you tell me lj136

lol......i was thinking of ...your mama

If she posts here I am in seriously DEEP SHIT.

I don't think Rob is the worst poster ever...he sounds like a fairly intelligent guy, and I suspect that IRL, he's a decent guy. I could care less what his opinions are per se...it's how they're said that gets old. He's following in the vein of people like tw.

Who's being hypocritical, Ali? Many of us have been unnecessarily harsh at times...Lord knows I have. And most of us are more than willing to cut slack. But that only goes so far. If you're repeatedly taking out your problems on an internet forum, perhaps you should find a better outlet. People have the right to their opinions and should be ready to defend them here. But people should also be able to express their opinions and disagreements without getting cut down and disrespected.

Having said that, Rob doesn't seem to think that there's an issue. *shrugs* No sense in flogging that dead horse.

OMG please NOOO- One is too many!

Sycamore, to me the hypocrisy is in the very same people who acted as if they cared so much when rkz was in hospital are also posting in this thread, which in my opinion is nothing more than a bashing thread.

Why must people live with such double standards? Or is it ok to be an arsehole to someone one minute and then the next be full of concern?

Maybe that's how it works in your part of the world, but not in mine.

I don't think it's about double standards, Ali.

What he had to go through recently sucks balls, and I hope he is recovering as quickly as possible. I have concern for him in that vein. On the other hand, I don't care for the guy because he's disrespectful to the Cellar and its posters. Is that a double standard? I don't think so.

For me it is a double standard. Either you care for someone or you don't. It's pretty black and white. Not too many shades of grey for me.

The way I see it is if you care about someone then you understand their motivations and reasons and if you know they're not doing so great and that they've clearly stated that they feel the place they're at ( in this case it's here ) is the only place they feel they can talk about the pain they're in, then why can't the regulars at least take that into account instead of making arses out of themselves by beating up on someone who is obviously not in the right frame of mind a lot of the time?

It's called compassion. You either have it for someone or you don't.

I gotta disagree with you Ali. Rage guy annoys the shit of of me when he acts like an ass. Even when I agree with his points (which is at least 50% of the time) I think he makes them poorly. If the guy is sick and in the hospital though, none of that really matters does it? It's like a time-out. Real life is taking precedence over over internet bullshit. He's a real guy with a real wife and kid who love him - of course I hope he recovers as quickly as possible.

If he's in too much pain to communicate like an adult on a BB when he does recover, that's on him. There are no wheelchairs on the internet. Even if there were, I don't think he would want one.

I think Syc makes a valid point, here. Just because you dislike the manner of expression someone uses does not mean you'd just as soon they suffer and die. Believe me, I've got some serious IRL experience with someone in the local Pagan community who has radical opinions and an incredibly offensive manner of self expression online. He makes me angrier than any other human being on the face of the Earth, but if he fell ill or suffered any real life trauma, I would still extend him my sincerest best wishes for positive changes in his condition.

I can't see being humane as being in any way hypocritical.

I can completely separate the internet rk from the real life one. On the internet, I disagree with much of what he says and the tone in which he posts it. However, I am concerned about his health in the real world. There are many folks I don't care for in my real world, but I certainly would not want anything to happen to them.

OK then, if you all do care so much about rkz's real life trials, why don't you give him a bit of grace when he goes over the top; knowing that often it's the result of being less patient because he's in pain?

Why do people on the internet have to enter into these types of character assassinations? What's the point? If you think the man is a dick then just ignore him. i just can't see the logic.

There are people here who I choose to ignore most of the time because they simply bore me with their monotony. Why have the same argument with the same person over and over again? What's the point?

*ahem*

smurf, you're new here. I don't think you understand the history enough to comment personally.

You don't like the guy. Ignore him. It's pretty simple.

Don't tell me what to do. Get off your high horse. This is my opinion, and I don't give a shit what you think. You're in the minority here, sweetcheeks.

Just because I'm in a bad mood, or "in pain", or whatever, I don't have the right to take it out on other people. That's immature, irrational, wrought with emotional instability, and shows a complete lack of general human respect for anyone. You wanna kiss his fat ass for his prize-winning cocksuckery - go ahead, more power to ya.

I've been around longer than you know, and certainly long enough to understand he's a miserable human being, and that it isn't MY or anyone else's fault, and that neither should I nor anyone else suffer his insults and anger because his life sucks fat donkey dick.