WolfyMontgomery
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Joined: 9/28/2010 Status: offline
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Huh, didn't realize I was upset. I thought I was just pointing out my observations to people's opinions and figuring out how exactly they thought and why they think it should apply to everyone - which there are plenty of people who DO think it should apply to everyone and think less of people who it doesn't apply to. Logically - when you look at most of the people who say that their way is the "One True Way for ALL", they have the mindset that anyone who doesn't think that way is less than, stupid, ill taught, misinformed, idiotic, the list could go on and can get much more insulting. So logically a person who most often sees that phrasing in people who think highly of themselves and less of others who don't agree, they assume that anyone else who uses that phrasing means the same thing - even if they're just assuming that any intelligent people should know the difference. Most intelligent people do, but most intelligent people also notice the fact that it tends to be the ones with their heads stuck up their asses who look down on all others who use that way of putting things. The thing that irks most 'intelligent' people about the whole "one true way" thing isn't the fact that it's said - as you said everyone has their own "one true way" - it's the fact that most of the time person saying it is an ass about it. I completely own my own concept (it is mine, I live it, I wouldn't want to live any other way, too bad for those who do I won't change for them, it is my "one true way" and if they can't live up to it then they aren't for me), but I am not above seeing that there are more ways for people who are NOT me. To NOT see that speaks of elitism to me, and most elitists tend to act like they have their heads stuffed way too far up their nicely polished asses. Honestly from my perspective it seems that you're not even interested in discussing the different "ways" beyond your wanting to say that you don't understand them and they don't matter. And in that course of discussion, when you see something you don't agree with, or when someone replies to your comment - is it a call to defend your beliefs or is it a call to discuss those beliefs? For me, it's a call to discuss them, find where the other person is coming from and learn new things - whether those things will eventually apply or not to my own dynamic (9/10 it doesn't) it never hurts to at least have those windows to different aspects so that if someone comes to you for advice or when you need advice yourself you can look back on those discussions and look at all the different pieces of information and have them all to draw from. My "way of being polite" is basically to keep my head out of my ass and have an open mind to learn about other concepts, whether I agree with them or not. A person can always *understand* another concept, even if they don't agree with it and wouldn't want it as a part of their life. I tend to not get annoyed with people unless they directly insult me, which you haven't - so I have no reason to be annoyed, or upset, or whatever you want to call it. I thought we were just discussing things, after all.
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