.
Then I guess this thread is pretty much over with, yeah?