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.

[Lady Jag]

he had too many laxatives.

OH WOW!!   That means his brain didn't FALL out,   .   .   it was SUCKED out!!!

[Liberty Valance]

True thinker? Hardly. More like a true stinker. Boo Radley had more insight than you.

[blackie]

Gone and forgotten. >:-}

[Terriergal]

Head on over to DU then.

Socrates, remember, started from the assumption that he didn't know anything and wasn't able to teach anything. Maybe that's your problem.

[Terriergal]

Don'tch a love the whiners. "FINE you heathens, I'm going to take my bat and ball and go home!"

[Theresawithanh]

Ooooh, somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! And someone p*ssed in his cornflakes, to boot!

My guess, by your remarks, is that you never liked FR in the first place.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well, thank you for posting that. The IQ of the reader, having read that pearl of wisdom, just dropped several points.
You'll need another screen name soon, I would think.

[Richard Kimball]

You were a philosophy major, weren't you? There's a standard footprint to a philosophy major. Name-calling, three dollar words, and mixed metaphors all in search of a thought process. "I don't know what I think, but if you just saw it my way, the world would be wonderful."

Try taking a couple of courses in plumbing. It's a great teacher. Specifically, it teaches you that reality doesn't bend to a glib thought process.

[trussell]

You would think he would eventually learn to leave the light alone :)

[Terriergal]

the only freedom truly here is the animal kind the uncivilized insist on

Maj. Jean Villeneuve: "Are you sure this is the right place to recruit for a militia?"
Benjamin Martin: "God Save King George!"
(Mob turns on them, chases them out)
Benjamin Martin: "I think we came to the right place."

[Terriergal]

:-) See my audio? er... hear... my audio?

[Lady Jag]

[Buddy B]

313

[vigilante2]

What the Hell have you been drinking?

[cbkaty]

Fintan....your cigar is my light in the night...

[Paul_Denton]

Every single troll is now an ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC!

Execute ORDER SIXTY-SIX

[Lady Jag]

[Not A Snowbird]

C'mon, Will Pitt, we know its you. Come out from behind the keyboard.

[Nova]

Perhaps we should warn these lefty-loonies that their tiny little brains might explode if they expose themselves to a dose of reality.

[RightWingAtheist]

Another proud member of the "reality-based community".