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For those of you who are always right...

Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

.Navigator
Mister Emu said:
"For those of you who are always right..."
You rang? Did you have a burning question, and you just knew only the wondrous I could answer?
I've not read the thread, so I may be repeating, but what amazes me about such mindsets is that they are often mired is such readily apparent ignorance that it is laughable.
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Haha yes..:)

From the net- RIGHT MAN (AND WOMAN) SYNDROME
"The "Right Men" are domestic household tyrants who terrorise their families but they can be found in all fields of life: in business, politics, art, culture, religion etc.
They are poor communicators, appalling listeners, and demonstrate a profound inflexibility.
As a result, they tend to be hopelessly out of date with the current times in terms of fashion, relationships, social and cultural trends.
They also often carry an erroneously fixed and out-of-date view about whom a person is and there is nothing that person (whether it be their son/daughter, neighbour, colleague) can do to convince them otherwise.
The "Right Man" thinks he's right because he carries "secret knowledge"
The "Right Man" tends to believe that he knows people better than they know themselves.
Their catch-phrase is: "There is nothing wrong with me; it is everyone else that is at fault."
The "Right Man" must always have his way and is afraid of losing face above all ("How dare you talk to me this way?"): anything that might be an indication of his/her infallibility or erroneous ways is something that he can never admit.
And if things don't exactly go his/her way, he may try to scare people into submission by breaking into outbursts of rage.."

Anger, Aggression, Temper: NLP, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy
 
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YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
Katzpur said:
This constant, "I'm right, brother, and you're wrong," is starting to annoy me to no end. (You know who you are.) How about saying, "I believe..." or "From my perspective..." or "The way I see it..." for a change? None of us knows anything "for sure." God (and yes, I'm going to assume He exists because the idea that He does resonates very strongly with me) has not handpicked you to be the purveyor of all truth while letting the rest of us wallow in ignorance. Believe what you will. Stand up for what you believe. But for Heaven's sake, stop equating what you believe to be true with fact, because it's not. It's your belief, your opinion, your perspective. That's all it is. And try to let up a little with respect to the condescending responses. It's making all of us despise you. This has nothing to do with what's true and what isn't. It has everything to do with your attitude.
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I remember saying this to some folks who were going on and on and on and on and on about "Ultimate Reality" and "Absolute Truth" awhile back. I don't think they really grasped the idea that their assertions about so-called "truth" or reality for that matter was simply a projection on their part. Oh well, what can one do? Great OP, Kathryn. :)
 
Shuttlecraft

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Incidentally my late dad was a "Right Man" and liked to think he knew better than anybody else.
As a kid I got on fairly alright with him, but as I got older and began to show signs of having brains he began to hate me because he couldn't handle the thought that I might grow up to be brainier than him, so he did all he could to belittle me and wreck my self-confidence over the years, you couldn't make it up!
And he kept our house a "book-free" zone so's I couldn't learn anything from a children's encyclopaedia which I would have loved to have.
My mother bought me a "How it is Made and how it Works" book once, but it mysteriously vanished..
Luckily by my early teens I knew he was full of krap and never took any notice of the little sh**..:)
 
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Sapiens

Sapiens

Polymathematician
Shuttlecraft said:
Incidentally my late dad was a "Right Man" and liked to think he knew better than anybody else.
As a kid I got on fairly alright with him, but as I got older and began to show signs of having brains he began to hate me because he couldn't handle the thought that I might grow up to be brainier than him, so he did all he could to belittle me and wreck my self-confidence over the years, you couldn't make it up!
And he kept our house a "book-free" zone so's I couldn't learn anything from a children's encyclopaedia which I would have loved to have.
My mother bought me a "How it is Made and how it Works" book once, but it mysteriously vanished..
Luckily by my early teens I knew he was full of krap and never took any notice of the little sh**..:)
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That explains a lot. I am so sorry, destroying someone's intellectual growth is a terrible thing.
 
outhouse

outhouse

Atheistically
Katzpur said:
It's getting tiresome. As a 9 1/2 year member of RF, I never cease to be amazed by those posters who cannot even begin to conceive of the idea that someone else may have a valid point..
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Closed minds right or wrong, is never a good thing.


For me it is a fight against ignorance, and most of the time it is willful ignorance which makes it painful.


Getting people to accept education and knowledge is not what I consider fun. If I have to go back and tell someone the foundation is credible, It slows getting to the finer points that need to be addresses to advance a topic.


I don't usually have any trouble with you at all, someone must have done a fine job of being arrogant
 
Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
outhouse said:
Closed minds right or wrong, is never a good thing.


For me it is a fight against ignorance, and most of the time it is willful ignorance which makes it painful.


Getting people to accept education and knowledge is not what I consider fun. If I have to go back and tell someone the foundation is credible, It slows getting to the finer points that need to be addresses to advance a topic.


I don't usually have any trouble with you at all, someone must have done a fine job of being arrogant
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Willful ignorance?......

So picture someone preaching history to a choir.
ignoring the nature of the audience and thumping someone else's history book.

Ignorance is not a lack of knowledge.
It's not realizing the territory you stand in.

That would be arrogance....fueled by ignorance.
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Polymathematician
Thief said:
Willful ignorance?......

So picture someone preaching history to a choir.
ignoring the nature of the audience and thumping someone else's history book.

Ignorance is not a lack of knowledge.
It's not realizing the territory you stand in.

That would be arrogance....fueled by ignorance.
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No, that may be arrogance, maybe not, but in either case it could be fueled by knowledge and fact. Ignorance is oft the byword of the history book being deservedly thumped.
 
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Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Sapiens said:
No, that may be arrogance, maybe not, but in either case it could be fueled by knowledge and fact. Ignorance is oft the byword of the history book being deservedly thumped.
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Yeah ok....
but to speak so assuredly to the choir, while pumping your fist on a history book?

arrogance

I do like history documentaries now and then.
Archeology has interesting tweaks.

But I can never take God out of the picture.

Won't happen.
 
Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

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Shuttlecraft

Shuttlecraft

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Science includes astronomy and the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, so it overlaps with the Bible which is simply a list of human interactions with offworld beings over many centuries..:)
For example the similarities between Jesus and Klaatu are remarkable, both had a hostile reception from primitive earthlings, what do you say Klaatu?

"Klaatu barada nikto!"
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