Personality Traits

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  1. kio11

    kio11 Established Member

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    these type of people keep saying that they say what goes trough their mind out loud and hide behind the excuse of being "honest". "oh darling but you DO look kinda gay - no offense im your friend and im being outright honest with you" but actually you know that you dont look gay at all. and you understand that the person in front of you actually is saying the first INSULT that goes trough their mind, not the first truth, as theyre incapable of thinking the utmost truth frst in the locomotive of the train of thought. but they wrap it around so good that they themselves dont even recognise it.

    these people when they level up grow up to be people like the current president of france or north korea. their truth always has a double standart.
     
    kio11, Apr 14, 2011
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  2. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    That trait still strikes me as moreso self-centeredness (e.g. "it's all about me"), because a solution would mean no more room for whining, and if you're self-centered you generally want people to listen to you - your whining or whatever else (generalizing here of course) - not solutions. This as opposed to arrogance - smug feelings of superiority. (?) Or so I think anyway.

    I would argue that despair (e.g. the genuine sensation of losing hope) is not an elective behavior whatsoever, thus 'believing' in any form would have nothing to do with it. If you choose to give up hope, that's something different than having your hope taken away involuntarily. You're obviously a pro at this and I'm not, but would you characterize a person whose entire family has been killed in a fire or car accident as putting on and believing, voluntarily and unnecessarily, that their plight is worse than it is? Or are they genuinely ... well, f*cked? I think they're f*cked, and they basically had nothing to do with that outcome. It just happened to them.

    Conversely, I think that "believing your problem is so great that even God cannot help you" is venturing into self-pity territory again, because it's elective. The belief part sort of implies that it's unnecessary. The person who lost everything doesn't need to believe anything, because his or her fate is a fact. The person who's putting on for some lesser misfortune chose to go there. e.g., not despair.

    I don't think despair is a personaility trait anyway, is it?
     
    Gaear, Apr 14, 2011
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  3. Sergio Morozov

    Sergio Morozov Paladin

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    We should make a list of possible personality traits then.

    You know, like this:
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    Courage - Cowardice.
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    Sergio Morozov, Apr 14, 2011
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