Good Samaritan primitive deletes own brother

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6320526

Oh my.

The Good Samaritan primitive, who saw a woman in a parking lot struck by a hit-and-run driver going 40 mph, suffering only a bruised elbow.  The Good Samaritian primitive, by the way, recently started collecting social security retirement.

Mari333  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 03:30 PM
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I deleted my own brother off my Facebook Page, hes so filled with hate

wtf is going on?

I must be the only liberal he knows. He lives in a small town in Indiana, and we got along to a point until Obama got into office.

Now, if I post ANYthing on my FB page pertaining to politics, he just goes ballistic and writes angry horrid snarky comments.

I respect his page, and dont post anything about politics, even when he posts URLs to Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. I do NOT engage him in debate nor do I post anything about his politics. If he posts a nice link to something non political, I merely post nice things.

Today he crossed the line and started posting nasty comments yet again about a link I put up about Jesus' take on treating others with respect (concerning the health care debate)

I realized, **** it. Its my page, I dont have to listen to anyones shit. so I deleted him and told him why.

He is SO angry I sometimes wonder, if I wasnt his sister, if he wouldnt shoot me. He has tons of guns, and reminds me of the type of guy who could go ballistic if hes angered.

Where is all this anger coming from?? I thought he was a smart kid once. I have NEVER seen him this mean or cruel or hatefilled.

IcyPeas (705 posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 03:35 PM
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1. doesn't it make you wonder where your paths started separating? How one of you ended up "here" and he's one of "them"... I would do the same as you though if that situation arose I would just not get into it with them - he should've respected your page as you did his.... just talk about the weather.....

Mari333  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 03:44 PM
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5. yes and I spoke with my other brother about that

I tried to find some common ground..love of dogs, children, food, etc..and keep it at that. after all, I remember changing his diapers when he was a kid.
But there reaches a point where one can only love some people from afar. I dont do "doormat". Maybe he thinks women do, who knows.

I think it depends on how one envisions the world..either fearfully, or not fearfully. He is very fearful, and afraid of change. I am not. I also wonder why we chose different paths.

Kerrytravelers   (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 03:35 PM
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2. My BIL was just like that. He ended up dead with a heart attack at 33.

Some people have so much anger, they are beyond help.

I'm sorry you have to go through this. Mr. kt finally just stopped corresponding with his brother all together. When he passed, it was weird, because it was like a stranger died. But it wasn't the fault of Mr. kt. His brother chose to be angry and nasty. It was his choice, not ours.

HCE SuiGeneris  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 03:38 PM
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3. It is the wealth-controlled Propaganda of division, and the intentional divide that ensues between us, that is the cause. When one embraces the propaganda, this is exactly what the elite want... To lessen the strength in numbers and pit our anger against ourselves. The last thing they want is a united front. It would almost immediately result in their demise.

The Rita Hayworth primitive, who's being a little, uh, disingenuous here:

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 03:39 PM
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4. You did good - amazing you put up with that nonsense as look as you did.

Who knows what's causing this epidemic of rage and hate? Are you going to find out that we're a great big nation of bigots? It's all become so bad since Obama won the election, I can only think that race has a lot to do with it.

It's very upsetting, but it's good that you protected yourself...

hatrack  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 03:47 PM
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6. You did what you had to do, and you don't need to worry about where his hate comes from.

What counts is not letting his hate poison you.

He wants to keep coming back to Glenn Beck's puke and rolling in it, again and again? OK, that's his option.

But you don't need to be around someone who's into that.

slampoet (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 04:04 PM
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7. Never have any family on your facebook page. Even w/o politics it just doesn't work.

Mr Generic Other  (66 posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 04:12 PM
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8. it is difficult when family members let political or religious differences determine whether or not they get along but it is not uncommon. this is especially true in large families when older siblings often are nurtured under very different circumstances than their younger brothers and sisters. add to this dynamic the reality that every individual experiences the environment uniquely and is affected by a million different variables that incorporate to form the individual and you get a sister and a brother who see the world quite oppositely.

my youngest brother and i experience this same rift.

JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 04:16 PM
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9. So sorry

My brother and I split on Jesus and that's about it. And he's one of the touchy feeling new-agey JC is With Me Kind of guys - so he's very very sweet about his beliefs.

He'd probably tell you when you can't turn the other cheek - let it go and give it to God.

He's a member at D.U.. I'll send him this link. There's nothing I could do short of killing someone that I could do to make my brother take out anger on me.

crazy_vanilla  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 04:17 PM
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10. i hope you guys work it out eventually but it will be a long process

mitchtv  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 04:22 PM
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11. I have a freeper brother, but he behaves on FB,

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 04:24 PM
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12. I'm so sorry!

It's hard when a relative has gone off the deep end.

