Sciforum Addiction Explained.

[Teetotaler]

For a while now, I have been wondering what draws an individual to sciforums and other similar sites. The answer has become apparent to me. The typical sciforum user has difficulties adapting in society. Maintaining relationships and holding intellectual conversation, outside of the Internet, is too difficult of a task for these people. Sciforums users are social outcasts, whether they admit it or not.

They usually hold beliefs that are incongruent with what society believes to be true. They, in fact, fear the act of sharing ideas in a personal exchange. Avoiding rejection, persecution, and assault; they find their way here. For example, Muslim has become a person we all know and love. He shares his fears and his conviction, as it relates to antifeminism. But in reality, there is none other that is more pathetic than he. More dejected than a hobbledehoy, Muslim makes pathetic attempts at force feeding garbage to a population wanting to be force fed.

Our next example comes from the Sciforum user known as G. F. Schleebenhorst. Every opportunity that he is given, G.F. makes a racist comment about those who descended from Africa. In the physical world, he is afraid to share these views. He could never muster up enough courage to tell a black man that his black women are all crack whores. People like G.F, make their way to the Internet to carry out all of the things that, in reality, are too cowardly to do.

What does this say for the, how may I say, credibility and worth of the topics discussed here? It quite simply means that all ideas, generated from sciforums, should be taken with a grain of salt. The inhabitants of this forum do not represent the world's true intellectuals. They are but outcasts; pretending in order to survive.

Teetotaler,

[phonetic]

OutKast are an American hip hop duo based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
(thanks wiki)

Outcast may refer to:

* one who has been "cast out" or ostracised from a family, group, tribe, or nation.
(thanks again wiki)

Unless that was intentional and you wanted someone to turn it around with;

I know you like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-poo-poooooo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-poooooo

Apart from that I agree. I don't really have any friends I can talk to about the things I see on sciforums. It's not that I'm too ashamed, embarassed or scared, just I don't have anyone.

[Teetotaler]

OutKast are an American hip hop duo based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
(thanks wiki)

Outcast may refer to:

* one who has been "cast out" or ostracised from a family, group, tribe, or nation.
(thanks again wiki)

Unless that was intentional and you wanted someone to turn it around with;

I know you like to thank your shit don't stank
But lean a little bit closer
See that roses really smell like poo-poo-poooooo
Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-poooooo

Apart from that I agree. I don't really have any friends I can talk to about the things I see on sciforums. It's not that I'm too ashamed, embarassed or scared, just I don't have anyone.

Simple spelling error, my friend.

[perplexity]

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[Teetotaler]

OK.

Having thus established the glaringly obvious, now what?

--- Ron.

What did the English do when the Monarchy of 1660-1688 proved insufficient?

[devils_reject]

Almost everybody is an outcast one way or the other. Team players were last seen in Kindergarteen

[patty-rick]

Hey Im not a social outcast by any means, I read and write on these forums while im at work haha i find it interesting :P

[riku_124]

im a outcast, i also live with kids who smoke and drink more thne thye study for school, i do school, and smoked, and i live o nsci forums, you guys are the firneds i put my ideas past before i put those toughts into school papers, i also ccome here for ideas for school projects, we are al loutcasts, but we are also here because we want to learn, some of us anyway, others are here to flame the SH!! out of people in the religous forums

[perplexity]

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[Absane]

I'm attracted to this place because I don't have any "smart" friends in real life. All of mine are average or below average... mostly because of the kinds of people I always wanted to hang out with and be like tend to be in this group. Though I suppose it's a good thing for them because I am always the problem solver among them.

The few smart people I have known tend to not interest me. That or I just pick the wrong ones, because Ill get into more arguements then it is worth. Another just turned into a drug addict. I find it's easier to live with average people.

[domesticated om]

I started using sciforums when I was in high school with a couple of friends. Back then, we just wanted to see what it was like- we thought it was harmless--- a post here--- a reply there.
Later on, I started to feel like my day was not complete until I had checked the forums to see if there were any new posts...... then it became more and more fequent. I started checking once every few hours, then once every 10 minutes.
I still didn't think I had a problem, and that I could quit sciforums anytime I wanted to. I didn't pay attention to the danger signs.
After a while, I started to feel like I couldn't go on without sciforums. My wife and family and friends kept telling me I seemed different somehow, and kept asking me if I was ok.
I knew I was getting really bad when I lost my job because they caught me in the bathroom with my laptop computer......but it didn't stop there.
I began to run low on money, and I started selling my possesions just so I could get one more month of internet. When my stuff was all gone, I started stealing from people that were close to me......arguing....begging the ISP not to cut me off. Then my wife got sick of it, and left me...... my family also started to push me away.
When I started selling my body on the streets, I knew I had hit rock bottom.

