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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5679557" data-attributes="member: 54707">   I could care less either way. I never hide what I  do, nor do I suppress it. Nor do I give a flying rainbow carp what anyone alive  thinks of my activities, interests, and opinions as long as I am not actively  harming someone.   Nor do I care what others do or think as long as  they aren't actively harming others, or encouraging harm on others.   I am often told I have a "you don't give a crap  attitude." (And that I'm mostly emotionless, which isn't true, I just don't  believe in emotions guiding your actions. Emotions can be good motivators, they  are very poor administrators. Good servants, lousy Leaders.)   I don't give a crap and truth be told I find it  kinda incredible that anyone else would care what anyone thought about them or  what they did as long as they weren't harming others. With all of the possible  interesting things to do in life, I can't see being either ashamed of, or overly  proud of what I'm doing, as I'm not concerned about the opinions of others, nor  am I under any illusions that many of the things I do can't be done better by  someone else.   On the other hand I don't mind people joking about  what I do, or what others do. I think most people are usually far too sensitive  nowadays.   So if someone else makes a joke at my expense, or  at the expense of what I do, so what? It's justa joke to me. And if I joke about  others, then I'm not belittling them, just making a joke.   But I don't care about other people's opinions,  joking or not. They have them and I respect that. But they don't influence me.   Unless they can prove that their opinion is actually right. Then they do  influence me.   And I don't much care about my own opinions  either. I know I have them but I'm more concerned with whether my opinions are  right or wrong, than if they're my opinions. Cause I know so many of my opinions  have changed over time, so I'm not attached to them, and I realize that others  will have one opinion one day, and another at another point in their lives. So,  that's life.   Also I wasn't raised in a generation (or an area  of the world) that was taught to be overly sensitive about either your own or  other people's opinions. They were just opinions. They come and they go and  they're not attached at the hip to your soul, they're just opinions. And a lot  of people nowadays think that if they get their feelings hurt they've suffered  some kinda real harm or something. To me that's silly. Shot, stabbed, beaten,  murdered, that's harm. Malicious slander, libels, wrongly accused of something.  Stuff like that is real harm. Feelings and opinions, that's just part of the  business of being human. It ain't terminal. (Though I don't think you should go  out of your way to purposely offend others either, if you can help it. It's  ungentlemanly.)    So I don't get too worked up about either opinions  or feelings. Mine or anyone else's.   I guess that's why I don't care who knows what  about me either way. Short of harming others maliciously, and I try to always  avoid that.   I have kept things secret, out of necessity, like  in dangerous situations. But otherwise, I don't care.   That's my opinion on these things. I hope I didn't  offend anyone by saying that but if I did then I didn't mean to and we'll both  live through it okay. Besides I'm not changing just because someone is offended  by me. Tough luck. Then again I'm not bothered or offended that anyone else is  the way they are either, short of the "inflicting harm" caveat. If I don't  cotton to their particular lifestyle, and sometimes I don't, well, that's my  tough luck. And often my disagreements with them don't mean I can't be friends  with them either. It just means we don't always agree.   But to me I wouldn't sweat the fact that some  chick on the internet didn't dig some fella cause he's a Geek, or plays  games (or whatever). Or even tries to hound him over it. There's a billion fish  in the sea at any given time. And a lot of room to swim around. Somebody  somewhere, sooner or later, will like you as you're built. As you truly are.  That's life too.   Besides one day this girl (assuming she even told  the truth in her post) may find some Geek or Nerd and fall head over heels. So  it might not matter to her then. Much stranger things have happened. I've seen a  few in my day.    So there are no closets for me. Short of the ones  that house the necessary and real secrets.   Well, I'm gonna go watch Thundercats with my kids.  Yeah, I like it. So sue me, I don't  care. </blockquote>

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