I don’t understand the mindset that doesn’t understand the mindset of not being able to understand another mindset. 
YES, I could not possibly agree more!
buys gatopescado a virtual brew for this one! 
Funny, but I’m serious.
What does someone mean they don’t understand the mindset of a thief? You need help? Here you go: someone wants to get something for nothing and either hasn’t considered the consequences or has determined that the risks of experiencing the consequences are sufficiently low to justify the theft. What’s not to get?
What the fuck is the “hiphop mindset”?
or this one: “the whole concept that people derive pleasure or entertainment from sport is mystifying to me.”
You need to be pretty dense if the whole concept that someone can derive pleasure from out-competing someone else is mystifying. Mystifying, really? And that was from someone who apparently derives pleasure from correct spelling!!!
The whole thread is nonsense. It should be titled, “what mindsets are you too dense to understand?”
That’s just it – you don’t get the mindset. Thanks for participating!
People that refuse to believe it when their loved ones get caught in criminal activity… particularly violent offenders. A man will get arrested for molesting dozens of children, there will be many testimonies about his behaviour, physical evidence… and his mother or his wife just solidly refuses to consider it. That level of denial (loyalty?) is beyond my comprehension particularly when it involves violence against helpless victims.
I know you’re not looking for pity here, but man, do I pity you. No, it does not take ignorance, willful or otherwise, to be an optimist.
In my experience, people who love only themselves usually don’t.
Some of the ideas are here are what you say- more things that annoy people rather things they don’t “understand”. But speaking for myself, there are attitudes that I truly don’t understand.
For example, I truly don’t understand how anyone can care if their child is gay. I get that some people really do care, and even what their arguments are, but I can’t wrap my mind around rejecting their child because of something as harmless as who they love.
So, there are some beliefs that I truly cannot understand how a person can think that way. I get that the person does, but I don’t know how.
Turn your mind to it.
Some people it’s not that harmless. People believe in God as a higher power who will judge them on whether they go to heaven or hell. They further believe that according to the bible, homosexuality is an abomination before God, and further that rejecting the abomination is more important than loving one’s offspring.
I, personally, believe that every step along that chain is flawed, but it’s not hard to understand how someone else believes it.
Exactly!
I know that sometimes thrill seeking is fun, but I don’t understand people who will delibrately put their life at risk for thrill. I know in a way that people are wired in different way, but it’s mind-boggling to me why people would put themselves in harm’s way just for a few moments of adrenaline rush. (I chalk this up to my passive personality, though).
I also cannot understand how people can slack while there are so many things going on which you can help, and how those people could continue slacking when there is an apparent appeal for help. Don’t they feel compelled? Ashamed?
Rejecting your own child because they are gay is abominable and I certainly don’t understand that mindset, but I most certainly CARE if one or more of my children is gay. It’s a pretty major component of one’s personality, and I couldn’t just ignore it. I CARE because of that, but also, I’m aware of some of the difficulties gay people face in our society, and it’s certainly something a parent should CARE about, their child facing difficulty just because of what they are.
I apologize if I confused you with the way I used the word CARE.
Yes, I CARE if my child is gay, healthy, does well in school, is getting picked on, is picking on someone else, is honest, what their political and spiritual beliefs are and etc etc etc.
In my post I meant care in the sense that it affects my opinion of them as a person. There are multiple ways to use that word I am sorry if my usuage was unclear.
And to be honest- I CARE about my children in the deepest sense, but I wouldn’t *care * (in the sense I was first describing) if they were gay.
Yeah. NOW it’s more understandable.
Not.
I don’t understand homosexuality. I’ve read about it. I have friends who are gay. I don’t have a problem with it. But I can’t even begin to understand it. I recognize that the (extreme) attraction I have for masses of glandular tissue and fat protruding from a woman’s chest has no particular basis beyond the way my brain is wired up. But that same wiring just won’t let me wrap my mind around the idea of performing any sort of sexual act with a guy.
And I really don’t understand bestiality. Yuck. Homosexuality is normal if you happen to be homosexual, but bestiality is right out.
And how the hell someone could be involved in making money off pyramid schemes, or kiddy porn. I guess I can see how someone can get involved with nasty businesses, but how they can live with themselves escapes me.
Or what kind of sick mind would think lynching is a swell idea. “Hey, let’s go hang Bill.”
The mindsets of Democrats. Democrats’ mindsets. Looks okay to me.
Eesh. My first post is a grammar nitpick. :rolleyes:
Well, you were nitpicking my own (rather tongue-in-cheek) nitpick.
I was reading it was a simple plural, rather than a possessive, but given the way the OP’s question was framed, you are correct, and i retract my own nitpick.
I wouldn’t really have a problem with Mr. Neville going out and doing stuff if he wanted to, as long as it didn’t involve infidelity. Now, if I were married to someone who liked to go out and insisted that I go out with him even though I’d rather stay home, that would be a problem.
I wonder how they justify it to themselves. Do they think stealing isn’t wrong under some circumstances (which conveniently include theirs), do they think morality only applies to other people, or do they just not care if it’s right or wrong? If it’s one of the latter two, I truly don’t get it. I have the same question about the mindset of scammers.
I also don’t get people who enjoy competition. I recognize that it is sometimes necessary, but I don’t understand actively seeking it out and enjoying it.
People who MUT GET MARRIED RIGHT NOW!!! Doesn’t matter if they don’t particularly like the person - as long as they’re willing to get MARRIED RIGHT NOW!!!
Personally, I think this is one of the reasons that the divorce rate is so high - people get married because they think they should, not because they actually want to spend the rest of their life with the person they marry.
I also don’t get people who don’t like dogs. Particularly MY dog, 'cus he’s really cute.
Stop. You’re getting me all hot and stuff.