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mkbnett

How I came to acknowledge emotions as another way of sensing reality

Apr 22, 2008 02:51

Summary:

Lunchtime at RDNA
Topic lead to telling inappropriate jokes
I mentioned that I wanted to tell a great 9/11 joke (heard it from my brother Dave, and Noah also posted it)
The lunchtime crew didn't want to hear it for some reason
I took offense, feeling censored and judged to be one that would invite negativity or vulgarity into the peacefulness ( Read more... )

i feel like some slow talking dude

Comments 6

hippies getting censored is pretty funny analkant April 22 2008, 23:56:09 UTC

when you asked about emotional responses needing justification i took it to mean ( ... )

Re: hippies censoring a genius is pretty funny, heh mkbnett April 23 2008, 03:13:49 UTC

Thanks, :1 ( ... )

Re: tard analkant April 23 2008, 04:12:54 UTC

the thing i have worked on in the last few years is learning to be certain of things so that my good instincts are not controlled by people around me who have bad ones. like when you go into the hardware store and everyone is telling bad jokes and your instinct is "that's not funny," it is a lot better to NOT listen to their opinions, and be closeminded to them, because they are bad influences. there is a limit to this which is difficult for me to recognize. but yeah i think getting older does involve a certain amount of being closeminded, as a survival skill. because if we were always concerned about being correct, we'd never be certain of the earth remaining where it is. so i accept some things as necessary to believe. even if they aren't necessarily true, they seem the most likely/best. another reason for this is literal self-defense, which requires immediate judgment and not self-questioning. in psychology this is the difference between a Judger or Perceiver. I was a Perceiver for many years ( ... )

Re: tard my mental pace, tune into my senses mkbnett April 23 2008, 17:50:56 UTC

hahaha, i just typed up a long response in the reply-to box in gmail and lost it all when the window jumped back to the prior screen. i think it happens when i accidentally click outside the box with the laptop pad while typing ( ... )

amen anonymous April 24 2008, 10:02:10 UTC

listening is everything
even when we disagree with someone
'my favorite color' is forest green vs sky blue
its important to value the person and their view and to explain
how its possible to view things both ways
ACCEPTANCE is huge, we can all agree to disagree,
all of these are view points, democracy is founded on disagreement.
Each person, each human being is so important, and each of us has value and it is important to make each other feel valued and to listen to each other, and that is how we heal our country.
ari wartanian

i am in a used bookstore right now tigerdare April 28 2008, 03:38:28 UTC

in order to take advantage of their free wifi, and therefore have a limited amount of time to devote to a response, but after reading this entry, i look forward to perusing this blog of yours futher : )