Stop feeling and start thinking

[GPDP]

Am I the only one irritated when people say "I feel that..." when they should be saying "I think" or "I believe" instead?

Too much touchy-feely crap ain't good for intellectual debate imotbqh. Start using your rational side goddomot.

inb4elitist

inb4peopletrollthisthreadbysayingifeeloverandover

[Q]

inb4peopletrollthisthreadbysayingifeeloverandover

I feel that you may have a point here.

Anyway, what is the point of this other than people saying "I agree" or "I disagree"?

I agree btw, but it is a common English language construct. In Dutch you don't see people saying "Ik voel..." for example.

[GPDP]

Anyway, what is the point of this other than people saying "I agree" or "I disagree"?


Nothing, really. I'm merely procrastinating because I occasionally do not feel like finishing the paper that's due in two hours.

[NecroCommie]

Still, I agree with the OP. What the fuck is it with this anti-intellectual era we live in?! It's also annoying when people actively try to tell you not to think, as in:
"you think too much, why don't you listen to your heart for a moment?"
"Well, I could listen to your heart, but only when I have removed it from your chest!"

[Thirsty Crow]

Am I the only one irritated when people say "I feel that..." when they should be saying "I think" or "I believe" instead?

Too much touchy-feely crap ain't good for intellectual debate imotbqh. Start using your rational side goddomot.

inb4elitist

inb4peopletrollthisthreadbysayingifeeloverandoverI t's not that this represents too much touchy-feely crap, but rather that it is a nonsense statement. How could I feel that I should visit my father in order that he may feel better (psychologically) since he is very ill in the same way that I feel anger towards someone who knocked over my bike at the uni?

Not to mention the South Slavic variety of this nonsense (does Macedonian have it, I'm not sure) which could be translated as "I hold that...", though a similar construct appears in English ("We hold these truths as self-evident", if I'm not mistaken).

[Il Medico]

meh.

[synthesis]

I feel like nobody cares.

inb4 "I told you so"

[Fawkes]

"Well, analytically speaking, I am attracted to this person as a result of the intelligence and humor with which they construct sentences and spoken phrases, the quick retrieval of their memory and their ability to produce aesthetically pleasing anecdotes, the relative symmetrical nature of their body construction, and the general proximity of their eyes to one another."

[revolution inaction]

Not to mention the South Slavic variety of this nonsense (does Macedonian have it, I'm not sure) which could be translated as "I hold that...", though a similar construct appears in English ("We hold these truths as self-evident", if I'm not mistaken).
yeah but no bodies spoken like that for like 300 years

[Bilan]

"Well, analytically speaking, I am attracted to this person as a result of the intelligence and humor with which they construct sentences and spoken phrases, the quick retrieval of their memory and their ability to produce aesthetically pleasing anecdotes, the relative symmetrical nature of their body construction, and the general proximity of their eyes to one another."

oh, you. x

[NecroCommie]

"Well, analytically speaking, I am attracted to this person as a result of the intelligence and humor with which they construct sentences and spoken phrases, the quick retrieval of their memory and their ability to produce aesthetically pleasing anecdotes, the relative symmetrical nature of their body construction, and the general proximity of their eyes to one another."
... And that is how people should talk. I am not even being sarcastic.

[Taikand]

... And that is how people should talk. I am not even being sarcastic.

If Leninists speak like that, I'm a Leninist.

[Fawkes]

... And that is how people should talk. I am not even being sarcastic.

Could you get any more boring?

If every musician and artist thought that way in the creation of their work, well, needless to say, Jackson Pollock and Son House would've probably created some pretty boring pieces. There's nothing wrong with emotionally rooted acts, and obviously there is a need for more analytical thinking among the general population, but if everyone actually talked like that I'd put a fuckin bullet in my head.

[gorillafuck]

It pisses me off when people say you have to use "I feel statements" when in any sort of conflict. Especially when people use them to mask their own aggression.

[Red Commissar]

Am I the only one irritated when people say "I feel that..." when they should be saying "I think" or "I believe" instead?

Too much touchy-feely crap ain't good for intellectual debate imotbqh. Start using your rational side goddomot.

inb4elitist

inb4peopletrollthisthreadbysayingifeeloverandover

I think Robotnik is fat.

[Thirsty Crow]

yeah but no bodies spoken like that for like 300 years
Here, the fuckers sitting in parliament do.

[revolution inaction]

Here, the fuckers sitting in parliament do.

I meant normal people :)