I didn't really talk about it much on Tuesday, because i didn't really know what to say, but on Monday i think i may have lost a friend. I'm not sure yet, but since Monday our communications have been strained at best. We can barely look at eachother. And the worst part is neither of us did anything directly to the other.
My boyfriend got in an argument with my friend about some stuff I'm not really going to clarify. Lets just say this......my friend takes the information he presented as science, and my boyfriend takes the informations as psuedoscience. I tent to agree with my boyfriend on most of the points involved in their argument, but i choose not to enter into the argument at all for several reasons. 1.) Whether or not i think the ideas my friend holds are bunk, they are important to him in a semi religious sense. 2.) The ideas my friend holds are not such that they are harming anyone. 3.) I didn't want to offend my friend. My boyfriend is much more active at arguing with people than i am. I don't like getting caught up in it, but he lets himself get caught up. If someone puts forth a really BS statement he will try to scientifically disprove it whereas i usually let it lie at "ok" or "whatever you think".
I'm of the personal opinion that some people are not worth arguing with because you will make no headway with them. This friend was one of those people. He started to get very offended in the argument with greg, so he would ask to stop talking about it, but then a few seconds later chime in with something defending himself, so greg never really had a clear cue to stop arguing wqith him...In the end it just basically came down to looking at the exact same information but greg was interpreting it in a mathematical and scientific sense and coming up with no patterns, and my friend was looking at the smae information in a mystical sort of sense, and coming up with all sorts ofd patterns.....humph Like i said i agreed with Greg, but when someone has a ferver for something that doesn't recognise data that has been collected in a scientifically sound manner, then you can't argue. There is no point. But they continued to argue, to the point of my friend getting incredibly angry, telling greg to "stop looking at him funny" and "stop smiling like that" and then stormed out saying "fuck this i'm leaving". When i saw him yesterday on the way to work (he was walking his dog) I asked him if he was ok and if he wanted to talk about things and he said he didn't want to talk about it. Later at work i asked him if at some point in the future he would want to talk to me about what happened and he said "i don't know, but probably not. You're boyfriend is a jerk, thats all i have to say". I told him i guess i could see why he thought that, but that i didn't agree. I wish this wasn't affecting our friendship! I guess he just doesn't like to be around me right now, after i witnessed the whole thing. I don't know if he is going to start disliking me since he dislikes Greg, but that is what it felt like yesterday.
I am still working on this friends belated christmas present and i am torn between wanting to still finish it and offer it as a peace offering, or giving up because of how tense things feel. Urgh.
And, OH YEAH I'm also on the rag. Fucking brillian week, i tell you!
There are more pictures but i am doubtful as to whether i'll have time this morning. Anyway, you'll see them before the weekend probably.
Blah.
-Leslie
My boyfriend got in an argument with my friend about some stuff I'm not really going to clarify. Lets just say this......my friend takes the information he presented as science, and my boyfriend takes the informations as psuedoscience. I tent to agree with my boyfriend on most of the points involved in their argument, but i choose not to enter into the argument at all for several reasons. 1.) Whether or not i think the ideas my friend holds are bunk, they are important to him in a semi religious sense. 2.) The ideas my friend holds are not such that they are harming anyone. 3.) I didn't want to offend my friend. My boyfriend is much more active at arguing with people than i am. I don't like getting caught up in it, but he lets himself get caught up. If someone puts forth a really BS statement he will try to scientifically disprove it whereas i usually let it lie at "ok" or "whatever you think".
I'm of the personal opinion that some people are not worth arguing with because you will make no headway with them. This friend was one of those people. He started to get very offended in the argument with greg, so he would ask to stop talking about it, but then a few seconds later chime in with something defending himself, so greg never really had a clear cue to stop arguing wqith him...In the end it just basically came down to looking at the exact same information but greg was interpreting it in a mathematical and scientific sense and coming up with no patterns, and my friend was looking at the smae information in a mystical sort of sense, and coming up with all sorts ofd patterns.....humph Like i said i agreed with Greg, but when someone has a ferver for something that doesn't recognise data that has been collected in a scientifically sound manner, then you can't argue. There is no point. But they continued to argue, to the point of my friend getting incredibly angry, telling greg to "stop looking at him funny" and "stop smiling like that" and then stormed out saying "fuck this i'm leaving". When i saw him yesterday on the way to work (he was walking his dog) I asked him if he was ok and if he wanted to talk about things and he said he didn't want to talk about it. Later at work i asked him if at some point in the future he would want to talk to me about what happened and he said "i don't know, but probably not. You're boyfriend is a jerk, thats all i have to say". I told him i guess i could see why he thought that, but that i didn't agree. I wish this wasn't affecting our friendship! I guess he just doesn't like to be around me right now, after i witnessed the whole thing. I don't know if he is going to start disliking me since he dislikes Greg, but that is what it felt like yesterday.
I am still working on this friends belated christmas present and i am torn between wanting to still finish it and offer it as a peace offering, or giving up because of how tense things feel. Urgh.
And, OH YEAH I'm also on the rag. Fucking brillian week, i tell you!
There are more pictures but i am doubtful as to whether i'll have time this morning. Anyway, you'll see them before the weekend probably.
Blah.
-LeslieVIEW 11 of 11 COMMENTS
i have been going to interview after interview, about 9 in the past two weeks. i keep postponing an update on here till i get some good news back about one of them.