So last month, I go to the clinic, and the doc tells me I have terminal forumitus, and I only have 6 months to live.

Don't be like me.......you can make the right choices before it's too late!

[riku_124]

demosticated om! right on man! right on! you need to go to school, and teach hcildren about it!

[perplexity]

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[Absane]

So last month, I go to the clinic, and the doc tells me I have terminal forumitus, and I only have 6 months to live.

Don't be like me.......you can make the right choices before it's too late!

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h197/absane/untitled.png

[patty-rick]

It is all rather sad, really.

Set up a forum for respectable intelligent didactic types and you get a majority of trolls who log in to have a go at them while furtively posing as the opposition.

If you set up a forum for trolls, maybe you'd get a majority of respectable intelligent didactic types to pose as trolls.

--- Ron.

(Not attacking anyone in particular)
And then there is the wanky intellectual types that wont listen to a word of most people, whats worse?

[spuriousmonkey]

For a while now, I have been wondering what draws an individual to sciforums and other similar sites. The answer has become apparent to me. The typical sciforum user has difficulties adapting in society. Maintaining relationships and holding intellectual conversation, outside of the Internet, is too difficult of a task for these people. Sciforums users are social outcasts, whether they admit it or not.,

Yes, I am an outcast. I admit it.

Because I am married. Have 2 children. Have friends. Have a job. Have a PhD. Published scientific articles. Have my name on 2 book chapters (stem cells and tissue engineering). Founded a journal once and organized parties. Traveled the world a bit. I am even happy with my life.

That said, I am a total weirdo. And an outcast. With 13.000+ posts.

Eat that.

[patty-rick]

I think that summed up the uselessness of this thread

[Absane]

Yes, I am an outcast. I admit it.

It was said that a typical SF poster has those qualities.

You aren't typical. LOL.

Most people here probably are a bit on the loner side. But I don't know anyone on this board personally... so I may not be the judge.

[Avatar]

That's what you get when writing a statistical paper you take the statistics from thin air, i.e., imagination.

[thedevilsreject]

im an outcast untill i go back to school

[perplexity]

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[The Devil Inside]

in my hometown in michigan, i am quite the social butterfly, actually.

as i dislike belgians (i live in belgium) at large, i generally stay in my apartment all day. my lady goes to school, and studies constantly...so i have alot of free time. if one examines the history of my posting, it has picked up 1000% since i moved to europe. this is because i have much more "free" time, and im not travelling constantly (my job in the states had me travelling wildly all over the country every 3 days.).

i suppose i am an outcast of sorts, but i have always had friends from all walks of life. the only kinds of people i dont associate with are people that wallow in their own crapulence.

i have friends that are bonafide "gangstas" in the truest sense of the word, chess players, conspiracy theorists of the most extreme brand, average americans, members of the NRA (which i am a proud member of), "country folks", rave kids, musicians of all kinds, and several actors (one of them was on ER once!! yeehaw!!).

i dont feel this thread applies to me in the sense it was intended.

[The Devil Inside]

Are you then an incast?

--- Ron
has anyone ever told you that you look remarkably like Dennis Hopper?

thats cool as hell!

[Avatar]

Why dislike Belgians? :D

[Satyr]

For a while now, I have been wondering what draws an individual to sciforums and other similar sites. The answer has become apparent to me. The typical sciforum user has difficulties adapting in society. Maintaining relationships and holding intellectual conversation, outside of the Internet, is too difficult of a task for these people. Sciforums users are social outcasts, whether they admit it or not.

They usually hold beliefs that are incongruent with what society believes to be true. They, in fact, fear the act of sharing ideas in a personal exchange. Avoiding rejection, persecution, and assault; they find their way here. For example, Muslim has become a person we all know and love. He shares his fears and his conviction, as it relates to antifeminism. But in reality, there is none other that is more pathetic than he. More dejected than a hobbledehoy, Muslim makes pathetic attempts at force feeding garbage to a population wanting to be force fed.

