I think there’s a level of overall defensiveness that has permeated all social interactions lately. So incorrect statements are taken as attacks against people’s intelligence versus a simple misstep. It’s been weird to navigate. Not sure if anyone else can relate.
I have always found people to be very antagonistic to the idea that your own beliefs are about as based on reality as anything else's. So admitting that other people fully believe and experience a different subjective reality than you is itself something to be fought.
My roommate, who just spent half the day insisting that I solicited help putting on my shoes. I have not, since infancy, needed help to put on any garment. I told her she was mistaken. Her stance? "I don't like being called a liar!!!"
Oh honey I said you were WRONG. Not that you were lying. And yet she does not grasp.
i try to give people the benefit of the doubt as much as possible, & i assume most people are generally honest, & i try always to be honest. but if it's a continued pattern where they're proven to be deliberately dishonest, i get really pissed lol. people that lie about small things often, often lie about much bigger things... it's a delusion where they want to be seen as the better person while actively causing harm, & if someone lies to you deliberately it means they don't value your sense of reality or experience in whatever situation they're lying about; that's scary.
I believe that if someone is told that they’re spreading misinformation, consciously or unconsciously, and they still refuse to correct themselves, then they are now deliberately lying.
It’s 2026, people have tiny supercomputers in their pockets. They can look up anything and figure out if it’s true or not. But they choose not to.
And yes, I’m aware that there’s a lot of misinformation being spread literally everywhere, but a little critical thinking goes a long way. I was just watching a pretty dumb show with my sibling the other day and the main characters made a vow to stop talking about dudes so one of them started researching global warming and said a lot of it seemed controversial so then they started researching the opposite views. This was on what I would consider a brainrot show!
I like the use of “frequency” for people. Dated a liar. It took me months to figure it out. But he knew the inscription on a necklace my family gave me I got him. He kept saying I had misplaced it. He’s like “oh the one that says from g-ma?” I flipped on him was like “SOB GO GET it out of the pawn NOW. (He did, and we broke up) 🤣he was very convincing but my gut said I was right the entire time…
I think there’s a level of overall defensiveness that has permeated all social interactions lately. So incorrect statements are taken as attacks against people’s intelligence versus a simple misstep. It’s been weird to navigate. Not sure if anyone else can relate.
My husband's favorite saying is, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Assuming everyone is malicious and has the worst intentions all the time in a guaranteed shortcut to being miserable.
Very true. I just assume everyone is stupid, myself included.
And it's also a guaranteed shortcut to developing a persecution complex
I have always found people to be very antagonistic to the idea that your own beliefs are about as based on reality as anything else's. So admitting that other people fully believe and experience a different subjective reality than you is itself something to be fought.
You mean like, do we as a public consider certain higher-ups incompetent or villainous when they put policy in place that may bring back polio?
Or is it just me?
My roommate, who just spent half the day insisting that I solicited help putting on my shoes. I have not, since infancy, needed help to put on any garment. I told her she was mistaken. Her stance? "I don't like being called a liar!!!"
Oh honey I said you were WRONG. Not that you were lying. And yet she does not grasp.
i try to give people the benefit of the doubt as much as possible, & i assume most people are generally honest, & i try always to be honest. but if it's a continued pattern where they're proven to be deliberately dishonest, i get really pissed lol. people that lie about small things often, often lie about much bigger things... it's a delusion where they want to be seen as the better person while actively causing harm, & if someone lies to you deliberately it means they don't value your sense of reality or experience in whatever situation they're lying about; that's scary.
Like vibrational frequency?
Numerical
Ah. Then I'm afraid I don't understand the question.
Think of it as, “an interestingly high number of people with this trait”.
I believe that if someone is told that they’re spreading misinformation, consciously or unconsciously, and they still refuse to correct themselves, then they are now deliberately lying.
It’s 2026, people have tiny supercomputers in their pockets. They can look up anything and figure out if it’s true or not. But they choose not to.
And yes, I’m aware that there’s a lot of misinformation being spread literally everywhere, but a little critical thinking goes a long way. I was just watching a pretty dumb show with my sibling the other day and the main characters made a vow to stop talking about dudes so one of them started researching global warming and said a lot of it seemed controversial so then they started researching the opposite views. This was on what I would consider a brainrot show!
I like the use of “frequency” for people. Dated a liar. It took me months to figure it out. But he knew the inscription on a necklace my family gave me I got him. He kept saying I had misplaced it. He’s like “oh the one that says from g-ma?” I flipped on him was like “SOB GO GET it out of the pawn NOW. (He did, and we broke up) 🤣he was very convincing but my gut said I was right the entire time…
I think they meant frequency as in rate of occurance in this context.
Oh you’re right! I still like it the other way. Like this one’s on a different radio frequency.
We will always be the issue