jgbrowning said:
hehe, what do you mean? I'm still being nasty!
Oh sh*t! Ummm...I mean... Nu-uh! Shut up! Arsehole!Arsehole! (There, did they buy that? *whew!*) *snickers*
i understand your viewpoint and agree. however, i have chosen to live my life in a particular manner that is not very congruent with others opinions or perceptions.
This is understandable. I have philosophies of my own that tend to color the way I react. Most of mine are pretty oddball, too.
as shown above, my real reaction to the situation would be to let the guy have his way (ie. im not really attached to his PC anyway) because it causes him emotional distress.
*Nods* So your posted scenareo was basically an opportunity to vent on a theoretical situation that frustrated you in light of your views. Perfectly normal, once understood.
however, i do think he's hurting himself and i do think he would benefit from trying to understand that he has more control over his emotions that he thinks he does.
Possibly, but I do think that investing some degree of emotional attachment to a character is an important step is being able to role-play them excellently. You have to identify before you can... step into this other person's shoes. Especially when this other person (and their shoes) are fictional. I can relate to Theoretical Gamer's position, I have characters that are practically sancrosact. Not many, but some. They are versions of myself, altered or distorted mirrors of myself, and they are more than just pretend people to me because of that.
With the wife thing, im one of those guys who wouldn't do crap to the other guy. The issues between me and my wife, not anyone else.
Being a serious non-pacifist myself, I'd likely gut the guy like a fish, and smile all the way to jail (with a fairly decent, and fairly honest, temporay insanity plea readied).
You've got a good view about the can/but doesn't have the ability yet arguement and how that appears to be a moot point. but the other aspect of my philosophy organizes itself around the concept that self doesn't ever really die, that all times are present at once, and that all posibility is reality in a continually changin ever-static universe.
it don't make sense and i know it , but is sure solves those tricky paradoxes!
LOL! Ohhhhh fun.
Paradoxes are fun, but highly frustrating to someone like myself who doesn't believe in the logic behind them, for the most part. And, while I try to be mostly existential about things on the whole, and blase about the majority of stressors found in everyday life that I cannot effect in the Now, I don't think I could maintain the mental stringency to hold fast to a strong philosophy such as yours. I like to do mental gymnastics, but don't like to maintain them for great lengths of time. Just makes a mind tired, and I've never been extremely strong on the 'dedication to an ideal' thing.
that's better, needed the little face.
