Attitudes during hard times

[ingmansinc]

When times are tough as they are now for a lot of people I feel that they become less tolerate of their fellow man. Is it the lost of personal control over their lives caused by forces beyond their control that causes this anger? I think so, what do you folks think?

 

[Muddyboot]

Just look on this forum how people feel about each others cat's

 

[Spotteddog]

My guess is you'll not get many takers on a philosophical discussion in the midst of a fire fight.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Muddyboot you got it. If not for cats and Obama this would be a dull place

 

[ingmansinc]

Actually the responses here over the last few months is what prompted my post. It seems to me that we have some really fine people on this forum and I have always enjoyed their comments for the most part, however lately it seems like temper flare, insults fly, and egos get hurt more and more often. I'm thinking it is the economy that is at the root of the problem.

 

[feralmerril]

Should be quite the opposite! When do we pull together? When things are going good, or bad? I heard countless storys from folks durring the depression. Usually they pulled together and helped each other although I heard about stinkers then too.
Here is my stinging biased opininon. First, we got in this situation due to all the nice, law abideing respectable people holding their peace when the rebel rousers, activists and liberals pushed for all their agendas. We were taught to be tolerable, and they got their way! This generation was raised in far easier times, got spoiled and doesnt know how to cope when money isnt available. The ones that had it the easiest will hurt the most. On the other end of the scale the people that lived under the bridge are probley saying, what recession? I cant let this go without saying many in this country have fallen away from god, and it allowed this state of affairs more then everything else put together.

 

[ingmansinc]

feralmerril,

When do we pull together? My experience has been during weather disasters. This is something that people can change. The economy is really out of their control and can't be cleaned up with a chain saw, snow blower, sharing a generator, etc.

I think a lot of what you say is true and even though I am not a religious person I truly believe that the fellowship of the church can be a very good thing.

 

[tomf52]

I have to agree with Feralmerril, too many quiet ,respectable people let the wrong factions have their way for much too long. More significantly though, again in agreement with Feral, we have become a Godless society. Morals seem to be something long lost. The biggest single politcal "issue" in our nation today is the acceptance of the drug culture. Not much menton is made of this in Washington though I feel because what is Washington made of but a collection of lawyers, all seemingly working together to sustain their own network.With a full and sincere effort between our legislative, judicial, and law enforcement branches we could very effectively clean this mess up. Families are being destroyed right and left and without the family ties, goes all else. Maybe God has a master plan, like a huge asteroid or something, making the world start over.

 

[dlstewart01]

After seeing some of the attitudes in a couple of the post lately, not only am I glad I don't live near them but don't even live in the same state as they do. There are some miserable people out there.

 

[Indiana George]

Agreed.

Life's too short to eat peach-flavored gummy worms. (or something to that effect)

Henceforth, I'm going to try real hard to make no more sarcastic comments on the "Cat Thread."

 

[roarindan]

Originally posted by ingmansinc:
Actually the responses here over the last few months is what prompted my post. It seems to me that we have some really fine people on this forum and I have always enjoyed their comments for the most part, however lately it seems like temper flare, insults fly, and egos get hurt more and more often. I'm thinking it is the economy that is at the root of the problem.

as I'm one of the recently unemployed, my hackel's get up when Americans bash American products,like a recent post about buying a truck. Look at what happened to the electonics business,anybody remember Motorola,,RCA, IBM??
clothes,shoes,STEEL???
wont be long we'll be like Great Britain and France.....washed up has been no body pays attention to.!!

 

[Spotteddog]

He could just as well been describing me Dan? I've been known to go off the reservation from time to time in the political section? And I might add, he'd be accurate describing me that way, at those times!

 

[Folterung]

Originally posted by ingmansinc:
When times are tough as they are now for a lot of people I feel that they become less tolerate of their fellow man. Is it the lost of personal control over their lives caused by forces beyond their control that causes this anger? I think so, what do you folks think?

There is always tension, good times or bad. Its just with people under a great deal of stress they tend to find an outlet for their anger by taking it out on each other.

 

[bloo]

It upsets me that I will have to work to 65 rather than retire this year at 62, but not much I can do about it. Alot of people would like to have that problem. Someone who should not have taken out a loan got money from someone who should not have given it to them. That set the ball rolling to were we are today. Obama is bailing out all the big guys but the guy like me that worked hard and saved for retirement is over looked. I don't mind working an extra 3 years but it sure is getting harder to get up in the morning...unless I'm going shooting that is.

Bottom line is yes I'm upset but not really angry.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

It's Bush's fault.

WG840

 

[Bullseye Smith]

I think all of this started from the oil companies with prices so high for anyone to pay to go to work. Some people took home $500 a week spent $100 of that in gas for the week. Can't buy a car, things for the house, or make a house payment for some. Everything has to raise in price that that $500 - 100 - another 100 for raise prices due to fuel.When you take everything from people but thier life, they go from happy to mad. I like to watch people and that is what I see around me sitting in the airport and gunshows.

 

[ArgMauser]

To me it seems as though this forum has calmed down quite a bit lately. When the economy was at its peak, the arguments here were much more heated. Of course, quite a few of the arguers are now banned. That may have something to do with it.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Freud referred to what he called the "talking cure", the concept of "repression" is widely accepted in psychology and psychiatry. It is better to let people vent and get things out of their system. I think a forum like this one where there are rules of decorum-no profanity or vulgarity allowed, e.g.is a better way of get things off one's chest than the local pub or spending time with John Barleycorn or taking it out on the wife and kids. I agree that those who played by the rules are being asked to pay for those who didn't and those people haven't even been held accountable for it.

 

[Folterung]

Its good there is active moderation on this message board; most of the forums I see turn into some playground fight.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Who did what? I might have missed something. That happens.

In six years or so that I've poked around, there's been heated discussions many times. You should have been around for the Coulter culture wars a couple years back. Or even when the war in Iraq or impeach Bush and such were regular topics. And then there was the thing about dowels... I lose track after a while. Someone is always anxious to argue about something.

A lot of the users from way back - both curmudgeonly and droll - drifted elsewhere over the years. Sometimes for the best, sometimes leaving holes (there's still no court jester/joker).