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About ten years ago, when I was sixteen, I was spending a significant portion every day looking for an objective morality. I didn’t feel I could definitively tell right from wrong. It bothered me, so I thought that I could find a “platform” from which to view the world, I could determine the difference in any situation. I spent a lot of time

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I find myself admiring more and more, people who do whatever the hell they want to do.

I agree. I'm trying more often to just say what's on my mind, instead of getting overwhelmed by how much there is behind anyone word I say, and whether it's been said before. Let's keep doing it!

[deathmask_revel]

I get terrifyingly intimidated--especially around folks like you and K and S, because your brains all work so differently from mine that I can't even comprehend thinking about ~thinking about the things you...think about. I don't analyze things as quickly or in the same ways that I remember you all doing, so I never wanted to watch movies with you guys and stuff, I never engaged much in conversation because I couldn't keep up in the same ways and of course, eventually, I kind of just felt like I should just hide down in my hole there and stay away.

So yes. Intimidation about being pointless for me reaches crippling and life-changing levels.

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I'm sorry you felt that way :o(

I think insight, intelligence, cleverness et all manifest in different ways. For instance, I think I'm just as smart as K, but she tends to be much quicker and more articulate. She'll make a lot of connections and grasp things at once, and use a far more sophisticate vocabulary to describe them. I tend to be slow and plodding. I take a long time to assemble my thoughts and when I do, they don't sound very shiny. But I definitely can see things she doesn't, you know?

In the end I think we should just try to say what we think, because all of *are* unique. Inevitably our opinion is going to be special in some way. But it's hard not to be scared or feel irrelevant :o(

[rahirah]

I'm not sure I feel intimidated so much as irrelevant.

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Well, for me, I'm intimidated because I might be irrelevant.

[rahirah]

It just makes me grumpy. *g*

[dlgood]

Oh, I recognize the feeling of irrelevance Rahirah mentions. But I'm also pretty fatalistic - nobody is ever really going to solve The Big Quandaries - so I can feel that it's a valid exercise to just mentally work them out yourself even if you're treading on old ground. Most of the discussions I enter are really about things percolating in my head than anything on the page...

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I can feel that it's a valid exercise to just mentally work them out yourself even if you're treading on old ground.

I think so too. stultiloquentia just made the point that now one has over walked that old ground RIGHT NOW. It's important to find out how even ideas that have been rehashed a million times are relevant at the present. Which is encouraging.

[incasink]

I love it when I find I think i'm asking a new question thats been asked before. That means at that point in time... someone had the same brain as me. makes me think!

[lettered]

Someone having the same brain as me makes me sad! I just want to be a unique snowflake way too much.