Well, we’re here to fight ignorance after all. Keep your ears and mind open and you may learn something.
What you are saying boils down to “no one could fail to understand my particular tastes, so anyone who professes otherwise is lying.”
It’s an egocentric position.
Obviously, I ain’t got the world figured out. For one thing, I’m perplexed by your hostility.
This is a very good point.
While I can intellectually understand other peoples’ preferences, empathetic understanding is more difficult. Not impossible, however. If I don’t “get” a particular taste, I can relate it to something I do “get.” For instance, while I do not enjoy chess, I do enjoy SCRABBLE. So I can fully appreciate an activity that involves concentration, strategy, unexpected twists, and competition. And even though the competition is a very minor part of it for me, I’d nevertheless rather win than lose-- so I can empathise somewhat with competitive people.
There are folks who can’t even imagine that someone could enjoy something that they don’t, and I’m the one that needs to open my mind? Haaa. Hahaha! You’re glib, Princhester. You’re glib.
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Right, I agree. That is why I honestly tried to answer the question in my post. For those in the thread who sincerely wanted to know.
Yes, quite. Not being able to imagine something but asking a question in an effort to do so is an indication of an open mind.
You are refusing to accept that someone could honestly not be able to imagine something. Your mind is so closed to the idea of introvercy that you would rather accuse someome of being insincere than accept people could be as different from you as they are.
A better example of a closed mind would be hard to find.
Sorry, probably doesn’t fit with your image of yourself, but you’ll get over it.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds it ironic (or whatever literary term is appropriate) that people are having a hard time imagining other people not being able to imagine something.
And Jasper, your multiple posts about how easy it is for you to imagine stuff–as if this is at all relevant to other people’s ability to imagine–were irritating to me. It’s like saying “I can do my times tables up to 100. So everyone should be able to!” I can ignore one post like this. Multiple times is a little too much.
Bolding mine. Whoa. Are you pretending that not buying the BS of “I can’t even fathom how one could not like to just curl up with a book and a cup of tea and a kindle and a nook!” is the same as being unable to accept the idea of introvercy? Way to try to drag down the cool introverts to the level of the bullshitters who pretend to not understand that humans tend to like to mingle and drink and celebrate together. Look, I know it is embarrassing when posters are called on their shit, but this is just shameful.
I, for one am having a hard time imagining that people are having a hard time imagining other people not being able to imagine something. Or something.
Imagine that!
Yeah, right. You are such a phony. Nice try trying to feign ignorance about imagining other people not being able to imagine people having a hard time imagining something or something. Just give me a break.
I think it’s weird that people who agree with Nzinga, Seated (and others) are all extroverts.
No joke, I am so introverted that this thread got too crowded for me to continue to participate in after my first post. Posting this far into it makes me uncomfortable.
I totally understand that people like to have fun, and that they can have a different idea of fun than I do.
How do you know?
Huh, is that what I wrote? It isn’t what I meant. I meant to write “are being seen as extroverts.” because I agree with them an am very introverted.
You’re missing the distinction between (a) knowing what most people like to do and (b) being one of the minority for which it is not what one likes do and consequently not finding it easy to understand why the majority like doing what they like doing.
If one is not one of “most people” the latter understanding is not a no brainer.
You seem determined (somewhat bizarrely) to believe that anyone who lacks this understanding is insincere and out to win kudos in some weird fashion. You get kudos for being outstandingly introverted now? Weird. When I grew up, one could gain rather unkind kudos amongst a certain (quite large) crowd for cheerleading the beatdown on the introverted kid. Sound like anyone you know?
You would think that (or imagine that…whatever), but this actually reminds me of a party-related annecdote from college.
In college, I was what is disparagingly known by SDMB types as a “frat guy”. You know, one of those “losers” who lives in a mansion with 35 of his friends, has parties every weekend, bangs sorority girls and then graduates to go on and network his way into some six figure job in one of his brother’s realtive’s investment firm. But, I digress.
Anyhow, one night we were going to throw a cocktail party (fraternities did lots of cocktail parties at my college) but our ice machine was on the fritz. Fortuantely one of our brothers was an RA in what was called the “quiet dorm” and was able to let us in to use their ice machine.
Now the “quiet dorm” is basically what it sounds like. A special dorm with special rules and policies designed for “overly academic” types. Sort of the opposite of the fraternity row. This is relevant because while we were filling several trash bags full of ice, one of the residents stumbled across us. Presumably the sound of ice crushing interupting his Magic the Gathering game. Now, not knowing if what we were doing was against policy or merely “frowned apon” we were a bit nervous.
Now what surprised us, and is relevant to our discussion on “imagining shit”, is that the his reaction was “Oh! Are you guys playing a practical joke one [some guy presumably another RA]! That’s awesome!” IOW, his brain did not comprehend that the most likely non-industrial use of massive amounts of ice would be for a party, not some lame practical joke. And we could not wrap our brains around the fact he would think that it would be for anything BUT a party.
The cast of your recurring nightmares?