Originally Posted by
John2
The reactions are one of the things I find most fascinating.
All human beings on the planet live in bubbles.
The people are Rotherham are no exception. Some individuals surround themselves with people and information that reiterates their worldview unchallenged.
One of the things I find most fascinating on here is how people react to the reasoned discussion that contradicts their previous assumptions. The variance between different individuals is just fascinating.
Some like Grist go through various different stages. He's had his throwing a wobbly and blocking me phase, he's had his snide comments to everything I say, now he's going through a cute phase of saying he agrees with everything I post. It's really interesting to observe!
GM I quite enjoy too, he'll get into an argument, make poor points, lose, disappear for a few months then come back genuinely thinking he's got some sort of "gotcha", only to realise he's at exactly the same stage he was before.
Brin literally just doesn't know how to interpret my long and admittedly rambling and boring post here. He seems to genuinely believe that someone of my position must have issues, and fair enough! We're all human, I think we all do to some extent.
All quite different reactions, all equally interesting to me if you take a step back and look at it from a psychological perspective.