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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
Har! You write just like a pompous, dime-a-dozen, blowhard professor. (Tip: For your next rant, avoid phrases like this:"....the only 'res publica' of interest is of acting in conspiracy to screw the public good for private gain...." because it gives away to us more astute veterans here that you are a socialist and you likely support the Democrat agenda of turning the United States into a Euro-style welfare state.) You'd best stick to the college classroom where you're in charge and the bored-to-death kids will nod at everything you say, regardless of what they are thinking.
281 posted on 02/12/2006 9:35:24 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Fawn

282 posted on 02/12/2006 9:41:33 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Snipers love terrorists, they POP when you "cook 'em")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Love that cat.


283 posted on 02/12/2006 9:45:05 AM PST by Rocko (Liberals -- they have a compassion you always hear about, but never witness.)
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To: a true thinker

a true tard.


284 posted on 02/12/2006 9:51:58 AM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: a true thinker

You sign up to post drivel, claim to have been here before, and give no real clue as to who you were previously?
And you want to be taken seriously?
Excuse me while I laugh maniacally and crush some Dems with a Diebold machine.


285 posted on 02/12/2006 9:54:56 AM PST by Darksheare (Aim low! They got knees!)
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To: a true thinker

IB4Z?


286 posted on 02/12/2006 9:55:13 AM PST by muleskinner
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To: son of caesar

Appears he has the same attitude as some have about spelling and grammar.


287 posted on 02/12/2006 9:58:06 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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288 posted on 02/12/2006 10:00:37 AM PST by meanie monster (http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
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To: a true thinker
Oh, so now you're Socrates. What next, Napoleon?.
289 posted on 02/12/2006 10:05:23 AM PST by George - the Other (400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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To: MineralMan
He was a little hasty, wasn't he? Missed the zot again. :-(


290 posted on 02/12/2006 10:28:24 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I'm here for the Official Friday Silliness Thread, chili recipes and David Hasselhoff posts.


291 posted on 02/12/2006 10:33:53 AM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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To: a true thinker
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.And just exactly what do you know about militaristic pornography, Numbnuts?

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292 posted on 02/12/2006 10:35:52 AM PST by Delta 21 (MKC USCG-ret)
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To: a true thinker
Wow...I'm impressed with your long winded departure, but you get no credit for it. We're not impressed. We are impressed simply because you are now departed.

ZOT!
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We hope you enjoyed the ride while you were here at FreeRepublic!
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STFU!

We know how you must be feeling right about now. :-) ...
ZOT!


293 posted on 02/12/2006 10:40:43 AM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: a true thinker

"The site in inherently for and about raving egomaniacs."

It certainly is in your case.


294 posted on 02/12/2006 10:44:34 AM PST by mojito
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To: Lady Jag
Poor baby ~ he had too many laxatives.


295 posted on 02/12/2006 11:03:29 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: a true thinker

My gracious, a fellow who can throw around citations to Kant and the Enlightenment and use big words like "cognitive dissonance." Haven't run into that heavy a thinker since high school.


296 posted on 02/12/2006 11:06:12 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: a true thinker

Have you read James' Pragmatism? Many have, but few have gotten the point.


297 posted on 02/12/2006 11:08:21 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: buck61

! Poof !


298 posted on 02/12/2006 11:12:55 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Howlin

Good Lord, is this thread STILL up? LOL


299 posted on 02/12/2006 11:45:15 AM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: McGavin999

The troll got the zot though.


300 posted on 02/12/2006 11:46:42 AM PST by darkangel82
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