+1 @DF96. My wife likes the fact that I fix stuff, not the fact that I will fix anything! I've met the enslaving type of woman, but they are not the norm. The norm is loving, nurturing relationships where two people develop and grow together.
I think the quality of this thread has gone downhill mind 😛
I think the quality of this thread has gone downhill mind 😛
OK, my bad for mentioning toxic masculinity. With hindsight, I should have known better.....some of us are not entirely ready enough to discuss the subject with any degree of rational objectivity, and so for the time being, let's drop it and move on.
Sorry ToS
Sorry ToS
VenusFly,
You don't have continue on in so much ignorance trying to understand people. A lot is already pretty well researched and understood if you will take the time to study. I always recommend that people start with two books that should be studied carefully as though there will be an important exam you will have to pass on the material (including the notes and references at the back). Of course, there is much more than two books to get well up to speed, but they are good start. The first is Daniel Kahneman's, Thinking Fast and Slow, and the other is Jonathan Haidt's, The Righteous Mind. Again, its just a start, but you may as well avail yourself of some enlightenment until it all sinks in enough that you really start to grok it.
That is a psychological constant. Don't mess with it. Everyone likes my pie. Just like everyone obeys the speed of light in traditional physics.
Alternatively, don't even bother trying to understand people, just accept them the way they are, or not, and move on, unless of course you have a lot of time on your hands........to waste
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Bigun,
I have thinking most of today about responding to your request to hear what I have to say about homelessness, but confess I feel a real need to be encouraged to write while surrounded by such despondency.
ToS
I have thinking most of today about responding to your request to hear what I have to say about homelessness, but confess I feel a real need to be encouraged to write while surrounded by such despondency.
ToS
You haven't met the trolls yet have you?
The computer thread.
The computer thread.
Its not despondency, by the UN online troll laws, its criminal behavior.
Online trolls and cyberbullies in NSW face up to five years in jail under law change - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I'm considering leaving the forum yet again. Nothing is going to change and I'm, like you, troubled by the lack of manners of the other members of the forum.
Hell one guy here had his idea stolen and lost thousands of dollars, nothing was done about it. This forum is toxic.
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No, I don't want to, need to, nor am I going to. I'm fine just the way I am and would appreciate your undoubted altruism by leaving me alone - thank you.
It's pretty clear this is a public forum and any idea posted becomes a public disclosure. There is no purpose in calling the forum toxic.
We all do that 🙂, it's funny my wife has said several times how she admires my tolerance for very eccentric people, the types everyone else runs away from.
For instance we briefly belonged to the local Unitarian Church many years ago. My wife and a few others wanted to actually invite the homeless to the Sunday potluck luncheons. A person showed up with his pet rat that lived inside his trench coat, I though it was cool.
Interesting.
There's also another factor called perception narrowing that might be related to some areas in autism. Perception narrowing occurs around 6-8 months where the infant seems to have internalized the sounds typically heard in the local language. For instance, in Hindi t & t with dot below are distinctly different sounding to native speakers but non-Hindi speakers cannot differentiate these - babies below 6 months seemingly can differentiate between them -but lose this later in development
Just speculating if this narrowing doesn't occur to the same extent along the autism spectrum?
Shortly after wishing everyone "Cheerio and Good luck everyone, good health to all." and coming back and posting as to why I was absent for the last few months, that my mother was having potentially lethal water retention problems and heart palpitations and that I was caring for her. https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/the-lounge/143603-buy-167.html#post5607254
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/the-lounge/300556-whats-movie-watched-50.html#post5627386
After donating 3 times to the forum. (I was considering donating $17 AUD/$10USD every single month, but screw those plans now.). After spending the last 12 months contributing:
The car thread
I got called a pedophile by two members of the forum...
And now after being told that my help isn't needed.
Nice.
This forum is toxic.
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