Maybe! But you know, perhaps some things deserve to be hated. Perhaps if you see many of your friends and family stepped upon by the boot of a system, your natural reaction may be to hate the person wearing the boot.
On the other hand, maybe I don't hate very many things at all and just sound like I do because saying you dislike something invites much fewer negative reactions than saying you don't care about it.
The former I can understand; the latter...
Mo, when you say you don't like or don't care about something, the way that you say it tends to imply that you resent that anyone would ever like or care about that thing. If someone acted the same way about things that you liked, I think that you would be pretty miffed yourself.
Everything that Yarrun has said or quoted on this page has jibed with my personal sentiments. Especially the shipping comment.
...I would be really obnoxious and start typing like Meulin Leijon to drive the point home, but I think that I would hate myself if I got the tone right. Plus, I'm not sure if we have an olive preset for text colour...
I don't understand otherkin and related pop-neu religions, but I don't really have anything against otherkin in general or on a person to person basis.
There's a silly argument that's sometimes floated about how it's a "dangerous idea" or whatever. But if people are into it because they're in the teenage special snowflake phase, they'll get over it, and if not, I again don't really care what people believe. You can't really make those kinds of arguments without making them against every religion.
I don't understand otherkin and related pop-neu religions, but I don't really have anything against otherkin in general or on a person to person basis.
There's a silly argument that's sometimes floated about how it's a "dangerous idea" or whatever. But if people are into it because they're in the teenage special snowflake phase, they'll get over it, and if not, I again don't really care what people believe. You can't really make those kinds of arguments without making them against every religion.
Most of the time it's justified by them saying that the animal they identify with is a "spirit animal" or "totem animal" but honestly I don't think any of them know anything about the religions that would actually involve such concepts. If anything about otherkin is offensive or harmful, that's it. But that's really all there is.
It isn't, but people use it the wrong way far too often. There is a such thing as a "problematic [gesture/statement]," but that is not what people mean when they say it.
Maybe! But you know, perhaps some things deserve to be hated. Perhaps if you see many of your friends and family stepped upon by the boot of a system, your natural reaction may be to hate the person wearing the boot.
On the other hand, maybe I don't hate very many things at all and just sound like I do because saying you dislike something invites much fewer negative reactions than saying you don't care about it.
The former I can understand; the latter...
Mo, when you say you don't like or don't care about something, the way that you say it tends to imply that you resent that anyone would ever like or care about that thing. If someone acted the same way about things that you liked, I think that you would be pretty miffed yourself.
To come back to this more helpfully, I exaggerate my disliking of things very often. I don't really do it on purpose as much as there's usually not a good way for me to express an un-exaggerated dislike of them. I also tend to make the sometimes incorrect assumption that when I do that here I will be understood as exaggerating, which is not always the case.
I think it goes without saying that I don't actually hate Homestuck and anyone who reads it. I do find its popularity somewhat confusing for reasons I've already outlined but in general I'm just sort of ambivalent to it and am only really bothered by it when people act fanatically about it. This holds true for most things.
As for why I feel the need to constantly say I dislike things I don't actually dislike that much, I don't know. I could blame a lot of things but I've done that for a long time and don't really think I could successfully get myself to stop doing it. If anything, I think I just enjoy the conversation and don't really know any other good ways of starting them.
I don't understand otherkin and related pop-neu religions, but I don't really have anything against otherkin in general or on a person to person basis.
There's a silly argument that's sometimes floated about how it's a "dangerous idea" or whatever. But if people are into it because they're in the teenage special snowflake phase, they'll get over it, and if not, I again don't really care what people believe. You can't really make those kinds of arguments without making them against every religion.
Most of the time it's justified by them saying that the animal they identify with is a "spirit animal" or "totem animal" but honestly I don't think any of them know anything about the religions that would actually involve such concepts. If anything about otherkin is offensive or harmful, that's it. But that's really all there is.
One of the saner posters on BtL (who left and never returned) who was actually a practicing Neopagan made a very thoughtful post on the subject and its relationship with actual traditional and modern religious beliefs. Ultimately, he seemed to be less angered by it all than moderately bemused at their ignorance and philosophical clumsiness.
Maybe! But you know, perhaps some things deserve to be hated. Perhaps if you see many of your friends and family stepped upon by the boot of a system, your natural reaction may be to hate the person wearing the boot.
On the other hand, maybe I don't hate very many things at all and just sound like I do because saying you dislike something invites much fewer negative reactions than saying you don't care about it.
The former I can understand; the latter...
Mo, when you say you don't like or don't care about something, the way that you say it tends to imply that you resent that anyone would ever like or care about that thing. If someone acted the same way about things that you liked, I think that you would be pretty miffed yourself.
To come back to this more helpfully, I exaggerate my disliking of things very often. I don't really do it on purpose as much as there's usually not a good way for me to express an un-exaggerated dislike of them. I also tend to make the sometimes incorrect assumption that when I do that here I will be understood as exaggerating, which is not always the case.
I think it goes without saying that I don't actually hate Homestuck and anyone who reads it. I do find its popularity somewhat confusing for reasons I've already outlined but in general I'm just sort of ambivalent to it and am only really bothered by it when people act fanatically about it. This holds true for most things.
As for why I feel the need to constantly say I dislike things I don't actually dislike that much, I don't know. I could blame a lot of things but I've done that for a long time and don't really think I could successfully get myself to stop doing it. If anything, I think I just enjoy the conversation and don't really know any other good ways of starting them.
