This makes a scary amount of sense. I have LOTS of engineers in my family.
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Binary religious thinking
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It's strange I don't get suckered into this myself (hopefully, anyway) since I've always liked subjects that produce a "correct" answer. I have always preferred maths to English, which I saw as mainly dithering about. Anything I wrote could arbitrarily be called good or bad depending on the whims of the teacher.
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October 19, 2015 at 9:09 am
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(October 19, 2015 at 9:00 am)robvalue Wrote: It's strange I don't get suckered into this myself (hopefully, anyway) since I've always liked subjects that produce a "correct" answer. I have always preferred maths to English, which I saw as mainly dithering about. Anything I wrote could arbitrarily be called good or bad depending on the whims of the teacher. In 12th grade I had finally figured out what my German teacher likes to hear and got perfect grades for nicely sounding nonsense, for example when interpreting poems. Fun, but pointless...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 RE: Binary religious thinking
October 19, 2015 at 9:14 am
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(October 19, 2015 at 6:31 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: It makes me wonder if it's actually some kind of mental deficiency. I don't mean this in a patronising or condescending way, that's just a perk. Ahem. But some people lack certain faculties that the rest take for granted. I knew someone once who could not mentally visualise for example. I'm like that. I talk about it in Jenny A's thead: http://atheistforums.org/thread-37061-po...pid1076355 P.S. If Aspies can't empathize then I'm not an Apsy. I thought Apergers syndrome was more complex than that though...? P.P.S I don't feel patronized or condescended at all you sweet little flower with your clever-wevvery talky-walky! *pats you on the head patronizingly* (lol j/k (but seriously it's not patronizing of you  )).
Lemonvariable72
Copenhagen School  Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (October 19, 2015 at 9:00 am)robvalue Wrote: It's strange I don't get suckered into this myself (hopefully, anyway) since I've always liked subjects that produce a "correct" answer. I have always preferred maths to English, which I saw as mainly dithering about. Anything I wrote could arbitrarily be called good or bad depending on the whims of the teacher. There is a certain comfort in the hard rules of mathematics, as oppose to the ambiguity of people. Though I think English is a harder class to teach then math, because math is by its nature right or wrong. Where as English is as you said way more open to interpretation, and as I now understand as a writer often way over interpreted in. The other thing with English is where a good makes even a bigger differences then with other subjects because English teachers usually have a little freedom for the books and stuff they do, and thus good teachers have the freedom they need to make the class better. I will never forget our grade 12 English teacher having us read inherit the wind, I love that play.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.  (October 19, 2015 at 9:14 am)Evie Wrote:(October 19, 2015 at 6:31 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: It makes me wonder if it's actually some kind of mental deficiency. I don't mean this in a patronising or condescending way, that's just a perk. Ahem. But some people lack certain faculties that the rest take for granted. I knew someone once who could not mentally visualise for example. (I went to reply and a whole bunch of other stuff appeared!  )I'm at the other edge of that spectrum. Some joker stuffed a whole IMAX in my head. 
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Copenhagen School Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (October 19, 2015 at 9:14 am)Evie Wrote:(October 19, 2015 at 6:31 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: It makes me wonder if it's actually some kind of mental deficiency. I don't mean this in a patronising or condescending way, that's just a perk. Ahem. But some people lack certain faculties that the rest take for granted. I knew someone once who could not mentally visualise for example. Aspies most certainly do have empathy, they're not sociopathic. Its that we often have difficulty expressing empathy in socially conventional means.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. RE: Binary religious thinking
October 19, 2015 at 9:30 am
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Very enviable. Certain sounds are awesome to be able to be so good at internalizing though I don't mind being an aural thinker much  Lemonvariable72 Wrote:Aspies most certainly do have empathy, they're not sociopathic. Its that we often have difficulty expressing empathy in socially conventional means. I thought so
I have no idea what you guys are talking about
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 RE: Binary religious thinking
October 19, 2015 at 9:40 am
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(October 19, 2015 at 9:14 am)Evie Wrote: I thought Apergers syndrome was more complex than that though...? Yeah it is quite a complex syndrome and affects different people in different ways. I heard that the term Aspergers is falling out of favour and being replaced with being Autistic Spectrum Disorders. My dad and my uncle both have undiagnosed Aspergers. They struggle with executive function in that they can only concentrate on one thing at a time. It means that my dad never comes to the dinner table when he's called and my uncle struggles with the game of Go. I beat him at chess my making moves unrelated to what he is focused on and then waiting for him to forget about them again. Both my dad and uncle love order. And both are engineers. Personally speaking I have my own mental deficiency in that I am unable to experience an orgasm. I am too sensitive to sensory stimuli. Tactile defensiveness is also another symptom common with people on the Autistic spectrum disorder but not everybody has it. My husband went to a talk by a social worker who described how one of the Autistic people she was working with started trying to strip off in the middle of the street because his clothes were irritating him. (October 19, 2015 at 9:14 am)Evie Wrote: P.P.S I don't feel patronized or condescended at all you sweet little flower with your clever-wevvery talky-walky! *pats you on the head patronizingly* <Hangs tongue out and jumps up and down a lot> |
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