Why do those who feel righteous feel it is good to damn others who are just doing their best?
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surely it is fear that they themselves are not on the right path and will go to hell;by condeming others for wrongdoing they reinforce the idea that they are right\nthe christian message is basically a message of love and an obsession with rules is condemned by the church as legalism
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Often they are insecure about some other aspect of their lives and feel the need to overcompensate by being a megalomaniac. Or they may feel that simply because they have a certain talent or are economically well off, they feel they have a right to criticize or belittle others who aren't in their position.
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It makes them feel godly and holy. I don't think those who are judge mental ever feel guilty. To feel guilty, you have to believe you did something wrong, and these people do not think they are doing anything wrong.
215397
many people are not happy with themselves so they feel better by talking bad about others...
540931
Too many people have no way of solving their problems and allow their insecurities to take over their lives. As such, they are not resourceful enough to actually improve their own lots. So, they tear down others under the mistaken impression that they're sharing their misery and thus ridding themselves of some. All they end up doing is improving their *relative* status with the person they just brought down. It's selfish and disgusting behavior, really, and they haven't improved themselves at face value, even though someone else has plunged into their depths, albeit temporarily.\n\nI've suffered this BS from classmates and co-workers quite a lot - for the most part, it's jealousy, plain and simple. Some people just can't accept that others do things differently and achieve the same ends, but if you do it more quickly, the negative people feel threatened because you're "showing them up." Then they'll go narc to the supervisors about how you aren't following pointless procedures just so you'll have to do what they do.....it's very petty and asinine how people can be.\n\nMy suggestion: blow off anyone who does this to you. As long as you're doing whatever works for you, and no one (you nor anyone else) is *truly* being hurt by your actions, then no one should have any gripes about it. If the only "problem" is that someone else looks bad because of what you do that looks good, then there's truly no problem, and the "offended" person needs to suck it up and improve himself/herself. Period.
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I love these people who spend years snorting coke and drinking to excess, and generally making the lives of those around them a living hell,and all the while thanking the almighty god for his love. \nIf they felt so loved by this god, how come they are so unhappy and on the road straight to hell.  And I particularly like it when they clean up and we are supposed to be proud of them.. fluck em.. How about some praise for the people that just get up every morning and go to work and are good to their families and friends and do lowly things like reading to their kids and mowing the lawn.
495214
People learn what they live.  If they were raised in a loving environment, chances are they will be loving.  If they have been kicked around, told they were worthless, never given a kind or positive word, chances are they feel like they are worthless, and continue to hear the ringing in their heads that they will never amount to anything.  So they tend to be the angry sort.  They are afraid to get close to anyone for fear that they are not good enough, or that the person they get close to will not stick around.  Why should they expect them to, No one else did.
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I would have to say it is a desire to help.  \n\nIf you were standing on the top of a cliff offering to help someone hanging out over the edge, is that pride?\n\nOf course, I think there are some who think they are better than others b/c they are saved, which is pride.  (and I don't think they are really saved, but my opinion doesn't matter).  \n\nI think that is the main point.  While I will try to save you the only way I know how (the big JC) I should know that my opinion of you does not matter.  I don't know the Lord's plan, and I shouldn't act like I do.  That is to act outside our authority.
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I  believe in God/Christ and I want more than anything to be a good Christian, but some people have me so p***ed off that I hate their guts, and feel like I want them dead.  I know this is wrong, but I can't stop that feeling,..and I've prayed about it too.
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For many reasons. Sometimes for revenge, sometimes for spite. Sometimes by accident, and sometimes it can't be helped. (for instance, in a breakup) \n\nSome people hurt others for the pure pleasure of it. It gives them a feeling of power. \n\nThere are many people, though, who truly try not to hurt others.
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Is it wrong to do a smaller bad-thing, when others are doing what in your mind is the worst bad-thing?\n\nDo you want an answer that says it is less wrong to poke holes in your body to make yourself feel beatiful and to verbally abuse people, than to take anothers life?\n\nAre you trying to draw lines between far-away things in order to blur your perception of reality?
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Makes some people feel Superior to put others down. It is usually a result of low self esteem.
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It helps sometimes to see those "total jerks" as simply people who lack certain skills.\n\nI find that in my case, when I look at it that way, I no longer feel emotional. \n\nIf a person had the skill, whether it's how to behave in a social situation or being sensitive to others' feelings or doing the right thing, then he would probably use that skill.\n\nVery few people are total jerks just as very few people are total saints. :-)\n\nThe people who are closer to being "perfect" could exercise compassion and patiently teach the people who are closer to being "total jerks."
790295
Some people do it to deflect from their own failures and shortcomings. Not all though blame their God for it.
548175
Because it's part of a healing process for some people. You feel that you need to get revenge so that the person hurts as much as you are. Some people do it so that they can move to the 'hate' stage so it doesn't hurt as bad. And some are just jealous that they have moved on with their life and are happier yet you are still stuck in the past and are lonely (even if it was a dysfunctional relationship).
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Many of those people like to feel others pain. Because they have a shitty life, or, because ,they are either too lazy or too stupid to fix it. So they feel better about themselves when they act like they care, and many of them do care, its just that they don't know why they care, and after a very short period of time they change their definition of "caring"  from, actively finding a solution and implementing it, to something like pointing the finger and blaming others. The great thing about most of those people (for them) is that when they point the finger at the "problem"  (i.e. America is the Devil) it looks (to them) like they are pointing the finger at them selves (thus they can appear to be truly selfless) and can act like they are fighting for a solution, when really they are just trying to make themselves feel better for being incompetent in creating a solution -and in their lives for that matter-. Unfortunately Failure and self loathing are considered greatness for many.\nThat is why (at least why I think) American  wanna-be-do-gooders\nalways find the fault in America, it is too painful to find the fault in them selves, and, it is too hard to "fix" the injustice they see.\n  I, fortunately, do not suffer from this malady.\n"I do not want to feel others pain, but, I would like to cure it"....If I don't already have something better to do....
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Generally people can’t get satisfied with what they got...\nSo they feel what has gone was better than the present