(12-05-2018, 01:21 AM)Mark Wrote: [ -> ] But I do sometimes address a post point by point. It is just that so many of your responses were just so extensive.
I'm sorry.
It is something I've struggled with for my whole life for perhaps, neurological reasons.
I would like to point out that I used to be far worse.
And it is something I am trying to work on fixing.
Quote: Any one of them would have been interesting to pursue in a back and forth way. But I can't possibly take in so many points and still recall whatever response I maybe had after so many pile up on it. That may just be me though, I don't know.
That's okay. Hang on a min ... are you responding to some response I gave you earlier in the thread? Or do you mean my extremely long response to SteveII?
I'm working on trying to be more concise whilst still remaining thorough.
People sometimes criticize me by saying that they think I'm trying to set people up only to knock them down.
But really all I'm doing is asking questions while obviously having my own views on the topic ... and then telling them what I think after they respond. It just so happens that the topics I most enjoy discussing are topics where I myself have controversial or unusual views.
I mean, look at it this way: If I have a very controversial or unusual or even seemingly crazy viewpoint then I'm going to want to try and falsify it to make sure that I'm not wrong to hold the view I have. I'm very against confirmation bias. So that's why I'm very much interested in any arguments against my controversial, unusual or seemingly crazy viewpoints. Obviously I am most likely going to keep finding myself thinking that I am successfuly defeating the other opponent's attempts to defeat my views ... because if I didn't I would have already changed my mind by now. But if I AM wrong and AM going to change my mind someday ... then challenging my own views is the best way to go about it. And I don't see much point in trying to confirm my own views rather than falsify them! Nor do I see much point in trying to falsify widely held views that I share with everyone else that is already obviously correct! (Although I still like to think them through a lot and when I end up thinking I've falsified a widely held view then it becomes another one of my controversial views).
So, people say I try to knock people down ... so I'm trying to avoid being incorrectly perceived THAT way ... but then if I instead just hold most of my views back and follow up with them later ... then that's just going to look EVEN MORE like that's what I'm doing. When I'm not. So that's the difficult part. Putting everything all in my post at once is going to avoid more of those misperceptions about me. I hope.
But I guess I could try it. The problem is though ... I'll forget what I was going to say, often times, if I hold back 90% of what I want to say and just say the first 10%.
Sorry if this post is too long! I just wanted to explain myself to you properly!
EDIT: Oh another problem is that if I only respond to 10% of what the person says then it would be like I ignored 90% of their post.
Perhaps I should try quoting them paragraph by paragraph instead of sentence by sentence, do you think that that might work?