There's an old saying......
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"
I remember that from when I was a small child.
Asides from only "feeling" hurt, it's true, being called names doesn't harm your body.
I figure that saying was meant to teach us as young people that "words" are just that, nothing more, and to have the common sense to be a stronger person should we ever be verbally attacked.
Apparently, a substantial part of society never learned this lesson, which is why we have so much troubles to this day.
But I digress.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"
I remember that from when I was a small child.
Asides from only "feeling" hurt, it's true, being called names doesn't harm your body.
I figure that saying was meant to teach us as young people that "words" are just that, nothing more, and to have the common sense to be a stronger person should we ever be verbally attacked.
Apparently, a substantial part of society never learned this lesson, which is why we have so much troubles to this day.
But I digress.
That was absolutely correct when a bully's reach was basically the edge of the school yard ... But the internet has pretty much reversed it. These days, when words reach out on planetary scale, it's not what people say to that does the damage, it's what people say about that is so harmful.
Douglas has a good point. A lot of people say things across the internet that they wouldn't dare say in person (or risk a serious beating).
There are two other thoughts on that saying as well.
"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but call me names I'll sue you.", and "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me." 😛
There are two other thoughts on that saying as well.
"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but call me names I'll sue you.", and "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me." 😛
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To Douglas and koda......
Both of you have confirmed my idea that society has been crippled and become weak, and that's a damn shame.
Weak-minded, easily offended, unable to control emotions, whatever you want to label it, it's a mental-type weakness.
Just like an addict of sorts - weak.
I must be made of stainless steel, words with sharp edges have long merely bounced off me.
However, I usually consider the source, and that itself is reason to ignore.
LOL.... I've had friends tell me that I must have a tiny little ice-water pump instead of a heart, pumping that ice water through my body.
I just refuse to "lower" myself to some kind of volatile pile of slop.
I find that it's kept me comfortable with myself, while I watch others go ballistic.
And keeping a clear focus/mind on things is more important than tossing a chair through a window, and costs less in the end too.
Both of you have confirmed my idea that society has been crippled and become weak, and that's a damn shame.
Weak-minded, easily offended, unable to control emotions, whatever you want to label it, it's a mental-type weakness.
Just like an addict of sorts - weak.
I must be made of stainless steel, words with sharp edges have long merely bounced off me.
However, I usually consider the source, and that itself is reason to ignore.
LOL.... I've had friends tell me that I must have a tiny little ice-water pump instead of a heart, pumping that ice water through my body.
I just refuse to "lower" myself to some kind of volatile pile of slop.
I find that it's kept me comfortable with myself, while I watch others go ballistic.
And keeping a clear focus/mind on things is more important than tossing a chair through a window, and costs less in the end too.
When it comes to my first comment it would benefit to say it to your faces. Then you would see my face as well. And you would see it was no harm ment from my expression etc.
Internet and text messages are sometimes difficult that way.
Maybe you have Asperger's... Maybe you've never been personally attacked for being alive. Maybe it's because "things were different back in my day".
Far too many people getting offended and far too much PC marde, I agree, but some things can't be said without repercussions.
Absolutely. Emoticons can only say so much. Unless you write everything you say like a screen play, I don't see it changing.
Yes it is.... and the unfortunate truth is that we've done it to ourselves.
Between the growing use of defamation as revenge and the gradual decline in moral judgement there clearly is a problem in current society. Toss in the atrophy of technical skills and I fear that one day the lights are going to go off and nobody is going to be able to stop the panic and get them back on.
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I love Carlin...
He tells it LIKE IT IS...... no mincing from HIS mouth!
God bless his dead soul.
Absolutely. He was truly an brilliant person who proved you don't necessarily need a formal education to be intelligent. He was smarter than most people I know, and he dropped out at 14. I feel like the most brilliant people just work a little differently 🙂
There's an autistic artist who was able to paint a skyline of New York after a helicopter ride from memory. Amazing!
I still reference my own designs on paper while I build them!
Here's a link actually. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/autism-artist-stephen-wiltshire-cities-genius/
There's an autistic artist who was able to paint a skyline of New York after a helicopter ride from memory. Amazing!
