I think you need to go back and start again old chap.
Dumetrius
8 months ago
I had a weird experience with a mimic who was/is real person (not a bot) who contacted me on an app.
Once I’d told him a little about myself, he then started talking about an obscure British nationality/subject status I used to campaign on.
He kept on saying things I would agree with . . . and for a while I thought I’d managed to find a kindred spirit.
Then I realised he was actually using my own words.
He’d found articles and speeches I’d written online, and was just parroting them back at me, as tho he too, was an expert on the issue.
It was quite unnerving until I realised he was an actual head case.
I prompted him to admit a few things about his drug use, and exacted a bit of pain and suffering (my rightful due, I thought, given the circumstances) before unceremoniously blocking him.
Reading comments like this educate me on just how terribly out of touch I am. Aside from the comments sections of sites like Unherd, I don’t believe I’ve ever interacted with a stranger on the internet. Certainly not in a ‘personal’ way where intimate details of our lives are shared, and certainly not with someone who would want to go to such extreme lengths to antagonize me, a complete stranger.
It seems like I would have to be terribly lonely to find any of that satisfying.
This guy was certainly lonely. I realised afterwards, that I had chatted with him before (under one of his other aliases.)
Unfortunately he’s a very snaky individual – the mental health stuff – which he nurtures rather than challenges – always protects itself first and acts almost as a distinct being.
Whatever happens, eros must continue to slay logos in order to resurrect gnosis.
I think you need to go back and start again old chap.
I had a weird experience with a mimic who was/is real person (not a bot) who contacted me on an app.
Once I’d told him a little about myself, he then started talking about an obscure British nationality/subject status I used to campaign on.
He kept on saying things I would agree with . . . and for a while I thought I’d managed to find a kindred spirit.
Then I realised he was actually using my own words.
He’d found articles and speeches I’d written online, and was just parroting them back at me, as tho he too, was an expert on the issue.
It was quite unnerving until I realised he was an actual head case.
I prompted him to admit a few things about his drug use, and exacted a bit of pain and suffering (my rightful due, I thought, given the circumstances) before unceremoniously blocking him.
Reading comments like this educate me on just how terribly out of touch I am. Aside from the comments sections of sites like Unherd, I don’t believe I’ve ever interacted with a stranger on the internet. Certainly not in a ‘personal’ way where intimate details of our lives are shared, and certainly not with someone who would want to go to such extreme lengths to antagonize me, a complete stranger.
It seems like I would have to be terribly lonely to find any of that satisfying.
This guy was certainly lonely. I realised afterwards, that I had chatted with him before (under one of his other aliases.)
Unfortunately he’s a very snaky individual – the mental health stuff – which he nurtures rather than challenges – always protects itself first and acts almost as a distinct being.
Your comment on the other thread about the misreading of Christianity as ‘an authority system for moral governance’ was quite incisive.
I think a lot of people just like to understand their enemies as fitting a very few cartoonish types.
If they can’t slot something in as one or the other, they have nothing to say (and might have to seriously think about it).