Our next example comes from the Sciforum user known as G. F. Schleebenhorst. Every opportunity that he is given, G.F. makes a racist comment about those who descended from Africa. In the physical world, he is afraid to share these views. He could never muster up enough courage to tell a black man that his black women are all crack whores. People like G.F, make their way to the Internet to carry out all of the things that, in reality, are too cowardly to do.

What does this say for the, how may I say, credibility and worth of the topics discussed here? It quite simply means that all ideas, generated from sciforums, should be taken with a grain of salt. The inhabitants of this forum do not represent the world's true intellectuals. They are but outcasts; pretending in order to survive.

Teetotaler,
And this, my dear friend, could be a clever way of dismissing and excusing one’s self from what is said on Sciforums.

I would agree that there is an element of maladjustment on this forum but the reasons why should be explored.

Let us see what you've said in detail and dissect it for clues about what you might really mean indirectly :bugeye: :
For a while now, I have been wondering what draws an individual to sciforums and other similar sites.An individual like yourself….You’ve been “wondering” why you keep coming back when some of the things said here are disturbing to you.

You offer a possible explanation for your own appearances, and extrapolate that this is a common motive, below:

The answer has become apparent to me.I have established a theory of self.

The typical sciforum user has difficulties adapting in society.Translation:
I have no difficulties fitting in.
i am 'normal' and have litle problem belonging to an average.

That others come here is a diversionary tactic.

No analysis about the possible reasons why someone would have “difficulty adapting to society” are given but a general negative air is established over the phenomenon.

Fitting in, of course, being the desirable thing, being a-part-of the ultimate goal, participating in the norm the healthy way.
Everything else: Ill.

Maintaining relationships and holding intellectual conversation, outside of the Internet, is too difficult of a task for these people. Sciforums users are social outcasts, whether they admit it or not.
A declaration of self.

A very plausible hypothesis but too simplistic to encompass the reasons why this occurs.

Why do people have “difficulty” connecting to people intellectually?

The insinuation is that this is a defect.
No consideration is offered to the possibility that those who are seemingly “fitting in” are doing so very superficially or that their mental requirements to communicate are more basic and, therefore, more easily satisfied.

For example: We can imagine Einstein being an arrogant outcast or socially dysfunctional when he is simply unable to find people of his mental quality who share his interests.
We can imagine him bored with the everyday ramblings about money or sex or religion, as your “typical” well-adjusted mind like the author's engages in, and seeking isolation, as a consequence.
Here his mental superiority will be misconstrued, by the likes of our author, as a defect.

I wonder how Tarzan felt trying to fit into a troop of Gorillas.
How dysfunctional and anti-social and maladaptive he might have appeared to the apes.
How they though him a weirdo.
How he longed for another form of communication beyond grunts and chest-thumping and bellowed a scream in the forest trying to find others like him self.

Our author would have no problem fitting in with chimps, I am sure.

They usually hold beliefs that are incongruent with what society believes to be true. They, in fact, fear the act of sharing ideas in a personal exchange. Let us then engage in a conversation detailing the reason why they “fear” and what threatens them.

How do common beliefs establish authority in minds and how does peer pressure and institutionalization act as a deterrent to honest thought?
How free is our thinking and what censors us and how?

Are the well-adjusted really honest or are they self-censoring to “fit in”?
What level of hypocrisy occurs in everyday inter-communications, beginning with a casual “How are you?” which is mostly dishonest and ritualistic and ending in unfulfilling human relationships?

I once heard someone complain to another about a third who responded to her casual, disinterested query with an honest expression of “Not well”.
She complained because the third didn’t offer the ritualistic expected response of: “Fine and you?”

You see she wasn’t really interested in how the third person was, she was simply mimicking a ritual which made here fit in.

Avoiding rejection, persecution, and assault; they find their way here. For example, Muslim has become a person we all know and love. He shares his fears and his conviction, as it relates to antifeminism. But in reality, there is none other that is more pathetic than he. More dejected than a hobbledehoy, Muslim makes pathetic attempts at force feeding garbage to a population wanting to be force fed.Here the author makes a moral stand.
This is “pathetic” behavior when opinions shared do not correspond to popular ones.
All opinions should be limited to within acceptable ones.

