I'm sorry to have missed it:
• Been reading posts for a while now and finally registered to post! I honestly have to say that I am surprised at the responses to this thread! Being as Dumb as I am, the first thing I did was look at the pictures - they did not appear empty to me! Seemed to get a lot thinking going on in smarter people though! (Oct., 2011↗)
• I know I'm DUMB and probably more than a little foolish, but should I be worried about a power outage,virus, malware or someone spilling coffee on a keyboard or something like that? Even being as dumb as i am (obviously!!), I have learned to accept help from the really smart people that I've met and would like to feel comfortable knowing that a computer glitch somewhere out there would not have me waking up tomorrow an old Bic pen, a stripped lug nut or a mosquito or something like that. You have a lot of posts, so maybe you could help me make some sense of this. Only a couple billion other things scare the HECK out of me on daily basis (I live in United States), but one less would be weight off of my shoulders! Hope you will not mind helping one of us little people out! (Dec., 2011↗)
• I can tell you for sure that it is not so easy a life being Dumb as I am - so I can only imagine it must be hundreds of thousands of times harder being truly intelligent like you. (Dec., 2011↗)
• But heck, even as dumb as I am - I understand ; It's all my fault!! (Dec., 2011↗)
• Virtual Sheeple...HOPEFULLY will ALWAYS ACCEPT me as The Dumbest Man On Earth!!
My virtual identity is, I HOPE, Dumb enough to BET MY VIRTUAL LIFE SAVINGS that the majority of posters on this forum DO NOT, let me repeat DO NOT have a facebook page !!!!!!!
ERGO; being that I am indeed the Dumbest Man On Earth.... NOT ONE OTHER SINGLE POSTER ON THIS SITE SHOULD MISCONSTRUE MY MEANING!!! (July, 2012↗)
• Sorry, but my moniker forces me to post these dumb thinks. (July, 2012↗)
• First off, I must confess to being The Dumbest Man On Earth, so therefore I must confess that I can follow all that you are saying - but can only understand about 00.0000003% of it! (Aug., 2012↗)
• I do not care if you get back to me or let me know what you think of this above - because, even as DUMB as I am, I am still leaning toward casting my ballot for CESSPOOL MATERIAL. (Aug., 2012↗)
• BTW, do not let my user name dissuade you - most operating systems are designed so that even people as dumb as myself can use them. Heck I've even heard tell (hearsay evidence, mind you) that computers are used by Lawyers, Policemen, Car Salesmen, Politicians, Churches, Corporations, CEO's, Governments, Sheople... (Aug., 2012↗)
• Of course it was Dumb. I, the Dumbest Man on Earth, posted it. (July, 2013↗)
• Now, back to my "Dumb Theory", I think it only fair at this point, to tell you that my favorite flavor of "Kool-Aid" is Grape - though when I am feeling really Randy or Wild and Crazy, I prefer to Guzzle Copious amounts of the Lime flavor. (July, 2013↗)
• Geez, I read post #6 and by the time I was able to organize my thoughts and get them typed (hunt and peck), and then re-read them for spelling or grammar - 5 more posts got in front of me
I am slow and old in addition to being Dumb. (July, 2013↗)
• Would my being "high" or not when I wrote it make it any more "coherent" to you? Is it common for people to get "high" and try to have a meaningful conversation? (July, 2013↗)
• I only brought up Wal-Mart because, to me at least, it does not seem to be the place that I would find the CEO of a major corporation shopping at on a regular basis - but alas being as dumb as I am - I am often wrong, also. (July, 2013↗)
• … as I have stated numerous times in numerous threads, the meaning of "dumbest", as I use in my moniker, has nothing to do with intelligence or level of learning, education or even knowledge. From my involvement on SciForums, it could, probably, more accurately be defined as meaning "most cursed"! A quip!
I actually use "dumbest" as meaning - suffering the heavy restraints of values, morals, tenets, beliefs, principles and honesty. (August, 2013↗)
Those are the relevant uses of the word, "dumb", I found from your arrival, in October, 2011, through August, 2013; that last is worth taking a moment to consider. Between then, here are a couple occasions when you responded to people calling you dumb, as in ignorant, foolish, ridiculous, &c.:
• Perception. "One picture is worth a thousand words". Non-Queens English. Communication goes both ways. (Aug., 2013↗)
• Gee, I have only been reading the Posts on SciForums for maybe 5-6 years, and to me, it hasn't even made the move over into the turn lane for Dumb Street yet.
Of course, with my moniker...well...I...probably shouldn't... (Aug., 2013↗)
And then:
• Anyway they were saying science like words so I must have figured that I could look dumb less by Posting it to grab a...to grab a...well any way thanks for letting me know why I did that. (Jan., 2014↗)
• I am not as think as you Dumb I am. (June, 2014↗)
The earliest mention I find of congenital anomalies is
July, 2014↗. And again
some days later↗. There's kind of a gap, but the issue resurfaced
yesterday↗, after you took a pass on the point
earlier this week↗.
So, yeah. Sorry I missed it. Can't imagine how that happened. Let me know if I overlooked anything.
Of course not.
The [supremacist] has chosen hate because hate is a faith. At the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frvolous discussions about the reality of his hatred appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for someone to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by supremacists, all of them absurd: "I hate [them] because they make servants insubordinate, because [one of them] robbed me, etc." Never believe the supremacists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words respnosibly, since he believes in words. The supremacists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to indimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.
(adapted from Sartre; boldface accent added)
Honestly, the irony that the above paragraph on supremacism is adapted from one on anti-Semitism ought to be irrelevant. Then again, here we are.
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Notes:
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew. 1944. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.