08 Mar 2010, 12:13 am
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
LKL wrote:
Aspies in general are less likely to be swayed by, or to respect, opinions based on emotion; aspies are also more likely to speak their mind regardless of the social consequences. Many of us would rather hear what others honestly think of us - and that's what a lot of the 'harshness' is, just people being honest about what they think, rather than editing for social contex - than live in a happy but deluded bubble.
I really like that comment, and I don't know if it is universal, but I personally like it and agree with it in my own case.
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We decide for ourselves whether their criticism has value; ad-hominem attacks, such as criticisms of a screen name, rarely have value and thus don't need to be paid much attention.
So, you are saying that 99% of Sand's comments should be ignored?
They mostly are. But the argument about my making fun of IAMNOTAPARAKEET for that name as being an attack seems to me to be pushing things too far. It has, of course the ring of Nixon's denial that he was not a crook and by that attains a highly comic aspect but to argue that my doubts were anything but a joke or that people would take seriously that he actually is a parakeet confirms my suspicions that there are some rather peculiar individuals here.
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08 Mar 2010, 7:03 am
Sand wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
LKL wrote:
Aspies in general are less likely to be swayed by, or to respect, opinions based on emotion; aspies are also more likely to speak their mind regardless of the social consequences. Many of us would rather hear what others honestly think of us - and that's what a lot of the 'harshness' is, just people being honest about what they think, rather than editing for social contex - than live in a happy but deluded bubble.
I really like that comment, and I don't know if it is universal, but I personally like it and agree with it in my own case.
Quote:
We decide for ourselves whether their criticism has value; ad-hominem attacks, such as criticisms of a screen name, rarely have value and thus don't need to be paid much attention.
So, you are saying that 99% of Sand's comments should be ignored?
They mostly are. But the argument about my making fun of IAMNOTAPARAKEET for that name as being an attack seems to me to be pushing things too far. It has, of course the ring of Nixon's denial that he was not a crook and by that attains a highly comic aspect but to argue that my doubts were anything but a joke or that people would take seriously that he actually is a parakeet confirms my suspicions that there are some rather peculiar individuals here.
I wasn't alive to see Nixon. I've worked for the Weyland-Yutani company though.
At the time when I came up with the username, it was a few months after I had lost my job at Wal-Mart and at that time I had 3 Cockatiels and 2 Parakeets,
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUkkouKJZ90[/youtube]
The parakeets, particularly Pepperoncini, would be bossy to the cockatiels and bite their feet and threaten them. I consider management to be like parakeets.
08 Mar 2010, 7:54 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Sand wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
LKL wrote:
Aspies in general are less likely to be swayed by, or to respect, opinions based on emotion; aspies are also more likely to speak their mind regardless of the social consequences. Many of us would rather hear what others honestly think of us - and that's what a lot of the 'harshness' is, just people being honest about what they think, rather than editing for social contex - than live in a happy but deluded bubble.
I really like that comment, and I don't know if it is universal, but I personally like it and agree with it in my own case.
Quote:
We decide for ourselves whether their criticism has value; ad-hominem attacks, such as criticisms of a screen name, rarely have value and thus don't need to be paid much attention.
So, you are saying that 99% of Sand's comments should be ignored?
They mostly are. But the argument about my making fun of IAMNOTAPARAKEET for that name as being an attack seems to me to be pushing things too far. It has, of course the ring of Nixon's denial that he was not a crook and by that attains a highly comic aspect but to argue that my doubts were anything but a joke or that people would take seriously that he actually is a parakeet confirms my suspicions that there are some rather peculiar individuals here.
I wasn't alive to see Nixon. I've worked for the Weyland-Yutani company though.
At the time when I came up with the username, it was a few months after I had lost my job at Wal-Mart and at that time I had 3 Cockatiels and 2 Parakeets,
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUkkouKJZ90[/youtube]
The parakeets, particularly Pepperoncini, would be bossy to the cockatiels and bite their feet and threaten them. I consider management to be like parakeets.
Fine. I have a sparrow that I raised from a baby that fell from its nest. He's 5 years old.
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08 Mar 2010, 8:03 am
Sand wrote:
Fine. I have a sparrow that I raised from a baby that fell from its nest. He's 5 years old.
Cool bird.
08 Mar 2010, 9:10 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Sand wrote:
Fine. I have a sparrow that I raised from a baby that fell from its nest. He's 5 years old.
Cool bird.
His name is Humphrey since he would have died if I had not raised him and now he is home free.
This is how he looked when I found him.
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08 Mar 2010, 10:12 am
Sand wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Sand wrote:
Fine. I have a sparrow that I raised from a baby that fell from its nest. He's 5 years old.
Cool bird.
His name is Humphrey since he would have died if I had not raised him and now he is home free.
This is how he looked when I found him.
That's pretty cool. My family once took care of a baby grackle who fell out of the nest. Alice was with us for a few months, and we tried to let her go, bringing her outside, but she'd come back to us... I wish she had left though, as it was our fault she died... she choked on some rice we gave her. My dad tried to perform a type of CPR for the poor little bird, but it was too late then. I think that was back in 97.
Humphrey is a cute little guy. That face says, "What are ya doin'? feed me!"
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