Monday, October 02, 2006

The Fighter Friend

So I have this really good friend of mine, use to go out with, who sometimes just fights me for no apparent reason. Even when I agree with her, she is fighitng me. Like we were once having this convo on athiesm and god, and she went off on a tanget proving her point. And it wasn't until about half way throu that she realized, hey, I agree with wat you say.

But she is always trying to outsmart or know more than me. Like she sorta, but not really, got pissed when I got better grades than her first semester last year. I think she feels she is suppose to be smarter than me but I don't know why. But I am 3 years older than her and have had a lot more experience with people than she has. But she will never admit that. I don't know everything but I do know more than her. Just as someone who is 25 should know more than me, but not always true....

Thats the crazy thing about knowledge, just because a person is older doesn't mean they know more...people have the choice of choosing to learn or not.

The most rememerable story when we had an arguement about the bible. She only thought that there was only one version of the bible. I told her there was quite a few but then she got mad and just blocked me out. Later she talked to my roommate who knows about this stuff and he filled her in. But if I say it, I'm wrong. She fights me on anything about knowledge, like she has to be smarter. She tells me that colleges don't look at the SAT scores yet I work with a branch of the admissions for my college and the big thing the emphasize is SAT scores because thats one of the only ways they can compare a person with the nation. Yet of course I'm wrong and that one person in her camp who said SAT scores are not important are right. She has such a conformation bias where everything can point to what she is saying is wrong but she will look for the one little source that says she is right and go with it. CONFIRMATION BIAS.

But she has gotten better with discussions thou. I remember last year she would use no facts and just use a lot of emotions in her arguements.I feel this and I think this. When I threw in the facts, it became hard for her to argue back and she just got frustrated and then mad at me. But this year she is beginning to use more facts in her arguements but needs to drop her bias views still.

Anyway, whats a lil fight between you and your friends,
Tomorrow you'll be boys again

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