The author fails to consider the possibility that most rarely express their ‘real’ opinions’ in his well-adjusted, everyday world, and that they are simply going through the motions and playing along with the façade.
Or that most people lack any ability to think for them selves and simply accept the common, cultural opinion as their own. These last, eventually, feel dismayed that anyone could believe such filth about race or gender or sex or politics or whatever.

The normal, healthy mind, like his, is completely taken over by the prevailing meme and he now acts as guardian of ‘truth’ and ‘right’ and commonality.
His overpowering need to fit in and be normal forces his average mind to find ways of integrating and considers any diversion from this ultimate goal as ‘sick’ or “garbage”.

Perhaps some consideration should be offered to the possibility that many need this pressure release and honest expression for self so as to compensate for the necessity for social normality and everyday hypocrisy.

The unfortunate ones who have been so convinced that their act is their real self are the “pathetic” ones. The ones that lie to them selves.

Our next example comes from the Sciforum user known as G. F. Schleebenhorst. Every opportunity that he is given, G.F. makes a racist comment about those who descended from Africa. In the physical world, he is afraid to share these views.Of course he is “afraid”. The wrath of mediocrity will fall upon him and ostracize him and cast him as a social pariah.
You know, like you are attempting to do right now. I love interactive forums- they offer the opportunity to observe human social mechanisms in real time.
I have often seen a social mechanism display itself by denying its own existence. Now that was irony.

His need to survive within an environment - in this case an environment dominated by humanity – forces him to adapt to it.

He could never muster up enough courage to tell a black man that his black women are all crack whores. People like G.F, make their way to the Internet to carry out all of the things that, in reality, are too cowardly to do.And how brave our author is, never having to think outside the box, never having the ability or the will to exit his ‘normality’, uttering the words of the herd, regurgitating the ideals of the masses, never conflicting with the average mediocrity around it, never challenging authority or himself to overcome his environment and not submit to it.

I would not dream of defending any of these chaps, because I am not aware of their opinions, but this display of self-assuring mediocrity is a perfect example of how a cultural system self-regulates and maintains the myth concerning of free-speech and free-thinking.

We are only “free” if we paint within the lines.
Then our average brethren can admire and reward us for being so meticulously disciplined in your ability to never paint outside the lines.
You will mirror them and they will admire themselves through you.

Oh, how wonderfully ‘normal’ I…I mean, you are.

What does this say for the, how may I say, credibility and worth of the topics discussed here?
What does it say about the topics discussed out there?

It quite simply means that all ideas, generated from sciforums, should be taken with a grain of salt. The inhabitants of this forum do not represent the world's true intellectuals. They are but outcasts; pretending in order to survive.Whereas the true “intellectual” resides out there, his opinions should be taken seriously and he is not “pretending in order to survive”.

What a wonderful disclaimer and an attempt to convince the few, fence-sitters, who are influenced by some of the ‘honest’ views expressed here, to beware.

Notice the silent threat implied here:
Do not take them seriously or else you shall be an outcast like them.

Be normal repeat the slogans and beliefs that are popular in our time and place.

I imagine anyone claiming that the Earth was round would be considered an “outcast” in another previous time and place.

The one thing you can say about these forums is that they offer a perfect opportunity to express an honest and uncensored opinion with the only possible repercussion being banishment – the TheoryofRelativity threats to call the cops on whomever threatens her sensitive mental disposition and social, self-serving myths notwithstanding.

I would submit the honest opinion that if any of us were privy to many of our ‘normal’ neighbor’s true and honest thoughts, no matter how healthy and well-adjusted and average he seemed, we would be horrified.
I would go further that if any of us could tolerate being honest with ourselves, devoid of any pressure to fit in or to adjust or to be acceptable or to live up to our idealizations of ourselves, we would find inside us many things to make our institutionalized psychologies cringe.
Know Thyself.

Pedophiles (or what is deemed such), racists, weirdos, sexists, fascists and all the ‘ists’ that confront us are prevalent and it is only a thin layer of forced civility that protects us from being exposed to it daily.
We, nonetheless, see it peeking out in moments of loss of control when the human animal shows itself uninhibited during inebriation, anger, sexual frenzy, mass hysteria and so on.

