Another cult-like mentality I only now thought of...
Has anyone here noticed what the PA posters on their boards do in response to 'Bashers?' Has anybody seen the average poster's responses over there to 'Bashers?'
I've noticed something that is gaining momentum over there, and I wanted to bring this up. When a group of people (such as ourselves) 'bash' PA -- for lack of a better word -- many of the PA people bash the bashers personally. It's interesting to take note of this. AW posters bash a company. PA posters bash AW posters on a personal level.
No, they don't say, "Sean D. Schaffer is a so-and-so and a such-and-such." That's not the personal level I'm referring to.
But has anyone who looks through the PA boards noticed that the pro-PA people over there say things like "Oh, those bashers, they're a bunch of losers! They don't know anything."
That's the kind of personal level I'm referring to.
This is not to say that we over here are somehow better than the posters over at PA's boards. Many of us were posters over at the PA boards, myself included. I'd be a hypocrite to imply that AW posters are better than PA posters. No, what I'm saying is simply that it's an interesting contrast between the two.
You'll notice my title line is 'Another cult-like mentality I only now thought of.' The reason for this is that, in a lot of cults, the members have the nasty tendency of treating those who doubt the validity of their cult like common imbeciles. "Only an idiot would believe our leaders are not perfectly right," they might say. Or, as an old saying used to go in the church I went to a long time ago, "I'm XXXX born and XXXX bred, and when I die I'll be XXXX dead."
I think this mentality is a major problem over there. They sound so much like 'If you don't belong to PA, you're nothing,' any more. That's something I think personally, as History will point out eventually, will be part of PA's downfall. I only hope their authors don't go down with them. There are a great many wonderful people over there; they've just been fooled by the cult-like mentality of their Publisher.
It's heart-breaking, to be honest.