I'm about to post the conversation now:
Me: Just to clear some things up: I understand that you're older than me, I understand that you're wiser than me. But just because you're older and wiser than me does NOT give you the right to treat me with disrespect.
As a Christian, I try to respect everyone I meet at first. Especially my elders. Most people keep my respect. But when someone continually disrespects me, that person loses my respect. Even if they are my elder. No one deserves to be treated with disrespect, and even though I have almost no respect for you, krellin, I will still try, and most of the time succeed, to not treat you disrespectfully. I sincerely hope you can do the same.
Krellin: Nice speech...<yawn...>
You, no doubt, are a rather intelligent kid. The mere fact that you play Diplomacy indicates that to me. You also have some good thoughts. You are also grossly inexperienced....yet portray yourself as somebody who knows much.
*that* is what I find so offensive. THAT is what rubs me wrong about *most* of the youth of America these days. Most of you do NOT have respect for elders....and, I'm afraid to say...neither do you. Your overconfident mannerisms on these threads, your dismissal of alternative philosophies...that is arrogance and pride. What do you base your self-assurance on? Experience? Or what Mom and Dad shoved into your head? Or your teachers or your pastor?
Believe it or not, I grew up Christian and Conservative. I find Christians to be the worst hypocrites of all. I believe in God....I have ceased to believe in self-professing Christians, who in the name of loving all, often cast judgements on all. conservative I agree with....but it is a conservative based upon experience, as opposed to some hard-core, straight-line conservatism like you and Tettleton spew forth. You guys regurgitate ideology....you regurgigtate your Utopian dreams....and yet, nobody has ever succeeded in setting up utopia, because the random and selfish nature of humanity always screws it up.
I'll bet you are a "lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" guy when it comes to crime. And yet....I'll bet you have never talked to an inner-city kid with no father, with a crack-whore mother and school that will pass them on to the next grade regardless of what they do. I'll bet you never talked to a kid who grew up in a culture where your first stint in jail is a badge of honor, and something to be respected, have you? No....I'l bet your idea of "those people" is too bad, so sad; they have every chance that you have if they only applied themselves....to which I would reply....that is *exactly* what someone who knows nothing would say as they regurgitate what has been forced in to their brain.
When I was in 10th grade, I thought i was the cat's ass, too. It wasn't until I got in to college -- away from the influence of Mommy and Daddy and church that I actually started to think for myself. Mostly, my philosophy has remained unchanged....but, 20 years from now you may recall our conversation, and you may thik, "Damn....that krellin was right..."
You are an arrogant little prick - that's why I dislike you, whether or not I agree with you. You are so full of righteousness....but you have experience with which to back up those beliefs. How can you tell a socialist he is wrong when you have never had a job, never paid taxes, never suffered or struggled or been treated unjustly by the capitalist system because of skin color, or social status? I despise you because you call yourself a MAN....and yet you don't even approximate a man. You are much more like a little bird...a parrot....just squawk, squawk, squawking away with whatever you have been brainwashed to say.
I mostly agree with you in principle...but your refusal to even acknowledge that you might be wrong here or there....that is what offends me the most, and others as well. Sometimes it is OK to say, "Hmmm....you have a point there...let me think about that..." instead of always having to have the right answer right now.
You don't treat others with respect, even though you claim to. You treat others with disregard....because if they don't repeat your own thoughts to you....and your own thoughts are really your parent's thoughts....then you dismiss them. How is that respect? You aren't respectful *at all*. In fact...you are so afraid of dissenting views, you *mute* people. That's respect? You put yourself into a public forum, but are unwilling to listen to others while you spew forth your own brand of nonsense? THAT is the very defintion of disrespect.
With any luck, you will consider my words...
Most likely, though, you will dismiss me...because you have no respect for anyone that disagrees with you...
