MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Minecraft: Sobering

> > And if you'd rather be a jerk and shut down the guy who has the cure for cancer but
> > can't get anyone to listen, then hopefully karma will sort that out.
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> it was hyperbole. to help illustrate an example. for proving a point.
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> > Just because you're not a special snow flake doesn't mean you should stomp on those
> > who are.
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> the irony of the snowflake metaphor is that we are all unique. to help illustrate an
> example. for proving a point.
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> > That book is mainly aimed at educating business people how to manipulate suckers by
> > making them think you understand and appreciate them. It's not particularly useful
> > for actually making friends.
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> i realize this. and, if it quiets down the person it's suggested to, that's a win for
> the person suggesting it if they don't have to listen to a bullhorner all the time.
> you can use the knowledge in the book for whatever means and manipulations you feel
> like applying it toward, but the material has been proven instrumental for eliciting
> certain behaviors and attitudes.
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> at the very least, it may provide understanding for somebody who gets attacked for
> his attitude frequently. i especially enjoy his constant claims that this forum is a
> cesspool, with posts stating such in the same exact thread he started as personal
> outcry concerning his career and life. i almost have to believe he's just secretly
> joking with all the vitriol.

Knowing your brain works differently than other people's doesn't fix it.
Knowing there is a fix doesn't help, when that fix is going to radically alter the thought processes you need to do the only things that make life bearable.
Your friend has just sold the closest thing you have to a soul to the closest thing the world has to Satan. The rest of your friends are OK with this deal. Half of them of gone to Hell to party and check out the new chains.

Pardon, I've actually begun crying now, which is a thing I don't do much. I need to go kill things and forget the world exists for a few days.