===I am not so certain that I understand WHY some folks have been given quite the lattitude in behavior that they have been given. I do comprehend giving them some slight leeway due to memories and resonance. I have done a bit of that myself in the past. I learned that was not the way to go, especially when folks decided that they had to use me as a punching bag and a target.
===I think many have gone way past the point of receiving needed love and understanding, and have used what love they've been given as a feeding point for their pathology.
===Going offline to avoid them is not the answer. It feeds them when their targets all disappear, or when they are allowed to have a way to throw their dysfunctions at you. I would suggest staying active online and letting such people see you being active, but not letting them do anything to impinge upon you.
===When they say idiotic things, it is not really about you, nor is it about those with whom you share that higher level of understanding and resonance.
===They may have the gift of some resonance, and it is certainly honorable to try to help them in honor of that resonance. But if they have done nothing to honor the thing you honor in them, then any efforts in their direction are a waste of time and energy (shrugs).
===The more things change, the more they stay the same, especially when folks want to approach friends as possessions, rather than simply allowing their friends to live. Dead things are easier to obsess on, especially if they are masks placed on the doll they name in your stead... a doll they seem to talk to much more than they seek to talk to you, even while you are in the room with them (sad chuckle).
====Some folks only live on the ecosystem formed from their own tears. They think that is the way of all lives, and thus do their best to make other systems get more rain, in hopes that they can have more in their own well.
===I live a rather more public life than most, but I have learned that tears are only to be shared with those who use them for bathing and cleansing, not with those who base their lives on them. There are too many emotional addicts, too many that find the life of a parasite preferable to the life of a keystone species for an ecosystem.
===We need more keystones. We need more symbiosis.
===Indeed, parasites can have an important place, when they are kept in check by a healthy system. There are fascinating links between parasites and allergies, for example. There is a theory that some allergies occur because the system is looking for parasites, but finds nothing. Therefore, the system goes off like a loose cannon and attacks itself. There has been some research done with treating Crohns Disease and iritable bowel syndrome with parasites (to encourage the intestine not to attack itself). Yes, parasites can be necessary for survival. But unchecked they can take over the entire system.
===I honor those who are trying as much as possible to respect and help friends who have a resonance, a feel that you know is right.
===However...
===There is potential...and then there is the actual liklihood that those folks will actually unfold that potential into something worthwhile. I have run into many people to whom I have given way too many openings and chances: those people I felt had potential. I ignored the signs that they used that potential to draw folks like myself to them to feed on the attention and care.
===I have gotten better at watching out for the cuckoos. They have so much potential... but at times, that resonance they wear is simply something they have that allows them to take over what could be and turns it into the story of them, not a story of co-working.