Posted on 03/16/2019 4:27:09 PM PDT by pcottraux
Ciccarelli, Saundra and White, J. Nolan. Psychology: Fourth Edition. Pearson Education, Int., 2015, pages 110, 111, 408-409, 523, 588.
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I normally blog about religion but this week wanted to delve into psychology since I've had more than my fair share of troll encounters; I also find the subject immensely fascinating.
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“..The only thing that brings them any relief is tearing down others. Those who don’t create can only try to destroy. It’s a sad fact that goes all the way back to Cain and Abel....”
And sometimes you just have to face the fact the some people - no matter WHAT their situation is - are just complete and total assh*les.
Without any rhyme or reason for it.
You are spending too much time and effort attempting to characterize why people decide to troll. Sometimes people just enjoy poking fun at the self righteous know it alls that like to post their thoughts on comment threads.
Good read. thank you for posting.
Sometimes you pull on your cats tail right before you feed it because it is fun to watch their mental dissonance. Sometimes I twerk a prigs nose because it is also fun to do. The “Well, I Never!” never gets old. If that makes me an ahole, so be it.
Watching a self important liberal fool get run over by a crowd of trolls - priceless.
Cheers!
“And sometimes you just have to face the fact the some people - no matter WHAT their situation is - are just complete and total assh*les.”
Indeed.
L
Pull your Cats Tail !?
Well,
I Never!
I’m just here for the Yuks,
Is that Wrong?
Just got a Dopamine “Fix.”
Thanks.
What was that quote from one of the Batman movies - “Some people just want to see the world burn”??? Something like that.
That was it. And it’s true.
L
“The Dark Knight”,
Heath Ledger’s last movie.
Thank you!
Without any rhyme or reason for it.
You are spending too much time and effort attempting to characterize why people decide to troll. Sometimes people just enjoy poking fun at the self righteous know it alls that like to post their thoughts on comment threads.
I find exploring the causes of human behavior very fascinating, but more than that light needs to be shed on the causes of destructive tendencies. Abuse, neglect, absent fathers are having a more catastrophic effect on American society than we even realize. Internet trolling is just one symptom of a greater disease.
Unless you thought crazy animal rights activists, PETA members, Antifa thugs, drug addicts, etc. just sprang up out of nowhere...
Ping.
I love trolling my liberal
Buddies
It brings me no end of joy. I love it. It’s not a problem at all. It’s FUN !
Very interesting.
This could well be a contributing factor in the sometimes incredible online abuse of victims of dangerous dog attacks - by the owners and supporters of the dogs that mauled or killed the victims.
Thank you for authoring and posting this. I find it very thought-provoking. This world - and evil men - “shall wax worse and worse . . .” 2 Timothy 3:13
Norski
I doubt it. More likely it is a new behavioral pattern that results from indirect, long distance interaction between people in one of the many new contexts created by the internet.
You may feel that modern society is "diseased" in some way, and that may be a reasonable characterization of some of its aspects, but I am not aware of any data showing that internet trolling is anything but a new behavior pattern.
If it is a "symptom" then what is the disease?
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