For sanity's sake, stop whining, Michel!

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Feb 20, 2007 at 07:18

Good lord Michel! Another drama queen exit from you this week? It loses its entertainment value when overdone, you know?

You wrote:

"I leave here with more questions than I started with and a high level of disillusion."

Ummm...let me correct you there. You started here with a high level of delusions and left with pretty much the same level. You've learned nothing, and all you've been able to do is flip flop from being Mr. Nice Guy to Mr. Insults on a rotating basis.

"Susan and Noah managed in fact to exhaust and fatigue me to the extent of capitulation. It is like a horror movie and this stuff here has brought up nighmares i did not have for a long time. For self-preservation reasons, I ve got to leave this forum."

What, for another 72 hours while you post as someone else? Michel, either stay or leave. These drama queen walk-offs have lost their impact quite some time ago. What's exhausted you is the effort of trying to hold back the floodgates of reality, which people like Susan and I are exposing you to for the first time in your life. If you'd just acknowledge reality, you would not feel drained. I post far more than you and tolerate far greater personal attacks, and yet I am not drained.

You should read what I am about to say very carefully, Michel, because if you are wise enough to consider my words, I can actually help you.

Michel, you are the living epitome of what is wrong in our world today. People resist acknowledging reality. They use every iota of strength they can muster in order to shield their eyes from reality on a daily basis. This constant denial of reality rapidly becomes an all-consuming energy drain. Why? Because every encounter with reality forces you to expend mental energy in order to shut out the light of truth.

For example, look at how much energy you poured into trying to rally your mythological "moderate" Muslims to post here. You felt the need (for whatever reason) to deny the reality that the total number of peaceful, reform-minded Muslims is a tiny fraction of a percent of all Muslims (around 0.001% or less). Despite being presented with logic, with facts, with polls, with studies, with all sorts of provable evidence, you insisted on believing that the majority of Muslims are peaceful "moderates".

In order to retain that absurd belief (more properly, that delusion), you have had to spend tons of energy evading the facts and proofs given to you, you have had to spend tons of energy in order to vilify those who presented those facts to you and turn us into your "enemies", and you have posted thousands of words trying to convince yourself that you are right and that we are wrong. You begged, whined, and pleaded for a "moderate" Muslim to show up. When they did not show up, you got depressed to the point where you started referring to some of our resident, virulently anti-Semitic, hostile Muslims here as "moderates" and you praised them in a disturbing display of pseudo-Stockholm Syndrome until I pointed out to you how radical they truly are, and what propagandists they are.

And where has all this denial of reality gotten you? In your own words...depressed, drained, exhausted, disillusioned, disheartened. You speak of feeling beaten up, of having "hard landings", of being schooled. You have stormed out of here in anger and frustration more times than I can count.

You have had to spend energy evading challenges that we have thrown at you, insisting that you present evidence of your fantasy claims. You have had to spend energy mis-representing my arguments and Susan's in order to avoid tackling the issue head on and exposing yourself to the revelation of reality.

This is why our world is so screwed up. People become so exhausted, drained, and depressed from the effort of denying reality that they eventually seek shelter in distraction, delusion, or outright insanity. They form absurd and delusional beliefs, they shelter themselves in sex, drugs, alcohol or entertainment. They keep themselves "too busy" so that they have a convenient excuse not only for not having the time to ponder the issues, but also no time to do anything about it. I know people who watch upwards of 20 hours a week watching garbage on tv ("reality" shows, lame cartoons, demented talk shows, etc) and who then turn around and claim "I don't have time to follow all the issues" when it comes election time and the candidates are debating. They adopt insane belief systems that are peddled to them through the mainstream media because it's more convenient than having to think for themselves. They live in a virtual reality haze. You're one of those people, Michel.

I don't think you realize just how powerful the ever-rolling force of reality is, nor how much energy one must expend in order to shut it out, to ignore it, to pretend it is not there even when it's nipping at your backside.

Look at what you forced yourself to write:

"Having said that, engaging in a numbers debate with Noah concerning his evil MO is nothing more than a morbid exercise. So much work to refute a strategy which could have its roots in outright Satanism."

Satanism? In order to defend yourself from my challenges and my facts, you've had to label me insane, compare me to Hitler, and now accuse me of being inspired by Satanism. My MO is not evil, Michel. It is drastic, it is forceful, it is harsh. Yes, that it is. It is not evil. It was designed to minimize the likelihood of nuclear war, to force a culture and a religion to reform itself for the good of the free world (and for their own good), and to protect the civilized world from the barbarians who are trying to tear it down.

You have had to continually paint my MO as a genocide, when in reality it was designed precisely to avoid a genocide in either direction. You have accused my plan of being something Hitler would be proud of, then you apologized, then you had to go back to labeling it evil and insane and Hitler-like. You don't even have enough energy left over, after spending it all to deny reality, to actually stand by your apology.

You have lost all your credibility here because of how drained you are and how you have to keep storming off in a huff. And so now you are jumping through hoops and pleading, begging, whining to the rest of us to teleconference with you in order to re-gain some sense of respect for yourself and some amount of credibility. You are willing to practice unsafe internet habits such as revealing all sorts of private information to personal strangers. Some of the stuff you've said can get you killed by your mythological "moderate" Muslims.

All these mental gymnastics and acrobatics for what? I'll tell you what for...to re-inforce your denial of reality.

If you would simply accept reality and accept the proof presented to you...open your eyes and let the light of truth illuminate your soul...you would not be crawling on your knees begging for respect and credibility, you would not be exposing yourself to danger in order to gain that respect, and you would not be feeling so dragged down, depressed, and drained. And that would give you the energy you need to start developing realistic and workable ideas to deal with the problem, which you have been forced to avoid doing for months now (depsite continual challenges to do so) due to the energy drain that comes with denial of reality.

Think of it as hypnosis. You are literally hypnotizing yourself in order to avoid seeing reality. Therefore, you walk around in a somnambulent state of non-awareness. And it's never going to get better for you while you spend all your energy denying reality.

And sit down for this next part, because it's going to rattle you to see the different effect dealing with reality has. I have to tell you the truth. When I first started posting here, I was depressed to some degree because I don't see too many people willing to look at reality or to say what needs saying. Most people seemed to want to believe the absurd, delusional mantra of "most Muslims are peaceful and it's a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a few radicals". Nonsense.

But finding people like Susan, Dhimmi No More, Patriot, Gellin & Infidellin, Domenic Pepe, Jaladhi, and others has been utterly refreshing. Inspiring. Uplifting. I was so inspired that I started my own website to deal with the issue (http://truthaboutislam.s4.bizhat.com/).

I've been inspired and energized by people like Daniel and the many others who have praised my analysis and the information I've posted here. It's lifted my spirits so much that I am carving out time in my already-busy schedule to do a research paper on the subject!

See the difference, Michel? Many of us who are dealing with reality are becoming more motivated, more inspired, more hopeful, happier, and more positive due to dealing with the truth of reality. People like you, who insist on denying reality, are depressed, drained, exhausted, and saying they have nightmares and need time away from all this.

So tell me, which approach is healthier? I wonder if this post will enlighten you and give you enough inspiration to start dealing with reality instead of avoiding it.

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