Lost respect

[Knonsense]

I do have difficulty believing that your family could be like that without either you noticing or you being influenced while you grew up. I could understand if it was extended family, but your parents and siblings too?

I can't think of any situation where that has happened to me. Maybe I don't respect people enough to begin with.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

You set them up as completely awful human beings.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but that doesn't matter - they seem to be awful based on what you've said about them, and that's what I based my statement on.

Frick. I think I should fix that...

 

[TwistedEllipses]

One of my friends just lost it fairly recently and is sprouting a bunch of melodramatic nonsense...oh and Steven Spielberg...

 

[Splat]

-poof-

 

[Micah Weil]

To lose respect, one must have it to begin with. That said, I've never had this problem.

Pretty much this.
I don't respect anyone or anything.
I'm just a dick I guess.

You're not a dick. Just because you harbor ill will towards your fellow man, doesn't mean that.
See, I harbor ill will and regularly make life uncomfortable for those who come into contact with me. I, my friend, am a complete dick.

 

[randommaster]

It has not really been a problem for me. I live in Austin, Texas, which is one of the most liberal places you can be. The rest of Texas, however, is one of the most conservative places you will ever see. Leaving Austin for the first time is a shock because you don't see any black, mexican, or asian people and you're like, "WTH?" After the first time, however, you get used to it.

 

[Berethond]

Well, I had this teacher once. And there were some errors in the textbook about Mormons, and when I brought this up while she was teaching us (About said errors) she started yelling about how it was a textbook and was perfect and about how I was wrong. (About my religion and heritage, imagine that.)

So I got my stuff and left.

Of course, I didn't respect her before....

 

[Neonbob]

Anyway, I never got the attachment some people have to their families.
My family members aren't bad people, and none of them are racist or anything similar, but that doesn't mean I'd be particularly broken up if they died.

Same here. Yay, Mom popped me out, Dad paid for everything, so they have my thanks for that. My Dad has my respect because after 19 years of life, he's still got 3 inches and about 77 pounds on me. So I do know to behave. And mom gets some for putting up with 3 kid's worth of shit for so long. But an average person starts off being a useless sack of crap in my eyes. From there, they can only go up.

 

[EchetusXe]

Thats tough buddy. The racism is too deep for you to do anything about it now, though the siblings can possibly be saved.


Me? I generally have little or no respect for anyone around me.

But I always lose a little bit of respect for myself when I am in an argument and it ends in a stalemate and 20 minutes later I think up a CRUSHING point. However I did not use it in time because the argument was unpredicted.

tbh the reason I came on this forum now was to vent off about that.

Spoiler: You don't have to read this

Suffice to say it went something like this:
Me (typing on internets): Harsh remark (joke) about someone. (its a girl so they get all the sympathy immediately, even though the girl in question is really cool and takes jokes superbly)
Some dumb *****: Oh blah blah, remark with zero insight into situation. bah blah, how old are you anyway? Mind your own business.
Me: Makes light of said remarks.
Some dumb *****: Your immature blah blah, speak to you when you grow up a little
Me: Yeah, look forward to it *****.
Some bozo: You go girl!

I could have ended it before it began by pointing out to this ***** that she was butting in on what was none of her business and I wasn't even having to do with anyone elses business.

Its worse on the internet because you know you can go back and make the comment, but you know its too late and it would have little effect but to reignite the hate.

Man, regret is the worst feeling ever. No matter how small the level of regret is it still kills me inside.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

You set them up as completely awful human beings.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but that doesn't matter - they seem to be awful based on what you've said about them, and that's what I based my statement on.

Frick. I think I should fix that...

Perhaps you should.
I apologize, though. It wasn't really polite of me to say, no matter how much of a hate-on I have for racism/bigotry/whatever.

And let me tell you: I have a massive hate-on for it.
Like...you don't even know.

Fixed it.

I thought I understood your intolerance for intolerance. Though I apparently don't.

 

[John-Joe]

Tom Cruise.

and we have a winner!

 

[Micah Weil]

To lose respect, one must have it to begin with. That said, I've never had this problem.

Pretty much this.
I don't respect anyone or anything.
I'm just a dick I guess.

You're not a dick. Just because you harbor ill will towards your fellow man, doesn't mean that.
See, I harbor ill will and regularly make life uncomfortable for those who come into contact with me. I, my friend, am a complete dick.

Sometimes I pretend to be gay around my Christian friends because I know it weirds them out.
Also, I intentionally toy with the mind of my best friend so I can see her reactions.

Am I part of the club yet or do I need to keep listing things?

No, you're quite in. But please, keep listing things. I'm enjoying it.

 

[theSovietConnection]

There are more people lately that I've lost respect for then I know what to do with, mostly through hypocrisy (something I take great offence to). The worst part about it is that these were all people I'd considered best friends, as well. It's gotten to a point I just expect that the people I consider friends will do something to hurt me.