Also—and primarily—this. Damn, of course I considered those aspects too, I’m not so psychologically blind as to not understand them. I just was too lazy to hammer that idea into shape for my comment. So you deserve all the karma for it.
Yep, but you see, there’s a difference between “mere” emotional anguish, which is, after all, biologically constrained in a way, and identity-related problems (which, as I understand it, can ruin a person precisely by using their “normal” state, with conscious voiced thoughts, as a carrier). It’s mostly bad to feel bad about yourself, but to know bad about yourself—seemingly in the empirical sense, just like you know there’s a monitor in front of you—is even worse.
Not everyone would see this in my phrase; I should’ve elaborated.
BTW, I’ve sent you a few PMs with interesting (IMO) questions over the last few weeks/months, and none have been answered! I don’t wish to embarrass you, I’m just curious if they might’ve been simply eaten by the mail gremlins. :) Might I just copy them and re-send them, so you could share an opinion or two at your leisure?
Oh don’t worry I’m going to respond to all of those in order, if you remember I did send you a PM explaining that I was going to respond to them eventually (that dreadful word). Quite honestly though I really dislike LW’s PM system, for starters my inbox contains both PMs and regular public responses and they get kind of lost in the mail, so there is that trivial barrier to responding.
I think I’ve already mentioned that I’d like to move our correspondences to email, so if you wouldn’t mind sending the text of your previous unanswered PMs in that format or me sending you an email quoting them I would much prefer that mode of communication. I’m also very much open to communicating live via skype or other IM programs.
Though obviously we’ll probably PM such contact data instead of disclosing it publicly.
Also—and primarily—this. Damn, of course I considered those aspects too, I’m not so psychologically blind as to not understand them. I just was too lazy to hammer that idea into shape for my comment. So you deserve all the karma for it.
Um, sorry, I’m just frustrated by how often I neglect to mention some facet of an argument due to it being difficult to communicate through written word.
I was merely elaborating on an argument that I thought was already there but deserved some more attention. Particularly in this line:
Yep, but you see, there’s a difference between “mere” emotional anguish, which is, after all, biologically constrained in a way, and identity-related problems (which, as I understand it, can ruin a person precisely by using their “normal” state, with conscious voiced thoughts, as a carrier). It’s mostly bad to feel bad about yourself, but to know bad about yourself—seemingly in the empirical sense, just like you know there’s a monitor in front of you—is even worse.
Not everyone would see this in my phrase; I should’ve elaborated.
BTW, I’ve sent you a few PMs with interesting (IMO) questions over the last few weeks/months, and none have been answered! I don’t wish to embarrass you, I’m just curious if they might’ve been simply eaten by the mail gremlins. :) Might I just copy them and re-send them, so you could share an opinion or two at your leisure?
Oh don’t worry I’m going to respond to all of those in order, if you remember I did send you a PM explaining that I was going to respond to them eventually (that dreadful word). Quite honestly though I really dislike LW’s PM system, for starters my inbox contains both PMs and regular public responses and they get kind of lost in the mail, so there is that trivial barrier to responding.
I think I’ve already mentioned that I’d like to move our correspondences to email, so if you wouldn’t mind sending the text of your previous unanswered PMs in that format or me sending you an email quoting them I would much prefer that mode of communication. I’m also very much open to communicating live via skype or other IM programs.
Though obviously we’ll probably PM such contact data instead of disclosing it publicly.
Kthx.