You can't handle the ambiguity!

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-benefits-of-getting-comfortable-with-uncertainty/409807/

These need-for-certainty people are the worst sorts of ignorant savages

that was a really fascinating article! but fyi maybe dial down yr snobbery juuuust a touch

congratulations on loving uncertainty you must be an a+ person u_u

is any opinion we express here not snobbery of one sort or another?

fyi maybe dial up the sensitivity on yr ironic-overstatement-persona-playing detector juuust a touch

you seem to get irritated when others challenge your self-importance or doubt your undoubted authority, ben. but your irritation is not a very cutting weapon. you overrate its effectiveness. try something else.

you just basically took a steaming shit on people with nasty anxiety disorders/OCD. like me.

so fuuuuuuuuuuck you, dude.

i knew there was a reason i cancelled my subscription to the atlantic almost a decade ago...

ban gabbneb

Which national figure is best described by this article as an extremely poor negotiator?

you seem to get irritated when others challenge your self-importance or doubt your undoubted authority, ben. but your irritation is not a very cutting weapon. you overrate its effectiveness. try something else.

― Aimless, Sunday, October 11, 2015 1:19 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure i understand. you're advising how to be more cutting?

you just basically took a steaming shit on people with nasty anxiety disorders/OCD. like me.

so fuuuuuuuuuuck you, dude.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry about your anxiety disorder. i don't know you or what disorders you may or may not have (just like you don't know me or what role people with anxiety disorders may or may not have played in my life) and wasn't talking to you. i was addressing an idea i found interesting.

PS this article is not about anxiety disorders. it's about how the vast majority of people who lack them handle ambiguity and uncertainty in the ordinary course of their lives.

not sure i understand.

pretty sure you don't.

Regardless of what happens on this thread, I find this sentence interesting: Extremism of any kind is characterized by a very high need for closure and a distaste for ambiguity.

Not exactly a stunning insight that extremists all have a very narrow and fixed idea of what is right.