Nix said:
I'm just curious CBS - what exactly was this course about, or rather,
Psychotherapy and Counselling course, although I'm not receiving psychotherapy and it isn't so much the academic content that is making me think this way...
what fuels this particular question? Are you attempting to see people's responses for another benign reason, are you attempting to validate something you were taught or are you just pushing the boundaries of intrinsic arrogance?
Because I was called into asking this question of myself and I know that one of the places that I can get answers in this fashion, is here.
SunaseIPs said:
What's that coming over the hill...
basmic said:
CBS, I've seen some of your undiluted comments on here - and because of those, I actually grew to like your points of view. I would say you use sarcasm when people don't understand the point you're trying to put across.
Thankyou for telling me why you like me. It's worth note that a lot of the more controversial of my comments on here are political but here was about the only place I could express them at one point. When I started thinking a lot of the things about the topics I am often associated with on here I also believed that such things couldn't be said in public.
I use sarcasm when the mood takes me.
Over the last year or so I have started mixing with lots of different people, mostly people who come from posher social backgrounds than I and lots of different types of educational backgrounds.
I'd tried to varying degrees to make friends and come to a few conclusions, which have really been highlighted to me over the week.
1) I thought that being funny will make people like me, that it was an excellent social skill. But I also realise that it wont necessarily do all the work . I realised this today because there is little/no room for humour where I am every day. What is also unusual is that I have become friendly with someone without using my sense of humour, and I just dont understand how that works...
2) I have come to stop caring what others think of me, and found that this somehow makes them like me more. In the majority of social situations I really don't care - particularly becasue I am more working class than a lot of the people I mix with, and generally more comfortable with a confrontation than they are. I go into a social situation with the idea that if anyone trys to be mean to me that no-one would be able to shame or embarrass me becasue I wouldn't be uncomfortable with a confrontation. (Don't know how much sense that makes - Gilly doesn't seem afraid of confrontation, he might get what I'm talking about)
