When I was 6, I was once deeply gutted by the realization that I'd never know the inner life of a class bully. This was a core theory-of-mind moment, when it dawned on me that I'd *never* be able to see the world the way anyone else saw it.
Oh, later on I'd sometimes try to "be understood", as silly humans do--but I'd always come back to that early lesson, that we all live with "self-evident" truths others can never know as we know them.
Good lesson, if tough.
So thank you Robert--ya stinker!
@MLClark perhaps you were more privy to their internal world by how they made you or others feel as a consequence.
Oh you had my hopes up that DarkAlfred was operational for a hot sec there. 🤣 One day!
Also:
"A Center to Left circular firing squad aimed inward unstead of outside the circle"
😬 Wait, are you trying to tell me that shooting *outside* the circle was ever a possibility? Inconceivable!
@MLClark oh in this time of a war to preserve something like a democracy I would hope moderatly disparate people could join together as, hmmmmm, allies to fight common enemies. Maybe it’s spontaneous relapse into Twitter learned combativeness.
Woof!
@MLClark thanks Auntie’ M, you were conspicuous in your announced absence as well. This can be a fun playground, but sometimes you just gotta to take your time eating lunch then get back to class.
And then there are those who left the playground all together. Alien abduction? @DarkAlfred on a spree? A Center to Left circular firing squad aimed inward instead of outside the circle? Multiple licenses to drive on the Internet have been revoked?