Have at it, Linna. I am looking forward to what you have to say on this topic, here where it need not be funny to be posted.In Miss Quote's Thread, Linna Heartlistener wrote:Is this a rhetorical question, or one interested in dialogue?Savor Dam wrote:hmmm.
Is it "wrong" to be "insensitive?"
and/or
Is it "insensitive" to be "wrong?"
(it's definitely one I've thought about much and I'd love to respond to)
And if so, here? Or is there a more appropriate place?
Because seriously, it's gonna be really difficult for me to come up with a funny and non-jerkish mis-quote to respond to it!!
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Wait... what? Stuff in Mallorys needs to be funny... I've got a lot of posts to fix.Savor Dam wrote:Have at it, Linna. I am looking forward to what you have to say on this topic, here where it need not be funny to be posted.In Miss Quote's Thread, Linna Heartlistener wrote:Is this a rhetorical question, or one interested in dialogue?Savor Dam wrote:hmmm.
Is it "wrong" to be "insensitive?"
and/or
Is it "insensitive" to be "wrong?"
(it's definitely one I've thought about much and I'd love to respond to)
And if so, here? Or is there a more appropriate place?
Because seriously, it's gonna be really difficult for me to come up with a funny and non-jerkish mis-quote to respond to it!!
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Ananda- well, my own post contradicted ME, now didn't it... 
Hmm, maybe some serious topics do need the humor to break them up...
Well, SD, this will take awhile but here's a start:
I think people are only responsible for what they do with what they've been given so far.
Sometimes people may have WILDLY different goals from yours or mine; but they may actually have a point.
Hmm, maybe some serious topics do need the humor to break them up...
Well, SD, this will take awhile but here's a start:
I think people are only responsible for what they do with what they've been given so far.
Sometimes people may have WILDLY different goals from yours or mine; but they may actually have a point.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Avatar wrote:It can't be insensitive to be wrong. It can be the other way round though.
It can also be insensitive to be right.
--A
However, I think it can be insensitive to be wrong, if you know you're wrong.
Or was the intent, that a person be "innocently" wrong? Just to complicate things further...
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My intent... even worse, for complicating things!deer of the dawn wrote:Or was the intent, that a person be "innocently" wrong? Just to complicate things further...
I've got the idea that a person can be "innocently" insensitive!
By that, do I mean completely innocent? Of course not!
But I believe that a person can behave insensitively...
...and be far MORE innocent than I would have been if I'd behaved that way.
Because that person doesn't know what I know.
And because that person does know what he or she knows.
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"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Oh, believe me, that much I knew! 'Tis a particular failing of mine, since I tend to be kind of OCD (or maybe "on the spectrum") about certain matters. Many are the people who have tried to make this point to me, with Dam-sel leading that pack.Avatar wrote:It can also be insensitive to be right.
Someday, maybe it will completely register...but I am not holding my breath.
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The Queen wrote: Sensitiviy, Sensitivity
I’m just loaded with that.
In this one word is the epitomy of the aristocrat
Sensitive soul, and sensitive stomach, sensitive hands and feet;
This is the blessing, also the curse of being the true elite.
Common people don’t know what exquisite agony is,
Suffered by gentle people like me!
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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The trouble is, sometimes when you're right, it is actually good to help another person see the same truth you see.Savor Dam wrote:Oh, believe me, that much I knew! 'Tis a particular failing of mine, since I tend to be kind of OCD (or maybe "on the spectrum") about certain matters. Many are the people who have tried to make this point to me, with Dam-sel leading that pack.Avatar wrote:It can also be insensitive to be right.
Someday, maybe it will completely register...but I am not holding my breath.
How do we figure out what is best?
Vraith- Yes, that is a point.
Some kinds of "sensitivity" are... just not very helpful at all to anyone, are they?
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"