The Bullying Never Stops!

haven't had the pleasure yet of encountering one of "the legions of belly-crawlers in Government employ" (former New York DEA Chief Michael Levine, writing in the May-June issue of The Utne Reader)?

If you do, and unwisely apply an honourable and moral upbringing to the relationship, be prepared at a minimum to be deprived of trust and monies, and it can go way down from there to an arrest on bogus or inflated charges. It'll make the schoolyard bullies look like the relatively miniscule Act 1 of a grotesque life pageant.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not actually coming out to suggest that you disappear these scrums from the land of the living, but.....oh, excuse me I have something to do. talk to y'all later.

for the ,ost part, yes. though bullying, making fun of others, mocking others, etc. is more obvious to see the older one is. imitation is not always flattery, e.g.

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Jealous, small and bitter people play the Bully, belittling game.
No one has ever been jealous of a loser, and no one ever seeks out a loser to put down. Clearly NO normal person seeks out anyone to put down ( and that about says It all ). However jealous I am owed people do and will.

They are the losers and anyone being a Bully of any form always will be.
Pathetic losers really and we all have the right to not like people, NO ONE has the right to bully a person.

Humans are indeed a violent and harsh beings. I don't get it. Remove yourself from them and find your own peace. I've been done with them for years. So over it.

OP, feel free to enjoy our liberty to yield to God infinitely, inordinately, adoringly without reservation.

If people fear and respect you, they will more or less leave you alone. I was naive and innocent, that slowly got chipped away. In kindergarten we sat around a table, a bunch of us, and everyone called the person next to them, the next letter in the alphabet, setting me up, to call the person next to me the F-word. Just F word, not the actual curse word(first person said "your the A word" and so on).

Yeah, the little shats, ran to the teacher, luckily she figured it out in short order, and I wasn't punished(punishment was dropped, never enforced).

First grade during recces, somehow, I fell in with a group of people. For some reason, we started to chase this little guy around. Finally cornered him, and I was like "OK, run again, or who is next". I guess the group wanted to physically bully him or something, and they became pissed I wouldn't play along, and "kicked me out of their group". That was all they did, because even 10 v 1, I would of kicked their asses.

People would verbally give me grief, off and on, but never tried anything physical(I was never the biggest kid, but I always had good proportions that left no vulnerabilities, and was among the big kids). My 7th grade, two closet homo's(they acted like boyfriend and girlfriend most of the time it seemed, really creepy friendship they had), thought they where "bullying me", when I just ignored them, because I knew they would pick on a weakling, and they might take it too far.

One day, a girl who was always kind to me, asked "why do you put up with them?", she was smart enough to understand physics, size, and strength, something the "bullies", didn't seem to.

Since she was always kind to me, I was honor bound, sentimentally compelled, to answer her, even against my best wishes as the truth was brutal(the bullies where sitting next to me as I told her). I at first said something like "is the ocean injured by drops of mist that fall on it?". That kind of went over her head so I told her plainly, "they are pathetic weaklings that could never pose serious harm to me."

It goes without saying, they where pissed. I completely destroyed their entire world view, in a single instant. After class(last class of the day), I go to leave the building, they call out my name, and as I go to turn around, one of them sucker punches me.

He put all his strength into it, and even caught me by total surprise. My upper body swayed, but my feet where firmly planted in the ground. The rage I felt, was so utterly intense, time nearly stopped and went into ultra slow motion.

They could tell, the "killer intent" in my eye's, as they looked at one another, and fled. They had their entire jock friends, the entire 7th grade football team, walk them to their bus, and try to pick a fight with me there, antagonize me to throw the first punch.

In all honesty, I was so content in that moment, I had a huge shit eating grin and thought "mine, all mine, an entire army to of people wipe out". What the morons didn't know is two key things:

a) as a reclusive kid my parents signed me up for martial arts to socialize, didn't work as I got bumped up to the adult class, even though I was a child.

b) I was really freaking good at martial arts. A sick natural. The instructor, didn't know what to do with me, and his second, and most of the adults, didn't like me as I embarrassed them without trying to(except this really cool giant of a man, I ended up always sparing with, as a child).

With glee in my eye's, I stepped forward, ready to take on the entire football team. Then, the group of people I normally associated with(friends I guess you could say), formed an impressive army behind me. I only noticed because they went from fearing me, and the look on my face, to fearing what was behind me. I'm still ashamed of my reaction at seeing all my friends line up behind me. I didn't trust them, and thought they would only get in my way(as they all sucked at fighting, even though a few where strong), and they where ruining my fun.

9th grade year, after I moved(shame would of been interesting to see how things panned out, as the next year the jocks tried to desperate get me to join the sports teams), the senior football team, tried their "harass freshman garbage", when they tried to harass me, granted nowhere near as intense as "Dazed and Confused"*, just knocking books out of my hand or trying to, I damn near knocked three of them over.

After that, the jocks knew their place on the totem pole, and for those years after, behaved, and knew to bow to the King of the School. Since no real bullying was going on, all the sub sections of society, co-existed in peace. It was odd, to see the nerds, goths, stoners, prep's, jocks and others, all get along, almost as if they where a singular group, only because I always seemed to equal my own group, in terms of power projection.

Teachers loved me, because I never lied and kept to myself.

You need to be both respected, and feared. If your just feared, they will plot against you. If your just respected, they will seek to slander you. If your feared and respected, they will simply leave you alone.