@beanz Wow, you've made great progress! I'm proud of you. I give it one or two weeks max before you're there.
I have no idea what's going on between you and @earnest but you hopped in my thread asking for help. So this is the best I can offer you.
Open a dialog with him and ask him why he is being this way with you.
Let him know that it's not making you angry, but that it's hurting your feelings and you want to know what you did to make him think that hurting you was a good idea.
I never said that him or anyone else was reformed. I said there are those of us who see that him and others that are acting this way may reform if we just hear them out.
If they really didn't want to be part of our social order, they would find somewhere else to put their attention.
Nevertheless, all human interactions both online and off are complex by nature. Anyone who tells you there is a simple solution to a complex problem is either lying or ignorant.
Sometimes though, the problem just isn't as complex as it looks at first.
@earnest Upvote this if you agree that engaging in a civilized dialog could cause you to afford others the same level of respect you afford me. Then let @beanz open a dialog when she's had a chance to breathe, because you were being pretty severe.
To really be my friend, you need to try and be friends with my friends and I have no enemies, just people I don't yet understand.
Thanks @williambanks you have a good heart but perhaps too much faith in the goodness that just doesn't exist in everyone. I already know why he wants to hurt me. And to be clear, I am not hurt or afraid of him. I know you're intentions are good, but I would ask you to consider waiting for the reformation rather than rewarding it before it's happened. He's going to comment nice things some places just so he can build his reputation and have an impact. He gives you that respect to get the upvote.
I have been friendly with earnest on steemit chat before he got blocked so it's not as though he doesn't know I'm a person.
Thank you for taking the time to see this. The beauty is the transparency. Be careful with him.
While I can respect that.
I have no faith that goodness resides within a person, nor does evil.
Good and Evil are choices made in a moment of time. That moment has passed, but it's effects persist for a long time.
I do know that a single act of bad in the present can counter a lot of good from the past. But a simple act of kindness can also topple a lifetime of bad acts.
Dr Seuss taught me that, in a book called "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
The fact that someone deigns to think of us as in their society is always a gift, for good or for evil it is still a gift. It's always our own decision whether or not to accept any gift.
It's also a choice whether or not to return any gift.
I choose to reward good behavior, and nothing makes me happier than to see my friends, become friends. You already know what I believe about enemies.
Well that went well wouldn't you say. We're just playing pass the troll and you're helping him build his reputation.
^The final comment of our civilised dialogue.^
I'm not looking for help @williambanks, I'm asking you not to support him.
@beanz I'm going to stop commenting on trolling and censorship. Just know I'm your friend and I care. But a flagging war helps no one. Please don't flag anything in my blogs though, ok? @earnest please leave @beanz alone even if she doesn't stop first. It's turning into a mexican standoff and honestly I think we all have better things to do.
@beanz I meant every word I said about you in my #nameinlights post. Please go back to being an awesome positive person. I miss my friend.
Thank you. I'll agree not to engage with them again.
Ok William, I will leave her alone, not because I agree, but just out of respect for you.
What I just said, I give you my word of honor, I will leave her alone.
Now, in regards to @lauralemons , dont ask me the same thing,
she's my main target for a very good reason you already know, or can guess,
when a man loves everything, he loves nothing.
Love so evenly spread as to love everything is like a bucket cement covering a 1000 square feet wall, it doesnt cover anything. You cannot love everything for if you do,
you love nothing William.