I would like to understand the nature of obsession.
Why do people choose to spend their precious time being obsessed over others? You see this frequently online which makes it even odder, to me. Why would you become so obsessed with someone that you would follow them around the internet just to post snarky comments about them?
Several different people followed me around RHF last night and dropped every comment I made, no matter what the content. If I wished someone well and told them I understood how they felt, dropped. This is the kind of action I am seeking to understand. I would venture a guess that many of us have had this happen to us in one way or another in our time online.
So, anyone have any knowledge to share? I would be forever grateful. Surely we can come up with an answer!
I put so much money on this wish to demonstrate that knowledge is priceless. If, by some fluke of the space/time continuum I win this round, the money will go to the second place winner in the nice category. (more) 
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Either befriend enough good people to be able to combat this viciousness, or ignore....ignore...ignore....
Good luck, I feel the need.
Girl in tears.
you have my support!
Aaaaaaw, look! someone came through with their friends and dropped everyone! Funny that it happened at the same time. Hmmm!
That's totally romantic.
Although it would be really nice to have the answer... then life would be boring. What would we have to ponder?
Aren't you glad we have these talks?
You don't need to pay someone to know that, I'm free...
Good luck! :o)
wow, seriously, i never really knew you existed on the site until now, weird.
i wish people wouldn't do that, i don't think it is obsession at all, there isn't much to know about it either, this is a zany wish haha it totally is whacked
Edited on: Apr 20, 2007 17:06 pm
"a fish fish fishin' that's what we do"
"fisha fisha fisha just three for you"
A shoe fetish, yes, that is an obsession, then those obsessed with persecuting Liesl, that is a sick obsession. Either way, Liesl, you get a handle on it, study it, I know you will get a full understanding soon.
I look at it as a bullying tactic. Much like what you see in school yard playgrounds all the time.
The one thing I have tried to teach my kids is that the bully only targets you because of jealousy. You have something that they want and since they can't have it they choose to demean you and try to make you feel small.
They have to inflate their own sense of worthlessness by trying to make you stoop down to their level, they find some warped justification in it.
I'll never completely understand it Liesl, and what's worse to think about is the fact that a great number of the online bullies have children. They might think that their actions are separate or hidden from them, but kids are not stupid, they'll pick up on the venom and then perpetuate it.
so sad...
Its not always about jealousy, it's about power, and dominating others. Often this is because they themselves have gone through this with others: abusive parents, brothers, other bigger bullies, etc. They choose the prey over which they can assure the greatest dominance, due to weaker stature, lack of friends to protect them, or any other thing that might factor in. It is a "general inclination for all mankind, a perpetual and restlesse desire for Power after power, that ceaseth onely in death."-Thomas Hobbes. The only reason children do it, and adults don't as much is that for them, the consequences are menial. Between increasing one's own power through the domination of other, and standing against the wall, the first will always win out. The internet removes any reprimand of significance that we might deal with. Without it, the true vile nature of humanity is revealed.
Sapere aude! ;)
Still seeking and searching for that elusive -knowledge- as to -why- a being would spend their valuable precious time on this planet -stalking- another human being who has done absolutely nothing to them [to their knowledge]. Whether this be on the internet or in life.
Well, now I guess -this- is becoming an obsession !!! So Liesl, I -am- obsessed, with you, and with this knowledge of which you speak. . .but, also, in a -good- way !!! : )
KARMA
Obsessed with YOU, but in a good way :-)
You're really mocking my Dir en grey obsession, aren't you? You're evil; I knew it. I'm giving you a one. And don't you email me asking why, either!!1! You are so off my buddy list.
Now if you can just explain the Jesus fish to me, my education would be next to complete.
Wait... you aren't crying over the drops?! What's wrong with you! And you know, you'd be far happier if you let me pick out your shoes. The world would be a much better place if I were in charge of shoes.
Someone dropped all my comments. It makes me so sad, because you know, I totally care. My life and wellbeing are hinged upon what other people think of me because I have no idea who I am for myself and need others to reassure me constantly. Will you come over and make my decisions for me?
Fooled you there for a moment, didn't I? You'd toss all my good shoes out and get rid of my good stripy socks. Evil! EVIL!
I'll be there as soon as I round up my flying monkeys.
If you care about Liesl, you will not support this wish! If Liesl ever truly understands the nature of the troll, she will lose all desire togo on. The world needs people like her, who are incapable of understanding the mind of the trolls if there is any hope of the human/troll race of continuing its menial existence!
*sigh*
if only everyone could remember what the internet is really for.
Why MY child is up in the bathroom playing "I wonder what mommy's medicine taste like" right now. It's the only way he'll learn
Dull, petty people have dull, petty lives. If they really want to be miserable and disgusting and childish, then they do miserable, disgusting and petty things. Unfortunately, they generally do them TO people that have something else going for them. Like wit, intelligence, the ability to communicate AND to listen...
I figured out years ago that to be stupid enough to stalk someone IRL or on the 'net, you've got to be a total fucknut, because the stalker is renting out their ENTIRE head to the stalkee, who doesn't even know they've been honored(??) with the territory, not do they want it. Talk about wasting your time, and your life, these boneheads do it.
Saddest part? The looney-toons don't realize that one knowledgeable person with the right programs and 20 minutes could track them down, call the FBI (for someone in the US) with the info, and have an agent there on domestic terrorism issues in no time. (Domestic terrorism is the new word for stalking.) Of course, they'd probably get off on that, but generally they're just sad enough that nobody wants to go through the trouble.
Pathetic, huh?
good luck.
I'm obsessed with you because you are so HAWT, buttercup :)
I'm obsessed with you. You see Liesl, once upon a time you slighted me. You might not remember me (of course you wouldn't you egocentric devil-woman) but while driving through the Texas interstate, you cut me off. I followed you to a store, where you cut infront of me in line. After that I decided to follow you some more, you stopped at a gas station and pulled into the pump that I had intended on using. It became apparent then you were doing these things personally to slight me. After that, I made it my blissful never-ending journey to make your life miserable. You made it soo easy for me! I have stalked you online for months now, starting with your little shoe blog, to your transplant blog, to the Isle and all of your other stomping grounds ont he internet. I take careful note of everything you say, so that one day I can throw it mercileslly back at your face to make a fool of you. I know who you really are Liesl, and I know where you live. I know who your friends are, and your students. I'm behind you every step of the way... whether you like it or not.
You and I both know that you have no desire to truly comprehend the way their minds work. Exposure to the true nature of their madness might just be enough to drive one of the few sane, decent people left in the world over the edge.
It'd be like trying to understand why people like those ghastly gardening crocs!
How odd! Thanks!
I know what you mean about wishing to understand your enemy. For that reason I have become a student of human behaviour.
I follow you around, because I am obsessed with you, but I don't drop your props, I raise em. I just read what you write because you are elegant in your responses, you can textually shoot someone the bird and still look like a lady. It's just so impressive.
In so far as obsession goes, I'm sorry, it's not me. And, frankly, I have yet to familiarize myself with the computer world, and the world of forums in particular, to really understand their scope and make-up !!! In all honesty Leisl, color me "confused".
I don't understand it, either. And it's not just online; I've seen it happen IRL, too. WHY?? Why would someone want to spend their time that way?