elvis15
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Status Updates posted by elvis15
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I've seen and had far too many discussions the past week or three about how people don't understand how what they've done is wrong, or why someone would think they weren't nice and want to remove them from their life. I've seen those people ask, "why?" - and even demand to know in public, calling out others in the process - and yet still not have any clue how their behaviour could be a negative. Even when someone has stepped up to give them an explanation, they choose to ignore or attack rather than try and truly understand. Worse yet, they'll close off and block any opposing opinions, which only further narrows their reality and creates a confirmation bias.
That's what's wrong with this world, where people like this only really want self-gratification and self-affirmation. They don't want to be educated or see any side other than their own. There will always be opposing opinions, but if you put yourself out there with an opinion (or specifically approach someone to try and understand their opinion), you have to be prepared to get responses.
Well, I'm far from perfect, but always ready to listen and very willing to give time to those that deserve it. Show me and others even the smallest amount of respect and you'll get the same. Show disrespect and you'll either be ignored, or find I'm even nicer once I realize there's no convincing those who don't want to be.
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In a world where no one is special, yet everyone craves to be the centre of one's universe you will often find a deficit of understanding, compromise and common sense.
Usually these types of behaviours are a defensive mechanism, employed to cast away those who defy or question the height at which these kinds of people have placed themselves. By selectively surrounding one with others of like mind, regardless of how incorrect their world views are is a way of compartmentalising themselves off from the greater reality where they simply do not matter in ways that only they can by crafting their own individual reality.
In life there are always leaders and followers who choose to live vicariously through those leaders. It's scary, having an independent thought without social support. People are intrinsically drawn to one another because for the meek there is strength in numbers. For the followers, it gives them a sense of belonging, of community, for the leaders it feeds their ego, and delusions of grandeur, of self importance.
Technology, and social media in particular only exacerbates these traits in people, and further divides what should be an inclusive, healthy society into sub pockets of society; individual cells of delusion that on a grander scale are rallied together in a fallacy of unified support. -
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Vlad must really not like clowns... I thought it was friendly!
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If you've gotten this far and you're still wondering about Germany bombing Pearl Harbor: http://tinyurl.com/37gw2mj
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has been a Canucks fan for a long time.
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Love the status update after Stealth locked your posting ability ->
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Says the guy with a -19 rep. You've got some work to do before you can catch your idol, Shawn Rocker, and become as detested as he is.
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Please consider not creating any more posts until you've learned a little about the game. Making threads about bringing up Cowan or Mike Keane, talking about a couch named AV or making another thread about putting our top two centers on the same line will not get you kind responses and cause you problems with the mods.
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