| Posted on 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT by Christian Kemp | 174 comments
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Today, I tracked over one hundred attempts of abuse on ANN. I've been working on the filters and editing mechanisms for over four hours. Maintaining ANN is turning into real work, and all I see are tasks that I despise. This one individual, and the general attitude on ANN lately, is alienating visitors and making this site a horrible place to be. Most of what I see is insults and blind advocacy... I'm tired... And I can just see the negative comments again, in reply to me posting this...
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| Posted by BouncingAyatollah on 04-Jan-2002 17:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 144 (smithy):
> Calm down Dave! I don't think there was anything in William's posts that was
> offensive. I find religion a fascinating thing, and I find that many
> followers of the minority religions (Wiccans, Athiests (yes, it IS a
> religion!)) often have a bone to pig with Christians just for the sake of it. > I call it the Microsoft syndrome. Everybody hates that which is bigger, more
> powerful, further reaching and more successful than they are
Ironically, isn't that how modern Christianity came about in the first place? Constantine converged Christianity, Sol Invictus and (I believe) Mithraism under the same umbrella taking all the "most popular" festivals, like pre-Christmas, pre-Easter from Sol Invictus yet adopting the name of Christianity.
This is one of the reasons some people can get heated about Chritianity, you could reverse the "Christianity polluted" argument as "Christianity stole and renamed our festivals" if you switch your viewpoint, or perhaps that should be in fairness "Constantine...". Which can lead to a feeling of having your views/beliefs discounted and misrepresented. Windows3.1 - Joe Public goes "Wow! Windows and buttons!", the same is true with "multitasking" and so on as all Amigans know. Psychologically, having a belief constantly discounted can be very unsettling.
This IS oddly akin to Microsoft "inventing" many of the features that were first present in AmigaOS and other systems. And perhaps not so oddly given human predilection for playing games, leads to arguments which concentrate solely on the differences between systems (whether theological or technological) rather than consolidating the good points/messages and seeing the good in these and drawing strength from those. Hence: "my religion/deity/OS/viewpoint is bigger/better than yours because <list of less significant-than-the-intended-message differences>". |
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