a constant source of entertainment/disheartenment (it's not a word, it just works for what i'm trying to say) comes from reading any type of "comment" feature. whether it be youtube, cnn, amazon...anything really, if this nation's citizens are allowed to voice their opinion, especially in an anonymous, online environment, they certainly will.
freedom of speech, yes, i get it, but if you ever take the time to read what people write on any of these comment free-for-all forums...it's usually entertaining but more often truly horrifying. these "people" write the most vile, hate-filled, judgemental, and all around abusive slander, pick cyber-fights with other anonymous people, and then spend hours and hours providing hateful rebuttals to their original hateful statement. it's INSANITY. any of you with an online presence know exactly what i'm talking about. it's everywhere. and it's so tooth and nail it's often quite scary, even though it's via the www. plus, there is rarely any censor. there's typically never any type of 3rd party monitoring (not that it would deter anyone).
so bizarre. to me, it's a kind of speech that is exclusively reserved for cults/psychopaths (i.e. the kkk, the fred phelps clan, glenn beck, etc.). for example, i was watching a youtube video where these two cute kittens are play fighting and then this other kitten shows up and pukes up milk. kinda funny, kinda weird...but i scrolled down to read the comments to this video and stumbled upon an all out war between several people...all disputing RELIGION. (!?) i didn't take the time to link back pages upon pages worth of nasty comments and "viewpoints" to see how and why the whole thing started but WOAH. it was ugly and most certainly out of place for the video at hand.
another thing i noticed is that, in general, if people are going to comment on something, it's often the holy-rollers doing the commenting/abusing. i don't care what the subject matter is but, 9 times out of 10, a comment with a bible verse can almost always be found.
weird, isn't it? why is it that our christian brothers and sisters are some of the meanest, most disrespectful and judgemental people on this planet? justin timberlake once said, where is the love?! have we no compassion anymore? tolerance? acceptance of that which is different?!
i thought jesus didn't judge? maybe he doesn't...maybe jesus hired his earthly minions to do his judging for him? who said unemployment was a problem in this country, JC is employing haters by the immortal handful!
