Wars of Words
from 
WinCustomize Forums
WinCustomize Forums
Is it just me, or are people all over the world deliberately choosing the most provocative, inflammatory words possible? Have these choices somehow been effected by the events of September 11th?
The recent post calling Frogboy a Nazi, for example. No one really believes that His Wartiness is really a Nazi. This word was chosen purely out of anger and to inflame others. My initial reaction was that calling someone a Nazi for censoring a post trivialized the events of WWII. It made me angry! I wanted to vent my anger by writing a post that flamed the original poster. I am now glad that I didn't.
Several virii were recently sent my way, perhaps as early holiday presents. I wrote a post that compared people who send virii to Bin Laden's forces. In my own defense, Microsoft referred to people who send out virii as cyber-terrorists. But wait a minute. If my machine had been infected, I would have lost files and been inconvenienced. Hardly comparable to destroying the World Trade Center. But I was angry when I wrote it. At least one person that read my post was angered by my hyperbole. And so the cycle continues.
I hope that nobody reading this gets angry. Really I do.
I think that the problem is that we, all of us on Wincustomize and elsewhere, have a lot of anger and no place to put it. So, in a classic case of positive feedback, we circulate this anger among ourselves.
I am new (well fairly new) to the skinning community. I make friends here everyday. People here make me laugh sometimes, make me smile sometimes and make me go "Ohhh!" a lot with the beauty that they create. This is a special place in a special time. We need a place to check our anger before fully entering Wincustomize. T-Man, can you build a link for this?
Peace, love and skins.
The recent post calling Frogboy a Nazi, for example. No one really believes that His Wartiness is really a Nazi. This word was chosen purely out of anger and to inflame others. My initial reaction was that calling someone a Nazi for censoring a post trivialized the events of WWII. It made me angry! I wanted to vent my anger by writing a post that flamed the original poster. I am now glad that I didn't.
Several virii were recently sent my way, perhaps as early holiday presents. I wrote a post that compared people who send virii to Bin Laden's forces. In my own defense, Microsoft referred to people who send out virii as cyber-terrorists. But wait a minute. If my machine had been infected, I would have lost files and been inconvenienced. Hardly comparable to destroying the World Trade Center. But I was angry when I wrote it. At least one person that read my post was angered by my hyperbole. And so the cycle continues.
I hope that nobody reading this gets angry. Really I do.
I think that the problem is that we, all of us on Wincustomize and elsewhere, have a lot of anger and no place to put it. So, in a classic case of positive feedback, we circulate this anger among ourselves.
I am new (well fairly new) to the skinning community. I make friends here everyday. People here make me laugh sometimes, make me smile sometimes and make me go "Ohhh!" a lot with the beauty that they create. This is a special place in a special time. We need a place to check our anger before fully entering Wincustomize. T-Man, can you build a link for this?
Peace, love and skins.
Normal, BoXXI? What is that? 
