TROLLS ARE SICK PEOPLE

Do you think I'm being a troll in the Flat Earth thread? LINK

I can only post the link on my iPad
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FvcJqcUlYTo[/video]

One day I heard my kids sing along with

"I'm the grumpy old troll who lives at 106" (our house number)

Guess who they were talking about?

*crickets*

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The reason I ask is because I don't think my posts in that thread could be considered trolling. I mean, the mere fact that I don't believe in Flat Earth Theory does not make me a troll. The questions I've asked in that thread are legitimate questions (e.g., How does FE account for satellites in orbit around the earth? What happens if you fall off the edge of the flat earth?) And yet I've been put on ignore by some of the FE proponents on CC because I think FE theory is poppycock. Oh well. lol

I am not a flat earther, but I think I know the answers that are given to these types of questions. 1. Images from NASA are a lie. 2. There is a wall that prevents people and other things (including water) from falling off the edges of the alleged flat earth. So, once you have been given this type of answer, to persist in asking them may seem to a flat earther like you are just trying to provoke.

I don't think those people really think the earth is flat.

I don't think those people really think the earth is flat.

I just can't imagine someone with enough intellectual ability to come onto the internet, and write a sentence, really believes this.

I guess it could be mental illness.

All the more reason to fend them off from this lovely website.

I just can't imagine someone with enough intellectual ability to come onto the internet, and write a sentence, really believes this.

I guess it could be mental illness.

I know what you mean, and yet, they are intelligent people, and some I have met have sincere hearts for God, and base their beliefs on Scripture. Their understanding on this matter varies greatly from ours', but that is not a reason to consider them unsaved or ignorant.

I just can't imagine someone with enough intellectual ability to come onto the internet, and write a sentence, really believes this.

I guess it could be mental illness.

I never said they were unsaved...... ignorant of the shape of the earth.... yes.

You would be surprised. There is a guy who owns a liquor store that i pass by a lot on my walks who is convinced the earth is flat and I am polite to him but I cannot reason with him he calls me a delusional moron who is brainwashed

Need to borrow this?

That's so ironic

If we can't even agree that the earth is round (some of us, anyway), is it any wonder that there's so much disagreement over interpretations of the bible? It's a wonder people can agree on anything at all. lol

The thing is with trolls, having tried to have a different perspective on them;

Here is a person. Obviously troubled in some way, wants to shock people, because they feel numb.

Now you can condemn that person. You can push them away. And they will go try to harm someone else.

But you also have the power, as a child of God, to change a persons heart, to try and understand them, to make them see themselves.

I only say this because I tried this different perspective. And in empathy, it was sad to see just how troubled, and how much abuse and terror, this person had been through. And in not being able to deal with it, they became a little terror themselves, because they wanted to be judged. So the seeking out and by appearance, destructive nature, was more engaging with trying to be judged as brutally as possible, and feeling nothing from it, feeling powerful, yet deeply inside, powerless.

So yes, you can protect yourself, or a site, or a place from them - but at the same time, maybe you can help someone be a better person too, who is greatly in need of love rather than the appearance of judgement or hate. And out of that, maybe someone else won't become a victim of them.