25 | September | 2014 | uldissprogis

Sarcasm: n. using irony to ridicule and show contempt

A few examples will suffice but there are tens of examples.

When someone does something wrong – you contemptuously say Very good, well done, nice!

The irony is that you unexpectedly say nice or good to something bad and your tone of voice can be slightly exaggerated and demeaning or contemptuous with a hint of ridicule.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The irony is that you take long walks with humans that you like but you prefer annoying humans to take long walks alone so they don’t bother you. The contempt expressed is for annoying humans.

Let’s share. You’ll take the grenade. I’ll take the pin.

The irony is that sharing is usually done for mutual benefit and if you blow yourself up with a grenade then you kill yourself. Sharing implies liking someone and it is not someone you want killed. You are actually ridiculing the human and expressing a cloaked dislike or contempt for them.

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Convince: v. to persuade yourself without coercion using internal and external information

When you persuade yourself that a goal(s) is worth achieving then you have been convinced. You may impulsively eat or drink something which you are not convinced is healthy for you but you still do it because it is emotionally satisfying at that moment. You can do something bad and not be convinced that it is good for you to do.

Impulsive emotional reactions do not involve much logical thinking and they historically may have been started with some erroneous persuasion or convincing. What you are largely impulsively doing today is rooted in decisions and experiences which you made in the past and decided were the right thing to do at that time. Today your views of what is right may have changed but you are still being victimized impulsively by bad historical choices.

You may be convinced that your bad habits need change but you may not be able to develop enough selfcontrol to do anything about your pleasurable bad impulses or bad habits.

Convincing or persuading yourself is the eternal struggle of your impulsive self battling with your thinking self, trying to agree, and trying to make the right choices of what to do next in your life.

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