"Let's not be logical"

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10 Dec 2009, 11:38 am

Vyn wrote:

I don't think human emotions are stupid and illogical, just allowing them to rule your reason is. (Except grief, but that's a different argument) Emotions, even the normally destructive ones like anger can easily be beneficial if you use them wisely with reason rather than impulse.

I do agree that emotions are overall good. It's merely human use of them that can so easily tend to be bad.

I think they're stupid and illogical at times. Even my own can be that way because I'm human. But I always go by logic instead than my feelings. I only go by my feelings if it falls along my logic. Sometimes I act on feeling and then I realize later on how stupid I was or how stupid I am being and I try and ignore it and deal with it.

My mom says emotions aren't always logical.

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10 Dec 2009, 11:55 am

i am able to be illogical.
this is not logical.

it is my interpretation of "hey diddle diddle".

"hey diddle diddle"
(means alert! scam scam)

"the cat with the fiddle"
(means the hippie playing a violin is the culprit)

"the cow jumps over the moon"
means that the fat plain girl jumps over the white buttocks(moon) of a drunken man asleep naked on his belly.

"the little dog laughs to see such a sight"

means "the diminutive ugly girl" is amused at the unsavory circumstance that the other unattractive girl is presented with

"and the dish runs away with the spoon"

means that the hot looking person and the rich person both escape together to a better life.

a "dish" is an attractive person, and a "spoon" is a shortened way of saying "silver spoon" which means someone who has lots of money whether they earned it or not.

many dishes have run off with spoons in history i think.

i like holidays from logic sometimes.

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10 Dec 2009, 12:32 pm

Spokane_Girl wrote:

sartresue wrote:

Aspie on the way topic

Ummm...If someone is calling you about car trouble, does the caller need a repair or to whine about it? A no-brainer. Just fix the car. :roll:

Or they could be just calling you to come pick them up. Can you fix a car on the side of the road? No, it needs a shop. Even if the person knew what to fix, they still need to be picked up and get their car towed to their house so they can fix it. Actually, that person can just ride back home in the tow truck so why would he call his wife or kid to come pick him up or anyone else? But if the tow trucks services were closed because it was after opening hours, then I would see why he would call for a ride home.
Your car breaks down or something goes wrong, you call your friend or partner or your child or anyone you know and tell them you're having car trouble so you need to be picked up. What if someone called you and told you they need to be picked up and didn't tell you why? I bet you be asking them "why?" Then they tell you why by saying they are having car trouble. Sure I would tell them what could be wrong with it (If I knew) even though I know they can't fix it by themselves and I don't know how to fix it either. But hey, at least the person has a head start and he or she can tell the mechanic man that could be the problem and he looks at it.

On the road again topic

I know a guy who can get a car running very quickly. Who am I gonna call? He is a lemon buster and can get the wheels rolling in order to take it to his shop and fix it. No need for a tow. I had him in mind when I saw this topic.

I do thake things literally. :wink:

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10 Dec 2009, 12:39 pm

How did you take it literal?

I wonder what that man does if his clutch went out (if he has one)?

I had that happen to me once and I couldn't make it home so I call my dad and I tell him what the problem is and he says it must be the clutch and he comes and gets my ex and I. Then the next day he and my brothers went back to the spot with the car dolly and towed it to the shop and even the mechanic man said the same thing, it's the clutch.

You couldn't even get the car to move anymore even though it ran. It acted like it was in Neutral than in gear. This was three years ago and I still have that same clutch they put in.

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10 Dec 2009, 12:55 pm

Spokane_Girl wrote:

A straw clutch topic

This guy can drive without a clutch. He knows how.

I am not being sarcastic. He has figured it out enough to get it to the shop (not a long distance, of course).

I saw him get a car going without most of the transmission gears. I think he had reverse, so he drove backwards, very slowly. And no brakes? No problem. No radiator? Child's play.

He could probably drive a car without a motor. He would just use the Fred Flintsone foot power, or rig up a sail.

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10 Dec 2009, 1:06 pm

Well okay, I am talking about people in general. The man you're talking about is in the minority and I would say he is gifted in cars.

Lot of people can't do what this man can do. So therefore they would be doing what I said they would be doing.

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10 Dec 2009, 10:22 pm

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I don't sympathize when in certain situations that others would, but I've learned to preface my inability to sympathize due to logic.

For example, a friend of mine was telling me that he thought his ex g/f was doing Meth again. My response was "This is going to sound cold but no one is twisting her arm and making her do it." He was given fair warning that I was going to be logical about it. He then went on to say that she would probably lose her little girl, and I stated that "While unfortunate for both of them, it would be logical in thinking that if you don't want to lose your child you don't do stupid things like doing meth." While he was a little frustrated with me in the conversation, at least he didn't get all freaked out, like people have in the past when I was 'cold and unthoughtful', cause he knew it was coming.

it's why I just stop talking after a while and go about my merry business.

One thing I have virtually no sympathy for is people who are weak-willed, & feel a need to follow others or be liked by others.

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11 Dec 2009, 12:34 am

I usually offer sympathy by telling people how things could be worse.
When I say it seriously, it usally doesn't go over well, but if I present it as a joke, people will often laugh.
I don't really understand this reaction. Thinking how things could be worse often makes me feel better.
But whatever.
I hate when people say how things will get better, because they can't possibly know that for sure. It's ridiculous.

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11 Dec 2009, 12:55 am

MarionQuixote wrote:

that's why I tell 'em "I'm sure things will get better"

Oh, ya can possibly know it, actually.

If it's in relation to society, then yes, they'll get better because society does this sh*t in cycles.

If it's in relation to their private life, it's up to them, to be fair.

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06 Feb 2010, 7:20 pm

It's not necessarily emotion that seperates us from other animals. To me, the thing that most seperates humans from animals is DNA.

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