Why bother?

[perplexity]

Why spend the time to read or post to sciforums?

I had often wondered.

Motivations are of course mixed, but you are nevertheless invited to declare which best would describe your disposition.

--- Ron.

 

[D'ster]

Watch people try to deal with reality.

 

[S.A.M.]

To kill time in a fun way between experiments.

Also to think about something other than work (which occupies all waking hours right now) as a mental break.

Also the atmosphere at sciforums is pretty unrestricted and there are some interesting personalities here with a very divergent outlook, which makes for a great deal of entertainment and some really original points of view.

 

[(Q)]

Why spend the time to read or post to sciforums?

I had often wondered.

Motivations are of course mixed, but you are nevertheless invited to declare which best would describe your disposition.

--- Ron.

Ron, do you actually think you'd ever hear the extremeties of ideas and delusions in person that you read here?

 

[perplexity]

Ron, do you actually think you'd ever hear the extremeties of ideas and delusions in person that you read here?

Oh no, my sense of moral superiority is founded very much upon my wife's assurance that I am much the same here online as elsewhere, offline, while I know for a fact that others are definitely not the same here, not according at least to private confessions, or the lack of them.

Why else do they flee in fear and squeal like tortured pigs when threatened with their own reality?

It also shows in their own assumptions, that what they see of each other is but a supercial artifice, with some deeper psychological secret yet to be revealed. That is all projection, paranoia.

--- Ron.

 

[(Q)]

Ron, it sounds very much like you answered your own question.

 

[leopold]

the reason i post here isn't listed in the poll options.

 

[spuriousmonkey]

I just can't wait to see what perplexity, aka ron, aka old fart, writes next. He is my life.

 

[mountainhare]

Why bother?

That's what I ask myself every time I wake up in the morning.

 

[perplexity]

the reason i post here isn't listed in the poll options.

Please tell.

--- Ron.

 

[leopold]

Please tell.

eh, it's usually to add my opinion, or in the case of the computer forum to help someone with a problem, unless it is i who needs help.

 

[perplexity]

to help someone with a problem

I'd call that an axe to grind, expecting to persuade.

Chop tree; solve problem.

Couldn't think of a better phrase.

--- Ron.

 

[The Devil Inside]

i post here because i lead a trite, meaningless life, of late.

and to hear a bunch of self styled intellectuals act like they are better than the next guy...that is unendingly amusing to me.

 

[perplexity]

i
and to hear a bunch of self styled intellectuals

I was conditioned, programmed, definitely not self styled.
Tried hard for most of my life to shake off the grammar school arrogance, but it was a loosing battle.
Nowadays I find it better to mind the advantages.

--- Ron.

 

[spuriousmonkey]

i post here because i lead a trite, meaningless life, of late.

and to hear a bunch of self styled intellectuals act like they are better than the next guy...that is unendingly amusing to me.

I come here to see what Devil inside thinks about the self styled intellectuals that act like they are better than the next guy.

It's funny to see people think they are intellectuals while they are just monkeys with a typewrites (apes for the connoisseur).

 

[Roman]

You didn't have any options in your poll for why I was here.

Oh no, my sense of moral superiority is founded very much upon my wife's assurance that I am much the same here online as elsewhere, offline, while I know for a fact that others are definitely not the same here, not according at least to private confessions, or the lack of them.

So you're also a drama queen IRL. Yuck.

 

[The Devil Inside]

I come here to see what Devil inside thinks about the self styled intellectuals that act like they are better than the next guy.

It's funny to see people think they are intellectuals while they are just monkeys with a typewrites (apes for the connoisseur).

*shrug*
you guys are all in the same boat.

not me though, i am a unique and beautiful snowflake of intellectual prowess.

 

[The Devil Inside]

I was conditioned, programmed, definitely not self styled.
Tried hard for most of my life to shake off the grammar school arrogance, but it was a loosing battle.
Nowadays I find it better to mind the advantages.

--- Ron.

"The Devil Inside, youve got to be smarter than what you are fucking with."
---my grandmother (names ommitted to protect the identities of those involved)

 

[S.A.M.]

Snowflake?

http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/cmotu-pop/universe/snowflake.shtml

 

[The Devil Inside]

we call it an "artist's rendering", in the biz.