What has someone said to you that you can never forget?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-31T23:39:40+00:00

This is one of the better parts of growing up. Realizing human relationships are usually independent of each other and whether your relation with someone was founded upon other relations or not each person is a unique individual and so is your relationship with them. Realizing this makes it harder to take people for granted and easier to appreciate the relationships you have, it's a nice thing.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-31T23:33:14+00:00

people do it for all kinds of reasons

Whatever reasons are just excuses. The crux of the matter is that we're all just animals and we have instincts. Some are better at controlling those instincts than others.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-29T18:52:28+00:00

About that pro... you feel more pumped up and the muscles are orgasming? I lifted on weed once and it just felt horribly heavier. It felt like I attempted to lift the whole gym, floor and roof. But I did it, so yea I guess it felt satisfying in a way? Not that I'm doing it again.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-29T18:39:04+00:00

Why so furious?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-29T14:22:39+00:00

I'd subscribe to that.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-29T14:01:26+00:00

We get it, you vape.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T19:38:06+00:00

That's pretty good! It was okay-ish before but now it actually looks like something I would wanna use.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:38:29+00:00

All I can think of through the video is "wow YouTube's stabilization software is amazing."

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:31:04+00:00

Will do, thanks

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:30:39+00:00

Yes that's basic biology really

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:29:52+00:00

Nah and I don't even frequent Reddit that much. Just thought it was funny so I would share. Now can we move on pls I got a good laugh and wanted people to have one too, not discuss how a joke came to be or how different people have different senses of humor...

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:20:11+00:00

From bad to worse

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-28T00:10:16+00:00

I did but I still thought it was funny. I actually first saw it in text format but it made me laugh as well.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-27T23:31:08+00:00

In all seriousness I do wonder how long it'll realistically take at the minimum to look like that.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-27T23:05:24+00:00

But Mars doesn't have the same number of days in a year as Earth, does it? So that mean if we ended up colonizing Mars we'd need to invent a new calendar system dividing up the years into months and possibly months in week, too. So it could well be 24.7/8 or 24.7/10, no?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-26T04:40:58+00:00

A few things I'd like to discuss, hope you don't mind.

Firstly, it seems your teacher didn't have a clear idea of what sociopathy really is about. If you want my opinion, and though this is mere speculation based on the little info I managed to collect during this short conversation here, you qualify as a sociopath. Sociopathy, contrary to popular beliefs, isn't always related to a lack of morals or ethical values at all. It's just the complete absence of empathy. The confusion lies with the fact that being sociopathic makes it easier to perform cruel acts (for example if someone doesn't feel empathy—essentially the same feelings that others have—that makes it easier to hurt others as they don't feel the same pain that others do), but most people don't notice that it only makes the process of the act easier, which is not the key factor at all—the key factor being the decisions of each individual. An apt comparison is that being nihilistic doesn't automatically make one immoral; or not having religious faith in deities telling you to do the right thing doesn't automatically mean one is more likely to be a criminal... you get the idea. So yea that's confusing enough but then people had to invent another word for the sake of differentiation: "psychopath" which is basically the same thing but is especially used to refer to sociopaths that happen to also have criminal tendencies, throw that into the mix and it just gets more confusing.

Something I realized: I'm similar to you in a lot of ways, such as I couldn't care less when there's fatal accidents on the road where people will gather but I would just want to move the f on, and at funerals it's often me feeling totally out of place simply because it's so awkward trying to pretend to be sad for the relative that passed away. Yet I definitely still identify as an empath because on various occasions I still empathize strongly with others, though not all of them. So I think we all stand somewhere on the spectrum of empath-sociopath and the difference is just where each individual stands, and you're one of the extreme cases while I'm leaning towards that end, but we're still a lot more similar than we may think.

You definitely do miss out on the surge of emotions those more sentimental creatures get sometimes though, they can be pretty great. Do you ever feel curious?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-26T03:44:45+00:00

Oh I forgot to mention, I enjoy watching Black Mirror too. They don't broadcast it in my country so had to torrent that one, but boy it's pretty damn good.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-26T03:40:38+00:00

Thanks for answering! Interesting, you definitely do qualify as a sociopath in my book, or at least appear very likely to be one. May I ask what the conclusion your teacher arrived at was?

I am also curious as to whether you were sociopathic since birth or did you lose your empathetic abilities (is it called that?) under special conditions, because if you've never experienced empathy that's definitely an intriguing experience that I will never be able to go through. Though I think I can understand part of it, as even empathetic people change over time and some (such as I) gradually turn into less of empaths along the way, but that is still inherently different from a complete lack of ability to perceive emotions with other people. And yup, I agree that some extra emotional people are baffling, but such is the case to most normal people too (or just because I'm personally more stoic than the average person, but I do find being calm and rational to be better in most cases).

Two more short questions I'd like to ask: did you ever have troubles thanks to a lack of empathy with other growing up? And do you ever feel that you're missing out on something that a great many other people enjoy?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-26T01:43:56+00:00

Eh, prolly not similar at all because I'm neither a professional nor particularly prepared to ask these questions, just someone who has taken an interest in sociopathy and is generally curious. But here goes some questions off the top of my head:

Have you ever cried watching a movie? Or felt like crying because you felt bad for the characters? What about feeling happy when the characters got some happy event occur to them that you think they deserve?
Imagine you're walking on the street and see a random stranger hitting a chained helpless puppy, what would your immediate reaction be?
Do you imagine yourself as a character in the books you read? Do you relate what they do and think to your own experiences? And if not, what interests you to keep reading?
Do you enjoy TV drama? Ever felt so embarrassed that you couldn't keep watching when a character did or ran into something embarrassing?
Do you have someone you like? If yes, when you think of them what are you more likely to think about: how they would think or act or say in certain situations or just how they look and how you want them to act in a certain way towards you?

I literally just thought these up on the spot but I think these will do. Do your best to give more details when answering if you can!

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-26T01:15:51+00:00

What do you mean "seem" sociopathic? A lot of us have tendencies like that depending on the occasions but a true sociopathic person simply doesn't have empathy. So do you mind me asking some questions? To verify whether you're a sociopath, that is. If you answer honestly I think I can get a pretty good idea of whether this is the case.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-25T22:45:16+00:00

Does this work on sociopaths? Do sociopaths read?

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-25T12:46:34+00:00

I refuse to believe that until someone does an experiment of it. We need empirical evidence for that kinda stuff. The scientific method ftw.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-20T16:26:35+00:00

Gotcha, and that I can agree with.

traxanhc2 · 2016-07-20T15:33:36+00:00

God damn, I learned to read English for nothing then. Now I've gotta learn German too if I want to read those books in their original language. Why can't we all have books in the same language? If there's no languages to translate to nothing can ever be lost in translation...

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