Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their family, friends and associates. Society dissolves.
Unfortunately, we do not have the authority to decide what part of our activity people choose to address in reply to us.
That’s up to everyone else. I can only hope you’ll actually read what I write. I can’t make you.
But the responses and votes you’ve received, should make it more than clear to you, what you should take home and think about from this post of yours.
My god man, stop inhaling your own farts, it’s killing braincells. Ground yourself in the observable.
That’s… what everyone’s telling you to do…
Your premise is simply incorrect. Can’t you accept that?
But, for an example of “huffing one’s own farts”, may I direct your attention to…
Your behaviour in this thread?
It doesn’t matter if it’s 100%. Or 99%. Or even 90 or 30. It would still be quite the nuke.
I think this is dead obvious. And I mentioned that.
But you can’t get past that can you?
It’s like you have your eyeball pressed up against the bark of a tree, insisting that there is no forest.
(That’s what we call a “metaphor”.)
You said “everybody”.
That’s right. I did. And people who can’t see past that particular bit of treebark for the sake of discussing the forest are what we call… oh, something deeply derogatory. I forget. Use your imagination.
Why should my imagination be making your point for you? Aren’t you able to do it yourself? I’m not missing the forest for the trees, I’m pointing out that the trees in the forest are dead
If you say “every X is Y”, and there is even a single piece of evidence against that, you are wrong. Thats just how it works.
If you wanted to say, “i wonder what would happen if everything people said about others behind their back was revealed to them,” then we’d be talking only about that. But you didn’t.
I made a post just for you. Well, and most of the people here actually.
Nah that’s definitely still just for you to continue huffing your own farts
Yes. And then when someone said otherwise you just doubled down with absolutely no additional logic.
And when they suggested that your personal experiences might be coloring your views, you accused them of being in denial.
All in all the “I’m an asshole” energy is coming through loud and clear… Not to mention your very premise reveals that you think it’s normal to speak ill of people.
If this is the kind of stuff you say publicly, no wonder you thought the stuff you say privately would end the world.
Do better, man.
You do better. Return to discussing my point like you did ten replies back. Your shallow hackneyed handwaving just stinks up the thread.
In what way? Stop being one of the people who explains to someone why they’re being down-voted instead of piling on with insults?
Why should I engage with your chosen subject? I’m not interested. The only reason I even opened the post was because of the downvotes, not the premise or title.
And when I did, I found you, actively, either accidentally, or intentionally, pissing people off. You’re being abrasive and adversarial. You’re either trolling, or inadvertently turning everyone away from the thing you actually wanted to discuss.
I don’t care whether it’s deliberate, the explanation for why you should stop is the same.
Yet, you feel the need to continue to go “nu-uh, everyone else is the problem” even as the number of people telling you otherwise, and just the general disapproval, increases.
“Ground yourself in the observable.” How people react when you say and do things, is part of the observable, my friend.
If I succeed, I’ll have made you nicer to talk to. I’m a lot more invested in that.
Even as you probably wont be nicer for me. You likely hate my guts about now, and wont admit it to me even if I do make you rethink things.
Remember way back when I suggested that you return to discussing my point?
This is a non-response.
Read and reply to what is said, or don’t respond at all.
Anything else is an attempt to feel like you got the last word.
To be clear, your extended tangent into clumsy self-stroking is no fun for me. I want no part of it. My point, otoh, interests me. Therefore…
Stop trying to dictate how people engage. And also, of the two of you, only you appear to be engaging in “self stroking”.
Then stop replying.
Or derailing your own thread by being an ass, for that matter.