I've given up on trying to teach anyone here anything (They gave Socrates hemlock, now this guy.)

[a true thinker]

There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck. This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs, and Jim's site policies -- which amount to excluding reality and actual dialogue in favor of political/militaristic pornography -- is conducive to cognitive dissonance, which at the times your worldview is threatened leads you into psychotic breaks (on the political cognitive plane, that is, and just maybe in other realms too). Not to mention that your baseline politics is based in mythology about American demographics, science, economics, ethics etc. You spoonfeed each other in the first place, so rationality on FR is always constrained to small scope matters. (You try to make up for this by shifting rapidly to things on which you share prejudices.)

FR is a purist's dream illustration of Kant's opinion that "Most people claim to be thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." The name of the site is an Orwellian joke -- the only freedom truly here is the animal kind the uncivilized insist on, the only 'res publica' of interest is of acting in conspiracy to screw the public good for private gain, the only laws and people you truly like are the ones that permit/protect the anarchy, parasitism, and thievery you prefer, and immoralism is the true religion you espouse. FR is a mismanaged zoo, really, and I like coming here on occasion -- the sights are alternatingly horrifying and amusing, but always a reminder of what the Enlightenment was a fight against.

Best wishes.

[Thombo2]

Been here since Feb 12,2006??What specifically do you dislike about FR?

[stevem]

Political militaristic pornography? Fascinating.

[Pharmboy]

IB4TZ---HA! Thanks for making me a winner in the FR IB4TZ Sweepstakes!

And, you should check your mailbox: you too might be a WEINER!

[sleddogs]

What a pants load!

[Reborn]

Here kitty, kitty, kitty....

[Buddy B]

I've given up on trying to teach anyone here anything

THANK YOU...

[Rocko]

And spell "stay" correctly! ;')

[ElkGroveDan]

Well it's now wonder you've given up. You've been at it a whole day now.

[MARKUSPRIME]

I see you signed up recently. So either you got banned on another account or you just made a new one to troll. Good riddance.

[oldbrowser]

FR is a mismanaged zoo, really, and I like coming here on occasion -- the sights are alternatingly horrifying and amusing, but always a reminder of what the Enlightenment was a fight against.

You see, something for everyone.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

You are hear for a couple hours and claim you are giving up teaching us. Stay awhile and try learning.

This person was probably banned and came back under a new name to "share" with us.

[mewzilla]

[tet68]

And Gee, you've been here all of three days....

[biggerten]

Ah. 'The Enlightenment'. A 'True Thinker'.

What was 'The Enlightenemnt'?

Although the intellectual movement called "The Enlightenment" is usually associated with the 18th century, its roots in fact go back much further.

This is one of those rare historical movements which in fact named itself. Certain thinkers and writers, primarily in London and Paris, believed that they were more enlightened than their compatriots and set out to enlighten them.

Their principal target was religion, embodied in France in the Catholic Church.


Oh Yeah. Enlighten me, Brother, Comrade, Fellow Traveler.

[EDINVA]

and how much did it try to teach between signing up and posting this morning ?

[nuconvert]

[Alouette]

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

You should come back in a few years when you get past your sophomore year in college. Get a job, travel, read things not suggest by a professor who has spent their entire life in school.

[Salvation]

**a true thinker
Since Feb 12, 2006**

Troll?

[txlurker]

You stayed up all night to write that didn't you? Buh bye