My Issues with Personal Responsibility Advocates

Started by cubedemon, June 22, 2015, 11:48:52 PM

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kroz

Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 10:42:00 AM
If one can't expect love and kindness if one is not the sharpest knife in the drawer I think we can establish what character you and others have.    :wink:

Kindness is always in order here on the forum.  However, your original post was short on the facts and brought about an unwanted response.  Had you been up front with the facts you would have been given different responses.

When we didn't say what you thought was appropriate, you lashed out at us.  We assume our members have a normal level of mental acuity.  You should have warned us up front!   :wink:

walkstall

Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 12:53:37 PM
Well she may have had Autism as well.  If I didn't think about the subtext, that would've been my answer as well.  I still have problems with literalism such as that.

It is one of the reasons I have problems with functioning.

If something is vague, I have issues.

Let's say I'm told to put a pot of water on the opposite side of the stove and the pot is on the (front, right) eye.  I'm looking this as I'm looking at a Cartesian plane.  Problem: which axis do I apply it to?  Is left opposite from right, back opposite from front or do I consider both axis's?  How do I apply opposite in this case since opposite is open to interpretation?


:lol:  Sorry but you need to get out in the real world more.  You keep making mountains out of a molehills.   You must have had a very sheltered childhood.  One that someone did your thinking for you.   :ohmy:   

Life has it's up and downs, that is what makes it fun. 
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

Solar

Quote from: walkstall on June 24, 2015, 01:07:03 PM

:lol:  Sorry but you need to get out in the real world more.  You keep making mountains out of a molehills.   You must have had a very sheltered childhood.  One that someone did your thinking for you.   :ohmy:   

Life has it's up and downs, that is what makes it fun.
Yeah, sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurdity of life and move on.
I know I do, it's the only way I get through each day I open Drudge, only to discover another Marxist insanity, such as the Confederate flag, or a myriad of stupid ploys they pull.
Then to top it off, the GOP concedes every time and lets these freaks of humanity have their childish way.

I can't wait till 2017 when the adults takeover.
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Solar

Quote from: walkstall on June 24, 2015, 12:46:14 PM
They walk among us.   :lol: :lol:
My mom. She was like this a lot of the time.
She couldn't grasp the concept of batteries going dead, since the package expiration date said they were good for ten years.
"I just put them in a year ago, and they're dead"?
Mom, they only last ten years if you don't use them.
"Well why don't they tell you that on the package?"

Extremely smart woman, I mean really really smart, but commonsense was not one of her better qualities.
Love yaa mom, RIP.
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kroz

Quote from: Solar on June 24, 2015, 01:37:20 PM
My mom. She was like this a lot of the time.
She couldn't grasp the concept of batteries going dead, since the package expiration date said they were good for ten years.
"I just put them in a year ago, and they're dead"?
Mom, they only last ten years if you don't use them.
"Well why don't they tell you that on the package?"

Extremely smart woman, I mean really really smart, but commonsense was not one of her better qualities.
Love yaa mom, RIP.

Extremely bright people sometimes lack a certain level of common sense.  Weird but true!

I suppose they are too focused on the upper shelf to see the cookies on the bottom shelf!  :laugh:

Solar

Quote from: kroz on June 24, 2015, 01:45:05 PM
Extremely bright people sometimes lack a certain level of common sense.  Weird but true!

I suppose they are too focused on the upper shelf to see the cookies on the bottom shelf!  :laugh:
Good analogy, she often missed the simplest of concepts, instead, taking the myopic view and missing the big picture.
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Quote from: Solar on June 24, 2015, 01:37:20 PM
My mom. She was like this a lot of the time.
She couldn't grasp the concept of batteries going dead, since the package expiration date said they were good for ten years.
"I just put them in a year ago, and they're dead"?
Mom, they only last ten years if you don't use them.
"Well why don't they tell you that on the package?"

Extremely smart woman, I mean really really smart, but commonsense was not one of her better qualities.
Love yaa mom, RIP.

This is so ironic because I would've interpreted it the same exact way.  I would've asked why don't they tell you as well.