I still reference my own designs on paper while I build them!
Here's a link actually. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/autism-artist-stephen-wiltshire-cities-genius/
I'm currently designing a project - a wood cabinet of my own design - and am drawing it out to full scale on posterboard sheets.
This allows me to make changes as I go along - tweaking/perfecting dimensions and stuff.
But the whole thing's been pictured "in my mind" as usual.
It's good practice to lay out templates prior to actual construction.
Keeps "surprises" from happening later on.
Besides, I took drafting in school, and also was a grade A art student.
This allows me to make changes as I go along - tweaking/perfecting dimensions and stuff.
But the whole thing's been pictured "in my mind" as usual.
It's good practice to lay out templates prior to actual construction.
Keeps "surprises" from happening later on.
Besides, I took drafting in school, and also was a grade A art student.
One factor that most people don't think about: not everybody you meet is a normal person, with a normal set of human emotions. Our species includes a statistically significant percentage of people with abnormal psychological makeup, as any doctor, cop, jailor, or customer service representative can attest.
According to an article written by a medical professional in, I think, Psychology Today, about one in every twenty people is a psychopath.
What is a psychopath? The medical definition is long and complicated, but here are some characteristics they exhibit: Psychopaths have no compassion. They they do not experience empathy. They don't have any sense of fair play. For them, life is a game like chess, and they play entirely for themselves, to win as much as possible. The average psychopath has above-average intelligence, above average education, and above-average success in their chosen profession. Psychopaths make great lawyers, for example, because they have no sense of right or wrong, no compassion or fair play, so they are equally willing to imprison the innocent or free the guilty. All they care about is winning the game.
Most surprising to me: most psychopaths go undetected by the people around them. The typical psychopath doesn't rave, foam at the mouth, and eat people's livers as Hollywood portrays; instead, he or she is busy swindling you out of the job promotion you deserved, being a successful lawyer who puts violent criminals back on the street for personal gain, or coming up with financial schemes that destroy other people's lives while making millions for the perpetrator.
It turns out that many psychopaths feel satisfaction at manipulating other people - they enjoy the control, the feeling of "winning" the game. It is only an abstract game to them - the pain and suffering of their victims is irrelevant, because they don't even exist to a psychopath, at least, not in the way in which they exist to normal human beings.
In day-to-day living, most of us hardly know more than maybe a few tens of people. The number of psychopaths we're exposed to is correspondingly small. The two or three or five psychopaths who've crossed your path in one way or the other may not have paid particular attention to you; you might not have been in their orbit long enough to become their victim. And if they did try something ugly, you might have simply shut them out of your life from then on, like the cruel kid at school whom you avoided.
People who choose to participate on multiple large social networking platforms, on the other hand, might be rubbing virtual shoulders with a billion people instead of a hundred. Statistically, that means they are now in online contact with about fifty million psychopaths. 😱
With that many psychopaths in your life, there is quite a high chance that one or more of them might decide that it would be entertaining to torment you. You can be the next butterfly that they pull the wings off, for their own personal enjoyment.
No wonder there have been so many cases of extreme online cruelty and bullying, in many cases, even ending in suicide. When you invite fifty million psychopaths into your life, terrible consequences are inevitable.
Some years ago I read an article by the doctor who headed up the branch of UK medical services that provided therapy to children with psychological problems. She talked about an ongoing explosion in the incidence of depression among young children, along with an explosion in suicide attempts by young children. It correlated with the incidence of smartphones in the hands of the same group of young children.
As she explained it, young children are not equipped to deal with a great deal of awful things they encounter online, and they do not have the maturity or background to distinguish the aberant from the normal, so they can't really understand that a thousand hate-filled monsters in some corner of the 'Web really don't represent humanity at large.
We didn't just open Pandora's box of evil when we gave everyone a smartphone and an account on Facebook, a platform original created by a psychopath so he could stalk women. Having opened the box, we then proceeded to throw our children into it. And they are suffering because they're not growing up in the world that evolution shaped their brains to cope with, but rather in a world where cruel predators play a much larger than they do in a normal childhood.
-Gnobuddy
Could we please return to focusing on interesting repairs in this thread, and move the other discussions to other threads?
