Bring back Ilion, Bring back Adnon (or what ever his moniker is)
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We're not trying to stifle Idíot's opinions. He only has one opinion, and that's that his journalist idols' opinions are factual. We're closing the mouth of the Soapbox to stop him from doling out spoonful after spoonful of fucking garbage.
5 of the best! :-D
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5 of the best! :-D
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Off-Topic How do tell if you're going crazy? :confused:
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Off-Topic How do tell if you're going crazy? :confused:
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
by missing words out?
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
by missing words out?
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Yeah... Never mind, forget I said anything.
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Off-Topic How do tell if you're going crazy? :confused:
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
I was once told, or heard, or something, that its those who suspect they are that arent. The truly mad are those that dont realise it. Which kind of makes sense since classic madness is delusional. Anyway, what kind of mad are you talking about? Manic-depressive mad is actually fairly normal, particularly amongst creative people. As for good old paranoia, well, thats pretty normal too; I am sure many people have low self esteem (I think they are related). But if the radiators have started talking to you (I dont know why it is always radiators but its often said by schizophranics) then its time to see a doc and get the pils! Mind you I knew a schizo once, a friend of a friend. Aparantly it was horses doing the talking. Mind you, he smoked too much weed and spent way to long working on a horse farm so what would one expect? Personally I think we are all at least half mad. The trick is not minding it.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
I was once told, or heard, or something, that its those who suspect they are that arent. The truly mad are those that dont realise it. Which kind of makes sense since classic madness is delusional. Anyway, what kind of mad are you talking about? Manic-depressive mad is actually fairly normal, particularly amongst creative people. As for good old paranoia, well, thats pretty normal too; I am sure many people have low self esteem (I think they are related). But if the radiators have started talking to you (I dont know why it is always radiators but its often said by schizophranics) then its time to see a doc and get the pils! Mind you I knew a schizo once, a friend of a friend. Aparantly it was horses doing the talking. Mind you, he smoked too much weed and spent way to long working on a horse farm so what would one expect? Personally I think we are all at least half mad. The trick is not minding it.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
I have an Uncle who is a psychiatrist, he loves schizophrenics, he can charge them twice! Mind you I have an Uncle who thinks he's a chicken, we didn't seek help for him though, we needed the eggs!
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
I was once told, or heard, or something, that its those who suspect they are that arent. The truly mad are those that dont realise it. Which kind of makes sense since classic madness is delusional. Anyway, what kind of mad are you talking about? Manic-depressive mad is actually fairly normal, particularly amongst creative people. As for good old paranoia, well, thats pretty normal too; I am sure many people have low self esteem (I think they are related). But if the radiators have started talking to you (I dont know why it is always radiators but its often said by schizophranics) then its time to see a doc and get the pils! Mind you I knew a schizo once, a friend of a friend. Aparantly it was horses doing the talking. Mind you, he smoked too much weed and spent way to long working on a horse farm so what would one expect? Personally I think we are all at least half mad. The trick is not minding it.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
Thanks, but don't worry about it. I just need to learn how to keep my mouth shut about things.
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I agree with most of Ilions posts and disagree with all of Adnon's but do like reading them .... and as I am able comment on them... rah rah rah... You guys need to get the stick out of your ass...
MrPlankton
Multicultural Diversity Training, the new Socialist Reeducation Camp-light.
Though I did raise an objection in the beginning saying it was a form of censorship, in hindsight, I realise I was wrong. It was merely an audience giving the thumbs down to a speaker. In a real life speech it would consist of boos, rotten eggs , tomatoes and sometimes shoes. A speaker who is given the bird by a non negligible portion of the audience is forced to terminate his speech and beat a hasty retreat. The same rules apply here. Instead of the tomatoes and rotten eggs we have the "vote to remove message" button. If a speaker want's to avoid being given the bird he had better not say anything to inflame the audience. It's really as simple as that. [edit - added missing word]
modified on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:39 AM
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
How do tell if you're going crazy?
by missing words out?
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Dalek Dave wrote:
by missing words out?
OMG!!! are you serious? I do that all the time :suss:
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Off-Topic How do tell if you're going crazy? :confused:
If you spend 30+ hours at your office over the weekend posting troll bullshit on the internet to people who could give two shits about your opinions because you have no friends in real life because nobody wants to hear your ignorant bigoted drivel 24/7 instead of having a real life and trying to make a REAL difference in things that you claim to care so much about(like our good friend Troy), you're pretty crazy. Yeah... THIRTY HOURS. IN ONE WEEKEND. I have the firewall logs to prove it you freak. It's also why he's out of a job. I LOLD.
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Though I did raise an objection in the beginning saying it was a form of censorship, in hindsight, I realise I was wrong. It was merely an audience giving the thumbs down to a speaker. In a real life speech it would consist of boos, rotten eggs , tomatoes and sometimes shoes. A speaker who is given the bird by a non negligible portion of the audience is forced to terminate his speech and beat a hasty retreat. The same rules apply here. Instead of the tomatoes and rotten eggs we have the "vote to remove message" button. If a speaker want's to avoid being given the bird he had better not say anything to inflame the audience. It's really as simple as that. [edit - added missing word]
modified on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:39 AM
Sahir Shah wrote:
better not say anything to inflame the audience.
Just doesn't sound like the soapbox. I thought the title identified this as a place for rants. Rants inflame. I guess it meant only bland rants. Enjoy the pablum.
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Sahir Shah wrote:
better not say anything to inflame the audience.
Just doesn't sound like the soapbox. I thought the title identified this as a place for rants. Rants inflame. I guess it meant only bland rants. Enjoy the pablum.
Rob Graham wrote:
Just doesn't sound like the soapbox
I think we've had some decent rants since Chris lowered the threshold, including one of mine. But I don't miss the nastiness and vituperation that Ilion used as a matter of course, and seemed to inspire in other people (especially including me.) I'm glad I can tell the difference between SB and alt.flamewars. fwiw: It appears that folks are capable of separating one-voting from reporting and choose whichever best signifies their reaction.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Thanks, but don't worry about it. I just need to learn how to keep my mouth shut about things.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I just need to learn how to keep my mouth shut about things.
That's what I did when I went through a small psychosis many years ago. I knew that my mind was thinking grossly abnormal thoughts, and that the world was in all likelihood still 'normal', so I just shut up until it passed.