Who likes or dislikes Ishmael?

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You disgust me!

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I'm kidding! I actually really like you. The only thing I've had issue with is that sometimes you've been a bit rude to people, calling them idiots or the like (though only once or twice that I can recall).

I haven't always seen eye to eye with you, and when you have an opinion you are very certain of it. But I kind of like that, I'm like that myself. And from what I've gathered, you seem to have a dry, ironic sense of humour, which I also share. Thus excusing the start of my post.


I actually imagine your posts voiced by David Tennant in the style of The Doctor, which is probably why I don't take any offence at stuff you've said that other people have.

Ah, but does anybody really know people that they meet in real life? Do we really know our friends, our family, our lovers? We don't know, can't know, everything about them, so we are in much the same boat as we are knowing so little about someone online.

In fact, we can never know all there is to know about ourselves. So can one really, really know thyself? Perhaps if you knew yourself completely, then you would be enlightened, you would be complete, or perhaps, you'd be really bored. Because without having things unknown about yourself, there is nothing new to discover.

The Unknown Quantity.

P.S.: I know enough about Ishmael to know I like him. If ever I discover something new I can alway revise that decision. It's not a choice I can only make once, but an opinion that can be refined and even reveresed later if needed. I don't have to be economical with my opinions, I have one about almost everything and I haven't run out so for.

Just to throw a monkey wrench (does anyone here know what one looks like by the way?) into it all....

Do you need validation Ishmael? I think you express your views passionately and with feeling. Your views seem well thought out and backed with the kind of truth that one only sees when your own view is believed unequivocably by yourself.

I hope that makes sense. I hope you feel validated, now.

Just to clarify; nocturnal quilter, of course it cannot be said if somebody truly likes me from what they see online - but do they like or dislike Ishmael, that limited-sensory representation of myself?
Also, to liverbird - relax, I don't need any kind of validation. As I said, it helps me form a contrast between effects of my whole personality and the limited interaction aspects of that personality.

Cry-sis topic

Do not worry, Greentea. I was born into an Aspie Crisis. You are not a social idiot. at least here. Right now I am dreading going to a Thanksgiving dinner because there will be a lot of chit chat and dishes to wash. I am only going because my kids will be there. All I have to do is say the food tastes good and help serve and wash up, then I say thanks for coming and leave after tidying.

As for Ish, the male, he sets the neurons on fire.

As for the quote by Inventor, it was the philosopher/teacher Socrates. Part of his Method.

Yes, it's one of those self education topics isn't it. Helps you gauge your standing in our little family (well, quite a big family really) compared to how you thought you were doing before asking the question.

Still... It is nice isn't it. Having all these people writing about you. Go on, you can say it, it's nice.

Well, I'd think it was nice.

I don't think anyone here "hates you" Ishmael. A lot of us are blunt and to-the-point as well. I, too, can be annoying and/or abrasive without meaning to, and usually the mods know when someone is deliberately trying to stir up angst or anger in the community. I personally haven't noted anything wrong with whatever you've said (so far, anyway...I haven't read every post in the forum, either). There's nothing wrong with speaking your mind as long as you're not flaming/calling names/being overtly rude/etc.

Good one!

So good to see you back, Sue. I was wondering about you!

How ridiculous that someone like you, so enriching to talk to, has to fret about not being able to dumb down enough at a gathering. This sums up what society is, actually.

I like you fine.

A little blunt sometimes. But you usually contribute well, and present thought provoking and often well thought out points. If one can look past the occasional violent blurb, no sweat, no problem.

I could personally wish you would curtail that tendency, because it tends to escalate conversations very quickly to places that aren't terribly productive. But it's a minor thing.

Hrm. I get the impression that if I met Ishmael in person, we could have an impassioned, shouting, arm-waving, table-thumping argument and walk away from it with ideas, an energized feeling, and a lack of hard feelings. This is something I value highly.

Indeed. I love being able to argue with people without either party feeling hurt or insulted.

I'm not in the mood for hugs, so:

Noogies for Ishmael! !

I've said it so many times, I forgot where it came from... I thought it was mine.

I thought that was the same thing.
Just hang in there. It'll get better somehow.

I'm having an Aspie crisis, too. Need a job, need a divorce, can't have either without sanity or money, can't get money or sanity until I get a job and a divorce. So I'm spinning in circles.
I had a pow-wow with my siblings today, who mean well and are mostly helpful. But they don't get the Aspie thing. Why don't I just grow a pair of wings and fly out of there?