Oooo yeah! And we still laugh at it!
I heard a rumor once that I hated intellectuals and to avoid me at all costs because of some ominously doctored conversation LOL!
He was implying this was why he was disliked. He was just too intelligent!
The person who made this rumor was isolating people and those people chose not to listen to him and got to know me one on one — we then became **very good friends** and they realized that person was mimicking me and did not want others to meet the original source of the mimic hahaha he was also trying to steal credit for something staff did and wanted users to avoid seeing actual proof of the truth by not socializing with staff. Weird stuff. :v
This is why I feel rumors are for gossip geese and guess what? Those gossip geese tend to tell on themselves.
Quality people do not waste time on putting others down to lift themselves up.
I did have a user once tell me “o did you know people talk crap behind the backs of others while pretending to be nice to their faces?” I was so confused about this because in over the decade, whenever I met an unsavory, I gave them little to no importance next to the gems who were precious and actually enhanced my life irl. And believe me, that accounts to about 90% over the 10% who just want to drag others down to feel superior.
And guess what? It was a pure reflection of his own nature, in the end. People saw him pulling that move on so many people... @.@
Out of the majority of people I got to know - I realized they are busy building, having fun or trying to, growing or doing useful things while he wasted too much time rotting with anger, hatred and a deep desire to hold others down to rumors or drama. It was so consistent.
I wish him the best, still. But I wish less and less people would fall into such hateful cycles.
If, however, there are rumors about me, then wow! I must be a celebrity.
Allow me to strike my celebrity pose.