The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

[Хahar 🤔]

The only Russian thing Snowstalker has read is Pussy Riot's liner notes.

This one doubles as a reference to a TV show nobody here watches except for me.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Sure, you just plop it in the frying pan and it melts wonderfully.  I won't even get into its other uses... ask Torie about that.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Communist dictatorships were truly awful, weren't they, Better Red Than Dead?  I totally agree.

[Joe Republic]

Savor this:

BRTD, you treat religion worse than even the most annoying atheist of Christian fundie does. Because you treat religion as an accessory. To you it’s about what people wear, what people listen to and what they do with their hands a church and how hot the sermon leader is. That’s a twisted sense of religion buddy because you’re a vapid self absorbed sh-t. There’s nothing outside of you. Nothing outside of what you do, what you wear, what you smoke, what you listen to, where you shop or where you live. Everything can only be viewed through a Minneapolis based BRTD shaped prism. You can’t even understand why other Christians believe different things or worship different things or why people who aren’t Christian think your ‘Jesus is cool’ mantra is nothing more than t-shirt slogan psychology with no substance. You don’t care what people believe (or even what you believe) or ever take the time to think things through. If someone talks about a mass, or prayer or way of worship that means something to them because it’s not what you like you dismiss it; ‘Oh he’s wearing a suit, oh he’s playing an organ, I don’t have the attention span to deal with that because life for me is one big f-cking party.’

You’re the one who takes a two storey high dump on people’s beliefs BRTD and you have the cheek to call us boring? You’ve been posting the same topics, polling the same issues and generally shoehorning in things you like into conversations even if it has nothing to do with the subject on here for ten years. Grow up and move on. You think Opebo is cool, because you’re too unoriginal to come up with anything like his posting style and demeanour, or anything original at all. You know what? I’m pretty sure Opebo thinks you’re a dick.

[fezzyfestoon]

That one made me smile.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Savor this:

BRTD, you treat religion worse than even the most annoying atheist of Christian fundie does. Because you treat religion as an accessory. To you it’s about what people wear, what people listen to and what they do with their hands a church and how hot the sermon leader is. That’s a twisted sense of religion buddy because you’re a vapid self absorbed sh-t. There’s nothing outside of you. Nothing outside of what you do, what you wear, what you smoke, what you listen to, where you shop or where you live. Everything can only be viewed through a Minneapolis based BRTD shaped prism. You can’t even understand why other Christians believe different things or worship different things or why people who aren’t Christian think your ‘Jesus is cool’ mantra is nothing more than t-shirt slogan psychology with no substance. You don’t care what people believe (or even what you believe) or ever take the time to think things through. If someone talks about a mass, or prayer or way of worship that means something to them because it’s not what you like you dismiss it; ‘Oh he’s wearing a suit, oh he’s playing an organ, I don’t have the attention span to deal with that because life for me is one big f-cking party.’

You’re the one who takes a two storey high dump on people’s beliefs BRTD and you have the cheek to call us boring? You’ve been posting the same topics, polling the same issues and generally shoehorning in things you like into conversations even if it has nothing to do with the subject on here for ten years. Grow up and move on. You think Opebo is cool, because you’re too unoriginal to come up with anything like his posting style and demeanour, or anything original at all. You know what? I’m pretty sure Opebo thinks you’re a dick.

I came here to post that.

[Torie]

Well I am more relaxed myself about folks' relationship to religion. We all relate to it in different ways. It is a very personal thing. I myself am a non theist, not an anti theist, so whatever one's transcendental beliefs, and style of expressing it, are fine with me. It is simply not something I focus on. I am more interested in other aspects of one's character.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Savor this:

BRTD, you treat religion worse than even the most annoying atheist of Christian fundie does. Because you treat religion as an accessory. To you it’s about what people wear, what people listen to and what they do with their hands a church and how hot the sermon leader is. That’s a twisted sense of religion buddy because you’re a vapid self absorbed sh-t. There’s nothing outside of you. Nothing outside of what you do, what you wear, what you smoke, what you listen to, where you shop or where you live. Everything can only be viewed through a Minneapolis based BRTD shaped prism. You can’t even understand why other Christians believe different things or worship different things or why people who aren’t Christian think your ‘Jesus is cool’ mantra is nothing more than t-shirt slogan psychology with no substance. You don’t care what people believe (or even what you believe) or ever take the time to think things through. If someone talks about a mass, or prayer or way of worship that means something to them because it’s not what you like you dismiss it; ‘Oh he’s wearing a suit, oh he’s playing an organ, I don’t have the attention span to deal with that because life for me is one big f-cking party.’

You’re the one who takes a two storey high dump on people’s beliefs BRTD and you have the cheek to call us boring? You’ve been posting the same topics, polling the same issues and generally shoehorning in things you like into conversations even if it has nothing to do with the subject on here for ten years. Grow up and move on. You think Opebo is cool, because you’re too unoriginal to come up with anything like his posting style and demeanour, or anything original at all. You know what? I’m pretty sure Opebo thinks you’re a dick.

Glorious.

Ditto. This is one of the most masterful posts ever made.

[Mechaman]

Gustaf scores a double

So, wait, BRTD's latest attack on me is that maybe I would have sided with one of the greatest minds of all time rather than a bunch of autistic teen nerds with a mob mentality, defending said mind's right to free expression?

...guilty as charged?

I think I'm going to give up on trying to understand the logic of BRTD. Did you read an internet meme bashing Plato or something?

It's more that you frequently defend unpopular and awful posters who are extremely hackish and quite narrow minded and thick skulled for seemingly no reason at all but to be contrarian.

My dislike of Plato stems from reading his stuff in one of my Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy classes, where he came across an extreme elitist douchebag, and his ideal "Republic" was a terrifying ideal and a horrible form of government. Just about everyone in the class hated him.

Nice going with the wormyguy/Kyle Mercado style ad hominem in the first paragraph by the way ("LOLZ ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS AUTISTIC HA HA!" was a pretty common tactic of those two.)

That it is seemingly for no reason might be because you're a thick-skulled hack who can't understand logical arguments or other people very well. Just as a theory.

Well, if everyone in your class hated him I guess it's time for you to revolutionize our understanding of philosophical history. You should teach classes on these insights.

Nice going with the guilt by association ad hominem.

It's not an ad hominem. You're obsessed with picking sides and who one agrees with. I'm pointing out that pretty much everyone on this board (including myself) is basically an idiot compared to Plato. So it's amusing that you think that just because there are so many idiots they must be more correct than someone who actually has brains. That mob mentality is what I was referring to and it's fallacious and scary.

You should consider reading a book every once in a while, instead of just watching Family Guy. Maybe you would start getting things.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Surrounding the death of Diana, the queen was about as warm as a dead fish.

And I say hang royal protocol.  It has no place in the world of the 21st century.

How the hell would you know?

[Joe Republic]

These past few days have been really tough for BRTD.  Not that any of it would ever sink in, or any lessons learned, of course.

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/palooka.htm

[Antonio the Sixth]

Here's a masterful ownage of Vosem. Note the use of apostrophes.

The government should not take from some, with the goal of lowering their standard of living to give to others, even if the goal is to heighten their standard of living.

'The goal of lowering their standard of living'? What is wrong with you? This is like the time the otherwise very wise John Irving said that rich people in Vermont were a persecuted class.

If you're goal is to lower economic inequality, then you have two goals:
a) To make one part of society poorer.
b) To make another part of society richer.

Unless that isn't the goal?

Ou're goal is indeed to lower inequality, but part a) of your formulation isn't so much an intentional aspect of that as a side-effect that w'e don't find much cause to care about, since in the case of the current American power elite there is nothing that any sane human being could possibly need or want to do with that amount of money. Additionally the money isn't really 'the'irs' in a full sense (although it's obviously partially 'the'irs', otherwise the concept of money is useless), since (in non-radically-individualist worldviews, traditionally conservative and socialist alike) the'y owe a debt to the society that allowed the'm to make it in the first place.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I dislike the Chaucer stuff I had to read in high school, though nowhere near as much as Shakespeare (who I f**king HATED, though he wasn't even the worst*), I thought Dante had a talent for visuals but overall was too pretentious and overdone, and I don't know what the other two are.

*That would be Hawthorne. I'd rather read a dissertation written by krazen on unions and education than have to read The Scarlet Letter again. Ugh.

You hate Shakespeare?  How can anyone use the English language and hate Shakespeare?

[Torie]

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

[Lambsbread]

Dumping on Shakespeare should not be protected by the First Amendment. I consider that akin to treason - worse because it disrespects the English language (which he more than anyone else in its modern form gave birth to), rather than a mere political entity.

He was also gratuitous and whiny (setting myself up for something, i get it) and is placed on a pedestal for being the inventor of the cliche as well as the master of unoriginality before it was original. Essentially, he was the world's first bullsh*tter and is treated like a God for it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

[Lambsbread]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

Probably not since he's British.

[Lambsbread]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

Probably not since he's British.

His problems seem to run a lot deeper than that.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

His problems seem to run a lot deeper than that.

Indeed, oh great and sagacious one, indeed.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

You need to understand, and the sooner you get this the better for you as a person, that there is nothing more repetitive, drab and over-predictable than a 'cynical' sixteen year old. Nothing.

[Lambsbread]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

You need to understand, and the sooner you get this the better for you as a person, that there is nothing more repetitive, drab and over-predictable than a 'cynical' sixteen year old. Nothing.

Being a cynical sixteen year old is part of the growing up experience, whereas you can at least try to avoid being an utter twat.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

Probably not since he's British.

His problems seem to run a lot deeper than that.

I don't think his infatuation with mining has anything to do with that, tho it might.  A miner generally does not want surprises to happen while he's down in the pits.

[Lambsbread]

And you are sixteen years old with all the critical faculties of a recently decapitated chicken.

You're certainly deserving of your own thread such as this, but tell me: does being repetitive, drab and overly-predictable ever get tiring?

Probably not since he's British.

His problems seem to run a lot deeper than that.

I don't think his infatuation with mining has anything to do with that, tho it might.  A miner generally does not want surprises to happen while he's down in the pits.

One can only imagine what a miner inhales whilst working and what effects they may have on rational thought...