Not being able to express dislike in a non-exaggerated way sounds a bit to me like actually disliking things as much as you act like you do.
I don't understand otherkin and related pop-neu religions, but I don't really have anything against otherkin in general or on a person to person basis.
There's a silly argument that's sometimes floated about how it's a "dangerous idea" or whatever. But if people are into it because they're in the teenage special snowflake phase, they'll get over it, and if not, I again don't really care what people believe. You can't really make those kinds of arguments without making them against every religion.
Most of the time it's justified by them saying that the animal they identify with is a "spirit animal" or "totem animal" but honestly I don't think any of them know anything about the religions that would actually involve such concepts. If anything about otherkin is offensive or harmful, that's it. But that's really all there is.
as far as I know it's pretty rare for them to claim to actually be practicing a properly animistic religion.
You wouldn't tell a Muslim they were practicing Christianity wrong just because they have some vague similarities, would you?
I don't understand otherkin and related pop-neu religions, but I don't really have anything against otherkin in general or on a person to person basis.
There's a silly argument that's sometimes floated about how it's a "dangerous idea" or whatever. But if people are into it because they're in the teenage special snowflake phase, they'll get over it, and if not, I again don't really care what people believe. You can't really make those kinds of arguments without making them against every religion.
Most of the time it's justified by them saying that the animal they identify with is a "spirit animal" or "totem animal" but honestly I don't think any of them know anything about the religions that would actually involve such concepts. If anything about otherkin is offensive or harmful, that's it. But that's really all there is.
as far as I know it's pretty rare for them to claim to actually be practicing a properly animistic religion.
You wouldn't tell a Muslim they were practicing Christianity wrong just because they have some vague similarities, would you?
Maybe! But you know, perhaps some things deserve to be hated. Perhaps if you see many of your friends and family stepped upon by the boot of a system, your natural reaction may be to hate the person wearing the boot.
On the other hand, maybe I don't hate very many things at all and just sound like I do because saying you dislike something invites much fewer negative reactions than saying you don't care about it.
The former I can understand; the latter...
Mo, when you say you don't like or don't care about something, the way that you say it tends to imply that you resent that anyone would ever like or care about that thing. If someone acted the same way about things that you liked, I think that you would be pretty miffed yourself.
To come back to this more helpfully, I exaggerate my disliking of things very often. I don't really do it on purpose as much as there's usually not a good way for me to express an un-exaggerated dislike of them. I also tend to make the sometimes incorrect assumption that when I do that here I will be understood as exaggerating, which is not always the case.
I think it goes without saying that I don't actually hate Homestuck and anyone who reads it. I do find its popularity somewhat confusing for reasons I've already outlined but in general I'm just sort of ambivalent to it and am only really bothered by it when people act fanatically about it. This holds true for most things.
As for why I feel the need to constantly say I dislike things I don't actually dislike that much, I don't know. I could blame a lot of things but I've done that for a long time and don't really think I could successfully get myself to stop doing it. If anything, I think I just enjoy the conversation and don't really know any other good ways of starting them.
You could simply ask why someone likes something in a somewhat more polite way. I tend to do that when I am not crazy about something but want to understand another person's perspective on the matter.
Not being able to express dislike in a non-exaggerated way sounds a bit to me like actually disliking things as much as you act like you do.
You'd think that but it's honestly not the case.
Ed McMillen once said he has to try very hard to not just complain about things all the time, because it's very easy to do so. I'm in a similar boat, I just catch myself less often.
You could simply ask why someone likes something in a somewhat more polite way. I tend to do that when I am not crazy about something but want to understand another person's perspective on the matter.
To those it may concern: I am just over halfway done with the first draft for the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Information beyond that shall be forthcoming soon thereafter.
You could simply ask why someone likes something in a somewhat more polite way. I tend to do that when I am not crazy about something but want to understand another person's perspective on the matter.
Yeah I know that cognatively but it's hard for me to actually act on that for some reason.
I think I'm just going to switch to Firefox in general actually. Opera seems to just be broken on Windows 8. AdBlock doesn't work, the forums keep getting fucked up, and everything takes forever to load.
i am terrible at being a grump on the internet, i can assure you that i am much better at being a complete dipshit in person
on the other hand, i am also much more funny in real life as much of my humor is rather situational and oftentimes dry
I am much the same in both respects... although you could substitute "dry" with "reliant on vocal tone."
But seriously, I do not think that you are a jerk. You can be brutally honest about how you feel and what you think, but ultimately you are an extremely kind and generous person.
The funny thing about Cracked is that the best articles (some might say the only good articles) are the ones written by either nobodies or "The Cracked Staff" which can be literally anyone.
My favorite ones tend to be who cares I never remember who writes the articles anyway.
Honestly, for me there tend to be three kinds of Cracked articles for me: Boring, boring with some terrible parts in them with some mildly amusing parts too, and the good ones.
My favorites have always been the abandoned, "amazing X" lists (animals, nature), and maybe some random ones by the nobodies here and there.
Those were great. I also really liked the ones about creepy abandoned places and weird unexplained phenomena, but those seem to have been dropped as well.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I'm reluctant to go look at the article and give him more page view.
Also switching to Firefox because this page has become unreadable in Opera for some reason.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Chances are that, one day, our world will encounter another ambitious dictator who wants to take over the world and purge a portion of mankind.
And that dictator's not going to be nearly as hammy as M. Bison, and that is terrible.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead