• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That’s inaccurate. I’m jealous of a lot of my friends. I tell them I’m jealous. I’m also happy for them and help them out, especially if it helps them get to the point where I’m jealous of them.

    You can have more than one emotion and opinion about things.

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      5 days ago

      Would you say that rather than jealousy, you feel sympathetic joy? Because as defined by Cambridge dictionary, jealous is “an adjective used to describe someone who is feeling or showing an unhappy, resentful, or bitter emotion”.

      I feel that people don’t seem to think jealousy is a negative emotion even though that’s what it’s defined as.

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    5 days ago

    Do friends contradict themselves?
    Very well then they contradict themselves,
    (They are large, they contain multitudes.)

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    5 days ago

    Are you using ‘jealous’ in the correct way as they are afraid of you snatching up their ‘stuff’?
    Or in a meaning of envy as they are being envious of you having better ‘stuff’?

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        4 days ago

        feeling angry or unhappy because someone you like or love is showing interest in someone else.

        That’s not friendship but trust issues and dependency.

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          4 days ago

          So you single out that one useage but ignore the possesive and protective useage of the word. What was your purpose of commenting on this post?

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            4 days ago

            The definition you would get if you googled or looked up jealous in a dictionary

            I asked you for clarification, you answered and now you are blaming me for giving you an answer you don’t like.

            Jealous behavior acceptable in preteens only. Above that age is just pure insecurity and just freaking nasty thing to deal with.

            • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldOP
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              3 days ago

              It’s not that you gave me an answer I didn’t like. You read part of the definition and went off that. If you read 1 third of a book then you likely wouldn’t have a well structured opinion of the book right?

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                3 days ago

                Again I asked you for clarification and after your answer I quoted the first, number one main, grammatically correct definition.
                And you are still being unhappy. Are you the jealous person you are asking about?