So I know I have a bad barometer when it comes to judging people because I tend to just give everyone the benefit of the doubt but I wanted a second opinion on this guy:
Your question has been bouncing around in my mind a couple days, and I can’t think of a rule for whether to take someone seriously or not. I don’t even know what kind of “serious” you are referring to. There are a infinite varieties of interactions - pat rules don’t work.
I do know the world is made of a lot of people, and interacting with them requires that we make personal assessments and judgement calls. It’s a matter of survival because among all those decent neutral people, there are way too many parasites, and predators.
Making no, or bad judgement calls, can make the difference between becoming a statistic, and living to a ripe old age.
What’s wrong with simply trying to think of yourself as an animal, packed full of layers of awareness and interactions and memory and fed back systems that’s a marvel?
I tend to obsess a lot over everything so “thinking for myself” hasn’t worked out.
Okay, . . . but that is not what I wrote.