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For your happiness, I would suggest to fake it: when good things are happening to you, even if you feel inside that you don't deserve them, pretend that you do.
Are you saying to pretend to be happy when good things happen or just pretend in general, because either way, pretending to be hapy is a preeeeetty shitty thing to do. I don't think I could ever pull that off. Not only do I not want to pretend, but I probably couldn't anyways.
As for the other stuff: Wat. Has this just become a discussion between millimeter and shevek at this point, because I don't know if this stuff really applies to the stuff I wrote. It doesn't have to be I guess, but I'm horrible at following anything you two are writing these days. I'm too stoop.
Let's try to pick something out that appears to be the topic ...
Instead I recommend the Socratic method: asking questions which should lead the person to saying stupid things. The idea is not to make them look stupid, but to make them realize that what they think doesn't make sense.
I think I can reply to that by just pasting this other thing -
Back to my original point though, sometimes people tell us what they have in mind for themselves because they do value and desire our opinions but 85% of the time, they don't want our opinion ... they just want someone to listen to them without answering, and 50% of those times, they want us to agree with some part of it.
Millimeter's right, I think. I tend to criticize everything, but no one wants it/cares. And it's obviously not something any of us want.
Are you saying to pretend to be happy when good things happen or just pretend in general, because either way, pretending to be hapy is a preeeeetty shitty thing to do. I don't think I could ever pull that off. Not only do I not want to pretend, but I probably couldn't anyways.
As for the other stuff: Wat. Has this just become a discussion between millimeter and shevek at this point, because I don't know if this stuff really applies to the stuff I wrote. It doesn't have to be I guess, but I'm horrible at following anything you two are writing these days. I'm too stoop.
Let's try to pick something out that appears to be the topic ...
Instead I recommend the Socratic method: asking questions which should lead the person to saying stupid things. The idea is not to make them look stupid, but to make them realize that what they think doesn't make sense.
I think I can reply to that by just pasting this other thing -
Back to my original point though, sometimes people tell us what they have in mind for themselves because they do value and desire our opinions but 85% of the time, they don't want our opinion ... they just want someone to listen to them without answering, and 50% of those times, they want us to agree with some part of it.
Millimeter's right, I think. I tend to criticize everything, but no one wants it/cares. And it's obviously not something any of us want.
