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16 Oct 2020, 11:01 pm

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What sort of company would this be?


A company dedicated to organising cats in a box, perchance? :cat: :scratch:



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16 Oct 2020, 11:01 pm

It’s not that I’m “above” the fray.

It’s that I’m not even considered within those sorts of battles. There’s nothing within me that makes other people jealous of me.



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16 Oct 2020, 11:47 pm

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Humans are just apes. We are apes with more developed brain function in certain areas, resulting from the introduction of fire and agriculture into the picture. But that’s all it is. Corporate environments are resource-scarce and your fellow chimps will shank you and everyone else to get that corner office or whatever. But if you aren’t in that environment, perhaps you will spend more time with bonobos.
thank you for taking the time to explain this as if I don't already understand...

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but if you want to make blanket statements about humanity, it would only be accurate to consider the range of environments that do exist.

This is meant to be comforting? Because it's not comforting...
I am not writing an academic paper on my observations of human behavior, I am upset by the constant, deliberate cruelty that seems to be the de facto modus operandi in the American work place.

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If your daily life is nothing but competitive undercutting and cruelty, I can’t imagine it would be easy to summon a more positive outlook. There’s no real advice to give. But there are bonobos out there.

Advice wasn't really requested, openly asked for people to just comfort me, with a there there or I relate or something to this effect. Yet people feel the need to explain back to me what's happening and why it's unpleasant. Thank you but no thank you.



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17 Oct 2020, 2:42 am

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Advice wasn't really requested, openly asked for people to just comfort me, with a there there or I relate or something to this effect. Yet people feel the need to explain back to me what's happening and why it's unpleasant. Thank you but no thank you.


I'm sorry I wasn't more supportive.
I will be in future. <hug>



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17 Oct 2020, 2:37 pm

Pepe wrote:
adromedanblackhole wrote:

Advice wasn't really requested, openly asked for people to just comfort me, with a there there or I relate or something to this effect. Yet people feel the need to explain back to me what's happening and why it's unpleasant. Thank you but no thank you.


I'm sorry I wasn't more supportive.
I will be in future. <hug>

You're fine. It just has happened time after time where I will make it as clear as I can in the first post, "hey I'm upset please comfort me" and then people proceed to rip apart the post for various reasons as if it's lacking academic vigor or they hone in on a specific word or largely criticize the point of view expressed and I just feel like, my dear god... way to kick a person when they're already feeling down



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17 Oct 2020, 4:11 pm

adromedanblackhole wrote:
Pepe wrote:
adromedanblackhole wrote:

Advice wasn't really requested, openly asked for people to just comfort me, with a there there or I relate or something to this effect. Yet people feel the need to explain back to me what's happening and why it's unpleasant. Thank you but no thank you.


I'm sorry I wasn't more supportive.
I will be in future. <hug>

You're fine. It just has happened time after time where I will make it as clear as I can in the first post, "hey I'm upset please comfort me" and then people proceed to rip apart the post for various reasons as if it's lacking academic vigor or they hone in on a specific word or largely criticize the point of view expressed and I just feel like, my dear god... way to kick a person when they're already feeling down


Autistics can be insensitive, and we are known to go off on a tangent "at the drop of a hat".
I do.
I guess your concern has more to do with a person's attitude.

I hope you stick around.
I find you a very interesting person. ;)



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17 Oct 2020, 4:13 pm

Pepe wrote:
adromedanblackhole wrote:
Pepe wrote:
adromedanblackhole wrote:

Advice wasn't really requested, openly asked for people to just comfort me, with a there there or I relate or something to this effect. Yet people feel the need to explain back to me what's happening and why it's unpleasant. Thank you but no thank you.


I'm sorry I wasn't more supportive.
I will be in future. <hug>

You're fine. It just has happened time after time where I will make it as clear as I can in the first post, "hey I'm upset please comfort me" and then people proceed to rip apart the post for various reasons as if it's lacking academic vigor or they hone in on a specific word or largely criticize the point of view expressed and I just feel like, my dear god... way to kick a person when they're already feeling down


Autistics can be insensitive, and we are known to go off on a tangent "at the drop of a hat".
I do.
I guess your concern has more to do with a person's attitude.

I hope you stick around.
I find you a very interesting person. ;)

No, I've seen people here offer sensitive words of comfort. It's just usually not to me, when I'm explicitly asking for it. Anyway. It's not everyone. You're fine Pepe.



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17 Oct 2020, 5:45 pm

I am very sorry. I responded more out of a sense to be heard than to respond to you. I understood you to be wanting consolation, but I didn’t provide it in the way you asked. I am consoled by academic deconstruction of concepts, but I should know by now that not everyone is.

Again, I sincerely apologize.



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17 Oct 2020, 11:30 pm

malavois wrote:
I am very sorry. I responded more out of a sense to be heard than to respond to you. I understood you to be wanting consolation, but I didn’t provide it in the way you asked. I am consoled by academic deconstruction of concepts, but I should know by now that not everyone is.

Again, I sincerely apologize.


It is called: "Getting to know one another. :wink:
You two are new members.
You guys still have to find your feet, imo, so to speak.

I, on the other hand, know everything there is to know. <beam> 8) :mrgreen:
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And I'm adorable, to boot. 8)



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17 Oct 2020, 11:31 pm

malavois wrote:
I am very sorry. I responded more out of a sense to be heard than to respond to you. I understood you to be wanting consolation, but I didn’t provide it in the way you asked. I am consoled by academic deconstruction of concepts, but I should know by now that not everyone is.

Again, I sincerely apologize.

It's okay I need to be more understanding that people have their own ways and not lash out at someone who's trying to help

I am sorry too



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18 Oct 2020, 2:04 am

Well now that we have all apologised I assume our faith in humanity is restored once again :D



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18 Oct 2020, 2:24 am

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Well now that we have all apologised I assume our faith in humanity is restored once again :D


Group hug? :scratch: :mrgreen:



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18 Oct 2020, 6:08 am

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18 Oct 2020, 9:02 pm

I suspect there might be an above-average level of asshats in LA.

Nonetheless you're basically right, most people suck.

Animals generally don't. I mean, a small minority might want to kill and eat you, but at least they're generally pretty honest about it.

I'd either aim to work with people who are trying to sort out the world's messes (pollution, poverty, crime etc.), or with animals. Every little positive step matters.

Also, the more people act like morons, the more work you'll get.



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18 Oct 2020, 10:56 pm

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Damn literal aspies. :mrgreen:



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19 Oct 2020, 1:28 am

adromedanblackhole wrote:
malavois wrote:
I am very sorry. I responded more out of a sense to be heard than to respond to you. I understood you to be wanting consolation, but I didn’t provide it in the way you asked. I am consoled by academic deconstruction of concepts, but I should know by now that not everyone is.

Again, I sincerely apologize.

It's okay I need to be more understanding that people have their own ways and not lash out at someone who's trying to help

I am sorry too


Thanks :)