Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore
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Lohrenswald
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That sounds dangerously like a line of thinking that justifies shutting down any and all criticism, legitimate or otherwise. For a person to grow, they have to be willing to accept criticism. Dismissing all criticism with "that's just your opinion" doesn't help one grow as a person.
And now for the rant I came here to post: Why does it seem like there are so many...perverts, for lack of a better term, in Pennsylvania? Most of the time I hear news of some type of pedophilia case, rape case, etc. it's from Pennsylvania. I even just read an article that says Pennsylvania is the epicenter of what the FBI is calling the "pedophile mafia." What's going on in that state that's making everyone there sex crazy?
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I dunno Commodore. We got a groper walking around molesting women and running off around here. Seems like our police are still making arrests for rape. I'd guess it's your newsfeed self-reinforcing at first blush, but it could be anything. I assure you perverts, child molesters, and rapists still seem an unendagered species outside of Pennsylvania to me.
Ohforpetessake!
That was in response to Cutlass, who said this:
This doesn't sound like some trivial thing like a disagreement over a news article or "I don't like what you're wearing today." I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of emotional abuse from family, and this "being willing to accept criticism and grow as a person" chastisement is really condescending.Cutlass said:
People don't tend to talk about such matters lightly. It's the sort of thing that can really mess up family relationships and cause serious fallout.
In my own life, I didn't start to really grow as a person until I put my foot down and told my family that I wasn't going to take it anymore. The way I put it to my mother was, "You don't get to talk to me like that anymore." (this was after DECADES of carp-carp-carp - some of it extremely hurtful and full of spite - about a laundry list of trivial things she didn't like about me, how I lived, about my dad...) I don't know what the specifics are of Cutlass' situation, but if it's anything like mine (or if it's something he witnessed that was directed to someone else), it's not the sort of thing that should be so lightly dismissed.
Ohforpetessake!
That was in response to Cutlass, who said this:
I know what it was in response to. And I would say how do we know his mother is really being emotionally abusive? We don't know his mother and we are only getting his side of the story. Maybe it's just the intelligence collector in me, but I tend to not take anything anyone says at face value without either hearing the other side as well or getting some other type of verification.
Lohrenswald
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Okay, how about this:
You've mentioned your wife and daughter. How do I know you really have a wife and daughter? How do I know that you really work at the job you claim you work at? Where are your wife's posts here? How about your employer's posts, confirming what you say? Let's get their side of the story, particularly on the matter of that first aid certification incident.
You see how that goes? Let's all go around basically calling each other liars unless we have some kind of proof of what we all claim.
Sheesh.
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Yes. I'm inclined to agree.
I tend to take things at face value until I've got evidence to the contrary.
But this isn't invariably so. Sometimes I just get a feeling that something's not ringing quite true.
And sometimes this feeling misleads me.
And sometimes I take things at face value and they turn out to be completely untrue.
But what am I going to do? I'm just adrift in a sea of not knowing stuff.
I tend to take things at face value until I've got evidence to the contrary.
But this isn't invariably so. Sometimes I just get a feeling that something's not ringing quite true.
And sometimes this feeling misleads me.
And sometimes I take things at face value and they turn out to be completely untrue.
But what am I going to do? I'm just adrift in a sea of not knowing stuff.
Really. You find it soooo hard to believe that someone could have an emotionally abusive mother? Why would anyone lie about something like that - particularly in a serial thread that's going to be archived in 928 more posts?
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I think you're misreading Borachio's tone -it's not quite the same as Commodore's.
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That's right.
My tone goes something like this:
1. I agree with statement A.
2. Well, usually I do.
3. But then sometimes I find I agree with statement B.
4. And sometimes B isn't quite the same as A.
5. And then sometimes I don't know whether I'm coming or going.
It's safest to assume that I really do mean that I agree with statement A.
Though not invariably.
My tone goes something like this:
1. I agree with statement A.
2. Well, usually I do.
3. But then sometimes I find I agree with statement B.
4. And sometimes B isn't quite the same as A.
5. And then sometimes I don't know whether I'm coming or going.
It's safest to assume that I really do mean that I agree with statement A.
Though not invariably.
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