Is it that hard to understand?

[selfidentifyinggiraffe]

It's taken a week of repeating "NO" in various shapes and forms and then giving up and using the block function (should have used earlier but it was somewhat comical and entertaining)

I have had such gems as

"You're lying to yourself"
"You're just not ready for me"
"Maybe you're angry at men, check yourself you came from one and are raising one"
"Pretend all you want bby"
"You're not allowed to think about me, miss me or msg me" (okay... except I didn't, you twat 🤣)
"You'll always wonder what if, you'll deny it but we both know you will"
"You don't want feelings, you know what will happen if we start talking, I understand"
"It's shyness, you know it, I know it"

A. Whole. Fucking. Week. To. Still. Not. Realise. I. Said. No thanks.

Do they believe still that we can't think for ourselves?

I'd be scared if I didn't have male friends who have pissed themselves at some of his waffling. Thankfully it's not all men. But 😅

That was a bloke trying it on with you? Arrogant fucker. Or rather, not fucker.
I'm trying to set up a protest group against a road through a nature reserve. One of the guys in the group tried to establish a "structure" with him in the middle and everyone else as satellites. Another one said, first, he didn't like the name, and then that he didn't like the objectives, and what if we just campaigned in favour of a different road instead?
Bloody effrontery of the Y Chromosome.

Yeah. Ah well, he gave me an ego boost I guess.

I think it's backfired though as I was meant to give him one

I think it's a variation on cold reading. To make cold reading work you don't need everyone you try to con to believe you have psychic powers, you need to weed in the credulous ones.

Opening with outrageous statements has the double advantage of getting rid of people with critical thinking skills with expending any time on them and impressing the viable fools with your boldness.

Similarly I think the blokes who message shit like this on OLD probably have evolved a fairly efficient algorithm (basically an incredibly cocky dickhead patter) that gets them blocked by anyone with self respect immediately but works on a small percentage.

They have a hugely disproportionate effect on the experience of OLD because their model requires them to send many, many messages to get a few hits, whereas normal people will think carefully about every conversation.

I was in a very dark place a while ago and he featured for a while. I realised I didn't like him but couldn't really untangle and it was incredibly dysfunctional. He met someone new and decided he needed space aka as he was bored with my issues and wanted to try out shiny new thing.

I resolved to heal (not from him, from what was causing me to act like a dick and engage with someone I didn't really like romantically) and months passed and he popped up

I asked why and mistakenly thought perhaps he might simply care to see if I was doing ok. He made clear he believed that we shared something powerful. I made clear that I felt he was very mistaken. He made clear he believed that he was gods gift and I clearly was just shy of bowing to the earth shaking that would happen if I dared to persue a relationship.

A whole bloody week of not getting that I had dusted off, gained some self respect and really never expected to hear from him again and wasn't that fussed over the possibility of simply forgetting him