<p>Hmm, your only two friends are InquisitiveOne and SquealOfaRaven.</p>
<p>Will you be mah frahnd?</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m so lonely…</p>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1056187-if-you-didnt-know-where-your-brain.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1056187-if-you-didnt-know-where-your-brain.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1061499-reading-can-deleterious-addiction.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1061499-reading-can-deleterious-addiction.html</a>
O.o Those are very IKish</p>
<p>to be clear: I am not IK, one of his brood, or even one of his kindred avians. But I know him a bit.</p>
<p>Seriously enfield that was very aggressive considering I’ve never said one word explicitly to you…</p>
<p>you know what’s been bothering me though…amusing TO WHOM?. </p>
<p>I admit it was aggressive or that the tone was sardonic, or whatever. Not sure if that makes it wrong, or an alternative better, though. I wanted to actually make you feel for a second though - maybe influence you to reconsider what you said. I get the feeling that that is probably not something your comfortable with doing (that is, relative to the sub-set I mentioned). </p>
<p>Anyways, any effect that it would of had was certainly reduced by all the following conversation.</p>
<p>^ Honestly I thought that it would be amusing to the community. For the same reason that websites like ■■■, Damn you autocorrect, failblog and others are seen as amusing to the general population. There is a concept called “schadenfreude” which is the deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others. It is the basis of the television program Top Gear which is one of the most watched programs throughout the world (has a viewership of like 100 million and is played in 45+ countries) so I am clearly not the only one who finds the misfortune of others amusing.</p>
<p>And enfield, I do wish to know from what basis do you derive my personality compared to those of compatible intelligence…</p>
<p>i watch top gear to learn about cars</p>
<p>^ There are many shows about cars (Fifth gear for example) and many international remakes of the original but the original is the most popular mainly because of the relationship of the three presenters which is primarly schadenfreude based…</p>
<p>fifth gear is a ****ing snooze fest</p>
<p>I think I die a little every time it’s on for more than 10 seconds</p>
<p>^ Everyone knows that… But fifth gear is a hell of a lot more informative about cars than top gear</p>
<p>Hard to learn anything when you’re asleep</p>
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<p>For how smart I perceive you to be, and how I perceive your life to have been (relatively continuous, no big struggles, etc.) , I find this sort of heedlessness alarmingly sad.</p>
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<p>Oh I don’t know. I think I realized awhile ago you were smart and so i thought you would be interesting to me, but then I was woefully disappointed at various junctures when you turned out to be almost the opposite. </p>
<p>I am uncomfortable with criticizing people for who they are (I don’t want to do that). But I want us all to try and reach our potentials (certainly there’s ways we can increase net utility, and my hope is in a way that while initially maybe challenging, might turn out to be nicer for us in the end too).</p>
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<p>Again people find the misfortunes of others amusing… Failblog and ■■■ are popular websites that succeed purely on this premise. In addition people like rantings and complaining thus the success of the comedian Lewis Black and others like him. Perhaps before you criticize me for extrapolating what I find amusing to the community perhaps you should think whether you are doing the same.</p>
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<p>I actually find this quite creepy as I’ve never seen you post must around here until this thread. I’m sorry to have disappointed you, however if you tell me in exactly what ways you do not like me I will be glad to point out to you whether they are in fact personality traits or if there is an inherent ambiguity in my tone at times due to the fact that you only know me via text that I have posted.</p>
<p>lolz, to be frank, i’d rather have people laugh at my misfortunes rather than to genuinely hate me. and sometimes i’d rather have them laugh at my misfortunes rather than to care too much about me (in which case the relationship may be unstable because they’ll get disappointed in me).</p>
<p>and quite frankly, it’s much better for them to laugh at my misfortunes rather than to get annoyed at me.</p>
<p>frankly, it’s really just one of the three. either they laugh at you, get annoyed with you, or start caring about you (maybe too much too)</p>
<p>Anyways, here’s an interesting thread:</p>
<p>[Is</a> it “bad” to make fun of people/laugh at their weaknesses? - Less Wrong](<a href=“Is it "bad" to make fun of people/laugh at their weaknesses? — LessWrong”>Is it "bad" to make fun of people/laugh at their weaknesses? — LessWrong)</p>
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<p>i once created a “i like ■■■ a lot. does that make me a sociopath” thread on CC, but I can’t find it anymore for some reason.</p>
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<p>I am not really criticizing you for extrapolating what you find amusing to the community, I am criticizing you (and I would more call it subjugating, as i don’t know if it’s inherently bad) on the grounds of what exactly you find amusing. Being amused by other’s SADNESS is not failblog or ■■■-type humor I don’t think. </p>
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<p>It’s more my perception of the quality of your existence that has irritated me in the past. I mean, to test my hypothesis about you I guess you could tell me whether your friends are noticeably less intelligent than you (this is what my ideas about you might predict).</p>
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<p>Sadness was meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner… I was thinking more of an anti-Valentine’s Day diatribe rather than genuine sadness.</p>
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<p>I actually do not know what you mean by “quality of my existence” but to answer the second part of your question: I have a few friends that are as intelligent as I am, I also have some that are not.</p>
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<p>This is turning into a TYiL hate thread isn’t it…</p>
<p>^Lawl, no, (if that was because of what I said). I was commenting on how beautifully nerdy the statement was. It’s like your “FWB is a highly efficient relationship paradigm”.</p>