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.
I answered that already.
“Think of yourself” is different from “think for yourself”? Anyway, what do you want? You asked for a second opinion, now you don’t want to think about it.
Well he didn’t really give a second opinion on the guy, it was just redirected to me.
You say you have a “bad barometer”, so maybe that’s where to start. You ask for others to judge this guy for you, but how do you know if you should accept that judgment of others, since you have this barometer problem?
It’s fair to discuss how a question is asked.
I see your point but I guess the difference is I trust the people on here. I also know how I tend to react when I read something, even a headline, I assume it’s bad and that it will undo everything I know to be true. That’s why I ask other people.
I’ve tried to stop this but I can’t.
That’s nice
Good strategy