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I have a question.
Having had a minor fall out with a work colleague and turned to PH for comfort and solace, I found instead that the ego-centrism and sweeping generalisations that characterised most of what I read instead just irritated me more.
So I did what any rational person would do and wrote some sarcastic replies on a few threads in an attempt to prick a few pockets of pomposity and share the gift of self-awareness.
You're welcome, by the way.
Then I thought, rather than just ride on the back of other people's idiocy like some sort of parasitic tick, why don't I set myself up as the idiot?
I be the idiot.
This thread is the idiot, upon which all parasites are welcome to ride.
Oh...my question?
It's something like this - do we really think our own experience is all that? Why are there so many posts on here that take that one thing that happened to that poster yesterday as empirical evidence of a thing being a truth for everyone?
When we post this evident idiocy, is it because:
a) it just makes us feel better, we're not thinking about that deeply
b) we actually believe that that one thing that happened to us yesterday proves a thing is true for all of mankind
c) we know we are just a tiny speck in the vastness of creation and our one experiene is not representative of anything, but, godammit, it surely meant something
d) none of the above, what are you talking about
Having had a minor fall out with a work colleague and turned to PH for comfort and solace, I found instead that the ego-centrism and sweeping generalisations that characterised most of what I read instead just irritated me more.
So I did what any rational person would do and wrote some sarcastic replies on a few threads in an attempt to prick a few pockets of pomposity and share the gift of self-awareness.
You're welcome, by the way.
Then I thought, rather than just ride on the back of other people's idiocy like some sort of parasitic tick, why don't I set myself up as the idiot?
I be the idiot.
This thread is the idiot, upon which all parasites are welcome to ride.
Oh...my question?
It's something like this - do we really think our own experience is all that? Why are there so many posts on here that take that one thing that happened to that poster yesterday as empirical evidence of a thing being a truth for everyone?
When we post this evident idiocy, is it because:
a) it just makes us feel better, we're not thinking about that deeply
b) we actually believe that that one thing that happened to us yesterday proves a thing is true for all of mankind
c) we know we are just a tiny speck in the vastness of creation and our one experiene is not representative of anything, but, godammit, it surely meant something
d) none of the above, what are you talking about
TorqueDirty said:
It is because of this:-
Most people spend the majority of their lives in "Peak of Mr Stupid". Those that transition to the far right of the graph have learned not to bother wasting their time trying to educate those on the left - certainly on Pistonheads. It is pointless because - linking to the OPs question - unless it has happened to them then it is not true.
I like this.Most people spend the majority of their lives in "Peak of Mr Stupid". Those that transition to the far right of the graph have learned not to bother wasting their time trying to educate those on the left - certainly on Pistonheads. It is pointless because - linking to the OPs question - unless it has happened to them then it is not true.
I especially like your (deliberate?) typo where the "Peak of Mt. Stupid" in the graph has evolved to become the "Peak of Mr. Stupid" in your post. Your version is funnier.
Does irritation experienced on the left hand side of the graph become the "Pique of Mr. Stupid"?
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