Urgh, this is really hard for me to say, as I’m still fucking angry with you over that politics thing and consider you an enemy, but… I reach out to you. I know what the lack of colour and the inability to care and the resentment at other people caring feels like. No-one should go through this. Thank you for responding. I hope it stabilizes.
I should probably get off my ass and make a Discussion post with a personal story and some links re: depression. The cycle of guilt, the suicidal ideation, all that nasty shit some of us struggle with.
The politics experiment, I’ll willingly admit, was a failure, which is why I dropped it. But I don’t think it created any serious animosities.
It would be a useful post to participate in, I think. For a site about rationality, we don’t talk here much about emotions. That’s kind of… an interesting blind spot.
Disclaimer: in similar situations before, onlookers have said that I’m easily riled up, etc. I was extremely upset about that particular conversation, though; not linking to it.
I assume we’re talking about this, which was entirely ridiculous on about every level.
My reading of the thread is that one person who deeply cared about an issue talked to someone that didn’t care about it, but had an obsessive need to be right.
Urgh, this is really hard for me to say, as I’m still fucking angry with you over that politics thing and consider you an enemy, but… I reach out to you. I know what the lack of colour and the inability to care and the resentment at other people caring feels like. No-one should go through this. Thank you for responding. I hope it stabilizes.
I should probably get off my ass and make a Discussion post with a personal story and some links re: depression. The cycle of guilt, the suicidal ideation, all that nasty shit some of us struggle with.
The politics experiment, I’ll willingly admit, was a failure, which is why I dropped it. But I don’t think it created any serious animosities.
It would be a useful post to participate in, I think. For a site about rationality, we don’t talk here much about emotions. That’s kind of… an interesting blind spot.
It may be quite important since strong emotions can be such a huge motivating force to do irrational things before you’ve thought everything out.
They don’t just motivate you to do different things, they cause different thoughts to form, to occur to you.
Wow. I don’t know what went down, but I really appreciate the difficulty you went through to make this sentiment.
Disclaimer: in similar situations before, onlookers have said that I’m easily riled up, etc. I was extremely upset about that particular conversation, though; not linking to it.
I assume we’re talking about this, which was entirely ridiculous on about every level.
My reading of the thread is that one person who deeply cared about an issue talked to someone that didn’t care about it, but had an obsessive need to be right.