RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
November 22, 2017 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 5:38 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
CIJS,
I think you're a lot smarter than your humble self makes out, Kernel Sohcahtoa, and I think you are very awesome and in fact you are one of my role models here on AF. You have that diplomatic peacemaking skill I wish I had myself but I don't. Probably because I'm so focused on thinking aloud that I just blurt out my thoughts rather than take care of them.
But at the same time I think there are some aspects about you that make me feel ways that I can only imagine that I get the impression that many other people are made to feel by myself sometimes, and not in a bad way, or good way, but neutral way on that account. And I guess that 'neutral way' that I am speaking of is the way in which I think we are similar. And I know what I am saying here seems vague but I am not sure how to describe it. Perhaps something like . . . that quirky side you have is perhaps similar to myself? But it's rare that I recognize it in anyone else, even though many other people are quirky beside myself, I don't normally notice it in similar ways to myself, but I guess I sort of see it in you. That quirk. Maybe it's the quirky in a verbal and analytic way side of you that I am talking about. And also having passionate interests that are considered nerdy (which is not a bad thing and I share it myself). Although wow you're much better at numbers and mathematics than I am. I guess I am similar with regards to philosophy and logic (although I'm not so good at the syllogistic side but that's because I struggle with non-verbal symbols like the way algebra/letters are used in syllogisms, I'm fine at following trains of formal logic if English words are used. I struggle with letters or symbols that aren't words because any symbols that aren't words, even lone letters, feel like pictures to me and I struggle with pictures. But words never feel like pictures. I guess it's because when I see the word 'house' I don't think of the picture of a house I think of the verbal definition of a house. But when I see a letter I just think of what a letter looks like in the alphabet, just as when I see a picture I think of that picture, although I do not visualize it (my mind's eye is practically blind), and I don't need to thankfully when I can see it visually).
Apologies if I just came across as excessively verbose and over the top, and I also apologize for many posts you may have seen me write in the past that contained a lot of unnecessary hostility when I am venting at times, which probably disappointed you when I think you have seen good in me before and would probably expect better from me. Maybe that's all in my head because I look up to you and do see you as a role model, especially that peacekeeping side. I admire your mathenmatical ability too, but I don't wish to model that because I don't have enough interest in mathematics to get good at maths even if I could. Maybe I could be good at maths (although I don't think so), you probably would think I can, after all you say you are intelectually curious rather than exceptionally intelligent (although IMO it's both), but I don't have that curiosity or motivation there for mathematics. I wish I did of course. I would love to be interested in mathematics because the more interests the more interestingness! Although I guess I am rather preoccupied with the other few narrow interests I have, like listening to music, producing music, reading about philosophy, thinking about philosophy, and watching and playing real time strategy video games. And also TMI.
( . . . and by 'TMI' I don't mean "Transdimensional Marshmellowheaded Ingrates". Not that you would think I would mean that, or that anyone would think I would mean that, or that I would think that anyone would think I would mean that. But that's why I am saying I don't mean that. Because I very much do not mean that and I want to state the truth including truths that I don't mean. And also probably failed humor I just gone and done. . .
. . . No, I mean 'TMI' in the 'just entered it into Google and immediately got a definition of 'TMI' from the 'Urban Dictionary'' sense).
I think you're a lot smarter than your humble self makes out, Kernel Sohcahtoa, and I think you are very awesome and in fact you are one of my role models here on AF. You have that diplomatic peacemaking skill I wish I had myself but I don't. Probably because I'm so focused on thinking aloud that I just blurt out my thoughts rather than take care of them.
But at the same time I think there are some aspects about you that make me feel ways that I can only imagine that I get the impression that many other people are made to feel by myself sometimes, and not in a bad way, or good way, but neutral way on that account. And I guess that 'neutral way' that I am speaking of is the way in which I think we are similar. And I know what I am saying here seems vague but I am not sure how to describe it. Perhaps something like . . . that quirky side you have is perhaps similar to myself? But it's rare that I recognize it in anyone else, even though many other people are quirky beside myself, I don't normally notice it in similar ways to myself, but I guess I sort of see it in you. That quirk. Maybe it's the quirky in a verbal and analytic way side of you that I am talking about. And also having passionate interests that are considered nerdy (which is not a bad thing and I share it myself). Although wow you're much better at numbers and mathematics than I am. I guess I am similar with regards to philosophy and logic (although I'm not so good at the syllogistic side but that's because I struggle with non-verbal symbols like the way algebra/letters are used in syllogisms, I'm fine at following trains of formal logic if English words are used. I struggle with letters or symbols that aren't words because any symbols that aren't words, even lone letters, feel like pictures to me and I struggle with pictures. But words never feel like pictures. I guess it's because when I see the word 'house' I don't think of the picture of a house I think of the verbal definition of a house. But when I see a letter I just think of what a letter looks like in the alphabet, just as when I see a picture I think of that picture, although I do not visualize it (my mind's eye is practically blind), and I don't need to thankfully when I can see it visually).
Apologies if I just came across as excessively verbose and over the top, and I also apologize for many posts you may have seen me write in the past that contained a lot of unnecessary hostility when I am venting at times, which probably disappointed you when I think you have seen good in me before and would probably expect better from me. Maybe that's all in my head because I look up to you and do see you as a role model, especially that peacekeeping side. I admire your mathenmatical ability too, but I don't wish to model that because I don't have enough interest in mathematics to get good at maths even if I could. Maybe I could be good at maths (although I don't think so), you probably would think I can, after all you say you are intelectually curious rather than exceptionally intelligent (although IMO it's both), but I don't have that curiosity or motivation there for mathematics. I wish I did of course. I would love to be interested in mathematics because the more interests the more interestingness! Although I guess I am rather preoccupied with the other few narrow interests I have, like listening to music, producing music, reading about philosophy, thinking about philosophy, and watching and playing real time strategy video games. And also TMI.
( . . . and by 'TMI' I don't mean "Transdimensional Marshmellowheaded Ingrates". Not that you would think I would mean that, or that anyone would think I would mean that, or that I would think that anyone would think I would mean that. But that's why I am saying I don't mean that. Because I very much do not mean that and I want to state the truth including truths that I don't mean. And also probably failed humor I just gone and done. . .
. . . No, I mean 'TMI' in the 'just entered it into Google and immediately got a definition of 'TMI' from the 'Urban Dictionary'' sense).