bad gifts

There somes to be a comical trend among cessationists (ok fine the pyromaniacs.) The trend is that when talking about the gifts, everyone who used to be charismatic should tell their horror stories about what they came from (abuse of the gifts, the fact that they themselves were "faking" it etc.) to show why the charismata has passed. Nothing cracks me up more.

Think about it. People are faking spiritual gifts for whatever reason (to appear more "spiritual", fear of man, etc.) and then they somehow are the self-righteous ones. How dare people let me fake tongues! How dare they let me lie about recieving prophetic gifts! If anyone is going to be self-righteous (and yes I know no one should be self-righteous) shouldn't it be the ones who are actually sincere in their use of the gifts?

I don't understand how telling stories about how you were in a charismatic church, you faked gifts, you realized and were convicted about your dishonesty, and then decided that because you were faking everyone ELSE must be faking, is at all a convincing argument as to why everyone else is faking.

Somebody enlighten me.