CORONAVIRUS PANIC WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE

[Poopadoop]

I don't remember what thread it was in, and given the emotional stuff I'm going through, it's possible I'm not remembering exactly the wording.

I looked a bit, but gave up, 'cause I thought what I posted was close enough to remind you of the conversation.

I do remember that I never said the word "annoyed" and you then used that emotion to describe what I was saying.


At any rate, maybe it's better if I say this,
When I read your posts, I often see you extrapolating ahead of what you're replying to, which in itself is fine, but the fact that you almost uniformly extrapolate into something you disagree with seems unfair to the person you're talking to.

Ong deals with it rather well. I don't.
The reason I don't engage in long conversations with you is because I don't feel like you're upholding your side of the unwritten social contract of communication. I.e. that words are imprecise, and we are minds trying to use imprecise tools to transfer something intangible from our heads to yours. The contract is that we all understand this hurdle and do our best to see the intended meaning, and nothing more or less.

Yeah maybe. But the thing here is, in your mind it's Ong trying to be reasonable and me not. I think both of us are jiving each other a bit, but not really in a hostile way. It's not like he takes any of his convos seriously, so I don't really take him seriously either.

And yeah, you'll have to tell me the next time you think I'm not arguing in good faith with you. It's possible it's true, but if you let me know the next time you feel that I'll do my best to take it on board.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Yeah maybe. But the thing here is, in your mind it's Ong trying to be reasonable and me not. I think both of us are jiving each other a bit, but not really in a hostile way. It's not like he takes any of his convos seriously, so I don't really take him seriously either.

And yeah, you'll have to tell me the next time you think I'm not arguing in good faith with you. It's possible it's true, but if you let me know the next time you feel that I'll do my best to take it on board.

This is not in good faith.

I'm not talking about ong at all... except that I said he deals with your conversation style better than I do.
You've projected that I find ong reasonable. I never said that.

[Poopadoop]

This is not in good faith.

I'm not talking about ong at all... except that I said he deals with your conversation style better than I do.
You've projected that I find ong reasonable. I never said that.

First of all, you're using projection wrongly and it will annoy me if you keep doing it. Projection is when you attribute to another traits you possess yourself, generally ones that are negative. So no, I'm not saying you find Ong reasonable because I find him reasonable. He's not reasonable at all - he tries to use reason without evidence and fails at it badly.

Maybe what you're thinking of is I'm making assumptions about you based on what you didn't say. Like, the fact that you spent a whole wall of text criticising how I interact with others (and you did say "when I read your posts", not "when you're talking to me"), I interpreted that as suggesting that I was playing unfair with everyone, which I objected to.

So if what you actually meant was how I interact solely with you, then ok I see what you were trying to say.