I'm just another person, Matthew. I am not a scarce resource. Realize that.
What you consider to be flattering is just one more person you screwed over shaking their head in disbelief. Trust me, your 'value' is not what I can't seem to get over-- I'm just new to dealing with irresponsible heartless arrogant self importants who probably need a good ass kicking.
Well, Matthew I care about you but not as an inferior but as a fellow man capable of much as he deems valuable. My advice: Don't let me or anybody else control your happiness. I am not worth your energy nor is anybody else. Stand on your own two feet.
I honestly don't believe I have any problems standing on my own two feet Atlas. I have done more than you before I was 10. What my problem is is that I have started to believe (thanks a lot goons, and yes I'm mentioning you-- wanna fight about it?) that I'm not actually the only one in the universe and that on top of being fundementally wrong on many opinions of the world, it is also possible for me to grow out of certain mindsets. This makes me want to talk less, listen more, and not put so much faith in myself. That's not the same thing as being compromised, because I am a very artistic and talented som of a bitch. It just means that I am no longer trying to ride that through life as mu only asset (which should be bare minimum for everyone tbi).
Heh. You measure your accomplishments in comparison to mine. Interesting.
Yes, Matthew, you have many things you deem as virtues. I just hope you're doing them for you and not to appease people. I certainly don't care about your attempts at humility and how you want to grow. There's more to a person than that.
Yeah, Matthew, you are such a dick for measuring your accomplishments in the context of the conversation. It's like...you know how to interact with people socially or something, you fucking prick. In the future, I want you to only compare yourself to Winston Churchill and his accomplishments so that we may judge you on a grander scale. You know what? No, that isn't big enough. Gilgamesh...I mean, he was the original god-king, and like Atlas, he did what he wanted.
Heh. I actually don't think value needs comparison at all. It should be inherently felt.
Come now. Mr. Philosophy here is telling a biologist that thinks it's all a crock of shit that value should be inherently felt? You are aware of that whole manicheism thing, right? You don't think that applies to emotion? I disagree. I do not think that you can perceive value without basis for comparison. Why else would values differ between individuals but for life experience? Are you arguing for an absolute free-for-all where everyone does what they want? Cause that's Pleasure Island from Pinocchio, and it'll turn you into a jackass. C'mon...we learned that in the thirties from Walt Disney for christ's sake.
Of course. Heh. To not understand that would be to deny their value -- assuming they are valuable, which in a lot of cases they are not.
So you think that there are people that exist or have existed with no value? I would hate to hate the world so much. I think every person on this earth carries a valuable lesson, and I try my hardest to pry it from everyone I meet. My favorite thing to do in this world is watch masters of any craft do their thing. I can spend hours watching a welder weld, or a field scientist out doing his collections, or a musician no one has ever heard of sitting at home playing their piano. I don't care what it is, on some level, everyone has something to add. For you to assume otherwise is very self-absorbed.
Sure everyone perceives differently but to rely on the achievements of others to feel the value of your own is self-defeating. You can't depend on people completely for your happiness.
Feel free to call me a jackass. Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
To answer your latter statement -- a strawman fallacy -- I do believe everyone has value. I don't believe everyone is entitled to my time and respect; ergo, valuable people aren't scarce. There is also the chance that I don't value some people. That's my choice. However, it's probable that somebody else can and will value them.
Anyways, it's good that you can derive pleasure from people easily. As do I. To me that is the way to live. I just don't depend on it.