A Proposal

[Truck_1_0_1_]

(10-15-2019, 09:48 PM)PDub80 Wrote: Ok, look, let's get real here. Pull up a seat because I'm about to life coach the hell out of some of you people....

As far as the emotional stuff you guys get into, let me give some Bengals fans a happy life pro tip: Never let another man's successes or failures get you too high or too low. Focus on your own, controllable life and find your personal happiness within that framework. Any and everything else outside of your personal sphere of influence should be 2ndary to your actual happiness. The Bengals winning or losing shouldn't move your emotional meter one way or the other.

What do you, I, or we as fans truly get if the Bengals win the Superbowl? What? Absolutely NOTHING. If that makes you proud, it's false pride because we, as spectators, did and take from it absolutely NO personal gain. Watching something happen is not the same as doing or accomplishing.

Besides that, a week after the Superbowl people have forgotten and are on their way to looking at the draft. Yes, even fans of the winning team.

To look at it any other way is to lack emotional intelligence. I love the Bengals, yes. But, if they lose I will live and not be any less happy in my life. How anyone else can have misery or be honestly negatively hurt by the Bengals and their players misfortunes is nutty to me. I have club season tickets and still enjoy going down to the games, win or lose.

Let's all keep a real life outlook on what the Bengals success or failures actually mean to our personal lives: NADA. Watching sports should be a fun experience regardless of the outcome. Well, unless you're losing money on them. In which case... get turbo pissed. I would understand at that point. Lol

Its funny; this is something I have prescribed to since I turned about 17 or so (Eric Hinske got traded from the Jays to the Red Sux; my idol to my third least-favourite and hated team).

I realised at that point in my life, that I truly have 0 control over any sports or teams or anything that I enjoy and that I should just sit back and let things take their course; it is what it is.

(the below, not directed at pdub)

Since then, while I get disheartened here and there, nothing truly gets me down anymore and I get over it VERY quickly; people have said it here and people say to me all the time in everyday life: "how can you stay so positive all the time?" (my wife, mainly, as she is going through things for the first time with me, but while I learned and experienced my parents going through these things, she has NEVER been exposed to these experiences prior to this). Hell, the last time things were truly grim, was the first (and only, thankfully) time I couldn't afford the rent in 2016 and many on here were super supportive and helpful (Shake, Wildcats, etc.). It just so happened that everything was getting toxic here around that time too (not like it is now) and I needed some time away to improve on my mindset and outlook.

Now, I've grown a thicker skin since that time, towards any negativity either in my life or in what I enjoy, as well. At this point however, I get absolutely 0 enjoyment out of this board, due to the toxicity of the environment here (not negativity; toxicity); I proposed this to try and weed out some of that (and the multitudes of shitposting that goes on) and try to get back the enjoyment I used to get.

If I used the, "ignore," feature like Mike/Harley suggested, then there would be about 25 people on it, the majority of them good posters.

I don't want to ignore half of the most active people, what's the point? Don't like ignoring people anyways lol .

(10-15-2019, 11:27 PM)BengalFanInNJ Wrote: I love this word. 

Thankfully, it is a real word ... on the internet

(10-15-2019, 11:28 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: The idiots will never understand that. I don't have the ability to write every post as if it's my first and repeat the same shit over and over and over.

I am amazed at how almost every thread in this forum somehow turns into a Dalton thread with the same morons parroting the same shit as if we're reading their opinions for the first time.

(claps)

See? That's not negative or, "realistic;" that's shitposting (which is being toxic).

We have an Andy forum for God's sake; take it there and expand upon it in the dedicated threads.

There, 1 solution solved.