So every now and then you get a message that is just a sheer work of art in particular due to its passive aggressive nature and it's very, very instructive and I'm going to read it to you so that we can unpack it.

Somebody wrote this is a question about the soul which had answered he said thanks for

answering my question and apologies for upsetting you but I assure you that that was not my intention. My question was based on genuine curiosity and I don't

find your answer particularly satisfying because you basically just insulted me and

completely ignored the core of my argument.

Oh my.

I'm older now, I'm wiser now.

I'm older now I'm wiser now I'll just tell you straight up people and this is

you know again if you want quality people in your life then what you need to do is

show a modicum of self-knowledge and a modicum of how you appear to others.

So when I see this brain tangle of fairly hysterical manipulation, I roll my eyes and I don't particularly want to answer this person's

question.

If I've misunderstood a question, you can tell me in a nice way but you know just insulted you and

so on. And the funny thing is that he's very

sensitive to being insulted and then he insults me like just to see you know how

this stuff works right so first of all he says thanks for answering my question and then he says your

answer was wrong. Okay, whatever, right? Apologize for upsetting you. See here's the thing, if I find something

annoying or offensive or silly or foolish or whatever it is,

to say that I'm upset is a sort of power move, right? It's a way, well, I'm sorry that you're so triggered and so upset, right? It's a way of, I guess, making me appear, you know, somewhat volatile or something like that. And I assure you that that was not my intention.

As an empiricist, I put almost no stop

in people's self-assessment of their intentions.

Because you see, intentions are something

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