stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 12/30/2016 at 5:53 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 5:43 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 5:35 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 4:59 PM, LimpyLoo said:

Okay look, here's a story about how your limbic system works:

 

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Your hypothalamus posits a motivational state (e.g. "I'm hungry")

Your cognitive framework then becomes 'navigate the environment from A (hunger) to B (food or food-getting tools)'

But there are also 'unseen obstacles' from any A to any B

When you encounter an 'unseen obstacle' your hippocampus activates and says to your cognitive system 'bro, go sort this out'

And if your cognitive system doesn't sort it out

Then your amygdala (i.e. negative emotion) activates

And then your hypothalamus' new motivational state is 'Hulk smash'

And around and around we go

 

So your cognitive system needs to get right by your hippocampus

Or else you become anxious, angry, disappointed, frustrated, sad, etc etc etc etc etc

 

 

 

That's quite accademic and it's a good thing to think about these things. But as I said, it's not very practical.

 

"You just have to fix how your hippocampus works" isn't an advice that really helps :)

If you tell him "change your behavior" you should clarify how he can do that exactly but you can't because you don't know him. But it's nice of you that you want to help

 

But we're going round in circles now

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the reason people get angry

Is because they're limbic/emotional system can't distinguish between sandcastles and brick walls

And so it uses brute force to try to plow through both of them

The whole evolutionary point of having a cognitive system is to tell the difference, so you can walk around the brick walls

 

 

When I'm angry at someone because they said something bad, how does it help me to know all this stuff about what brain part is activated etc? The problem is still there. So what you say isn't a real advice but just knowledge. Good to have and interesting to know but doesn't fix anything

Think about why you're angry and what good that does

And if that's a fixed part of your personality or not

And whether (perhaps) your anger is a mostly-useless part of yourself that you can dissolve by understanding where your thinking is going off the rails (as I've so annoyingly laid out over the last page)

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:12 PM, doublename said:

Mods, move all this shit to the psychology thread.

I keep trying but it's just not resonating with him. Doesn't matter how many people he hears it from.

LimpyLoo subforum imho.

don't bother

I'll just stop posting

Cheers

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:15 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:12 PM, doublename said:

Mods, move all this shit to the psychology thread.

 

I keep trying but it's just not resonating with him. Doesn't matter how many people he hears it from.

 

must be something wrong with his his hippocampus

Noone (I mean some people might...) wants you to stop posting. We just don't like every thread devolving into some sort of psychology breakdown.

Don't take it so hard.

I thought this information might dissolve the anger, anxiety, etc of any member who cares to understand it

Sorry, dunno what made me think 'first world problems' was a good thread to offer solutions for problems

Maybe you've overlooked somehow that it's just a few pages of you going back and forth with someone that isn't even the person with the FWP, Consul hasn't responded? And you're just asserting things as knowledge/fact without the person with the original problem being involved?

I think maybe you've overlooked that?

This is exactly the place to offer solutions to fwp. Don't try and take what we're saying and spin it into something else.

this whole discussion is pretty FWP tbqh, so carry on I suppose

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:35 PM, caze said:

this whole discussion is pretty FWP tbqh, so carry on I suppose

touche

Swfp: watching decent people on a forum go back and forth about silliness.

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:21 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Noone (I mean some people might...) wants you to stop posting. We just don't like every thread devolving into some sort of psychology breakdown.

 

Don't take it so hard.

Agreed.

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:33 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Maybe you've overlooked somehow that it's just a few pages of you going back and forth with someone that isn't even the person with the FWP, Consul hasn't responded? And you're just asserting things as knowledge/fact without the person with the original problem being involved?

 

I think maybe you've overlooked that?

 

This is exactly the place to offer solutions to fwp. Don't try and take what we're saying and spin it into something else.

Every thread I post in

You show up and basically say 'any thread but this one, Limpy'

Yes I am long-winded and socially-flakey

But forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious about how keen you are to perpetually correct my behavior

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:43 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 6:33 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Maybe you've overlooked somehow that it's just a few pages of you going back and forth with someone that isn't even the person with the FWP, Consul hasn't responded? And you're just asserting things as knowledge/fact without the person with the original problem being involved?

 

I think maybe you've overlooked that?

 

This is exactly the place to offer solutions to fwp. Don't try and take what we're saying and spin it into something else.

 

You show up and basically say 'any thread but this one, Limpy'

 

Nope.

I say "you have your own damn psychology thread, use it".

Be suspicious all you want, probably just something wrong with your amygdala or para-hippocampal gyrus.

Anyways let's move on please and thank you.

To be fair I started the argument by saying that what LimpyLoo said wasn't that useful.

Guess what's even more useless than a conversation about a FWP of someone on the other side of the world? Conversing longwindedly about that conversation

Why do you personally care so much, mate?

Edit: @ Bulk

I've said it several times, are parts of your limbic system so damaged you don't recall?

It's cluttering every thread up, I (and presumably others) have to sift through pages of your psychology banter to get back to the topic at hand. It's simple.

If it wasn't a trend in so many threads I wouldn't be addressing it like this.

Back OT, I'm in line at the pharmacy picking up a prescription for sick kid 2 of 2, and the elderly man in front of me just ripped a massive loud, dgaf fart

^ 2016's last gift to you. breathe its fumes deeply.

^^Thanks you 2016, it was like crowded too, and everyone just carried on as if nothing happened.

Can't wait until I'm old enough to rip em with impunity

Further OT: reading bullshit arguments about bullshit autist psychology digressions in this thread made me miss important plot points in The Sopranos and now I have to rewind.

(also it's 2017 in 5mins and I'm alone and watching an 18yr old show)

I told y'all about cancer control, dawg. I warned you, bra!

  On 12/31/2016 at 5:28 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

...elderly man in front of me just ripped a massive loud, dgaf fart

I just played a DGAF chord progression on the guitar to see what that might sound like.  It's a surprisingly uncommon progression considering how basic those chords are.  Not at all what I would have expected from flatulence.

I for one welcome our new Limpy overlords

  On 1/1/2017 at 4:16 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 12/31/2016 at 5:28 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

...elderly man in front of me just ripped a massive loud, dgaf fart

I just played a DGAF chord progression on the guitar to see what that might sound like. It's a surprisingly uncommon progression considering how basic those chords are. Not at all what I would have expected from flatulence.

Tbqh it was microtonal in nature, buried within the sphinctal reverberations and heightened by the in-store acoustics of my local CVS. I believe this is what Autechre were going for with Draft 7.30

spiral, good effort, i did a frozen pizza and fell asleep by about 6pm. was memorable.

think i'll do the same tonight by 10pm

then have a monday where i don't have to go to work

really really shitty problems for once