Me: I find it funny that you think I'm arrogant, when in fact I have extremely low self-confidence and extremely low self-esteem. If you think that I'm arrogant, it is likely because online, I subconsciuosly try to project that image of myself to mask my low self confidence and self esteem. But I don't think so because I don't think I have at all acted arrogant. Could you please show me where I have acted arrogant?
Same thing with disrespecting my elders, which is something I do NOT do. Could you please show me where I have disrespected you, as you seem to be implying?
And I am not a 'lock-em-up and throw away the key' kind of guy. I guess you weren't here when I was previously on this site, but I used to be an anarchist. I am no longer one, but I am still a libertarian. I don't don't believe in the death penalty, or even life sentences either. The onl reason 'conservative' is in my screen name is because I was conservative when I joined this site, in early 2010. I became a libertarian a couple months later and an anarchist a couple months after that. I am now a libertarian again.
krellin: So you were an anarchist...and then a conservative...and now who knows what the hell you are....and you think you have a valid opinion on anything????
Grow the fuck up. get a job. Pay taxes. Have some responsibility in life before you choose and identity and start mouthing off.
You *prove to me* that I am right about you....that your opinion is meaningless bullshit that is simply regurgitation of whatever popular idea you heard yesterday....
Thank you for 100% confirming that my opinion of you as an arrogant, know-nothing child is accurate.
me: How the hell is anarchy a 'popular idea'? Most of the world are not anarchists. I was. That just shows I thought for myself and didn't follow the crowd.
You think I don't have responsiblity? Ha. My dad moved out a year ago and my mom is disabled. I am an only child, and I am the man of the house. Though I don't pay bills, I still do most of the housework, help my mom out when she needs it, comfort her when she's depressed, and still get good grades in school. I do a lot of things I should be proud of, and just because I'm only 15, doesn't mean I'm not allowed to be proud of those things. Yet you claim I can't be proud of those things because I'm not 'experienced' enough. Because I'm not 'mature' enough. What is maturity? It's being a man and doing what's right. You, by constantly degrading me and disrespecting me just because I'm younger than you (something you have absolutely NO right to do), are not doing what it right. You are immature. I, despite being younger and less wise than you, am eons more mature than you. And the sooner you get that through your thick skull, the better.
krellin: "How the hell is anarchy a popular idea" says the....what? 7th grader when you discovered it? Please....give a me a break. Give me a little more credit than that. You *think* you are growing up....you're in 7th ro 8th grade....you discover the idea of anarchism....the idea that you can tell your over-zelous, disciplinarian parents to stuff it....what Junior High kids doesn't like the idea when he hears it....and after all, you ARE in the smarty-pants schools, right?
Don't insult my intelligence, fool.
You are now angry and defensive becuase I can read you like a *poorly* written, predictable novel...
...that ought to tell you something about how original your ideas are..
Time to grow up and have an original thought...
krellin (again): As or your sad personal story....uh.....SO WHAT? You think the world gives a shit? damn....if you do, you will be "Liberal Man" sooner than I can say "Shi..." see...you beat me.
You want to cry and complain about your life? Booo hoo.....Hardship makes great men GREATER!
But you are not greater yet. You don't pay the bills....I'll bet the government does, right? RIGHT? Mr Conservative???
"Oh...but she earned it" says the RHINO Conservativeman....
The more you reveal, the more disgusted i am with you.
Tell Mommy to give up the government check. Tell her you will go to work to pay the bills. Man up and take responsibility...otherwise your sad story is just a hand sticking out begging for my tax dollars.
You are no conservative. You disgust me now even more than I could have thought...
Krellin (again): GET A JOB, BITCH!
me: I don't have time for a full time job. I might be able to manage a part time job, but that won't pay the bills. And school comes first, both my mom and I agree. I'd get a good job if I could, but I can't. I do know, that once I'm an adult, I will give a portion of my income to my mom to help support her, and if she needs it, I'll take her in to live with me. And that was not intended to be a sob story, that was intended to show you that I do, in fact, have responsibilities.
This is our whole private conversation.