Have you noticed that there are some words you use, and some you don't? If so, why don't you use some words in common circulation? have you ever thought about it
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I repeat myself...squirrelboilerNovember 29 2009, 12:01:01 UTC
People of like minds and sensibilities will tend to agree with one another. It's an agreement of principles, a fondness for certain types of humour, a shared experience of the the human condition as they have lived it.
What is wrong with this? Nothing. The problem comes when people who don't share in particular views or have had the same experiential history start to see these , well, social groups based on commonalities and feel somehow excluded. To feel excluded is for some to feel slighted and hence names like 'cliques' get trotted out.
That's just the way it is. For one I'm older - OF COURSE my experiences will have been different. I'm from another culture, I have a different educational direction , different history and various interests. It's really nice to find people who may share even a part of that.
And I'M SORRY that suzy , who is 20, doesn't understand that we may have very different outlooks but that doesn't mean I'm antipathetic to HER outlook. I just don't share it (though I may remember the feelings she is having).
'Twas ever thus, I'm afraid. But it will be a frosty frickin' Friday before I will jettison the few and rare people I have found that I *do* have some things in common with so as not to upset everyone else.
Just not homogeneous popular product, me :). ( no shit, Illgrace *snerk*). And we all know that some day, somehow and somewhere the penny will drop and the very people that stamped their widdle foot will feel that small cringe moment when they understand what others were talking about and it was not about being mean to them. There was no 'clique'.
What is wrong with this? Nothing. The problem comes when people who don't share in particular views or have had the same experiential history start to see these , well, social groups based on commonalities and feel somehow excluded. To feel excluded is for some to feel slighted and hence names like 'cliques' get trotted out.
That's just the way it is. For one I'm older - OF COURSE my experiences will have been different. I'm from another culture, I have a different educational direction , different history and various interests. It's really nice to find people who may share even a part of that.
And I'M SORRY that suzy , who is 20, doesn't understand that we may have very different outlooks but that doesn't mean I'm antipathetic to HER outlook. I just don't share it (though I may remember the feelings she is having).
'Twas ever thus, I'm afraid. But it will be a frosty frickin' Friday before I will jettison the few and rare people I have found that I *do* have some things in common with so as not to upset everyone else.
Just not homogeneous popular product, me :). ( no shit, Illgrace *snerk*). And we all know that some day, somehow and somewhere the penny will drop and the very people that stamped their widdle foot will feel that small cringe moment when they understand what others were talking about and it was not about being mean to them. There was no 'clique'.
Illgrace
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