Why do people think I'm mean and don't like me?
I am 17 and female. I don't fit in all that much anywhere. I only have a couple friends, never had a bf or anything. I'm an introvert and I can't force myself to be different. I have tried and it doesn't work. I've tried to be outgoing and confident no go though. I spent two years at lunch in school by myself drawing in fear of talking. When people talk to me though or I try to help continue the conversation, they just get silent or awkward. Idk people think I'm some mean intimidating person or they say I look depressed. I don't understand why? I'm not a super smiley person but I don't think I'm acting mean or upset usually. People told my mom I look too intimidating to approach also, I don't get it? I tried smiling more and I got the same response! I also notice people say I'm really smart and use " big words"? Lol Wut? I used to think its because I was fat, but during homeschool this year, I lost 50 lbs and now I am thin. Still no one likes or looks at my pictures! No one ever wants to be my friend. I did notice. I think guys are unsure of how to flirt with me because I get defensive since I'm not used to it ( it happened when I got asked out two times when I was fat) Are people just unsure of how to approach me or am I just weird? I am reserved and quiet but if I'm in a springy mood I do love to have fun and laugh and what not. Is the whole intimidation thing an excuse not to be friends or what can I do not to appear rude? Cause I'm really trying here.
Do you think it was mean what these two girls did to me?
It sounds mean, but maybe not. It all depends how it came down. How did you even know they were planning this? Also, it sounds like they said no and you persisted, like offering to pay yourself. If that's true, then maybe they were forced into being mean because you weren't listening to them. Whoever they are, they have a right to go to a movie without you.
What does : "I Think Therefore I am.'' Mean?
It's both simple and complicated. DeCartes lived in the time we call The Enlightenment, when the way people thought about a lot of things changed. The were disagreements over what was -real- and how we could determine what was reality and what was just our perceptions and our preconceptions. DeCartes allowed that we could be wrong about anything. Anything we saw, anything we thought, could be wrong. It was very hard to prove anything for absolutely sure. 'Skepticism' was very popular in these days, the original meaning of skepticism being the believe that nothing can be known absolutely for sure. But, DeCartes said, the fact that we THINK about them proves that we exist. That was the one thing that could be proven, and all arguments about reality had to stem from there.
What did descartes mean by "I think therefore I am"?
The Cogito expression, "I think therefore I am" (Cogito ergo sum) is the end result of Descartes's "method of doubt" in the _Meditations_. After systematically doubting all the structures of knowledge, Descartes arrives at one item of knowledge that cannot be put under the scope of doubt, namely, that when I think about my existing I must necessarily exist. That is, the thought of my existence immediately reveals to me that I necessarily exist. This "I think" that thinks is the mind, which for Descartes is an immaterial substance. So, unlike another user above says, this "I think" does NOT refer to the brain. The brain is "extension", or "body"; for Descartes mind and brain are not the same. (Descartes is a dualist: reality is made of two substances, either mind or extension (body)) Descartes's goal was to arrive at one item of truth that can serve as the starting-point and foundation for the sciences. His point isn't really that we should never trust the senses, but only that the senses alone cannot serve as a reliable foundation for knowledge. Science, he claims, must be grounded in philosophy (i.e., metaphysics). So, Descartes would be happy to admit that science does give us knowledge, but science cannot provide its own foundation. It is interesting to note that in the third Meditation Descartes argues that God's existence is needed in order for our clear and distinct ideas to be true (mathematics). So, while the "I think" has priority at one point, that priority is turned upside down when he proves God's existence a little later. Cheers.
What does "I am" mean?
“I am” means you exist. “I” is a first person address to oneself, Me or Myself. “Am” is first person singular of Present Tense “Be”.A statement by the seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes. “I think; therefore I am” was the end of the search Descartes conducted for a statement that could not be doubted. He found that he could not doubt that he himself existed, as he was the one doing the doubting in the first place. In Latin (the language in which Descartes wrote), the phrase is “Cogito, ergo sum.” (Source: Dictionary.com)I am is usually followed by an adjective or a verb. e.g, I am getting late for office, movie, meeting.