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Mar 13, 2007 13:16

The text question is untraceable- efforts to trace lead to a website anonymizer. While you could find out where it came from, sure, you'd have to get at least a Thai subpoena, as Thailand does not participate in the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.
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Thnmy Txt, equally untraceable harley_is_love March 13 2007, 20:38:13 UTC

On thanking the person in question, it really depends if they meant to help you or if they meant to hurt you when they brought the memory back. If they were trying to help you, they might try to help you again. Take at your own risk.

As for the person who initially harmed you. Sometimes revenge, though sweet in the moment, it a hollow victory.

Yup, still text that's all anonymous and stuff. dickgrayson March 13 2007, 20:49:50 UTC

On that first question: no, it was intended to hurt. And it did. It hurt a great deal... but something like it hurts to peel off a scab.

So revenge is not necessary, in your opinion?

Re: Yup, still text that's all anonymous and stuff. harley_is_love March 13 2007, 20:54:20 UTC

Then why thank someone who had intended to hurt you? It would only make them want to hurt you again and again in the future.

I thought it had been necessary when I took my vengence. Fucked up myself more in the end, but damn did it feel good. For yourself, you really have to ask yourself if you are capable of going down that road. Taking revenge takes you a dark place. Trust me on that.

Re: Yup, still text that's all anonymous and stuff. dickgrayson March 13 2007, 21:10:31 UTC

I don't want to thank him, so- it's good to know that there's no point to doing it.
And I don't know that I can trust you on this: I don't know who you are.

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[Text] bishie_beastboy March 13 2007, 20:44:14 UTC

If you'd asked this, say, two months or more ago, I could have given you a very definite answer concerning the fact that, in my case, both responsible parties were barely what one would call sentient, and thus not only unlikely to be appreciative of thanks but also more than deserving of destruction on the behalf of parties other than myself.

But then I had another awesomely traumatic experience that shifted my list a bit, so we're back to hypotheticals. In order, no, yes, only if it suits your style or the irony appeals to you.

Yep, more text dickgrayson March 13 2007, 20:51:55 UTC

If they had been sentient, then, what would you have done: the same list as you suggested at the end of your response?

Letters everywhere :O bishie_beastboy March 13 2007, 20:59:08 UTC

Yeah, I think so. Not that I had to worry about being the only one to want to destroy them, in that specific case. And not that I could have taken revenge in kind, what with not being capable of performing telepathic mindfucks. More generally, I can certainly see the appeal in the whole "eye for an eye" approach.

ZOMG THE TYPING THE TYPING dickgrayson March 13 2007, 21:11:36 UTC

I have NO desire to repay either of them in kind. NONE.

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theonewithpants March 13 2007, 21:54:20 UTC

It might be best to focus on your own life for a while, rather than on affecting others. Revenge always seems to be a hollower prize than one'd expect, and I don't think anyone will die if they're not thanked for something they apparently hadn't intended well anyway.

dickgrayson March 14 2007, 04:07:59 UTC

Vengeance seems a very dry field, indeed. Focus on my own life? What do you mean by that?

theonewithpants March 14 2007, 07:52:45 UTC

I suppose it depends on you. That's a crappy answer, but I mean that you've just remembered something of extreme significance, something that probably changes your outlook on all sorts of things in your life. Maybe there's more things to do about those. People to talk to. Milestones to revisit. Just. Knowing yourself again.

dickgrayson March 14 2007, 13:44:41 UTC

I don't think that's a crappy answer at all! I just didn't get what you meant when you said it that way.
Thanks.

itistolaugh March 13 2007, 22:48:41 UTC

Vengeance is nothing but sinkin' to their level, doncha know.

Go for it!!!

harley_is_love March 13 2007, 23:29:35 UTC

Another me?

itistolaugh March 14 2007, 00:20:16 UTC

Uhmm, no. If yer pretendin' t'be me, that's your problem. Just don't make a move on Mistah J or I'll take ya apart.

harley_is_love March 14 2007, 01:17:07 UTC

I am not pretending anything, younger version of me.

And I would not worry about that. I do not bother with Joker anymore.

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