And I'm saying I find that hard to believe. What motivates you? Why are you interested in doing good? What do you consider to be you doing good? I have not experienced a lot of people that are the way you say you are.
I ended up writing a really long response just to let you know that I am trying to respond to you the best way I know how but I realize in short what motivates me is doing good itself. I like knowing I am helping someone and contributing, that is good enough for me. I think a lot of other people feel the same way to, but we only notice when someone screws up. I truly want anyone here to know that I am not a good person by my own standards, but I want to be and will be if I try.
I do know why because good is good and therefor I want to serve good. Is that so hard to understand? It serves no deeper motive than the fact that I like doing good, although sometimes, maybe more often than not, doing the right thing is harder, but still I enjoy it. I certainly don't like serving the other side, further separating us, spreading more hate and so it goes. Yet I still do at times. And honestly it's absolutely tearing me apart being a part of both.
Maybe I don't understand you. Maybe I'm an idiot and I don't understand the nuances of your minimalist commentary.
What I do understand is that people were having a discussion and you jumped in to challenge Short4Words about the last sentence of his comment where he makes a short and irrelevant claim about himself, while completely looking past the main message of his comment.
That's exactly it. Why did you need to write "Maybe I'm an idiot and I don't understand the nuances of your minimalist commentary." ?
I usually don't mesh with a type of people that are over emotive, generally considered to have good social skills and be sociable, and unfortunately, jump to conclusions.
Sometimes I am a bit cruel, and a bit oblivious in what I say. I'm not trying to be offensive, but I can be. It's been suggested that I have aspearger's. Only suggested, not proven.
I did see the main message. I thought it was a bit touching. What he said was contrary to what I have seen and experienced people to be and do. I want to believe he is different. I want to learn why. I can't though, if I have to walk on eggshells, and constantly worry about offending somebody.
The internet is a poor medium for communication. But I can see how it has been speculated that you might have aspearger's. My response would have been different if you had said
*I think* you misunderstand me
Telling someone that they don't understand something is not the right way to go about a discussion.
But now I can clearly see that there was no harm intended. I have friends with aspergers, it has always taken me a while to warm up to your type, after all we are opposites when it comes to interpersonal relationships/communication....The internet is a poor medium for communication.
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Oh really?
You are one of the few good people on this planet that does good just 'cause? What do you do? Do you voulenteer like 24-7? Do you ever do bad things?
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I never said it was perfect. I just said when I do good it's because I want to mostly. I'm not expecting reward.
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And I'm saying I find that hard to believe. What motivates you? Why are you interested in doing good? What do you consider to be you doing good? I have not experienced a lot of people that are the way you say you are.
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I ended up writing a really long response just to let you know that I am trying to respond to you the best way I know how but I realize in short what motivates me is doing good itself. I like knowing I am helping someone and contributing, that is good enough for me. I think a lot of other people feel the same way to, but we only notice when someone screws up. I truly want anyone here to know that I am not a good person by my own standards, but I want to be and will be if I try.
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So, you don't really know why? You just want to do good?
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I do know why because good is good and therefor I want to serve good. Is that so hard to understand? It serves no deeper motive than the fact that I like doing good, although sometimes, maybe more often than not, doing the right thing is harder, but still I enjoy it. I certainly don't like serving the other side, further separating us, spreading more hate and so it goes. Yet I still do at times. And honestly it's absolutely tearing me apart being a part of both.
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It is (hard to understand) for me.
Most people I know have no interest in doing good.
I do, but it's for a couple of reasons.
So, I guess, you're special in my world.
This is moral discussion, not moral judgement. Want to get off of your ivory tower? Stop throwing rocks from your glass house.
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You don't understand me.
And honestly, I don't understand that idiom. I'm terrible with idioms. I do understand that you think I was intentionally trying to be offensive.
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Maybe I don't understand you. Maybe I'm an idiot and I don't understand the nuances of your minimalist commentary.
What I do understand is that people were having a discussion and you jumped in to challenge Short4Words about the last sentence of his comment where he makes a short and irrelevant claim about himself, while completely looking past the main message of his comment.
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That's exactly it. Why did you need to write "Maybe I'm an idiot and I don't understand the nuances of your minimalist commentary." ?
I usually don't mesh with a type of people that are over emotive, generally considered to have good social skills and be sociable, and unfortunately, jump to conclusions.
Sometimes I am a bit cruel, and a bit oblivious in what I say. I'm not trying to be offensive, but I can be. It's been suggested that I have aspearger's. Only suggested, not proven.
I did see the main message. I thought it was a bit touching. What he said was contrary to what I have seen and experienced people to be and do. I want to believe he is different. I want to learn why. I can't though, if I have to walk on eggshells, and constantly worry about offending somebody.
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The internet is a poor medium for communication. But I can see how it has been speculated that you might have aspearger's. My response would have been different if you had said
*I think* you misunderstand me
Telling someone that they don't understand something is not the right way to go about a discussion.
But now I can clearly see that there was no harm intended. I have friends with aspergers, it has always taken me a while to warm up to your type, after all we are opposites when it comes to interpersonal relationships/communication....The internet is a poor medium for communication.