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I Am A Real Werewolf

Thanks to Everyone

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone on this experience for what they do. For those who actually contribute and do not insult others as a mask for their insecurities, I give you a legitimate and full-hearted thanks. To those who willingly promote harm and hostility, I thank you for being illogical and creating straw-man arguments that can be easily pushed over. Thank you for being so insulting and unbearable that you lead people who need help to those who will actually give it. You annoy me and you confound me. However, you keep me practiced and you keep me focused. All I can do is try to help people, meanwhile working around immaturity and insecurity. Here's to doing what I can, and being glad that I'm not the only person actually trying to do something valuable. Although, evidence against that will most likely follow this post. So, let it begin.
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Futuete
you cannot help people, they need to help themselves, we can only guide them and teach ourselves in the process.
Drachona · 31-35, M
I am not disagreeing with you, but you seem to have just taken what I said and rephrased it. You say that we "cannot help" people. Guiding them is helping them. Help can mean everything from showing a person step by step what to do to giving them what they need to do things on their own. Guide can mean the exact same thing. Yes, people need to help themselves to an extent. That is how we get phrases like "help you help yourself". If you intervene at all, they are not entirely helping themselves. You are providing some advice, some support, or some suggestions; help. So, basically, you can call it what you want, but the fact is that the people I have helped only improved if they chose to listen to me. I have had people ignore me. I cannot puppet them to do something, and I would not want to. I only offer advice and guidance because they ask for it or because I feel that they need it. Whether or not they take it, and how much of it they take to heart, is entirely up to them. So I am, in fact, helping them help themselves. I am guiding them toward what I believe is a progressive path.
Futuete
What I mean is that people have the final choice to help themselves with the information that is being made available, what don't you understand about people utilizing their freewill until your "help" is truly "help" to them? You know what, I think you are stuck up in your own head, you are too concerned with "helping others" that you forget to help yourself. Be careful that that balance does not get out of sync.
Drachona · 31-35, M
I must have missed something. I clearly said that I am not trying to bypass anyone's free will. I am trying to help them when they need help. That is why, most of the time, I wait for them to come to me. They choose to ask me questions, and I do what I can to help them. You make it sound like I am consumed by some desire to guide them every step of the way. If that were the case, I would not be criticized for how infrequently I check EP. I was merely pointing out that what you described as allowing people to help themselves and my idea of guiding people are the same thing. Nowhere did I say that I am trying to influence anyone's final choice on the matter. If people ignore me or simply disagree, then so be it. I expect that more than I expect acceptance or agreement. I was making no attempt at conflict or argument, and yet you are making suggestions about my psychology and inner motivations that come off as almost insulting. If you believe that helping people when they ask for it or providing advice when someone comes on here and makes a post (which inherently suggests that they want to have feedback) is being "too concerned", then that is your belief. I will let you have it, but I see nothing wrong with what I do. I try to maintain a calm attitude in all situations. I break up fights (or at least try), answer questions, and sometimes just talk to people or share my own personal thoughts. I recognize the balance of helping someone and needing to help myself, but I see no reason to worry about it here. I am doing what I do precisely because I have been through a lot of the same things. My journey is still in its adolescence, but that does not mean I cannot give advice to those who are confused, curious, or just in a bad place. That is what I will always do, because I can and because I want to.
Futuete
You come off as a know-all smart a_s_s kid, that when another opinion is given you must always be right.

I am NOT amused by your arrogance, in fact I think your attitude of being superior to others, and that YOU are the CHOSEN one to guide them, make you ignorant to the lessons that others can teach you.


I also think that you are someone that will find it difficult to admit that he is capable of being wrong, and another to be right. I just don't see how that links with your supposed empathy and compassion for those you seek to help?


For you think you are always smarter than those you help, you cannot really care for them nor appreciate them for WHO and WHAT they are. Then you are only fooling yourself, and are in fact LOVING the game you play by convincing yourself that you care for others on a compassionate level, only to feed off the type of power play you seek to engage in - by always seeing them as the inferior, weak minded individuals and yourself as the smart one. Question - who are you kidding sir?
@Futuete Absolutly true. Everybody has to find changes out of themselves. At the latest when you realize that you are stuck in life. Lekions are only effective if the seeker also wants to accept help. Anything else would just be a "sweetening or chewing" and that does not bring people real knowledge. You have to understand it in your head and feel it with your heart. Without the heart, it does not work, because the head can also be an antagonist. Sorry I am from Germany and give the text in the Translator. What I write is therefore meant politely.