:rolleyes:
Glad to see you putting your hard-won analytical skills to productive use.
I think you’re kidding yourself when you blame other people for causing negative reactions to your posts.
You mentioned earlier that “maybe you were wrong to jump on” the OP for venting. And in fact, that’s exactly what made you seem like such an ass. Are you actually going to take responsibility for having behaved like an ass, or are you going to continue to whine about how the real problem is how other people are treating you?
If your industry is immune to price competition then we certainly are in different industries.
Hey RandRover, think of it this way. Imagine that you were suddenly in possession of the answer to the world’s ills and decided to share them with the rest of us. The only problem is that every time you try to express your elegant and inexpensive solution, you drop a big, steaming deuce on the carpet right before you speak. It doesn’t really matter anymore what you had to say because nobody is listening any more. The shit has their attention.
I decided to respond with only the amount of intelligence displayed in the original post.
Understood, but I think people think I’m dropping shit even when I’m really not.
Translation: You got nothin’.
You’re a hypocrite as well as an ass. You swank around with your self-righteous pseudo-Objectivist snarks about other poster’s personal misfortunes, claiming that you “just want to motivate people to take responsibility for themselves”.
But then when you get jumped on for the gratuitous assitude of your self-righteous snarking, you whine that “people misinterpret my posts because they disagree with my views” and “people may be being influenced by the misrepresentations of my posts by those who disagree with my views” and “*diots […] mischaracterize my comments and cause others to read my posts with a jaundiced eye”.
When other people are going through tough times, you fall all over yourself in your haste to remind them that “people are responsible for their own outcomes”. But when you yourself get hit with some well-earned flak for being an egregious ass, suddenly it’s all other people’s fault for “misinterpreting” you.
Another whiny excuse. When are you going to take responsibility for your own shit-dropping? “Well I didn’t meeeeeeeeean to, they just misunderstooooooooood me” is a cop-out.
Right, because as many of us see it, you’ve shit the rug so much we’re all smelling the fumes regardless. You don’t deserve it all the time, (I can’t believe I’m posting that.) but a little humility goes a long way.
Is it too late for us all to take a step back, take a deep breath and try again?
Well, heck, there are some mildly interesting topics going on that have nothing to do with RR. The thread doesn’t have to be about him.
I think objectivism is garbage, and you’re certainly an asshole. It’s pretty obvious to me why people think you’re dropping shit, regardless of your intent.
That said, don’t ever change. You’re entertaining and perfect just the way you are. I’d take you up on that beer if I were in Chicago.
I haven’t responded the other hundred times someone posted this because the argument is so devoid of merit it is self-refuting.
Some people don’t like me. I think it’s because they disagree with me politically or think I needlessly jump on other posters or make every thread I enter about me or am a lawyer or have more money than them and am unapologetic about it or am arrogant. I am responsible for all of those things.
What I am not responsible for is people’s reactions to those things. This position is in no way inconsistent at all with my philosophy that people are responsible for their outcomes. Not everyone likes everyone else. That’s how life works.
I haven’t responded the other hundred times someone posted this because the argument is so devoid of merit it is self-refuting.
Some people don’t like me. I think it’s because they disagree with me politically or think I needlessly jump on other posters or make every thread I enter about me or am a lawyer or have more money than them and am unapologetic about it or am arrogant. I am responsible for all of those things.
What I am not responsible for is people’s reactions to those things. It’s not “my fault” in any sense if someone doesn’t like arrogant people and sees me as arrogant. This position is in no way inconsistent at all with my philosophy that people are responsible for their outcomes. Not everyone likes everyone else. That’s how life works. I don’t control other people’s opinions of me.
Now, if I were running for office or something, then i would have more of an interest in how people perceived me, so I would make more of an effort to be perceived in a positive light. And it still wouldn’t be “my fault” if some people didn’t like me.
Oops. I would just like to say that I take full responsibility for pisting alnost the sme post twice in a row. It’s my fault.
You seem to be acknowledging that you are responsible for needlessly jumping on other posters, or at least for causing people to think that you needlessly jump on other posters.
So if you’re responsible for doing that, then why don’t you stop doing it? You just enjoy being an ass, or what?
But this isn’t just about some people personally not liking you or not having a high opinion of you. This is about particular things that you do (namely, self-righteous snarking at other posters with smug, unhelpful advice about their job situation) that make you look like an ass.
You just admitted that you are indeed responsible for choosing to do those things. So why are you trying to blame the outcome (namely, your getting called on being an ass) on other people’s “perceptions” or “opinions”, as though it’s something outside your control?
Yeah, the “hypocrite” charge still stands.
I think you are a fucking dumbass. You are completely responsible for this, right?
I didn’t expect this thread to go on for 15 pages of people trying in a great number of ways to help you to understand how you are an ass. How. Nothing to do with literature, or school, or work.
I’ve done some asshole-ish shit in my life, but I’ve never been so arrogant as to refuse to accept and admit that yes, I was an ass. Once I acknowledged that I was an ass, I apologized for acting that way.
You’ve insulted some brilliant people in your rebuttals here for no good reason.
You’ve shit on people when they’ve been down in threads where you shouldn’t have visited. You weakly explain that you were joking. What the f*** is funny about being out of work with a mortgage and other bills to pay? Do you make these inappropriate types of jokes to the bigshots you work for?
I’ll say it again: You are an ass.
You are a dumbass. Your little recitation of the history of this thread is very much wanting. I have not “shit on people when they’ve been down in threads”. I have never explained that any such incident was actually a joke.
Look, if you want to make shit up to be pissed at me about, why not go whole hog? Why not say that I kick puppies and pee on homeless people?