(12-03-2020, 02:05 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-03-2020, 12:26 PM)mikesez Wrote: You never agree with me unless I agree with you first.  You're not being honest with yourself and you're not being honest with the rest of us.  You do always think I'm wrong.
When a person has significantly more aptitude and education than most of his conversation partners, he must choose to pretend to have less, and get accused of being disingenuous, or be candid about the depth and breadth of his knowledge, and get accused of talking down to people. Both of us have graduate degrees. So both of us have this problem. I choose the first approach, you choose the second. Your approach of talking down to people works for you because you do it with so much spite and so much disregard for them as people that observers find it funny, though the targets of your ire rarely do.
Anyhow, sneakers actually accused me of pretending to know more than I actually know, not less.
So I don't think you've diagnosed the problem.

Or he could, you know, just be himself and not put on or put off airs to make others perceive of him as he is not. You know, genuine rather than disingenuous. Bless your heart.

I could do that, yes.  But it would go against my motives.
Your way is to dunk on people and get positive rep points from third parties. I don't actually care if I get positive rep points, I just didn't like negative.  And I don't want anyone to feel bad, whether they agree with me or not.  
My motive is to help people agree to disagree and respect each other, in these divisive times.  So I'm going to ask questions rather than bash people.  That's why we are always butting heads.  You are coaling up a big ol train of hate, and I'm trying to detail it.

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