Thank you. Contempt was not intended (or felt), I’ll try keeping this possible impression in mind to figure out where I should tune down the way I talk to communicate emotion more accurately.
I often observe that the one state of mind that leads me to sloppy thinking is that of contempt.
Yes, it’s fascinating for me how severely reasoning can be distorted by strong emotions, but generally I feel (social) emotions more rarely than other people. When that happens, I identify motivated thoughts by dozens, and have impaired ability to think clearly. I wish there was a reproducible way of inducing such emotional experience to experiment more with those states of mind.
Contempt is also the signal you were laying on thickly in your comments here and thinking displayed therein was commensurably shoddy. Not in the sense that they were internally inconsistent but in as much as they didn’t relate at all well with the comments that you were presuming to reply to.
I don’t believe that it’s the cause. I’m generally bad at guessing what people mean, I often need being told explicitly. I don’t believe it’s the case with David Gerard’s comments in this thread though (do you disagree?). I believe it was more the case with waitingforgodel’s comments today.
I wouldn’t normally make such critiques but rhetorically or not you asked for one and this is a sincere reply.
I appreciate such critiques, so at least my nonexistent disapproval of them shouldn’t be a reason for making them more rarely.
I don’t believe that it’s the cause. I’m generally bad at guessing what people mean, I often need being told explicitly. I don’t believe it’s the case with David Gerard’s comments in this thread though (do you disagree?). I believe it was more the case with waitingforgodel’s comments today.
Much less so with David. David also expressed himself more clearly—or perhaps instead in a more compatible idiom.
I wish there was a reproducible way of inducing such emotional experience to experiment more with those states of mind.
While such things are never going to be perfectly tailored for the desired effect MDMA invokes a related state. :)
Thank you. Contempt was not intended (or felt), I’ll try keeping this possible impression in mind to figure out where I should tune down the way I talk to communicate emotion more accurately.
Yes, it’s fascinating for me how severely reasoning can be distorted by strong emotions, but generally I feel (social) emotions more rarely than other people. When that happens, I identify motivated thoughts by dozens, and have impaired ability to think clearly. I wish there was a reproducible way of inducing such emotional experience to experiment more with those states of mind.
I don’t believe that it’s the cause. I’m generally bad at guessing what people mean, I often need being told explicitly. I don’t believe it’s the case with David Gerard’s comments in this thread though (do you disagree?). I believe it was more the case with waitingforgodel’s comments today.
I appreciate such critiques, so at least my nonexistent disapproval of them shouldn’t be a reason for making them more rarely.
Much less so with David. David also expressed himself more clearly—or perhaps instead in a more compatible idiom.
While such things are never going to be perfectly tailored for the desired effect MDMA invokes a related state. :)