Oh no not another free will thread.

[henryp]

I find you to be a fascinating case.  I think I got some more insight into that in this thread.  That's really what I find interesting.

So you weren't actually here for the topic you were here to psychoanalyse me. Noted.

I was definitely here for the topic, the conversation just stopped having value.  You said so yourself multiple times before posting more walls of text.  But I still like seeing how you respond to things.

A new thing I learned about you, is that you can't think in context.  It makes any discussions with you tough, because you do the 'quote every line, and respond to it like an individual thought, even though that removes it from it's context' thing.  You parse through things line by line, when you should be thinking of the whole post, the posts it's referencing, and previous posts in the discussion.  

But that's just shitty arguing on the internet 101.  Maybe has something to do with the autism?  You've said you have a really bad short term memory, so maybe just a thought at a time is your comfort zone.  That would fit with Mafia, where you didn't seem to be pulling information too deep into the past in a game we played.  You were always mostly focused on the content of the very last post.  I thought that was really odd at the time.  

It also explains why you think all analogies are bad.  Because you're unable to put them in the context of the discussion and see that there are relevant, on topic, similarities between two things.  Instead, you just view it as A = B.  And then you get all worked up because A doesn't equal B.  Which is never what anyone intends with an analogy. But if you can't try to view it through context, how are you going to figure that out.

It also fits with not being able to read people well.  What does this expression mean? when you're not considering the context is nearly impossible.  Also fits with why you can't tell if I'm trolling you or not.  

Another thing is how terrible you are with hypotheticals.  Part of it may be the context thing again.  You have to remember all ideas are being presented in the context of the hypothetical premises.  But you're also so rigid in your thinking, that maybe you just can't do it for whatever reason.  Because you're uncomfortable even pretending you are wrong about something?  Or maybe it's not a personality trait, and it's just a lack of ability.