Posted by:
DNA
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Date: January 19, 2011 10:00AM
edmac, I'll try to sum up some tact, and help you out. It's painful to watch you keep crashing and burning.
What I see you doing- You came here without expressing a real agenda, then do a strange mixture of acting like you are questioning your belief in one thread that you start, then replying in many other threads as if you are in our wards and need to set us straight about being good people. And it always sounds so mormonish when you do it.
I don't know if you generally have a hard time figuring out social situations, and so this meeting new people on their turf thing is particularly difficult, but here's how it ends up looking.
It looks like a TBM troll. You come in and say just a little bit that sounds like someone questioning, then a whole lot of preaching. Preaching about Gays, preaching about forgiveness, preaching about being offended, preaching about overlooking the wrongs of rapists, bearing testimony about the BoM, etc.
Those same symptoms could be due to a lack of social skills, but it's the same card that some people can't help but play when they are really here to jerk our chains about our leaving the church.
I tend to think that you are a troll. You act like one so skillfully. But part of me wonders if you are a curious questioner, who just can't figure out the social game of human interacting.
I've warned you a few times about biting your tongue when you get the urge to preach at dumb times. For example, when someone is posting very sensitive information about their child getting raped, and you think it's a good time to question their thinking and their commitment to forgiving, done in a very preachy way.
Even after warning you, you turn right around and do it over and over. That is either a troll that doesn't give a damn, or a somewhat genuine person, very lacking in social skills. You may just be schizophrenic, but don't want to say?
Your threads seem so disjointed, as if the same person can't possibly be thinking them up. Trolls sometimes come across that way, because they aren't being genuine. I suppose lack of social skills could do it too.
A person with social skills would soon pick up that this group is not very homophobic, and is in fact pretty Gay friendly. Some I'm sure are raging homophobes here, but they are smart enough about the social game to know to keep their mouth shut, knowing that their view won't be embraced at all. You seem to have missed that, even though it has been pointed out to you.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but as you can see, you're wearing out your welcome. If you are a troll, you are getting exactly what you wanted. You came in to rile everyone up, and succeeded. Soon you will tire, or you'll get kicked off.
If you are not a troll, you should probably admit that you are severely stunted at social interactions, and explain why you come off like you do, and people MIGHT have a little more patience with you.
One more thing, is there anything that you really want to know? Or do you just like talking? Most people arrive here because they want some information. Then they start to chit chat and share more. You jumped over wanting to know something, and went straight to your schizophrenic chit chat.
Is there something that you want to know, or are you just here for the chit chat?
That is my tactful way of saying what everyone else is saying.