Weak People - Kicking Someone When They are Down

@loralee (542)
United States
December 7, 2007 1:11pm CST
It amazes me when people kick other people when they are down. This happens so often on planet earth for more reasons than I can imagine. I have never done or been trained to do this. People who derive pleasure from others misfortune are a mystery to me but what is even more unfathomable is when they add to it. I would honestly like to know what makes these types of people tick well enough to take them apart and put them back together the right way. Though I wouldn't want to flub the job and render them helpless(well maybe just a little and only with the satisfaction of knowing they can't dig on others misfortunes anymore). Anyway, here is another question for you, do you think people learn to be bad or are they sometimes just born that way and have to learn to control their inherent badness?
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WARCRYMIME07
@WARCRYMIME07 (2)
• United States
8 Dec 07
i think people are very influential,you have people always doing something because of what someone said.the way this world is, our mouth is a very powerful weapon. i think we have to watch what we say because kids are watching us adults. if we are talking bad most likely they are going to talk bad or be negative
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loralee
@loralee (542)
• United States
8 Dec 07
I must agree. And like the above response to zigzagbuddha, if anyone finds what I wrote to be negative or judgmental, again sincere apologies. Words can be serious business that can cause harm, intended or not.
loralee
@loralee (542)
• United States
9 Dec 07
DH, you're too much, but I wouldn't want to have you any other way. It would take all the fun and realness out of it. I think all this interaction is starting to make us friends. It is not something I judged would happen. ZZB, Right now, I'm listening to 'Three is a Green Crown' and I'm starting to feel an unexpected high on my Sunday afternoon. I might be experiencing a flashback from the meager 4 hits windowpane I once took that made me see tiny squares that passed colors though whatever I set my gaze upon. I'm definitely liking this music. Still waiting on The Iron Stone to complete. No one is seeding.
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zigzagbuddha
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
9 Dec 07
Hey loralee, if you can get hold of 'Maya', 'Lordly Nightshade', 'Witches Hat', or 'You've Been a Friend to Me', those are a few of my favorites. Also if you do a search for 'Robin Williamson' there is one that he does in his 'bard incarnation' that I love called 'The Five Denials on Merlin's Grave'. I've got a video called "Be Glad for the Song has no Ending" where he is reciting the iron stone. A lot of his stuff, even though the poetry is profound, is a little to wailing along for me... my mother once commented that they reminded her of disembodied spirits. She meant it as a criticism, but I took it as a compliment.
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villageanne
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
7 Dec 07
I agree with you. I have never understood people who are like this. I do not believe that they are born like that. I think it comes from within themselves. They can change if they want too but they dont seem to want too. I think they are just so unhappy that they want everyone else to be Unhappy too
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loralee
@loralee (542)
• United States
8 Dec 07
I think it might be both from within as well as without, working vise versa. Science is beginning to helps us understand genetics making it clearer that both environment and genetics are intertwined to play their part. Science is coming to understand through the study of DNA that environment alters code structure. DNA study is also adding fact and proof of evolution. Leaving good thought provoking info behind...combined with humor...we strive...adding to a world evolving...
vmenard
@vmenard (895)
• United States
7 Dec 07
Your post reminds me of the book, Sometimes A Great Notion. One of the characters in the book tries to make himself feel good by making someone else feel bad. I think miserable people try to make others feel bad. Misery loves company. I think people have free will and can choose to be bad or good.
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loralee
@loralee (542)
• United States
8 Dec 07
Misery loves company. This is so true. I notice miserable people hang together. I also notice sometimes people like to jump on band wagons, find others insecurities and try to exploit them on a group level, like can sometimes happen here on mylot. Maybe they are doing this ultimately to get close to you. It doesn't have to be in a good or bad way, they just have to reach you in anyway for the sole sake of company. If a miserable way is the only way they know then misery it be.