What bothers me the most is similar but its people with terrible mindsets, not even game related just people who give up on themselves easily or when you suggest something to help them, they sigh and just say "I bet I can't", or something selfdestructive, on the lines of giving up before they try. Obviously it depends on what you're asking them to do but when its just arg I get mad just thiinking about it, people who limit themselves who have annoy me the most because its a problem I have with myself. So yeah, from an outsiders point of view its basically since I'm having trouble changing myself why not just change others? Though we feel its something selfless in the end we're just putting our expectations on someone else.. ah so depressing

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

November 19 2009 08:31 GMT

#22

TL just pushed you around! what you gonna do about it? don't be a pushover!
by the way, you know who also are bothered by weak people? fascists.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

November 19 2009 09:44 GMT

#23

Is this guy happy with his life?

If yes, he is fine.
If no, help him.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

November 19 2009 09:54 GMT

#24

Just keep pushing him then, more benefit to you lolol xD

Not_A_Notion

Ireland441 Posts

November 19 2009 14:51 GMT

#25

Different Stroked for Different folks

Suck it up

yhnmk

Canada630 Posts

November 19 2009 15:51 GMT

#26

Honestly, I'm too "strong" in the sense that you are using. Im too stubborn, certain of my own ways and methods, etc. To the point that it hurts me. But its not until after that I realize I may have been wrong, or that letting my pride go may have been...freeing, to me. Anyway, obviously anyone of one extreme or another isnt a good thing, but you shouldnt make it a big deal and fixate on it, its their lives not yours.

sumi

United States25 Posts

November 19 2009 16:33 GMT

#27

Is it possible that he isn't weak but is just apathetic about those certain things? Everyone isn't always interested in everything 100% and in order to make things easier and focus on the things they do care about, they let other people tell them what to do or think with things they are more apathetic about in life because it doesn't actually matter much to them.

Not saying one way or the other, just asking. ^_^ Cause I know I'm pretty apathetic about some things that others are very zealous about in terms of having a stance on it one way or the other.

niteReloaded

Croatia5281 Posts

November 19 2009 16:51 GMT

#28

I am bothered by people who think their outlook on life is THE one to have.

I am bothered by people who are bothered by 1/5 blog rating.

The only difference is that I'm not actually bothered, just pointing things out.
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Usually, when you're annoyed by something you observe in others, it resonates with some of your own traits.

btw. reality is a bitch, it's easy to believe its real. You're noticing some things that your friend doesn't notice. It's not his fault that he doesn't see.

Piy

Scotland3152 Posts

November 19 2009 17:01 GMT

#29

I don't like OP's view on humanity. Sympathising with the strong is the root problem within society as a whole.

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

November 19 2009 17:51 GMT

#30

On November 19 2009 16:40 resonance wrote:
As per usual 1/5, thanks TL.

lol this is a bad blog for TL because ***generalization*** I'm sure a lot of people on here are the kind of shy people you are describing in your OP. I gave you a 5 to help balance it out though.

Cube

Canada777 Posts

November 19 2009 18:29 GMT

#31

further proof that everyone on tl suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

November 19 2009 18:29 GMT

#32

On November 19 2009 15:04 Butigroove wrote:
I think people are weak, because they aren't like me!

dude if i lived in Rwanda I would be strong minded too!

@op: Why does this bother you so much?

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

November 19 2009 19:15 GMT

#33

Because he's weak.

noddyz

United Kingdom462 Posts

November 19 2009 19:18 GMT

#34

Sounds more like annoying asshole vs laid back, than strong v weak.

Kurosaki

United States158 Posts

November 19 2009 19:19 GMT

#35

Your friend has low self-esteem. Maybe his social skills didn't develop when he was younger. Probably due to not enough contact with other people or was surrounded by those who already felt confident about themselves.

If you wanna help him, show some initiative because he'll probably won't help himself.

Mora

Canada5235 Posts

November 19 2009 21:06 GMT

#36

decafchicken

United States20022 Posts

November 19 2009 21:54 GMT

#37

i feel bad for weak minded people...they just kind of drift through life rolling with what happens instead of grabbing it by the balls and making life what you want it to be. But as long as they're content i guess thats just how they are so whatev

druj

137 Posts

November 20 2009 03:22 GMT

#38

In a psych lecture about a few weeks ago a professor explained this experiment involving 3 kinds of dogs locked in a hammock attached to a shock floor. One of them had loose ones, and when they were shocked, they were capable of moving out of them. The other group was locked in completely, no chance of them getting out of the floor. And the third, merely was unshocked.

Then in the 2nd experiment, they took the same dogs and instead, without a hammock, all they had to do was jump over the shocking floor. the 1st and 3rd group successfully did so, but the 2nd one, a vast majority of them, just curled into a ball and whimpered.

There have been variations, if they redid the experiment with the 1st one in place of the 2nd one, they ended up just the same.

This concept of learned helpless, in theory, also applies to people I think, through some severe life experiences many end up passive and toiling in self-destructive behaviors and thinking.

But there were rare exceptions in some of the 2nd group dogs, as they still persisted to move out, but I wouldn't go as far as labeling them "strong" and they were "weaker."

I'm sure there is genetic predispositions, sociocultural factors, upbringing, that make people susceptible, but this invariable negative experience, and in many cases, it doesn't really matter who you are, it will hamper your capacities, and this general term for "strong" vs "weak" minded people, really, is difficult to discern, to fully understand others requires complete introspection in their shoes, and that's impossible, we only know from their actions, and to imagine from their perspectives, may not even be accurate at all.