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|    Re: HOWTO become a someone-else-proclaim    |
|    03 May 25 15:07:43    |
      From: x@x.org              On 5/3/25 11:34, oldernow wrote:       > 1) Find yourself a newsgroup.       >       > 2) Accidentally encounter someone predisposed to becoming       > increasingly obsessed with taking offense with others'       > opinions, who happens to hone in on any of yours.       >       > 3) Do your best to not pull an eye muscle as your       > involuntary eye-rolling proceeds.       >       > Thing is, their increasing frustration with not being       > able to debunk things you're not even trying to change       > their opinion/mind about will eventually lead to wanting       > to denigrate you as though attempting to serve as a guru       > on your topic(s) - which, of course, says far more about       > their insecurity(s) (100%) than about your motive(s) (0%).       >       > They somehow feel it necessary to argue about the       > Truth of one or more statements, despite your having no       > interest in arguing, but are simply attempting to present       > ideas/thoughts/points you found interesting, and thus which       > others might find interesting, and despite the fact that       > Truth can't be crammed in words *anyway*, because the way       > it really works is that conceptuality contexts (aka minds)       > supply words with receiver-side subjective meaning/context.       >       > SEE ALSO: Ego Feeling Inadequate Derangement Syndrome.                     If only people did not have 'souls' or 'egos'.              Then people would not care if they nym-shifted       into a vast number of 'psyche' or 'soul' entities       that all approved of each other.              This mutual approval of each other is called 'harmony'       or 'niceness' regardless of whether these are the result       of a vast number of nym shifts, so who knows if that is       a bad thing or not.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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