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[aureantes]

Aureantes - Has a flaming sword of cutting the crap, and ain't afraid to use it.

So, then......anyone care to draw me in and get me involved in any of their narrowminded and hyper-defensive ongoing debates or self-satisfied mentally masturbatory manifesti?


I guess we'll just see about that, won't we?  Though of course, we wouldn't want me saying things openly that might be regretted, let alone elaborating in detail upon my own current-and-persistent existence (best to save that subject for private chambers). 

It's quite interesting how bold and absolutist people get about their philosophies when they don't really have any actual proof, truths or understandings to build them on or test them against.  And few individuals, so far as I've seen, are more situational and accepting and modest in their views and pronouncements than those who have seen the most with their own eyes and souls.

Just saying, ya know......

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Comments

[ishtar-artemis.livejournal.com]

Bravo! Carry on. ; )

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

Shall do so....*bows*....it sometimes takes a conflation of annoyances to really get me saying what I actually think about what's going on around me online (and in my own journal, moreover), but once I start, it tends to spread like a wildfire.

[adnar-el.livejournal.com]

"It's quite interesting how bold and absolutist people get about their philosophies when they don't really have any actual proof, truths or understandings to build them on or test them against."

I often find that these people are the ones who are quick to find fault with others but are not willing to point the finger at themselves.

These people insist on their way of going about things, forgetting the middle road and taking the 'my way or the highway' attitude ('specially in kin communities). The result? A bunch of poncy, overcritical assholes who care to give more attention to the flaws they see in other people rather then work to improve or manage their own.

Hypocrisy at it's best.

[ishtar-artemis.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Well said. I have an abundance of personal experience with these types of people and no matter how tolerant, understanding and patient you are with them, it is to no avail. They will continue to belittle and berate you with their "holier than thou" perspective on life, their closed, little minds and their abrasive, bullying tactics. A pox on them.

[freetha.livejournal.com]

What amuses me even further, is how people who are this fanatical, practically fundamentalistic, in their beliefs, still call themselves (and their communities, when they run them) open minded.

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

Quite true, that.....and they're also not very good at detecting when they're not being agreed with, as per the above.

[freetha.livejournal.com]

Some individuals have, in the past, been so sure I've been agreeing with them that it's taken me several occasions of "DO NOT FUCKING SITE ME AS A SOURCE OF AGREEMENT!" to get them to realize I'm not. Which is a testament to how far others can twist your own words in their mind to make it seem as you are agreeing with them, even when you're clearly not.

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

I suppose I've had a few cases of that in the past when I used to post/reply on large places like ShadowLore's maingroup (truly a mixed bag of claims and sanities...), but any desired misunderstanding of my words was soundly sliced & diced with the verbal ginsus as soon as I saw what they were trying to do. Not to drop past names or anything, but I've had quite enough of people twisting and misinterpreting my words to their own purposes, let alone adding in shite that I never said.

It takes a great deal of self-assurance (and lack of seeing oneself as others see one, to cite Robert Burns) to totally not notice that criticism might be aimed in one's general direction. For my own part, i've always been rather hyper-aware of when people were saying things that referred/applied to me....but then, I've always had a pretty well-developed sense of sarcasm, too.

[freetha.livejournal.com]

Even when you say directly "I think that this person is incorrect in this manner" they can still find a way to make that fit into their preferred world view.