Posted by TexasChic on June 20, 2006, at 22:18:36 [reposted on June 21, 2006, at 18:02:17 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Please be civil » gardenergirl, posted by TexasChic on June 20, 2006, at 21:02:27
Oooo, that looks like you're telling me to be civil! ;-) [Thinks a minute] You're not really telling me to be civil are you?
> If you were to be considered one of those "most people" or even among the "a lot of people" with a "weak intellect", how might you feel?
Yeah, but he also said;
...most of you reading this are better than that. One thing about people like us is that we reflect. Really reflect. Something most people don't do. I think that gives us something most people never get.And this:
...look at some people, and they're just blind to the world. Uptight people. Rude people. Brainless housewives lost in their own worlds tooling around town in their minivans. Testosterone overdosed jerks in pickups going about their drone-like lives.Surely no one would get offended because they consider themselves one of the uptight, rude, brainless people?
I kind of understand why you PBC'd Michael, like I said, its very easy to misconstrue in this environment. I however, read it as his way of trying to say that we, people dealing with 'mental illness' (I sure would like another term for that), are not beneath others. In fact, our introspective, obsessive nature may even make us more aware of other people's feelings.
Could this possibly be one of those 'reword situations' to let the poster know his comments might be misunderstood?
I don't know, I'm just speculating, not trying to question. I just figure we all have to work together if we want this place to work, so I'm throwing in my two cents on post interpretation. I don't even begin to claim that I know, well, pretty much anything. ;-)
Sorry, its way past my bedtime. I have to go for tonight. Talk to yall later.
-T
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