Or maybe I think you get so caught up on winning that you get tunnel vision. Two or three conversations with the same person becomes 20 pages of people who "find my debates fruitful." Just like I really think you believe things you say after having it pointed out to you that your own statements are in conflict with past ones. Or instance where you change the basis of your arguments by expanding single point across whole statements or conversations. Somebody asked you if you were human the other day and you asked if that was an adjective or noun? Who says that crap? Seriously. Do you have trouble working in an office with other people? Do you find it hard to work in teams?
Having met you I can only come think there are three options as to what you are/doing:
1. You really think you are the smartest person here and feel the need to convince everybody else with big fancy words that really stick out in casual conversation.
2. You simply like annoying people.
3. You a socially awkward, and really have no clue how weird your behavior is and see no issue with it.
I think it is the first one based on an anecdote you told me. When I used to do fraud investigations, that was a common trait among the more creative and deliberate frauds I saw perpetuated. Arguing with them about whether they did it or if it was right or wrong was useless, they would just fabricate some nonsensical theory or justification. However, playing to the person's sense of superiority in terms of intellect and ego was quite effective at getting them to open up once they were caught and telling you everything you needed for an evidence packet.
Is that what you want? For us to recognize your intellectual superiority?
"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden
Having met you I can only come think there are three options as to what you are/doing:
1. You really think you are the smartest person here and feel the need to convince everybody else with big fancy words that really stick out in casual conversation.
2. You simply like annoying people.
3. You a socially awkward, and really have no clue how weird your behavior is and see no issue with it.
I think it is the first one based on an anecdote you told me. When I used to do fraud investigations, that was a common trait among the more creative and deliberate frauds I saw perpetuated. Arguing with them about whether they did it or if it was right or wrong was useless, they would just fabricate some nonsensical theory or justification. However, playing to the person's sense of superiority in terms of intellect and ego was quite effective at getting them to open up once they were caught and telling you everything you needed for an evidence packet.
Is that what you want? For us to recognize your intellectual superiority?
"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden