The Glade 4.0

Diamondeye:

Again, under what pretense do you get to dictate the terms and content of another's post? You have told Elmarnieh he should not have an opinion. You have told me I don't have the privilege to ask you questions? Are you the owner of these forums? Do you have some authority over the rest of us of which we are unaware?

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Why are you guys even doing this? I mean.. seriously. What is the point?

I can tell you you don't have privilege to ask me questions any time I want. You don't get it. It doesn't matter if you ask because I'm under no obligation to answer or even acknowledge that you asked. You can sit there and ask all you want; it's irrelevant if you do or not. You don't have privilege to ask me anything, so you get no response. It's the same with Elmo; he can have an opinion; he just shouldn't because his opinion is **** stupid. It's the equivalent of a Cliff Claven opinion.

You're just distorting it to make it sound as if I'm giving orders when I'm not. Obviously people can do whatever they want; there's nothing I can do about that. I am not, however, obligated to either answer your questions, nor give Elmo's opinion one iota of respect. Get the **** over it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Who cares?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Nobody, anymore. Which is why I stop reading threads when you start posting, these days, DE.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Yeah, pretty much.

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Yeah, that's about what I expect out of the agreement-fest. I mean, we have the chart thread, and what does everyone do? start trying to pretend I'm some sort of authoritarian because I'm not deep down in the negatives, despite being right at the line - you know, because I really need to be the center of attention. And yet, you wonder why I ahve so much to say. All that's left here is sitting around being outraged at whatever the latest story is, and absolutely no tolerance for the idea that things may not be as simple as "tyranny, government!" all the time. There's an entire thread dedicate to nothing but accepting allegations of tyranny at face value. So, if you're not reading what I ahve to say I'm rpetty comfortable it's because people just want to read what they agree with.

No worries though. I still like talking Star Citizen with you. Some of you people don't seem to get that Hellfire is Hellfire. With one or two rare exceptions that can't keep it here, what happens in here is in here, as far as I'm concerned.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

It seem that folks mostly post to A)disagree with someone or B)agree with someone disagreeing with another (dog piling). You don't see a lot of folks taking the effort to agree outside a few GOOMH posts.

The way I see it, DE just hasn't gotten the "give a damn" beaten out of him yet. That's about the biggest difference between us.

He has gotten MUCH better with the embedded quotes though, so good has come of this.

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In time, this too shall pass.

To be honest, it's because I simply don't have the time or inclination to read your point-by-point walls of texts that you frequently post in 4 or 5 in a row spurts. It just seriously drags the entire pace and discourse of the thread down in ways that other posters don't seem to, with stubborn back-and-forthing that I just don't care enough to try to follow.

As you say, though, that's a Hellfire thing. Other forums aren't argumentative like that, so I'm happy to hang out with you there.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

"**** you, I do what I want!"

Seriously?

Anyway,

Ok, I'll bite. My best guess so far is "Moral Realism something (Ontology? Ontological?) something Philosophy"

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Multiplayer Roleplaying Online Intellectual Property?

Mind Reading Over Internet Protocol. Of course, I cheated, and referenced an IM from last week.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I'm going with "something Pinky would say, like "narf" or "zort"". Used in a sentence: "Uh, I think so Brain, but how are we gonna teach a goat to dance with flippers on? Mroip!"

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No, not even close. No one's ever been entitled to answers when they come in here and ask questions. He's also straight back on the "ignore" function, so I guess you won't have to worry about it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

thumbs up



Don't think so. I've explained these already.



Yeah, very interesting, but not particularly worthwhile of discussion. I suppose you are free to define God however you like. You confess it is "loosely Christian", but frankly that really only means it is not the Christian definition.

IMO, it is the height of foolishness to "define God", particularly in a setting such as this. First, if God exists, he is not subject to our definitions (probably, or he is, we don't know, do we?) Further, knowing the crowd, it's just a dumb thing to do. Lastly, my faith is personal, and I'm not interested.

Getting back to the point, I have participated in the discussion with Taly - what you are discussing is a derail, and not what the discussion was about. What I have engaged is claims of "false religions like Christianity" and "equal credibility with the flying spaghetti monster". You are subsequently coming up with your own definition of God, which is not the Christian God. That's great and all, but it's not the conversation.

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Holy shitsnacks!

That's great, but the guy needs to chill a bit.

Baby steps. If he pushes too hard, he's just going to force a widespread crisis of faith. That's the sort of thing that creates new denominations.

The last liberal reformer to get elected to the papacy was probably poisoned, so yes, he should be careful.

In other news, I could probably give my dad a heart attack by informing him that while it was still vague, it's very possible that Pope Francis has opened up Catholic heaven to us unbelieving heathens with recent remarks.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
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