(February 15, 2016 at 1:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:I can actually back this up. I'm 16, and i know for a fact that i can charge headlong into a debate like it's some kind of battlefield. Trying to tone it down though(February 15, 2016 at 1:28 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I'm not making fun of fat people. I don't think they're stupid and lazy. I'm not accusing you of anything. In fact, I simpathize with you and it sounds to me like you're a great person.
I won't go any further into this, it seems very easy to jump to conclusions with me. It happens when some truly malicious people purposely misrepresent your views - innocent people get involved and develop a bias against you. It's not those people's faults and I never hold it against them, especially when they are obviously not interested in mud slinging and can be rational without losing their shit over imaginary offenses.
EP - - you seem quite bright, and often show us that you have a pleasant side. I appreciate your support. -- And if I ever get healthy again (I'll probably never see "fighting weight" again!) I'm getting a phoenix tattoo!
May I ask . . . how old you are? -- Please don't think that's condescending. But I thought I remembered a post that had me thinking you were rather young - - teens or early twenties.
The reason that I ask is that I have known a LOT of bright young men who loved to debate - as if they were going into battle. They were so very certain that their point was right that they would take every objection as an attack. (My cousin Rob is now in his 30's and can still go there -) I get the same feeling from you, sometimes. I'm sure it's even harder on an internet forum, where we can't see body language or hear vocal inflection. I hope that you learn to relax a bit - breathe - "lose" an argument sometimes - and find a way to just let insults roll off and away.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
