tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8815887911092676043.post6481060562432092498..comments2023-09-03T02:30:01.973-06:00Comments on Two, and three.: You'll understand when.....Dammerunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314741182179848942noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8815887911092676043.post-34701747805448880182010-02-16T11:31:28.373-07:002010-02-16T11:31:28.373-07:00Enter Tycho: "Previously, I had something lik...Enter Tycho: "<i>Previously, I had something like a schematic of the required emotions: we're perpetually being groomed by forces ambient and direct toward some social ideal. I knew what I was meant to feel, and could produce an iconic representation of that response. But it's a construct - rational, as opposed to intuitive. I can try to explain it in terms of scale. It's the difference between a highly compressed .jpeg of a stop sign and the heat death of the universe.</i>"<br /><br />Query: Why exactly are people investing so much emotion in presenting contrary opinions on this matter?<br />Be the stone in the river, let it wash over you, but stay firm.<br />\\.DGAF.//Jem Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04826398507519760856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8815887911092676043.post-59976411115222344632010-02-16T08:18:21.601-07:002010-02-16T08:18:21.601-07:00I rank "You'll understand when..." u...I rank "You'll understand when..." up there with "I know how you feel."<br /><br />Excuse me, but no, no you <b>don't</b> know how I feel. <br /><br />You only know how <i>you</i> felt when you went through the same situation. Yes, you know what I'm going through and you can imagine what I'm feeling, even try to empathize with me, but even then you still only know how <i>you</i> would feel in that situation. <br /><br />I appreciate your sympathy and thoughts, but do not tell me you know how I feel.Cap'n Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267651027289124037noreply@blogger.com