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You're right. And if I made a comment about how well I learned to clap through almost no effort I suppose I'd have one-armed people writing comments to complai

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  • 300bps 13y ago
    I'm just replying to tell you I'm not going to reply to you anymore. This has apparently stirred some serious anger in you and there's no point to any further discussion between us. I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
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    • gems 13y ago
      Please just answer the question. You seem to be using the person (sillysaurus) as an excuse to avoid having to address problems in your own worldview.
      • 300bps 13y ago
        In this short "debate", sillysaurus has called me "annoying", "smug", "arrogant", "biased" and referred to me repeatedly as "people like you". He's not debating me. He's debating every person that ever insulted him and using me as the punching bag while he's doing it. He's not listening to what I'm saying. Every time I reply to him he hears the people who have been putting him down and becomes more angry. Why in the world would I type out another reply to him? Anyway, I don't see the significance of his question as aimed toward me. what the difference is between someone who has a mental handicap, and who just isn't very good at memorizing things He used the word handicap - I was just quoting him. I don't know what a mental handicap that causes you not to be able to memorize might look like. Does he have a traumatic brain injury? That would be a handicap. But he says he was like this since birth. Did oxygen get cut off to him during delivery? I have no idea what he's talking about when he says he's handicapped. How in the world can I answer his question? In any case, I was aiming my comment at normal people and to head off the next silly question of what normal is, I mean people of typical mental capacity.
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        • sown 13y ago
          In any event, I hope we all learned something from this. :)
        • gems 13y ago
          What is the functional difference between a handicapped person who can memorize little and a person who isn't labeled handicapped but memorizes just as much? If there is none, then your qualification is useless. What difference does it make what the source of the problem is? Why do you have to know the type of handicap? edit: he/she has already given an excuse for him/herself to stop answering questions. :(
    • sown 13y ago
      >I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you. Just FYI, that can also come across as being belittling. I am not being sarcastic and I can see the ambiguity would be confusing, but that seems like a polite way of saying '&!#$ you', I hope you get better. At memorizing?
      • 300bps 13y ago
        Just imagine how great at offending people I would be if I tried to offend them! I apologize in advance for the inevitable offense you will take from this comment.
        • sown 13y ago
          It did turn into a contentious topic rather quickly, huh? :)
          • 300bps 13y ago
            sillysaurus apparently realized he had a chip on his should because he deleted all 9 replies he had in this thread.
            • sown 13y ago
              Maybe. I have the habit of deleting all old content. Do you empathize with his position, though?
              • 300bps 13y ago
                I have the habit of deleting all old content. Do you empathize with his position, though? I think there are plenty of people that have legitimate difficulties doing things and I think there are plenty of people that use excuses as to why they can't do things. What the population of each group is or where sillysaurus falls in it, I don't know. He was quick to label himself handicapped. Then he said he only said that as a technique to extract information from me and that he's just bad at memorization "as most people are" according to him. Beyond that, I think he's not a nice person. He used insults and name-calling as a frequent technique. He projected feelings he has for other people onto me. He ninja-edited almost all of his posts before deleting them. He got went from 0 to 60 angry over nothing. The guy has issues.
  • md224 13y ago
    > I think your revelation that anyone can memorize anything is a load of silliness, and untrue for most people. This entire debate: 300bpm: people with average memory skills can memorize far more than they realize sillysaurus: I have a memory deficit, and by the way, you're also wrong about people with average memory skills 300bpm: no I'm not sillysaurus: yes you are This is an incredibly useless debate (made worse by nitpicking over semantics) and based entirely on anecdotal evidence on both sides. 300bpm was just trying to be inspirational, which I find to be harmless in moderation. The end.
• philh 13y ago
  > If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense. There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they still aren't as tall as tall people. The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people and dwarves.
  • 300bps 13y ago
    The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people and dwarves. It's more like my friends and I are of average height but discovered that through little effort we can dunk a basketball. Then a very short dude comes by and says he's vertically handicapped and that I don't know what I'm talking about because he can't dunk a basketball to save his life.
    • gems 13y ago
      You said, with regards to memorization, in your OP: "I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it." If you want to now adjust that claim and say "some can do it", you better be able to tell us how to distinguish.
      • 300bps 13y ago
        Oh you're just being so silly now. Here is my original comment: I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it. Here is how I am comfortable revising it for the offended sticklers in this thread: I'm convinced anyone (of typical mental capacity) can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.
        • gems 13y ago
          I'm asking you to be rigorous with your claims. And there's nothing wrong with being pedantic. If you can't respond to questions without getting defensive, please grow up.