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Title: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 27, 2021, 10:07:11 am
There are some people who just refuse to use logic if it means admitting they're wrong, or if the topic is vaguely emotional, or seemingly at random. Do you believe that idiots tend to work in the same way; or is each one a special snowflake?

Does it boil down to having no control of thier own emotions? In my experience people refuse to think the hardest about something that has the potential to be a negative thought, even if you explicitly state the implications are ultimately not negative. Are people afraid to think?

Or is the truth more on the lines of broken machinery; once you step on one of thier emotional tripwires, they're useless?
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Frumple on January 27, 2021, 10:10:32 am
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How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
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Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 27, 2021, 10:32:23 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVt49l6aP8

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Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Cthulhu on January 29, 2021, 04:20:31 pm
Well probably the biggest common theme is they think logic is real.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Vector on January 29, 2021, 04:40:42 pm
Hello again. How have you been?
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 29, 2021, 04:43:18 pm
Pretty good, how about you
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: scriver on January 29, 2021, 04:56:25 pm
Feels like foreeeveeeer
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: McTraveller on January 29, 2021, 08:13:34 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 27, 2021, 10:32:23 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVt49l6aP8

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Aw man, I was hoping for a flat earth video.

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Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: anewaname on January 29, 2021, 09:56:39 pm
Quote from: Novel Scoops on January 27, 2021, 10:07:11 am
There are some people who just refuse to use logic if it means admitting they're wrong, or if the topic is vaguely emotional, or seemingly at random. Do you believe that idiots tend to work in the same way; or is each one a special snowflake?

Does it boil down to having no control of thier own emotions? In my experience people refuse to think the hardest about something that has the potential to be a negative thought, even if you explicitly state the implications are ultimately not negative. Are people afraid to think?

Or is the truth more on the lines of broken machinery; once you step on one of thier emotional tripwires, they're useless?
Each is a special snowflake but each is also "just another snowflake". Plenty of people realize the conversation is getting close to something that would make them feel "bad" or reveal something they want hidden, so they add emotions that are wrong for the situation into the discussion in an attempt to disrupt the conversation. They intentionally change volume and pitch of the emotions until they get one that works. If this tactic works, these people keep doing it. Some of these people become "broken machines", using their emotional outbursts in every situation without fore-thought. Regardless of how aware they are of their actions, it still boils down to misusing emotion outbursts to stop the conversation to avoid that "something".

Most kids spend years being the more thought-full version of these idiots, practicing on their parents.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Scoops Novel on January 31, 2021, 04:54:42 am
Anewaname, going to share a comment i recieved on reddit that i think also has relevance.

"I believe there may be a lot with a sort of mental fog that makes it harder for them to think hard. Like pulling magnets apart. From what I've heard from talking to many, it seems like it is just so easy to "just exist and not use your thoughts very much" and it is super unmotivating to use your effort to pull those magnets apart and think about what you're doing.

Other than that I have no theory's"
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: scriver on January 31, 2021, 08:15:05 am
Is this irony Christmas? Are we receiving a feast of gifts from Robot Santa?
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: dragdeler on August 12, 2022, 06:24:40 pm
Wait. Have you been doing this for one and a half year allready?! Noooo. No? WTF


Idiots minds don't work can confirm am idiot.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: King Zultan on August 13, 2022, 04:44:57 am
Me am idiot to! Let us form an idiot club!
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: dragdeler on August 13, 2022, 09:26:27 am
Ok I screw up the organisation of events, vcd misses the date, and you ruin the speech.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: Ziusudra on August 13, 2022, 07:46:08 pm
If the human brain were so simple
That we could understand it,
We would be so simple
That we couldn’t.

Emerson M. Pugh
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: MrRoboto75 on August 13, 2022, 09:19:15 pm
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Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: anewaname on August 14, 2022, 12:58:07 am
Quote from: Scoops Novel on January 31, 2021, 04:54:42 am
Anewaname, going to share a comment i recieved on reddit that i think also has relevance.

"I believe there may be a lot with a sort of mental fog that makes it harder for them to think hard. Like pulling magnets apart. From what I've heard from talking to many, it seems like it is just so easy to "just exist and not use your thoughts very much" and it is super unmotivating to use your effort to pull those magnets apart and think about what you're doing.

Other than that I have no theory's"
I remember not answering this post long ago....

The magnets idea seems good as an analogy.

Compare how drug-addicts respond just to the idea of the drug... it is either a strong attraction or strong aversion and not much in the way of a mild response; and the drugs in this case may be the naturally-dosages from the human body (serotonin/dopamine/oxytocin/etc)...

When people have conversations where the emotion seems wrong and the conversation no longer involves conversing, it doesn't matter if they are aware or unaware of their actions... they are being attracted to happy-drugs or in aversion to the unhappy-drugs.

In a conversation, people rarely are afraid to think, but they can be very afraid to express their conclusion, especially if they fear their tribe's response.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: EuchreJack on August 16, 2022, 05:05:13 pm
Quote from: dragdeler on August 12, 2022, 06:24:40 pm
Wait. Have you been doing this for one and a half year allready?! Noooo. No? WTF

WTF!?

Ok, mind blown.

Also, the concept of "idiots" was created by....idiots. It's a way to derogatively discuss people who are not you.

Also, I have been self-described as an idiot.  But that was a while ago.  Again, mind blown.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: King Zultan on August 17, 2022, 04:14:02 am
I though idiots were created when a mommy idiot and a daddy idiot loved each other very much and commenced to humping.
Title: Re: How well do you understand how a idiots mind works?
Post by: scriver on August 17, 2022, 07:24:04 am
Du kan kalla mig för idiot
Det har jag ingenting emot
Jag är en idiot
Mer än så kan ingen bli (https://youtu.be/De0JZfWCxGc)