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Friday, June 15, 2007

Cancers Inherent In User Names

In surfing the net and checking in on various websties, I have noticed a phenomena that has served as a wonderful educational tool when contemplating which sites to explore further. I find the clues to the mind-sets of people in their user names. Now, some names are obvious - they are simply shortened versions of the users real name. Others are obviously fantasy related. Some are just plain cute and appealing. Some are literary or philisophical. Some just don't make any sense at all and can barely be pronounced. It is the ones that immediately conjure up a dark feeling or a dark emotion that give me the creeps. The use of words like, angry or devil, hate, or money, or synonims for those words immediately turn me off. If you are angry or want to convey the idea that you have a dark side and it's so important to you that you have to use it in your user name - then you are definitely not someone I want to exchange words with on a regualar basis. Enough of my nightmares send some days south as it is! lol The tides of my life don't need to be fed by the maximum power of people with mind-sets that allow no light of understanding or tolerance to shine through. I have been rarely disappointed in the belief that people with such negative user names, are truly cancer cells spreading and infecting all those who come into contact with them too often. If I find a site where the user names seem, for the most part, to include words that conjure up dark and nasty images, I surf on. Sadly though, people who find these kinds of user names 'appropriate, funny, cool' or whatever their excuse is, have in actuality, nothing of value to contribute. From the get go their 'vibe' is negative. For those of us who would rather interact with positive people and be on the receiving end of positive vibes - such negativity will find itself confined to places where others of like mind flourish. I mean after all - who wants to tangle with an angry cat or an angel of the devil, or a power tripper? Most people who find themselves on posting sites, message boards, etc., are looking for positive interaction, support and acceptance. It's very hard - unless you are truly a dark person yourself, to WANT to actively participate in discussions with people, who by their very user name would send small children screaming into the streets. There are times when we all find ourselves involved in such discussions anyway. But those of us who have imagination and life experience understand what really 'lies beneath' and learn to tread carefully around such discussions. Some of us throw caution to the wind and lean into the negativity when it is thrust in our faces, and fight back. Woe betide those that do however. "Evil grows in cracks and holes, and lives in people's minds" and has been the age old struggle since time immemorial. We will never stamp out evil completely. It grows exponentially, in various ways and forms, as our world becomes more open to attack. Should we lay down and take it? Should we ignore it and hope it will go away? Should we let them win by letting them continue to exercise their evilness? Of course not! That is the coward's way out. If you want to change the world - start in your own backyard folks. Learn to recognize where the darkness is. Light a candle of truth, beauty - whatever positive vibe you can send out there to shed some light on the darkness and help others see their way. Beware of user names that smack of the 'dark side' of people's natures and the cancer that lies within. Make your 'backyard' bloom with the light of love, peace and beauty. God Bless!

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