Shit is Fucked Up

[xoxoxoBruce]

Here ya go...

A superiority complex is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person's feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of inferiority.[1] The term was coined by Alfred Adler as part of his school of individual psychology. It was introduced in his series of books, including "Understanding Human Nature" and "Social Interest". Superiority complexes are often found in orangutans as they lack the required skills to properly function in society.

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

I posted an interrogative. I made an observation to support the reason for the question. I offered no emotional position. I'm just trying to understand you.

now *that* shit is fucked up.

[tw]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

I posted an interrogative. I made an observation to support the reason for the question. I offered no emotional position. I'm just trying to understand you.

That was silly speculation about me; completely irrelevant to this topic.

Discussion is about adults so emotional as to still be children. "I" have no relevance here. Your reasoning fails to separate who I am from a topic about how some adults think.

This discussion is difficult for those cannot / do not separate their emotional biases from from logical conclusions. For example, one who chooses to smoke cigarettes was not thinking logically; was not using a part of the brain that only adults have. No one logically decides to smoke cigarettes. How many did so anyway? Still do not grasp theirs was a classic emotional decision.

Why did he swat a headscarf off that women's head? Why did he continue with insults that only a child would express? Was it a decision based upon adult thinking? Of course not. It was a classic example of an adult being emotional - as if that scarf somehow 'dissed' him. Even being 'dissed' is associated with adults who are still children.

DanaC - I insulted no one. Why assume emotion in a statement of facts? Did you read some sort of secret or implied message in that post?

Children are emotional because (if you need an emotional reason) that is great. Whether children are emotional is neither good nor bad. It just is.

Contrasted were adults who are adults verses adults who still think like children. That says nothing about children. That does not direct insult at anyone - obviously. No adult who acts like a child was insulted because only the nature of his behavior was defined. Even defined was a brain section that defines that distinction - pre-frontal cortex.

Headscarf on a women's head is irrelevant to any adult who is thinking like an adult. But somehow, he takes 'insult' (or some other emotion) from that scarf. Was he thinking logically like an adult? Of course not. His emotions were imposed upon that headscarf and woman. That is adult acting like a child - emotionally. His actions were acceptable only for a child (maybe); completely unacceptable for adults. His verbal insults further affirm that conclusion.

A logical summary of his emotional tirade is not based in any emotion. Why assume an adult who acts like a child somehow demeans children? He was a classic example of a adult who still thinks like a child.

Summarized only with facts, without any emotions, and without defiling anyone was who he (that type of person) is. At least one somehow must impose his emotions on that conclusion.

[Aliantha]

tw, what he was saying is that in his opinion, the way the Australian courts are dealing with this man is not good enough and that Muslims who object to it may decide to do something about it themselves. Like vigilantes.

The idiot person was arrested, charged and then released on bail pending his day in court.

Someone mouthing off before there's even an outcome is just trying to create a problem where there is none.

I've been very supportive of the Muslim people in our society here. For the most part they are very nice people, but there are dickheads among them, just as there are among all other faiths.

There has to be a way people who incite violence among their followers can be censured. I don't think I'll ask my US mates for advice there. You guys have your own problems with this issue.

I absolutely believe there is room for everyone here. I absolutely cannot understand why others don't see it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I absolutely believe there is room for everyone here. I absolutely cannot understand why others don't see it.

Noooo, they must be culled so that only cake buyers remain, and non-cake buyers deported.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

There has to be a way people who incite violence among their followers can be censured.

A most powerful influence among men is called peer pressure.

[Aliantha]

That sounds good too.

[DanaC]

...ok.

[lumberjim]

So.... What are you trying to say exactly? They were being childish? The people in this confrontation. Because by that logic, this would apply to every topic you could imagine on this forum.

Person A is being childish.

That's one sentence that conveys what you claim to be your objective opinion. It takes a lot less time to write than your post..... And less to read.

It's the same position you take with every conflict I can recall with you being involved in the discussion.

So I ask again. What is it that drives you to repeatedly hammer that particular nail? Why is being childish and emotional so unacceptable to you?

I agree that if the man in the story had been behaving logically with no emotion, he would not have accosted that woman. That's a given. The mildly interesting aspect to the story is .. Why. Why was he acting that way? Don't say because he was being childish.

Can you imagine a world where everyone over a certain age behaved in a manner that did not involve any emotion? That was never childish in any way?

People don't work that way, bro. Accept it and get past it. You keep getting stuck in the same place. Look beyond that aspect into the reasons behind the childish actions if the topic interests you.

Or are you only interested in discussing the fact that some people have behaved in a childish manner. Over and over and over and over.....

[DanaC]

'logic' is not what we use to make decisions. Logic is how we explain or rationalise our decisions to ourselves. Decision making happens primarily at an unconscious, or pre-conscious level. It might feel like we are following logic to a decision - but very rarely is that actually the case.

[sexobon]