I was just wondering what you think of other people. How do you regard them?
To me it just seems like everyone is an npc in a video game. It’s kind of hard to see them as things that matter or that should be taken seriously.
I was just wondering what you think of other people. How do you regard them?
To me it just seems like everyone is an npc in a video game. It’s kind of hard to see them as things that matter or that should be taken seriously.
Solipsism:
In a way its true you never have a true window into the heart of a person, myself I seem to flip-flop, some days I feel like I can really see into other people, their thoughts, motivations, their true selves, but other days, or maybe certain people its less clear. The only thing you really have to judge others on is their actions but sometimes people act outwardly that is different to their true nature. My Dad for instance is a textbook Narcissist but at times he has surprised me and done things for me I didn’t expect and that he didn’t have to do, maybe he just wanted the worship and thanks, I don’t know.
Sometimes I don’t even feel like I know who I am underneath defense mechanisms and my current emotional state, I find a lot of contradictions in my self, and it just depends on the mood I’m in how I see myself.
Well, this shouldn’t be surprising.
It’s not really solipsism. It know they exist. But I just find them to be worth anything they don’t seem to be like me. They seem so alien. I regard animals to be more human than humans, if that makes sense.
Based on the threads you’ve started on this message board, it makes perfect sense.
Elaine: I will never understand people.
Jerry: They’re the worst.
The older the get the more I realise that I don’t understand other people, in general at least, occassionally I do meet someone who I connect with. Then we discuss how we don’t understand other people together.
Someone recently commented on this message board, “I sometimes wonder what my real home planet is like”, now that I do understand.
This is called sociopathology. You might want to look into that.
Well, I love people. I don’t particularly relate to many of them, but I love them, in all their infinite idiosyncracies. I love that their life experiences are different – in some cases, radically different – than mine, but that we are all united in love, in grief, in anger, in loss, in joy. I especially love people who are wide open and honest about who they are and where they’ve been, right from the get-go. Learning from and about people and their experiences is one of my favorite things.
While I do love people, I am rather cynical about human nature. Confirmation bias, mob mentality, prejudice, hatred, irrationality, extremism, laziness, self-centeredness, poor risk assessment, and a number of other unsavory behaviors all come way too frickin’ easy to us. I can’t hate ‘‘people’’ though because I feel like I am in the same boat. I may not be a bigoted extremist myself but I think the potential lies in all of us. There but for the grace of Og go I.
Just because they are beneath your consideration does not mean that you have any excuse to treat them with less than absolute respect.
If we don’t matter or shouldn’t be taken seriously, then why are you asking us to waste our time interacting with you?
But I also don’t have an excuse to treat people with respect either
To me they seem loud, obnoxious, always asking questions, telling others how things should be done, intruding on your business. They seem like something you use to fill the space in buildings and the planet, like packing peanuts. They get emotional over the dumbest little things and don’t like to be wrong. They insist on perpetuating stupid behaviors. For the most part they seem insufferable. I don’t know how they can stand to be with each other.
Are you happy?
The term “excuse” means doing something typically considered socially undesirable - for instance, “I don’t have an excuse for blaring loud music in speakers in a library.”
It does not mean doing something typically considered good or polite.
So your saying, “I don’t have an ***excuse ***to treat people with respect” is nonsensical.
These human beings sure sound like awful creatures.
What species are you?
I’m very ambivalent re other people. So many people treat me in less than ideal ways, and it can be difficult sometimes to not let it affect the way I see other people in general. I’m a softie with a hard exterior.
From a distance, people are okay. But up close, they are often annoying and sometimes scary.
Actually it isn’t nonsensical because another definition of the word is to release from duty or obligation.
Not particularly
The hoo-man need for so-called “relationships” is a peculiar thing to observe!