Creative writing and artful observations

[Syne]

Any assumption of who they are is a projection of your own subjective understanding. Using that assumption to filter, warp, or reinterpret their actual words is not good faith communication.

[Magical Realist]

Any assumption of who they are is a projection of your own subjective understanding.

If you mean an empathized with quality or trait, then yes that's true. And normally we make these empathic leaps based on what they express and do. So projecting is not itself a bad thing. It is in fact the assumed commonality that enables us to understand and listen to them at all. It's called taking them on good faith.

[Syne]

Since there is no guarantee that your assumptions may be accurate, it does nothing to ensure you're taking it on good faith. Much more likely that your own bias colors the conversation in ways detrimental to understanding.

[Magical Realist]

Since there is no guarantee that your assumptions may be accurate, it does nothing to ensure you're taking it on good faith. Much more likely that your own bias colors the conversation in ways detrimental to understanding.

No..we all do this all the time, basing our empathies on the immediate evidence of what the person is saying and how they behave. This is a reliable source of empirical feedback confirming our empathy or else discounting it. Biases are quickly overridden or else confirmed by the objective data we gain from the interaction. Unless you're some loser sociopath or autistic with no social skills whatsoever, which makes a lot of sense in your case.

[Syne]

You certainly do it all the time. And it's why you constantly misunderstand very simple statements. Even after you are corrected, you never actually take it as "discounting" any of your assumptions. You just keep toddling along, stubbornly keeping all of your subjective preconceptions.

That, or you are just that woefully illiterate. And it really doesn't matter which, as both are equally detrimental to good communication.

[Magical Realist]

Your inability to stick to the subject and go off on me and my alleged character flaws is itself telling. If everybody is always just projecting their own faults on others you have a lot of work to do.

[Syne]

That's called deflection... when a valid and repeatedly demonstrated point is made and you cry, bitch, and whine about it being personal... AFTER YOU STARTED THE PERSONAL INSULTS:

Unless you're some loser sociopath or autistic with no social skills whatsoever, which makes a lot of sense in your case.

Moron child hypocrite whose bias is so strong he can't managed to read simple English (or just an illiterate imbecile) because he's far too busy trying to infer the character of the speaker rather than read what is actually written.

[Magical Realist]

So your criticism of me isn't really an objective assessment of me so much as a childish tit for tat whose sole purpose is to get back at me somehow. I hate to burst your bubble but nothing you pontifcate about me affects me in the least. You can bank on that.

[Syne]

No, it's objective, for everyone to see, repeatedly, over your years on this forum.
You constantly fail to read simple English (as I have to constantly point out), whether due to your personal bias or illiteracy.
You don't accept any correction of your biased or ignorant misreadings, nor even admit mistakes when they are thoroughly proven wrong.
You constantly start the personal insults, only to cry like a stuck pig when anyone responds in kind.
And you're obviously very insecure, demonstrated by how constantly defensive you are, requiring all sorts of deflections.

The internet is a ugly mirror for ugly people. You get what you give. 9_9

[Magical Realist]

If any of those claims you make about me were really true you wouldn't be resorting to using them to somehow attack and hurt me. The very fact that you endlessly repeat claims of illiteracy and intellectual dishonesty on my part as occurring elsewhere at other times proves they have no substance whatsoever. They're just feeble assaults on my character made solely to diminish me somehow, as if that were something so important to you. You need to examine why that is and why my posts always seem to put you in "attack MR" mode. It has nothing to do with me at all.