A mole:

Kievan Rus (455 posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 04:27 PM
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13. Sad -- and very scary

This dude seriously sounds like he's another Jim Adkisson (Unitarian church shooter), Richard Poplawski (Pittsburgh cop killer) or Scott Roeder (Dr. Tiller assassin).

OutNow (281 posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 06:09 PM
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14. Similar Situation

I like FB for keeping up with family that is spread all over the country. One BIL, a complete Limbaugh clone, is not allowed to be a FB friend to any of his family, including two sisters, two nephews, and a niece. He can not hold a conversation about any topic for more than two sentences without turning it into an angry rant about Obama/Liberals/Democrats, etc.

A few years ago, when his younger sister finished college (she didn't start college until her kids were out of high school) and got a job as an elementary school teacher, all of the family was so happy for her achievement. His comment? "School teachers get paid too much and my taxes are too high."

So, don't be upset about your brother. Many families have one of those types. Just enjoy your other friends and relatives.

Madam Mossfern  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 06:19 PM
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15. I know this is a bit off topic but I am a Facebook newbie. Is there a way to prevent all the crap that people post on their wall from getting onto my wall? There is one person who, I swear thinks that the entire world is interested in her family and friends and every time she poops or takes one of those quizzes....and it ends up on my wall! She's really a nice person so I don't want to cut her off entirely, but her postings are giving me a headache and making me look like some sort of air-head.

Mari333  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-16-09 06:56 PM
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17. go to your privacy settings and check out on there who can post on your wall..i even deleted my own mother, and only allow some of my family on there..good luck.

Wow.  The Good Samaritan primitive, who's either 62 or 65 years old, has a mother who posts?  And I thought the one brother was the only problem?

Taitertots (954 posts)      Sun Aug-16-09 06:27 PM
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16. It worked then

The ultra rich have pulled the sheet over another person's head. Get us fighting against each other instead of fighting against them.

[TheSarge]

Family bouncy.

The primitive is the family outcast because of his raging case of Liberalism that he feels the need to spew all over family members whenever he sees them.

But to gain cred with the other fart smelling idiots on the island...he turns it around to make them look like the strange ones.

[The Village Idiot]

hate=not liberal

[jukin]

I just figured out that in DUmmass speak change=socialism

[USA4ME]

Mari666

......  about a link I put up about Jesus' take on treating others with respect (concerning the health care debate)

Wow!!  Jesus had something to say about the the political issue of healthcare?  Who knew!!

This might be interesting for those here who are Christians.  I've read over and over posts by the primitives about how Christians should support single-payer universal healthcare and how they consider any Christains who doesn't support it to be against God.  Saw some comments earlier today where they were saying that Jesus healed people and didn't change any money, and that he fed people and didn't charge any money.  This was all in an attempt to show that people who want to profit from doing work are really greedy and that, like Jesus, we shouldn't support doing things for money, etc...

But they completely miss the point.  We didn't live during the time Jesus healed people "for free."  We didn't live during the time when Jesus fed 5,000+ and 4,000+ "for free."  But Jesus does offer something "for free"; salvation through obedience to Him.  Here is an opportunity for them to get something from Jesus "for free," something of much greater value than food or healthcare, and they reject it.

Primitives are very selfish.

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[Traveshamockery]

That's the thing - there are some liberals who aren't obnoxious, crude, rude, and socially unacceptable and I have a few friends like that - even on my FB page and we just agree to disagree.  

Then you have the primitives/DUmmies.  

[TheSarge]

That's the thing - there are some liberals who aren't obnoxious, crude, rude, and socially unacceptable and I have a few friends like that - even on my FB page and we just agree to disagree.  

Then you have the primitives/DUmmies.  

The mouth breathing ritalin chewers at the DUmp lack the mental capacity to handle anyone who doesn't agree with them.

[franksolich]

Family bouncy.

What freaked me about it was that you got all of these old people feuding through, of all things, facebook.  Old people, not kids.

[The Village Idiot]

I haven't visited my FB in a long while.

[LC EFA]

I actually try to avoid politics entirely on the few social networking sites I have a profile on.

[TheSarge]

What freaked me about it was that you got all of these old people feuding through, of all things, facebook.  Old people, not kids.

All the more reason why I'm of the belief that this is a bouncy.

[GOBUCKS]

What freaked me about it was that you got all of these old people feuding through, of all things, facebook.  Old people, not kids.

For the past couple of years or so, I've been aware of MySpace, and now Facebook. I've even followed links to pages on them a few times. But it never occurred to me that an adult would use them, unless maybe he was trying to sell something to kids, like maybe an entertainer, or a band. I cannot imagine why a grownup would otherwise be interested. Maybe it's useful if you're on the prowl for something or other.

[crockspot]

What freaked me about it was that you got all of these old people feuding through, of all things, facebook.  Old people, not kids.

I recently read that the 14-24 crowd is actually fleeing FB and MS, because it is filling up with old people reminiscing about their college days.