posted March 19, 2003 09:08 AM              

But I do have a weak area in math. Probability and statistics. Formulas there are really scary and I can't seem to grasp the implications and applications of them fully. Plus, it deals with uncertainty factors, where I find myself in strange waters. Seriously, I had more fun calculating volumes of function using integrals than solving for the 78th decile of a grouped data blah blah blah... strange coming from a virgo... abhors statistics... lol. well, stat is quite ok. it's the probability part that really scares me.

"I like the taste of beer. As a matter of fact, I use it every morning on my cereal. But when it comes to my coffee, I like gin even better! Beer on my cereal, gin on my coffee, makes no sense to me!"

posted March 19, 2003 12:23 PM              

This thread gives my theory some additonal confirmation. Whether it's math, foreign language, astrology, or whatever it seems that the "being on a different wavelength" resonates with the thought/communication process with Merc Rx Natally.

Thanks for all the input!

posted March 19, 2003 05:20 PM              

donmc - So, I the exchange doesn't work between 2 peeps w/ MercRx, then?

posted March 19, 2003 10:50 PM              

prox:
Incidentally, what language do you prefer speaking? Mine comes from the 25th dimension of the planet Zork.

In my case, time passes quite fast when I'm doing stuff I enjoy, which is why sometimes I forget to eat when I'm in the groove of doing 6-8 hour a day programming. Don't ask what I do. Just some silly stuff and I'm just curious if I can do it. And then I tear myself off Mike and say... "whoa... it's been that long? geez I'm hungry..."

posted March 19, 2003 11:21 PM              

I'll get that way w/ writing sometimes, too. With just about everything else I'm too easily distracted to maintain that kind of focus.
Me, raking:
>rake<
>rake<
>rake<
"Oh, look at the bird. I love birds. Bird, bird, bird. Oh, and it's a mockingbird! Wow. Hm. There was that dog in _To Kill a Mockingbird_ that was rabid. I wonder how many cases of rabies have been identified in this area so far this year. I wonder if bears can get rabies. There was that bear that was in our trashcan back in 1995; I think that there was a drought and it came down from the mountains. It was caught and reintroduced, I believe..."
Etc.
Or I'll just get completely overwhelmed by beauty and absorbed into something. But that's a different story.

posted March 20, 2003 11:04 AM              

Different people each with Merc Rx natally won't necessarily be able to communicate easily with each other. There are lots of "different wave lengths" out there.

Maybe more accurate to say that each Merc Rx natal person has their personal radio tuned in to a different station and also broadcasts signals on a different frequency.

posted March 20, 2003 12:42 PM              

x3's responses left me in no doubt about it.

call it a natural outgrowth of having it myself but i find i have a soft spot for those whose thought processes are not mainstream. an emotional affinity makes me understand where they're coming from although not necessarily (as you say) what they're actually saying.

there was in this other forum an intense bickering between the astrologer-moderators and a member who had a merc rx, along with merc-uranus and pluto conjuctions. the guy did not have the best manner of communicating because you either couldn't follow his train of thought or you thought him to be too egomaniacal.

for instance, he correlated astrology and physics..that the idea of astrology comes from the effects of gravitational fields and electromagnetics during foetal development. (um, at this point, even i had to wonder where he was taking astrology!)

when one astrologer bashed him verbally the first time, i thought it strange that being an astrologer, he couldn't see that he was talking to one with a merc rx! the altercation got to the point where some aspects of the guy's horoscope were used as justification for arguments...some more people got involved and took sides and expressed their sympathies ...yet all failed to see what was very clear to me...theguy had a merc rx! to my thinking, it made all the difference.

it was sad the way things ended between these folks.

posted March 22, 2003 08:27 AM              

x3,
it hasnt escaped my notice that you're a goofball...an officially confident one...maybe a confidently official one

posted March 23, 2003 04:09 AM              

I don't even have Merc. Rx and some things I say get completely turned around in there and here as well I'm looking at it like... What? I didn't mean it that way!
My comments always seem to come off as offensive... and it's all completely unintentional on my part!!

I have enjoyed reading this thread... Though I have to read the posts twice to "get" just what is being said Maybe you guys are just way beyond others mental capacity?? As you all sound "confusing"??? Though in an intelligent way!! Did that make a bit of sense??...

posted March 23, 2003 12:01 PM              

To me, abstract and philosophical concepts seem concrete, while numbers and formulas are etheric and untouchable.
I'm usually the one left explaining legal wording (or the like) to those who don't get it.

posted March 24, 2003 06:41 AM              

*few minutes pass*

Okay... I got it now... where was I? Ah, yes.

prox:
now that's a conflicting argument... abstract concepts are concrete? you really have a merc rx! I got ya, but still, you have to admit it sounds really weird when you think about it.

I got you. I know there are people who can easily understand them stuff without breaking a sweat. Everyone has their own talents, after all. I just find it really funny about the law thing. Why do you have to think about what they are trying to say when you can very simply explain it with a few words.

Take for example, the longest word in the English language, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The definition of that word is "a disease of the lungs caused by silica dust". If a person is afflicted with that disease, wouldn't you think it'd be much weirder (but correct) if a doctor says that, "Oh, this person has pneumono blah blah blah" instead of "this person inhaled some silica dust and got sick from it." (I guess that's what they do when they talk to non-medical people, but still...) I know the next statement sounds vague, but modify it a bit to something more descriptive and I think it'd be much more practical.

The analogy sucks, I know, but what I'm trying to say is it's funny the way they're trying to complicate things that should be simple. Maybe it's because of what Linda said? That adult's can comprehend things that are ridiculously simple?

posted March 24, 2003 11:06 AM              

I had only hoped that the information included in the site would prove helpful to your readers.

It is quite time consuming to try to adequately answer a question on the forum, and I've often found it more efficient to refer to an existing article on my site. Since everyone who posts obviously has access to the Internet, I assumed that would be OK.

I even listed direct links to the specific article(s) to simplify access and make it unnecessary for anyone to have to go through my home page in order to view the information.

Once again, please accept my apologies. I will no longer mention my site in any future posts.

posted March 25, 2003 12:51 AM              

merc rxers are said to grasp abstract concepts better than those with merc direct.
x3, math has abstract concepts, too. or is it AN abstract concept?...

methinks concepts are impressed on the native in a way that does not require a lot of 'thought out' thinking.

for instance, oft times i find tis a 'fast forward' thing..a 'get on with it, will ya?' kind of thing... like, i can go to the bathroom then to the kitchen for a bite and come back and find that folks still haven't gotten around to figuring things out.

at other times, when i find i don't get it, i can spend hours trying to make sense of what an author means. but i won't get to the point of understanding anything...not until several days, even weeks later.. ...when am no longer thinking about it...the realization is just so sudden that i blurt out the discovery without warning. ok, no need wonder why i get those stares.

the challenge in having merc rx, in my experience, is finding HOW to explain what is so very clear to me in a way that others would 'get'.

so, like x3, i would sometimes detail out a discussion the way he did his girl=evil logic

and even when i find am able to explain, there still is that lingering feeling of not having completely and thoroughly done so.

have i made sense?

posted March 25, 2003 03:03 AM              

I always try to visualize a concrete example explaining an abstract concept. I'm quite used to learn-by-example methods. It's analogous to words which you can't really describe but you know what they mean so you go into examples to show the person what you are thinking.