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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Discussion culture Post 303040922 by wisecracker on Saturday 9th of November 2019 05:09:55 PM

11-09-2019

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Hi stomp...

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Such experiences can either happen negatively(example: "All I did here is completely in vain.") or positively(example: "I really feel competent now, since I had the power to finish that challenging task") and are in terms of effect on oneself a thousand times stronger than just thoughts("positive thinking").

I do feel very competent now as I have set some, (possibly seriously), difficult challenges and overcome them in the shell scripting world. ;o)
However back to your OP, I find it difficult to discuss issues, usually political these days, with those that disagree with my position even when they are confronted with outright factual content.
I just facepalm nowadays and bow out gracefully.
There has been many a time when I have wanted to shout, but 'Oscar Wilde wit' overcomes me resulting in me ejecting myself gracefully from a discussion to _regroup_ ready for the barrage of ad-hominem attacks that could occur, would occur and do occur. Sadly ad-hominem attacks do happen very often these days.
In forums like these here on UNIX.COM events like this are really unheard of but places like FB bring out the worst in people. Semi-literates proliferate in huge quantities making sensible debates impossible. This goes for all sides of the spectrum of discussion.
AFAIAC, fortunately for this site, we are free of these traits. In fact there are some particularly polite people on here compared to some places.
I was once a member of a Python ML, and was treated with so much disdain by a few of the Python big guns that within 6 months I unsubscribed and will never rejoin there again.
Since the birth of the _smartphone_ the art of conversation, discussion and debate has died...

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