laurell3
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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ LH, First, thank you. I don't understand throwing money away online either. I do understand loneliness and desperation both from personal experience and observation. And the OP admits he knew better and did it anyway because he was lonely. This may be a derailment(?): I think we do the same thing though when 'sub-frenzied' women make foolish and sometimes dangerous choices sometimes with real people and sometimes online. At least in the OP's case he didn't end up in a strange city with no money or resources. We honestly appraise posters faults for pages and then come down on them for getting defensive, all the while, chiding them for not having a backbone. And for me, for most of them their biggest fault is that they are simply human. Again, this is not a lecture, this is bafflement... (which I am sure will delight divi in some form or fashion *waves* Hi, divi ). I believe in accepting personal responsibility. But for many of us, it is a process. As a process I don't get it right all the time. I agree. He made a mistake, we all make mistakes, it's not the end of the world, he should stick around and learn and maybe even teach us a thing or two about remembing what it was like to be new. His approach of this site sucks and it's everyone else's fault I made this mistake is really what gets the responses. I really don't believe anyone here thinks they are perfect. I do agree we should cut him some slack. The reality is these scammers/posers exist because people fall for it, not because there's any real safenet any internet site can put up to stop it totally.
< Message edited by laurell3 -- 6/25/2010 6:49:36 PM >
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