This author has nothing to ay about the opinions expressed and so he turns his attentions to the one subject he has a talent for criticizing, the other.
He offers us his superficial critique concerning individuals that make it feel uncomfortable – especially when he considers the possibility that they are not such a small minority – and he attempts to discredit them as “outcasts” and socially inept and undeserving of consideration.
He is no less prejudiced than they are.
He is no less trying to survive than they are.

This individual doesn’t want to explore the human condition and see its brutish, pure, instinctive HONEST side.
This individual is afraid – even if he chooses to only see the fear of others – of exploring the reasons why certain socially unacceptable predispositions exist and persists no matter the social and cultural prohibitions, threats and rewards.

Why, for instance, does adultery still persist in cultures where it is punished by death?
How do those cultures label these “sinners” and “outcasts” and how does it control and maintain stability within its system when it often confronts instinctual behavior?

I closing I would just like to say that this mind can only be judged by its expressions of opinion and the manner he presents them.
To any interested in his quality, I would suggest going through his writings and seeing what his quality really is and if he should take any of his opinions seriously or with a “pinch of salt”.

He, no doubt, lives up to his moniker. No stomach for hard alcohol.
A soft disposition, wanting to excuse its feebleness using moral supports and herd defenses.
It’s only cute as long as it does not gather shared power through numbers.
A stampede of cows is more dangerous than a solitary lion. Yet a solitary cow, regurgitating in the fields, will not survive a lion.

Gather, my children, in groups and cast away those who threaten your peaceful, chewing.

[S.A.M.]

Same like TDI, I'm pretty sociable back home and even in the ME.

In the US I find myself stuck in the lab from morn to eve and then some.

Since everyone else is also in a similar boat, it means every conversation seems to revolve around work.

This forum is a good place for me to indulge in my other interests which are not shared by people I work with.

Although I get along with most people, I make friends with very few people but I prefer it that way. I spend a lot of time with my work and my books, so in a sense I could be said to be isolated, but I usually have to find ways to escape people, so I would say it's by choice. ;)

[The Devil Inside]

Why dislike Belgians?
dont get me started, dude.

[Teetotaler]

The biggest of the outcasts has just revealed himself. He goes by the name of Satyr!

Satyr, I am sure the knowledge peasants worship you. I wish to assure you that you will have no such luck with me because I am aware of your true nature. You sit at home stroking your stunted male organ of copulation while perusing the dictionary for large words to use in your posts.

You've spent approximately $500 on Bose headphones to drown out the horrid sound generated when your mother squeals your name. Everyday, the same thought crosses your mind, "Oh how I wish I could shove a voice manipulator down her throat, to change her shrill from a 60 year old woman to a 12 year old aroused boy".

So take your rightous, pseudo-informative gobbledegook elsewhere.

P.S. And oh how I love your livestock metaphors. I'm more into the use of catachreses.

Cum my children! Satyr's barn door is open! But be patient, for those who can shoot in a straight line are first in line.

[LeeDa]

I just about got run over by a single cow once. Once there in motion they wont stop for you. A cow ya know. Cows are deadly. If cows could laugh would it be moowahaha

[perplexity]

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[superluminal]

I just about got run over by a single cow once. Once there in motion they wont stop for you. A cow ya know. Cows are deadly. If cows could laugh would it be moowahaha
I just about run over a couple of cows every month. Cows are big and would seriously damage my car.

Plus, this is a really dumb thread. I liked spuriousmonkey's response. Eat it, tee-totaler.

[superluminal]

Did he post again?

IMHO life is far too short for such.

--- Ron.
Didn't you mean far too long?

[Satyr]

The biggest of the outcasts has just revealed himself. He goes by the name of Satyr! Ta TA!!!!!!! :cool:

Satyr, I am sure the knowledge peasants worship you.You reek of knowledge.
A true nobleman of information.

I wish to assure you that you will have no such luck with me because I am aware of your true nature.Oh, another one that ‘knows’ me.
I think this is the type of knowledge you exhibit in all areas.
Here it is, the product of that brain:
You sit at home stroking your stunted male organ of copulation while perusing the dictionary for large words to use in your posts.Why did you have to look up “copulation”?
"...of copulation"? This was forced.
You wanted to appear more intelligent than you are, huh?

