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~dwaynan

I can relate to the feeling of "mind reading." For me it's often preemptive -- "I shouldn't say anything because I'm sure they'll feel I'm intruding, or disrespectful," "I already know how they'll respond, so I shouldn't waste their time," et cetera. I've always found it easier to ignore in peopled, text-based forums than in person, because I know that if I AM getting on someone's nerves they can just stop reading and move on to something else...but then I want to interpret silence as judgement, even if that defies all reason.

In any case, I'm glad you reposted. I was going to give a listen when you posted the first time, but by the time I got anywhere private enough to do you had already taken the post down.

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~inquiry wrote:

For me it can definitely defy what I'll call "immediate reason" founded upon actual exchange/interaction history.

But I long ago came to see the vast majority of species instantiations to be empty, despise - if not fear - worthy cretins, making floods of imagined negative possibilities just a thin slice of bark easier to come by than falling off a log....