GenMarshall
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Typically, I tend to be more bitter and jerkiness more as a facade of deeper issues.
How are you a jerk, and how do you justify it?
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Narz
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That's whhy everyone is a jerk. Happy people generally aren't jerks much.
I dunno, I'm pretty <EXPLETIVE DELETED> happy.
Not that I view myself as particularly jerkish, I just don't view patience as a virtue, and so don't play along with dumb people when it's not to my benefit.
Narz
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If you don't view patience as a virtue & you don't like dealing with stupid people than ignoring them or nodding your head & walking away is far less time intensive than arguing with them or being a jerk to them. I rarely, if ever argue with people IRL (except close loved ones & even then I pick my battles), usually there doesn't seen to be much reward in it.
GenMarshall
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I'm never happy and never even smiled in my life
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It relieves stress when people deserve being "jerked off" get "jerked off". Sometimes you need to take the responsibility of being the jerk when no one else does it.
Of course, ignorant people are also often happy people, by my experience.
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Sometimes it makes me even happier.
Narz
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I get some satisfaction in pwning dumbass arguments & statements online but it's also a bit stressful (stress hormones from conflict & all even if only virtual conflict), it's probably not very healthy.
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To some degree I think you are right. But the matter is way more nuanced than you make it out to be.
I am a jerk in so far as that at times I have a hard time to respect other people's sensibilities when they are in my opinion stupid (not the people, the sensibilities). For instance a few hours ago I was sitting in the living room together with my brother and after finishing my salad put the paper box the salad was contained in on the keyboard of his laptop for the table was already full of other stuff.
By saying "Since when belongs trash on my laptop" he told me, that he did not approve of this act. With saying "Since when does it not?" I told him, that I was unaware of a good reason for this particular case. After all the paper box was absolutely clean on the outside, I knew he would not use his laptop any time soon (as he cuddled with his girlfriend) and I knew I would pick the box up after leaving the room, which I intended to do fairly soon.
Anyway I immediately removed the box, because it is his property and therefor his right to say what shall happen with it. But I also made it clear why it is absolutely pointless to be annoyed by the paper box and I think that is something people would view as jerk-like behavior.
My justification is: People need to relax, and they need me to teach it to them (though I can't really justify that I don't do so in a relaxed manner at times).
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on the night Saturday to Sunday ı found myself in a thermonuclear war in my dream . ı was looking to the clouds in the sky and a major population center to the North went first . Then a minute or so later its suburbs and a major concentration of industry to North East . And ı was so cool . Questioning why the defense systems did not work . Instead of screaming and banging my head and all . ı knew it wasn't happening. Probably playing too much Civ and playing it incredibly bad to get stuck playing onto those ages .
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I built a relationship on the whole "trusting and telling the truth" -thing. Always told the truth, never lied and I mean it, we talked about everything. And now this trust allows me to lie effectively when I really need it. Justification? I tried the trust & truth thing with her... it didn't work. Apparently someone who's honest and truly loves is not enough...
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