Try it yourself and see how it works.
Write an essay on any subject using your dictionary and see how your stupidity doesn’t shine through, bright and clear, like a morning sun.

If I can do it so can you.

This is where you use the ‘I don’t have the time to be troubled with people like you’ evasion.

And yes my diseased mind is a product of my small penis and women not wanting me.
Mommy says it’s because I’m bad.

You can see the bitterness right through my opinions.
I mean, who can believe such stuff and be ‘healthy’ and popular, and sexually active, like you?
I have no sex, no life, no personality,, no girls, no friends, no job, no home and no future.
You got me, my little genius.

I, personally, think anyone who doesn’t believe all humans are equal and deserving of love and compassion is evil.
There, I said it.

You've spent approximately $500 on Bose headphones to drown out the horrid sound generated when your mother squeals your name. Everyday, the same thought crosses your mind, "Oh how I wish I could shove a voice manipulator down her throat, to change her shrill from a 60 year old woman to a 12 year old aroused boy". I...I...hate that BITCH!!!!
Poor little thing.
Did your mommy tell you you are special and just as smart and good-looking as everyone else?
Do ideas and thoughts frighten you and make your little mind ache?
Do you resent having to come up with arguments for why you believe in the things mommy and daddy taught you?

I urge the readers again to go through your past posts and for them to see for themselves the brightness of your thoughts.
I couldn’t be bothered but I suspect you shine like a star.

So take your rightous, pseudo-informative gobbledegook elsewhere.Where?

P.S. And oh how I love your livestock metaphors. I'm more into the use of catachreses.Wow...a big word...you must be smart.

Cum my children! Satyr's barn door is open! But be patient, for those who can shoot in a straight line are first in line.Here comes the ram....

Tea-time, old boy.

Oh looky here what I found:

Toddler quote:
I'd put my faith in a God, real or not, before I would people.
Now we have a motive and a reason our resident protector of what is right suffers from.

In one word:
Stupidity.

Poor, pooor thing.

[The Devil Inside]

droll...

i have reported both of you, mainly because i am bored with my real life at this moment.

[Satyr]

droll...

i have reported both of you, mainly because i am bored with my real life at this moment.You bastard!!!!
That can get me banned!

What will I do then when I have no more access to playing with little ants and watching them squirm?
Back to masturbation it is.

[perplexity]

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[The Devil Inside]

Nothing much lost.

You were a very cold turkey to start off with.

--- Ron.
and it aint cool to be a jive turkey...so close to thanksgiving.

[Absane]

I don't know Ron. I enjoy Satyr. Perhaps more than Xev when she was around.

[superluminal]

I don't know Ron. I enjoy Satyr. Perhaps more than Xev when she was around.
Satyr's awesome. All cloven-hoofy and everything.

[The Devil Inside]

All cloven-hoofy and everything.
HAIL SATAAAAAAAAN!
yeeeeeeeehaw!
http://www.asuwebdevil.com/images/issues/c23g36bb.jpg

[perplexity]

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[Genji]

I'm here cuz I was searching for a new forum after I was summarily BANNED from IIDB. Bastards. ME! BANNED! :bugeye: I like the permissiveness and the topics most of the time. I work alone so it's bloody boring as hell getting through my nightshift, so there.

[Satyr]

Genji
I'm here cuz I was searching for a new forum after I was summarily BANNED from IIDB. Bastards. ME! BANNED! I like the permissiveness and the topics most of the time. I work alone so it's bloody boring as hell getting through my nightshift, so there.Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Get with the program, can’t you see the topic has shifted and is now about ME?

I’m an attention whore, what can I say?
I want what I don’t get in my ‘real’ life....love.

The tea-drinking retard had it right.


perplexity
Do you warm to cold turkey, or do you live in a fridge?

Seriously, they don't yet seem to me to have touched upon the actual cause of the addiction.As far as I can gather from the retard's analytical posts, it has something to do with being an outcast.

I am, of course, king of the outcasts.
My internet connection and computer is paid for by my mommy and the house I built in Europe at the age of 26 was paid for by panhandling.

I don’t get sex but I am, somehow, getting married next year.
I’ve hypnotized her into believing I’m normal and...nice.
I still haven't gotten her to have sex with me though.

