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

Posted on 02/12/2006 7:39:47 AM PST by 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.


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To: a true thinker
Typical troll bullshit.

Hit and run post.
At least stick around and try to have a civil discussion.

But no. Not in a talkative mood today I see.

Begone moron.

81 posted on 02/12/2006 7:46:52 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
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To: a true thinker
Kant's opinion that "Most people claim to be thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"

I'm pretty sure Kant is spelled with a u....

82 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:10 AM PST by Porterville (They took our jobs!!! Der dook er jibs!!! Deer took er jabs!!!)
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To: a true thinker

Why is it I never noticed you until now?


83 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:13 AM PST by Rocko (Liberals -- they have a compassion you always hear about, but never witness.)
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To: a true thinker

And you end this screed with "Best wishes"?

Well, "Best wishes" to you, too, newbie.

Honestly....


84 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:15 AM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: a true thinker
Best wishes to you too, Sweetie.


85 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:19 AM PST by Allegra (Suffering from a Malady Known as "Troll Fatigue")
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To: a true thinker
You've given up on trying to teach anyone here anything, eh?

I suppose you probably gave up trying to learn anything a long, long time ago.

Nice try, troll.

86 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:28 AM PST by SaveTheChief
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To: a true thinker

Bye.


87 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:29 AM PST by gate2wire
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To: a true thinker

"Maybe a Colt 45 isn't the best choice for breakfast." -Anderson


88 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:31 AM PST by steveo (No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man, I spell my name steveo...)
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To: a true thinker
Can't believe I got here on time,
Thanks on a slow morning.

IB4TZ, I think.

89 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:34 AM PST by norton
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

They just don't make trolls like they used to :(


90 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: a true thinker
Best wishes.

I'm skeptical...

91 posted on 02/12/2006 7:47:43 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: a true thinker

Uh, who told you that you are qualified to teach anyone anything?


92 posted on 02/12/2006 7:48:15 AM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: MineralMan
Musta got scorched in a flame war under a different screen name.

Got scorched and now his feelings are hurt.
93 posted on 02/12/2006 7:48:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: a true thinker

blah, blah, blah


94 posted on 02/12/2006 7:48:31 AM PST by conservativebabe ("I came here to chew bubble gum and kick @ss, and I'm all out of bubble gum")
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To: martin_fierro
This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs

He can't be talking about us!

95 posted on 02/12/2006 7:48:46 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: txlurker
You stayed up all night to write that didn't you? Buh bye

He/she probably had some help from his/her History professor.

96 posted on 02/12/2006 7:48:53 AM PST by Rocko (Liberals -- they have a compassion you always hear about, but never witness.)
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To: a true thinker

ibtz??


97 posted on 02/12/2006 7:49:02 AM PST by frankenMonkey (Name one civil liberty that was not paid for in blood)
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To: BenLurkin

"Musta got scorched in a flame war under a different screen name.

Got scorched and now his feelings are hurt."


Could be. Poor baby!


98 posted on 02/12/2006 7:49:03 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: a true thinker

12 Monkeys, Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines:

Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. Eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person. Along comes this doctor, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do they call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, up to the 20th century, last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger at this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right?


99 posted on 02/12/2006 7:49:06 AM PST by cd jones (Liberals: spreading misery, calling it equality)
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To: McGavin999

Oh, look; yet another poster here to "teach us."

Isn't that cute?


100 posted on 02/12/2006 7:49:15 AM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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