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WCDT 2907-2911 (2nd - 6th March 2015)
Emperor Norton:
Yes, because no one here has EVER been distracted by something and missed part of a conversation. :roll:
I'm glad to know that because I identify with the situation, in that I don't always pay 100% rapt attention and sometimes my mind wanders that I'm a self-centered immature person.
Or maybe no one connects that when someone on the forums identifies with a characters reaction (though I don't always identify with Marigold, I have a lot different issues), and talks about how they could see themselves doing the same thing depending on the surrounding circumstances (which we do not know all of), that if you start calling it childish, immature, selfish, etc, you are also calling the real person who identifies with it those things as well?
Do I try to be a good friend? Of course. But I have a separate set of needs that are mine, and my friends needs don't automatically override them unless I know its an emergency. If they show up at my house on a day I need to recharge from people, they may have to deal with the fact that I'm not in a talky mood. And seriously, I'm responsible because I let them come in? What the fuck am I supposed to do, tell them to leave when they show up? Seriously? Yeah, sorry you came all this way, but go home.
Y:
I suppose Hanners should have started with the more serious news, instead of starting with the regular gossip of who is dating who.
rfrank dodelijk:
has marigold ever given Hannelore bread and salt? i'm sure visitors only become guests after you've seasoned them.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 05 Mar 2015, 13:17 ---Still, if an artist creator can't learn to accept that they will be hated, then they have no business creating. Ya have to take the bad with the good.
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That's a form of victim blaming, of course. Pragmatically, right now, it may make some sense, but is it the way you think society should be, or be content to remain?
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 05 Mar 2015, 14:55 ---Yes, because no one here has EVER been distracted by something and missed part of a conversation. :roll:
I'm glad to know that because I identify with the situation, in that I don't always pay 100% rapt attention and sometimes my mind wanders that I'm a self-centered immature person.
Or maybe no one connects that when someone on the forums identifies with a characters reaction (though I don't always identify with Marigold, I have a lot different issues), and talks about how they could see themselves doing the same thing depending on the surrounding circumstances (which we do not know all of), that if you start calling it childish, immature, selfish, etc, you are also calling the real person who identifies with it those things as well?
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No, if I want to call a person immature, childish, or selfish, I'll let them know directly. I identify with aspects of most of the characters; with that said, I'm aware that I'm reading a work of fiction; it literally is not about me. If someone calls out Marten's habitual indecision, I don't take offense by it, even though I happen to identify with that aspect of him; it's not the same as someone saying that I am indecisive (though if they did say that, under circumstances that warranted it, I'd probably have to pause and consider what they were saying, and what that, in turn, said about me). As I said before, Marigold's character (in both senses of the word) is established from very early on, and hasn't varied much from when we were first introduced to her. That's an observation about her, not you.
If you happen to find any of the observations made about her to be more broadly applicable to you, then it's up to you to unpack those things and mull over what they mean to you (unless, again, someone directly attributes those things to you, in which case it makes sense to ask what they mean by that). But bear in mind that at this point, the only one calling you immature or self-centered is you. You really do owe it to yourself to be nicer to yourself than that.
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