It is all in the romantic suspense, is it not?I’m biting my nails as we speak.

Will he reply?

What will he say to this?Will his response be verbose and derogatory or laconic (I got that word from the dictionary, as well – You know where the thread starter has to look every five minutes) and sarcastic?
Will he go on and on about social engineering and feminization and blah, blah, blah, - jeez we just come here to mingle and pick-up stray intellectuals dude. Get over yourself! Sheesh….

Will she get away with that?

It creates a tension, gets to the adrelalineIt's so dramatic.

Satyr, alternatively, seems to think he's sharp but the effect is rather to dull the edge of it all, like somebody who just has to tell you how the conjurer does the trick.Are you here to trick us, little girl?

Wow. I thought we were here to uncover tricks and find 'truth', if we can.
My bad.
I guess we have different agendas.

You want to appear as being smarter than you really are, a magic trick indeed; all smoke and mirrors and slight of hand.
A pretense of wonder masking nothing but charlatanism.
You go girl!!!
You want to pretend you are special, whereas I want to uncover what I really am even if I find nothing there, even if I'm insulted and hurt by what I find.

Let's talk about courage, shall we?

He spoils the show.My intent all along.
I’m here to show all you miserable fools what clever methods you use to hide your selves from your selves and from others.

You cannot surpass what you cannot see or what you deny seeing.
A prisoner pretending he’s already free or who cannot see the metal bars can never, ever, hope to escape.

Nothing much lost.

You were a very cold turkey to start off with.I will eventually tire, or get a life, and leave for a while again. Then you can all return to trading inanities in boring, cookie-cutter language and MTV linguistic bursts and brain-teasers.
Then you can all talk about how everyone is equal, women are just as good as men at everything, race and gender are cultural constructs, all life deserves respect and dignity and the universe is a loving, hospitable, nice place, all the while pursuing your real goals of socializing, flirting, gossiping and feeling, in this way, as a part of a community.
No self-interest or cowardice there.
Just wholesome, normal, tolerant, civilized discourse.

What do they call it….ah yes….average.


The Devil Inside
You clever she-devil, where did you get a picture of me?


superluminal
Satyr's awesome. All cloven-hoofy and everything.What about my horns, do you like my horns?


Absane
I don't know Ron. I enjoy Satyr. Perhaps more than Xev when she was around.Ah yes, Xev.
She did enjoy me in her own vitriolic way, didn’t she?

Unfortunately, like our past monarch, she’s outgrown this place.
Only I, Satyr, still manage to find uses for all the stupidity.
Wanderer? He would sulk and then threaten to leave.

I'm stagnating.

[The Devil Inside]

The Devil Inside
You clever she-devil, where did you get a picture of me?



yo mama. she gave it to me after i cleaned her gutters. :p

[perplexity]

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[Satyr]

The Devil Inside
yo mama. she gave it to me after i cleaned her gutters. I hope you did a good job ‘cause dat bitch is particular.


perplexity
Like Satyr is the only one ever with the courage to reveal himself, not as as if that would be something special?I never said I was the “only one” but you, certainly, are not the other one.

How interesting that keeping within the lines is so important to people who, supposedly, come here to talk honestly and openly and who self-describe themselves as “free-thinkers” and “individuals”.

I can only conclude that they cannot shake the act they exhibit in their everyday life, keeping their real opinions hidden so as to not be singled out and chastised and ostracized and excluded and attacked, by the group, or they lack any opinion that does not adhere to those they’ve been indoctrinated into.

You see when you lack character and a mind you simply adopt the prevailing beliefs and repeat them endlessly, taking them for granted.
You play the role others expect from you and force you to play. In time you associate the act with the self you so desperately want to find.
Such “individuals” are always non-confrontational, civil and likable because they have no opinions that would confront or contradict common beliefs.
They are average, non-outcasts, like the tea-drinker.
When you repeat the popular sentiment you never say anything the other would find disturbing.

In groups these minds always find support, because they are part of a majority, from their fellow average minds. They believe numbers exposes ‘truth’, popularity reveals value and quantity determines reality.
You can find such minds by the billions, throughout time.
They were the ones that just went along with the Crusades and the witch-hunts and the holocausts.
They were the one that were dismayed by evolutionary theory, before it became acceptable dogma.
They were the ones that could not believe how anyone could think the Earth was round.
How does the water stay down then? Ludicrous!

