I understand that you and DJ are friends
I know him as much as I know you. From postings only. Never met him, nor talked on the phone and probably PMed just as much as I have with you, which is a handful at best.
But can't you see how similar you are? It's like he is your fellow kindred spirit, in the epic cosmic battle against the evil Whooter Empire. Whooter is an early riser, usually the first to post. Strangely enough, he also posts quite late many nights. I've heard the older you get the less you sleep, perhaps that explains it. But what's your routine, Anne?
You and DJ seem to start posting at about the same time each morning. It would seem you have somewhat similar routines, and also similar psychological needs, which is the only explanation for as why a sane adult person would dedicate themselves to feeding a troll, day in, day out. Do you get up about 6AM? Go for a job around the neighborhood, maybe? Or are you not that into health, and perhaps start the morning with a cigarette and coffee?
Well at some point, you kiss your family goodbye and sit down at the computer, and think to yourself... "Hmm, wonder what Whooter posted this morning?". You then log onto fornits, check what predictable, infinitely repeated argument Whooter made, and sign in and start responding. That leads into more topics of conversation and before you know it, you spent all day on the computer again, talking about hypothetical moral situations about how to handle adolescents in programs.
This, Dysfunction and Anne have both in common, some psychological need, some deep desire to have an intellectual and ego battle with Whooter. The reasons they give for this behavior are similar to what you'd hear from an alcoholic explaining why it's okay they drink everyday, all day long. It only makes sense to them. To us, shall I be as bold to call us sane, at least relatively speaking, on the outside looking in, well it's just confusing and appears as to be some sick form of self torture. Do these people not get bored of having the same argument, day in, day out? Do they really look forward every morning to sitting down and arguing with Whooter, once again?
Fornits does't seem to be a place where people come idly by and discuss things. The people who are regular posters on this forum have some need, some thing, that drives them to torture themselves with these behaviors. I can't say I know exactly what that need is. But luckily for the world it only seems to effect a minuscule portion of the survivor population. Most of us see fornits for the loony bin that it is. Although, it used to be good for entertainment. Now it's boring, predictable, and downright sad.
