Can't we all just get along?

potpimp said:

There is something very disturbing to me in this forum. For the last year or so I've noticed a significant change in people's attitudes here. It used to be that someone had respect for others here. We don't really "know" each other (with very few exceptions) but we read each others posts and interact here in cyberspace. It's easy to be a keyboard macho man and act like a jerk but it doesn't have any place here. I was smoking before most of you were born and it's always been common practice to "chill out" with other stoners. Acting like an ass on here towards others makes me very suspicious of you, especially when I see the same ones causing trouble, flaming others, for little or no reason. My guess is that you are a 15 year old punkass poser trying to be a cyber badass. My advice is simple: find you another forum! Back in the day, the word "peace" was meaningful in many ways, most especially towards our brothers and sisters that "turned on". We have the right to an opposing opinion but if you want to trash someone, be a man and send a PM; don't be an asswipe and flame someone so everyone else can see what a douche you are. Show some restraint and respect for your friends here. We are all here basically for two reasons (1) to learn (2) to teach others what we've learned. Sometimes I think I'll scream if I see one more post about someone peeing on their plants, or asking the same dumb questions that come up every week - but I scream to myself, not at the noob; that's just not cool and if you do it you're not cool either.

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potpimp said:

There is something very disturbing to me in this forum. For the last year or so I've noticed a significant change in people's attitudes here. It used to be that someone had respect for others here. We don't really "know" each other (with very few exceptions) but we read each others posts and interact here in cyberspace. It's easy to be a keyboard macho man and act like a jerk but it doesn't have any place here. I was smoking before most of you were born and it's always been common practice to "chill out" with other stoners. Acting like an ass on here towards others makes me very suspicious of you, especially when I see the same ones causing trouble, flaming others, for little or no reason. My guess is that you are a 15 year old punkass poser trying to be a cyber badass. My advice is simple: find you another forum! Back in the day, the word "peace" was meaningful in many ways, most especially towards our brothers and sisters that "turned on". We have the right to an opposing opinion but if you want to trash someone, be a man and send a PM; don't be an asswipe and flame someone so everyone else can see what a douche you are. Show some restraint and respect for your friends here. We are all here basically for two reasons (1) to learn (2) to teach others what we've learned. Sometimes I think I'll scream if I see one more post about someone peeing on their plants, or asking the same dumb questions that come up every week - but I scream to myself, not at the noob; that's just not cool and if you do it you're not cool either.

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Geist444 said:

Forums, Your Neighborhood, The World.. See a trend? Sadly this isn't the same ole place / world that was. Sure it has pockets of just about everything, but overall, it has been on the decline for a long time now. I hate to see bad things happen, but you know, bring on the recession. Perhaps it will be the brick in the face everyone needs to wake up and see what is really important in this life. Perhaps we are too far gone, and it will just get worse, Perhaps Not. We lost something here in the U.S a long time ago. Something we won’t be able to grow without, it is why we are in the pickle we are in. We don’t care about anything, but our own lives, what we can get , what we can take from others. Most can’t see beyond their own limited vision. We want everything fast, and cheap. The price of progress? Now we are having to finally start to pay for that, and it is more than we wanted. Greed will be the undoing. Granted this forum is a small pocket of mostly like minded people, but even then, you can’t stop the spread that easily. It isn’t a matter of “Can’t We all just get along”, it will become a matter of “We All HAVE to get along”, or the consequences will be something we can’t even imagine. Stock up on Ameros.

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