These average minds are the masses, clever minds manipulate using cultural ideals, threats and emotion.
They are the “healthy”, productive, well-adjusted, moral minds.

Every society, since the beginning, has known millions of them. It relies on their obtuse, acceptance of whatever their culture feeds them as ‘truth’.
If their culture tells them that men and women are the same, that’s what they believe.
If their culture tells them that race and beauty is skin deep and means nothing, that’s what they believe.
If their culture tells them Jesus came on earth to save mankind from its sins, then that’s what it believes.
If their culture tells them they are free and noble and just and other cultures are evil-empires and primitive and brutal, then that’s what they believe.

If you want to know who you really are you are going the wrong way about it. It is not about uncovering; it is about the psychological projection, mixing your own shit up with theirs, presuming to tell the World how it is when what you are really doing is describing yourself in reverse, and probably because the reality of yourself is indeed too cold and dreary for anybody else to be bothered with.What else, beside “cold and dreary”, could I be?

My lack of friends attests to it.

You see, friend, when the mind feels threatened by or inferior to another, it desperately seeks out reasons to feel superior to it.
It then begins assuming that this mind must be “cold” and “dreary” or that it must have no love or sex or a large enough penis or that it suffers more than it does or whatever.

It does this so that its own inferiority can be compensated with an alternative reward.

Why are pretty girls always called bitches?

People trick themselves, eagerly; no need to expend the effort to do it for them.No need to expend any effort in enlightening them either.

[perplexity]

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[Satyr]

It is presently important because it proves you wrong, Satyr.

You have lost the plot and missed the point, talking to yourself, not to me, in a World of your own.

--- Ron.Oh, I think you and I know how I’ve impressed you.

Whatever my style, you cannot help but follow my postings, finding little gems within them, even while being ashamed for it and as little intimidated by them.

Teetotalor represents a majority in here.
A boring, ineffective, uncharismatic, nothing, with nothing to say and nothing to challenge the mind with.
He’s a cesspool of stagnating murk, bubbling up, every so often, and releasing odiferous gases into the air.

He finds solace in numbers and within the group that shares his non-distinct, mediocrity.
There he isn’t forced to think or defend himself and his views or grow.
He is “comfortably numb”.
He will even defend his stagnation, having grown soft and inflexible, both physically and mentally, hating anyone that reminds him of what he’s allowed himself to become or what he was born to be.
We are, unfortunately, products of our past.

Anything or anyone threatening this peace of mind, this regularity and normality becomes something to be despised.
Ways to combat the threat are found.
The opinion cannot be attacked directly because here the imbecile lacks any talent or brain or character to do anything but expose his quality.
He therefore resorts to attacking the opinion maker. A sycophant and a hypocritical coward, who practices double-speak and who accuses the other of what he fears he is and will be exposed as.

He finds some of the views expressed here on this forum, those that do not mimic and repeat the established dogma, reprehensible.
Those presenting anything beyond his comfort level must be ill or motivated by evil.

His mind self-censors and cannot think of anything beyond a point.

These minds inevitably become representations of their cultures average ideal.
You will find them in all cultures, defending the righteousness, justice and morality of their adopted opinions, passed down to them or taught to them by others.

They fancy themselves thinkers when they haven’t ever thought of anything other than what was taught to them. Their “thinking’ involves only reinterpreting what was taught to them or finding new reasons to keep believing in what was taught to them.
They are, truly, well-adjusted, social, and a majority, which makes them representatives of what is considered “normal”.

And you are on the edge of this group.
Not completely convinced but wanting, so desperately, for it to be truth.
Yes women and men are no different from one another.
Race is irrelevant.
Gender a social construct.
Equality a given.
Respect and dignity a right.
Life is holy and valuable no matter what it is.
Love eternal and omnipotent.

And why?
Because some of these concepts suit your interests. They sooth your soul. They protect you from the harshness of an indifferent and vicious world.

Oh, noble souls, cowering behind ideals to hide from reality, how I envy your short-sighted unawareness.
I sometimes envy cows grazing in the meadows, chewing on grass and not even aware of what they are or their ultimate fate.

[perplexity]

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