It doesn't bother you, but it annoys the hell out of you? That sounds contradictory to me.
I'm also finding your choice of the word 'mean' interesting. As others have pointed out, it has more than one...errr...meaning. I'm wondering if there's some particular nuance in there for you.
So is it about meanness for you, or something else?
Dishonesty, perhaps?
Greed at the expense of others?
A lack of empathy, fairness, or responsibility towards others?
What does it remind you of in your previous experience?
I'm not expecting you to answer that last question publicly, I'm just trying to be thought provoking. Sometimes we can learn more about ourselves by our reactions to others, than we can about them.
Certainly it seems to be evoking a very strong emotional response for you.
I'm having a similar experience with someone I cannot avoid at the moment. Partly, he's simply poorly behaved enough to piss anyone off, but much of my emotional response is because his particular behaviours mirror somebody else's who had a profound effect upon my life. The 'clash' is as much to do with me as it is with him. It's not pleasant, but my goodness, I'm learning from it.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then it may be said that all things scribed are potentially powerful; we have a choice and a responsibility behind negative, or positive impact.
It might also be reasoned that if the sword is weak, how poorly scribed must be the word behind it.
All that sounds pretty sensible to me, not to mention more environmentally friendly.
Sometimes people do these things because they don't have much, or want to save for something special. Sometimes they do it out of habit having experienced extreme hardship in the past and maybe fear extreme hardship again in the future. Sometimes people do these things because they believe in a less wasteful, less capitalist lifestyle.
Personally, I find a lot of people's consumerist attitudes a bit demanding, brainwashed and spoilt brat-ish at the expense of the planet, or others, but it does work so very well for the government and big corporations.
Personally, I'd rather my money went to more altruistic organisations than Tesco, or Esso.
Bipolar Disorder comes under the category of the affective disorders, Split Personality Disorder comes under the category of the psychoses, as does Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia, literally meaning 'split mind' refers to a split with reality (a psychosis), rather than a split personality.
Although its now thought there's a lot more overlap between the disorders than previously thought. The categories of psychiatry are to a certain extent arbitrary and less useful than a more recent approach involving managing the experiences of the individual human being.
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RE: New Write a Word Related to the One Above
Cult.