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Recent content by The Pandector

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    Significant Facts

    Same here. Reading tech manuals, I learned to be inquisitive about what I understood best, then building outwards from there. Reading is best for me, as I might read the same sentence or paragraph over and over, the rest of my mind picking up and strengthening connections. Don’t care if it...
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    Significant Facts

    Absolutely! I too loved Sherlock Holmes, and early on ascribed to his Attic Theory of memory. Einstein stated the same principle in saying he never memorized anything he could look up. I believe this was ripped off by innkeeper Butterbur in Bree, who moaned how one thing pushes out another...
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    Missing The Sixties

    Kansas City Star really takes me back to huge grocery store parking lots where you could ride clunky mechanical rides and maybe see your favorite local kiddie show hero. I twice saw the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, touched it, once saw Sheriff John. But it was at Knott’s Berry Farm that I stood...
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    Missing The Sixties

    Yeah, I was there. A distinctly non social guy, music was my touchstone. Great memories in some of the above links. To me, that period was about the Sexual Revolution. Some girls were clearly not wearing bras, and rumors turned out true that many were taking contraceptive drugs so that they...
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    I visited a Holocaust museum.

    Great post. Thank you. ‘Dangerous other’ says so much. I remember the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, when the national memories of the Jewish holocaust were fresh and raw. At that time, my grandparents held various rental properties and watched their lifetime investments evaporate in areas where blacks...
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    I visited a Holocaust museum.

    Thanks for posting. A bracing reminder of where and how far anti-religious animosity can carry an otherwise sane group of people. Not much different than rank racism; often invisible to the practitioner. Timely.
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    Burnout and breakup

    I don’t fit your profile, but maybe this is helpful. Not a player, I only had two breakups. With each, I knew I had to go, and left. One pleaded for a while, but my mind was made up. Never looked back. But I have to admit, I tend to drop people without qualm, which I believe is autism related.
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    The Ten Commandments from Judaism help me understand right from wrong

    Yes, I often find myself imputing more to a statement than is justified by the statement. No, I was not thinking of proselytizing when I wrote that. While I understand the topics of the thread, I was thinking more about the universal applicability (or lack thereof) of what, as you point out...
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    Burnout and breakup

    Patience may be the easiest thing to advise and the toughest to pull off. Sounds like your best bet for the time being.
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    Is there such a thing as "Intellectual stimming"?

    Never thought of it as stimming before, but I’ll be thinking of this.
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    The Ten Commandments from Judaism help me understand right from wrong

    Been trying to understand your interpretation of my words. You seem to be saying that there is never a proper call for united action. Of course, that doesn’t imply universal or mandatory action, simply united action. Is that your stand? That there is never circumstance in which it is proper...
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    The Ten Commandments from Judaism help me understand right from wrong

    I enjoy your feisty dichotomy of potential action. One may either agree to disagree, or one may say ‘I’m right and you need to believe what I believe for your own sake’. But, fun tactics aside, I see a very large spectrum of possible scenarios in between those two extremes.
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    Is there such a thing as "Intellectual stimming"?

    I’ll take a chance responding here. As I have mentioned, for me humor was the practical solution to people thinking the real me was cranky or mean. Decades later, it is a learned/conditioned response. Even on this autism forum, I have frequently been slashed for using humor, been notified...
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    The Ten Commandments from Judaism help me understand right from wrong

    If we all agreed to grow feathers, would we be any better at unaided flight? Spoiler: ‘No; it’s not in our nature.’ Different situations call for different responses and solutions. Sometimes, united action is called for, so agreeing to disagree is not an option. Plus, like the asinine...
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    The Ten Commandments from Judaism help me understand right from wrong

    You have demonstrated the purpose of the 10 Commandments. It is one thing to Say ‘why can’t we all just get along’, but like Rodney King, the answer to the question is in the mirror. As the OP implies, heartfelt study of the 10 Commandments will enlighten us as to the very reasons that we all...
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