By the way, I'm sorry for your loss my friend.

cubedemon

Quote from: kroz on June 24, 2015, 01:45:05 PM
Extremely bright people sometimes lack a certain level of common sense.  Weird but true!

I suppose they are too focused on the upper shelf to see the cookies on the bottom shelf!  :laugh:

If I make myself be upside down, what really is the top and bottom?  In space, would there be a top and bottom?  I guess it depends upon perspective.

walkstall

Quote from: Solar on June 24, 2015, 01:37:20 PM
My mom. She was like this a lot of the time.
She couldn't grasp the concept of batteries going dead, since the package expiration date said they were good for ten years.
"I just put them in a year ago, and they're dead"?
Mom, they only last ten years if you don't use them.
"Well why don't they tell you that on the package?"

Extremely smart woman, I mean really really smart, but commonsense was not one of her better qualities.
Love yaa mom, RIP.

My wife to this day has her moments.   Some days you have to dot all your i's and cross all your t's when talking with her.  She can not look at a news paper with out tell me all the mistakes in the way they write each article.    She is a grammar queen, when I go into town on Monday's and Friday's I get her 2 papers.  She tells me ever thing that's wrong in each article.   My kids got A's in there home work  :lol:  she would not let them take in something that was not worded right.   As it would make her look bad as a mom.   
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

kroz

Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 02:27:42 PM
If I make myself be upside down, what really is the top and bottom?  In space, would there be a top and bottom?  I guess it depends upon perspective.

Context is always King!

Every situation must be considered in the context of surrounding circumstances and historical data .... just to name a couple.  A wise person thinks before they speak, which gives them opportunity to contemplate the correct expression of their thought.

cubedemon

Quote from: kroz on June 24, 2015, 02:51:19 PM
Context is always King!

Every situation must be considered in the context of surrounding circumstances and historical data .... just to name a couple.  A wise person thinks before they speak, which gives them opportunity to contemplate the correct expression of their thought.

I'll agree with this.

Dori

Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 12:53:37 PM
Well she may have had Autism as well.  If I didn't think about the subtext, that would've been my answer as well.  I still have problems with literalism such as that.

It is one of the reasons I have problems with functioning.

If something is vague, I have issues.

Let's say I'm told to put a pot of water on the opposite side of the stove and the pot is on the (front, right) eye.  I'm looking this as I'm looking at a Cartesian plane.  Problem: which axis do I apply it to?  Is left opposite from right, back opposite from front or do I consider both axis's?  How do I apply opposite in this case since opposite is open to interpretation?

I would probably have moved the pot to the front left.  But even if you moved it to the back, would it have really mattered?  Some things in life like that aren't worth worrying about. 

I think your too hard on yourself.  In a way, there is a certain kind of sweet honesty, in being literal.  I'm wondering if some of your frustration isn't because someone in your life is, or was, being too critical, knowing that you do think this way. 
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but the citizens capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.

cubedemon

Quote from: Dori on June 24, 2015, 03:42:39 PM
I would probably have moved the pot to the front left.  But even if you moved it to the back, would it have really mattered?  Some things in life like that aren't worth worrying about. 

I think your too hard on yourself.  In a way, there is a certain kind of sweet honesty, in being literal.  I'm wondering if some of your frustration isn't because someone in your life is, or was, being too critical, knowing that you do think this way.

When I take a step back, and when I really think about it compared to other things, it would not have mattered.  You're right.  At the time, my mind was locked and froze up. 

By the way, I like your username. 

Solar

Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 02:21:42 PM
This is so ironic because I would've interpreted it the same exact way.  I would've asked why don't they tell you as well.

By the way, I'm sorry for your loss my friend.
:lol:
You and she would have had some very interesting conversations for certain. :biggrin:
And thanx, Dad had just died at 93, and she lasted another 6 months.
They had quite the life together....
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Quote from: cubedemon on June 24, 2015, 02:27:42 PM
If I make myself be upside down, what really is the top and bottom?  In space, would there be a top and bottom?  I guess it depends upon perspective.
In space, there is no up or down technically speaking, but regardless of position, your head is always the top, assuming you're in space, that is.
If on earth, and you're standing on your head, your feet would be the top.
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