Things that piss you off

[Bill Nye the Science Guy]

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[Xeraphem]

Yeah, the situation's just resolved itself. I just find it increasingly annoying the disregard for other people's feelings or thoughts. Hey everyone, let's just conform to the masses and act like sheep, not caring if the people next to us don't have the same taste as us; it's all grass! HurrDurrHurr! :B

Monkeysphere.

I'm sorry, I don't follow:



Monkeysphere? o-o

[Karilyn]

Yeah, the situation's just resolved itself. I just find it increasingly annoying the disregard for other people's feelings or thoughts. Hey everyone, let's just conform to the masses and act like sheep, not caring if the people next to us don't have the same taste as us; it's all grass! HurrDurrHurr! :B

Monkeysphere.

I'm sorry, I don't follow:
[img]http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vSZuzzAcicM/SmsFj ... ll.jpg[img]
Monkeysphere? o-o

No, the other Monkeysphere.

Long story short, it's a theoretical limit on the human brain's capacity to conceptualize other human beings as people who have lives and feelings, as opposed to being scenery.

It's the main reason humans have such a tendency to be apathetic to others around you.

[Xeraphem]

Monkeysphere.

I'm sorry, I don't follow:
[img]http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vSZuzzAcicM/SmsFj ... ll.jpg[img]
Monkeysphere? o-o

No,the other Monkeysphere.

Long story short, it's a theoretical limit on the human brain's capacity to conceptualize other human beings as people who have lives and feelings, as opposed to being scenery.

It's the main reason humans have such a tendency to be apathetic to others around you.

We have a class of roughly eight when everyone is attending. Community colleges are small. o.O

And only two of said eight, minus the professor, were jamming out to the drivel pouring out over the laptop. ((Something about some guy whining about wanting to be famous, but his mother broke down and cried so he bought a thousand dollars worth of booze and got arrested for it...))

Anyways, this is pretty interesting. Imma read up on it real quick. And does your point happen to be that he's reached the saturation point of said 150 social interactions, or at least enough to the point that he doesn't wish to care about himself in the social group OR the others in it?

[Defenestrator2.0]

Forum games.

CRY

Forum games.

SOME

Forum games.

MOOOOOORE!

So stop complaining and make a 'good' or 'worthy' thread already.


I'm waiting...

[DoNotDelete]

Still not seeing any AWESOME THREADS there Def.


Stop complaining and make something happen.

[Karilyn]

Anyways, this is pretty interesting. Imma read up on it real quick. And does your point happen to be that he's reached the saturation point of said 150 social interactions, or at least enough to the point that he doesn't wish to care about himself in the social group OR the others in it?

My point is that he hasn't added you, or his other classmates to his monkeysphere. As far as his mind is concerned, you are scenery, not a person.

The limit doesn't have to be saturated in order to not conceptualize other people as persons. An easy example is how you think of other people in stores, either customers or employees. Or about other drivers on the road. For the most part, they are nothing more than scenery to you... scenery that occasionally gets in your way and annoys you.

You can also fill that limited capacity with "groups" of people, as opposed to individuals. For example, you could feel sympathetic towards "Starving children in Ethiopia" and want to help, but you couldn't possibly conceptualize all of them as individuals.

[Defenestrator2.0]

Still not seeing any AWESOME THREADS there Def.


Stop complaining and make something happen.

Nice job completely ignoring everything I said in my post.

[Zink]

I didn't even say forum games are bad.

I just said we need less of the "Decide something for the above poster" ones.

[Karilyn]

I didn't even say forum games are bad.

I just said we need less of the "Decide something for the above poster" ones.

Yeah, there are too many of them. But they aren't too problematic... as long as people don't make a bazillion posts in them in a single day, which are largely repeat posts. If you can't think of something original to say, don't say it.

Too often in the avatar thread or whatever, you'll see something like.

*guy with a monkey for his avatar makes a post*
Person replies: Gorillaman
*monkey avatar guy makes another post*
Person replies: Apeman
*monkey guy makes another post*
Person replies: Man_Ape

Either think of something unique to post, or don't say anything at all.

[DoNotDelete]

Still not seeing any AWESOME THREADS there Def.


Stop complaining and make something happen.

Nice job completely ignoring everything I said in my post.

All I hear is whining.


Which is what pisses me off.

[Xeraphem]

Anyways, this is pretty interesting. Imma read up on it real quick. And does your point happen to be that he's reached the saturation point of said 150 social interactions, or at least enough to the point that he doesn't wish to care about himself in the social group OR the others in it?

My point is that he hasn't added you, or his other classmates to his monkeysphere.

The limit doesn't have to be saturated in order to not conceptualize other people as persons. An easy example is how you think of other people in stores, either customers or employees. Or about other drivers on the road. For the most part, they are nothing more than scenery to you... scenery that occasionally gets in your way and annoys you.

You can also fill that limited capacity with "groups" of people, as opposed to individuals. For example, you could feel sympathetic towards "Starving children in Ethiopia" and want to help, but you couldn't possibly conceptualize all of them as individuals.

I'd have to think that would be for the best, lest seeing every one of those starving children's faces may make you put a bullet in your own. So, to some extent, I can certainly see where this monkeysphere comes handy, but I find it odd that no one gives the time for Integration of the Spheres ((That's gotta be some kind of 50's SciFi story xD)). When one is in a group such as small as this, introductions are usually passed around, imposed or just for formality, and you at least get the name or face of the person in your head to say "hey, I know you" while on the streets. Of course, it is a computer class filled mainly with awkward anti-socials, me being one of them. I realize that this may not serve any special purpose in the sphere, however, an impression should usually be made. Which goes back to impmon's idea of me asking them politely to shut off that "music" before I shove the Mac OS X down their throats the horizontal way... ((I can picture that much. It makes me smile...))

[Defenestrator2.0]

Still not seeing any AWESOME THREADS there Def.


Stop complaining and make something happen.

Nice job completely ignoring everything I said in my post.

All I hear is whining.


Which is what pisses me off.

All I hear is INTERNET TOUGH GUY.


Which is what amuses me.

[DoNotDelete]

Nice job completely ignoring everything I said in my post.

All I hear is whining.


Which is what pisses me off.

All I hear is INTERNET TOUGH GUY.


Which is what amuses me.

I'm mostly entertained by your tired comebacks.


Where's the originality?

[Mr. Mander]

Internet Arguments displease me.

*koffkoff*