Learning from a bad incident is your first victory, forgiving those who perpetrated is your second victory. Maintaining sound judgement is your reward. You can only control yourself, not others' actions.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 11th, 2022, 2:25 am Still, the two incidents left their mark. In a way, they did a good thing. I was pretty cocky when I was younger, and they helped to disarm that. They probably are the reason why I am more mild-mannered and down to earth today It might be humility learned by the school of hard knocks, but it was for the best. My religion tells me to forgive my enemies, and I still struggle with that a bit, though I still try to do better.
Once I realized my perpetrator was a sick human being, someone who couldn't control themselves & willingly hurt others. I understood just in that alone-it had nothing to do with me. Forgiveness is a bit easier once you realize that person is so weak, they haven't even mastered basic right/wrong behaviour.
Good for you that you trust us. That was the big value of the TCM board-it was full of mature, thoughtful posters who wrote in complete sentences. We could spot the tweet crowd immediately and pretty much ignore them.
Considering THIS board was set up just to avoid Troublemakers, I think we'll do just fine here. The first step: simply not respond to them.