Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??

Subject: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: GUEST,Guest of a Guest, of a Psychoanalytical Wic
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 10:37 PM

As a long time observer it appears that attacks upon the Mudcat Cafeteria Organization share similar traits to tragic events this week in America.

The intent of both Trolls and Terrorists is to create an environment inwhich disorganization, disunity, and dispare, predominate. The cultivated anarchy provides a fertile soil upon which "seeds of discension" may propigate.

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Troll
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 10:41 PM

But we have better dress sense.

troll

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Troll
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 10:43 PM

Oh! You meant "Trolls" with a capital "T".
The Memsahib is right; I need new glasses.

troll******with a small "t"

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:07 AM

When we get people posting here just to break the continuity of discussion here, it's annoying but hardly an appropriate analogy. If someone sent four posts full of abusive language on Tuesday morning we'd have forgotten it by now (well maybe not, but after a week, we'd let the thread die, and it would be over.)

I doubt it is your intention to make light of the suffering of so many in New York and Washington, but this is in really poor taste.

Rich

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Troll
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:20 AM

Sorry if I offended you but I found the thread a bit silly. To compare an internet Troll to a terrorist is akin to comparing a summer breeze to a full-blown hurricane.
Both involve the movement of air but there is a wide separation as regards degree of intensity.
I live in a state that is prone to hurricanes but i don't bring in the lawn chairs every time the leaves move. I wait until they are being blown off.
Degree of Intensity. It makes all the difference in the world.
Again, if I offended you, I apologize. Such was not my intent.

troll

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:38 AM

Troll (or is it troll),

I was referring to the guest with the ever-so-witty handle who started this thread. Sorry, I should have made that clear.

Rich

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Bert
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 12:50 AM

It's a matter of degree of course. But there are some remarkable similarities. The flaming guests have exactly the same childish mentality. They, like the terrorists, are sneaky bullies who terrorize innocent victims. The flamers don't have the balls to say who they are and the terrorists don't have the balls to be real soldiers.

Both pitiful cowards.

The only real difference is that the terrorists are worth tracking down and removing.

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 01:23 AM

Trolls seem more like the people who take advantage of the hysteria caused by terrorists, by anonymously calling in false bomb threats.

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From:
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 01:31 AM

What nonsense. mg

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: Troll
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 02:32 AM

rich, no problemo.

troll ***(small "t")***

Subject: RE: Terrorists and Trolls - same mentality??
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 06:30 AM

I agree with Jim Dixon's analogy with bomb hoaxers.

The sickest version of that kind of thing I heard were suggestions that there were people making calls on mobile phones falsely pretending they were calling from under the rubble of the buildings.

I find it much harder to imagine myself into that kind of mind than I do into the mind of a suicide hi-jacker.