Teejay said:
: ... Now that the lights have gone on, many of us resort all-too-easily to thinking that we are so much better than those still caught in the system we've left that it's sickening. (I mean people like YOU, AlanF.)
But we are better, Teejay. If we weren't, we'd still be in the cult. We had enough inner spunk -- once buried, but now expressed -- to get out. There are Dubs, perhaps like Northern Girl, with enough spunk to still get out. Why do you think she's here? Either to troll, or to figure out why she should or should not remain a Dub. Either way, she has displayed only a glimmer of reasoning ability, having cast aside nearly all attempts at reasoning with her with moronic expressions such as "that's your opinion".
: How it is that people who were once JUST LIKE the so-called "trolls" that arrive here can now be so condescending?
Because experience shows that arrogant, condescending Dubs are generally shocked to find that most people don't have the high opinion of them that they have of themselves. Laughing at a stupidly arrogant person is the best way to shock them into reality. When they get a big dose of their own medicine, they hate it.
: ... remember what it was like as a Dub.
I do. That's why I do what I do.
AlanF