(11-13-2024, 11:09 AM)WingerDinger Wrote:

(11-13-2024, 11:08 AM)mikesez Wrote: There's smarts, which is how quickly you can use new information to draw new conclusions, and knowledge, which is just a set of facts or processes that you have already memorized.  

If I present you new information about Trump and his opponents, you simply reject it.  You don't try to use it or compare it to anything you already have.  Not very smart.  Most people are smarter than that about most things.  You're probably smarter than that about most things.  But you love Trump and overestimate the quality of information you have about him due to this love.

Then you made the statement that Trump's attempt to get Ukraine to prosecute Biden is similar to something that a Democrat did to Trump at one time or another. This shows a lack of knowledge, in fact it shows knowledge of false information, which, smarter people realize is false and reject. 

Overarching both of these is humility, basically the idea that another person might know more than you about something you already know something about. If you had a little bit more humility you would consider what I'm saying carefully and see if it actually makes sense.  

Winger rejects what I say simply because he has spite for anyone who says things he doesn't like.  You and Sneakers aren't that way.  You don't have negative feelings towards me and you're generally polite.  You just overestimate the quality of both the information you're fed and your ability to understand it, and along with that underestimate mine.  These patterns were described by Dunning and Kruger in 1999.

I reject what you say because what you say is based off of emotion and feelings..

[BLEEP] your feelings.

You assume that anyone who hasn't come to share your particular brand of spite conservatism must be too devoted to immature soft-hearted feelings. 

And then you feel additional spite against them because they're not dead inside like you. 

Spite is not your friend. You feed it, and it just makes you feel more spite to more people who deserve it less and less.

So, really, [BLEEP] YOUR feelings, Winger.  They aren't helping you or anyone else. You need to be saying to yourself, "[BLEEP] my feelings".  Make it your new mantra. Make your Feelings Great Again.

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