A very wise thing to do.

Also, Rohypnol.

It's always worked for me.

Yeah, I guess that's a good idea. It's just no one that I run into ever does it with me

You can take this too far though... trust me I'm too trusting... just not with money... otherwise good advice.

I found this out about Mozdoc...

>_>

you might aswell go one step ahead and say that you never know anything, you just gather bits and pieces about a certain topic, and the more you gather, the more you understand it (no matter what topic). so knowing what is the matter, is a thing almost nobody can claim.

Geez, I've fallen into this before...

One time I was in a heated, but civil, argument with another FAer, and they'd said something I really disagreed with and I argued against it pretty strongly. No word from them for three days. I then sent them a message saying that it was cheap of them to just drop the discussion like that.

Turned out they had gone on vacation for the weekend.

I felt like the most colossal jackass that had ever walked the earth.

I assume the worst of groups larger than ten people. Too many people form a giant mass of stupid. That doubly includes groups I participate in.

indeed

I get this a lot.

I know this well.

It makes sense. Though knowing about this won't likely sway many people from their paths of assumptions (myself likely included)...

It raises an interesting idea for me, however. The majority of the knowledge we have (particularly that which isn't academic) is based on a combination of observation, prior experiences, and assumptions. We observe, which is how we know what the current "situation" is, we use prior experience to gauge how to react and what kind of assumptions we draw from the observations, and we assume because while humans ARE curious, we would never get anything done if our minds didn't treat the majority of situations as "same old, same old".

This being said, inquiry is often times (I find) not something used to further understand situations, yet inquiry is pretty much the only way to know about situational factors when dealing with people. So, I suppose that it makes total sense that we tend to associate a person's condition more with their personality (which we have formed in our minds based upon previous experiences), than with external factors.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that it totally makes sense that this phenomena exists, yet there's not really a whole lot which can be done about it, as when these kinds of "people judgings" occur, situational factors aren't often known and it is often considered rude to inquire into personal affairs....

O.o, do you play DoW? I noticed your icon and had to ask....off topic I know....

I play the actual game as Tau, and I'm starting on Eldar...

And yes, I do play DoW, but so far I've only done multiplayer matches on LAN...

I love the Tau and favor the Necrons as well. I've beaten the game with the Tau, Eldar, Necrons, Space Marines, Chaos Marines, Imperial Guard, and am currently working on beating it with the Orks. Due to my shitty Internet connection, I cannot play online. I'd love to....you got an instant messenger so we can maybe chat?

Personally, I think I don't make that mistake too often, although I will admit when I do make a mistake as such. Of course it will usually take time as I can be a very stubborn fur. I try to make it a point not too argue or be too much of an ass and to get along with people.

Once, I was kind of talking to a fellow FAer(this furson knows who they are) and incidentally forced the furson to draw something for me that they didn't really want to and it created an unfriendly situation. I felt so bad and took notice of the furson describing me in a journal and decided to take a leave of absence for awhile to think.

After awhile, I returned and did apologize and have sort of regained a friendship that might have been lost forever. It took me awhile to apologize, but the main reason I wound up on a hiatus is I had a computer meltdown and although I was able to gather another computer, I wasn't really able to use the Internet much until I could afford it, so I only used it for schoolwork and figured a break from DA and FA would help me out as well.

I tend to judge people by their actions, not their intentions.
I find it pretty rare for someone's situation to excuse their actions.
Most of the time, what someone does is what someone does, and that's all you need to judge it.

um what?

good advice to drama whores.