I could beat up Jackie Chan, climb Mt. Everest, win the Nobel Prize in Physics and write a bestselling novel if I wanted to. I just don't feel like it. Know what I mean?

Quote from: noisms;252948I could beat up Jackie Chan, climb Mt. Everest, win the Nobel Prize in Physics and write a bestselling novel if I wanted to. I just don't feel like it. Know what I mean?

Racist!  

Quote from: CavScout;252960Racist!  

Shit! You're on to me and my hitherto secret fascist tendencies!!

Quote from: noisms;253008Shit! You're on to me and my hitherto secret fascist tendencies!!

Your aversion to watching GI Joe was the key factor tipping your hand.

Quote from: CavScout;252809Did he just say his arguments suck because he's so smart and his opponents are not?

No, I think he said his arguments suck because he's getting high while he's posting, and can't be bothered to make his best arguments because he has no respect for the rationality of the persons to whom he's speaking. Which severely limits my desire to ever engage him in conversation again: he's made a strong case for the inability of certain persons to be convinced of the wrongness of their thinking; he just hasn't made the case about the persons he desired to.

Quote from: Engine;253018No, I think he said his arguments suck because he's getting high while he's posting, and can't be bothered to make his best arguments because he has no respect for the rationality of the persons to whom he's speaking. Which severely limits my desire to ever engage him in conversation again: he's made a strong case for the inability of certain persons to be convinced of the wrongness of their thinking; he just hasn't made the case about the persons he desired to.

I stand corrected!

Jackalope: You misunderstood me... probably on purpose, but whatever...

Quote from: JackalopeThe conclusion he draws ("discussion is only about superiority") is not supported in any way by statements

That's called irony, you can use your superior intelectual abilities to understand what it is here... well, unless you are being ironic in your post, but after I don't think so... anyway, my IQ isn't as hight as yours, so I might not understand suble irony of everything you write...

Quote from: JackalopeI always wished internet forums were only about the exchange of ideas, but sadly most people aren't actually very open to new ideas.

Exchanging ideas=/=blindly accepting ideas of someone who claims to be intelectualy superior.

Quote from: Jackalopehe's interested in grinding axes and having people pay attention to him.

You too.

Quote from: Fritzs;253069Jackalope: You misunderstood me... probably on purpose, but whatever...

I didn't misunderstand you at all.  I understood exactly what you wrote.  You may be a bit confused though, and might be under the impression you are saying something different than what you actually said.

QuoteThat's called irony, you can use your superior intelectual abilities to understand what it is here... well, unless you are being ironic in your post, but after I don't think so... anyway, my IQ isn't as hight as yours, so I might not understand suble irony of everything you write...

The only ironic thing about your comment is how thoroughly you are illustrating my point.

QuoteExchanging ideas=/=blindly accepting ideas of someone who claims to be intelectualy superior.

:rolleyes:  Yes Fritzs, that's correct.  Exchanging ideas is not the same thing as blindly accepting the ideas of someone who claims to be intellectually superior.  I never said it was.

Is this your idea of exchanging ideas?  Peppering me with poorly spelled statements of the obvious?

Quote from: Jackalope;253087I didn't misunderstand you at all.  I understood exactly what you wrote.  You may be a bit confused though, and might be under the impression you are saying something different than what you actually said.

Dude, you are so high right now.

Quote from: Engine;253096Dude, you are so high right now.

Um, no, actually I'm not.  I will be in like five minutes though.

But hey, I don't expect anyone to give me anything at all resembling an honest reaction to what I'm saying.  You'll snicker, you'll laugh at me, you'll make confused and illogical arguments that are only thinly veiled attacks, and by doing so lull yourselves back into a stupor.

Once again confirming that the internet isn't worth making a real effort.

Quote from: Jackalope;253159Once again confirming that the internet isn't worth making a real effort.

I think that's often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone goes out on the internet, tries their best, doesn't get the results they hoped, and thus gives up altogether, sacrificing the possibility of getting any results at all, and becoming part of the problem, since they think any amount of solution is impossible.

But shit, who cares? We're going to get a lot of mileage out of your "I sound less intelligent than I am because I'm high and you're not worth me sounding intelligent" speech. I'll probably get as much amusement from that as CavScout gets from your GI Joe fascination.

Quote from: Engine;253167I think that's often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone goes out on the internet, tries their best, doesn't get the results they hoped, and thus gives up altogether, sacrificing the possibility of getting any results at all, and becoming part of the problem, since they think any amount of solution is impossible.

:rolleyes:

QuoteBut shit, who cares? We're going to get a lot of mileage out of your "I sound less intelligent than I am because I'm high and you're not worth me sounding intelligent" speech. I'll probably get as much amusement from that as CavScout gets from your GI Joe fascination.

Now you're pretty much proving my point.  I mean, you're not making an effort to understand where I'm coming from, you're just looking for things to make fun of.  You're being an asshole, and that leads me to believe that this whole line of argument is just disingenuous bullshit.  You have no real interest in understanding where I'm coming from.  You just want opportunities to inflate your own ego at my expense, just like most people.

That casts a dark light all of your advice-like comments, such as the self-fulfilling prophecy comment above.  Even your advice comes off as condescending and patronizing, more for your benefit than for mine.

It's a turn-off.  It doesn't make me want to keep talking to you, it makes me want to point out that you're an obnoxious, self-important fuckwit.

Quote from: Jackalope;253182It doesn't make me want to keep talking to you...

My relief is palpable.

Quote from: Engine;253184My relief is palpable.

I will guess short-lived.

Quote from: JackalopeBut hey, I don't expect anyone to give me anything at all resembling an honest reaction to what I'm saying.

honest reaction=/="Hey, Jackalope's right by the virtue of being Jackalope"

Actually Jack, you were first one, that pulled the "superior IQ" argument (without proving it) and "I am high, cos you aren't worth my attention" argument, so don't be suprised at other people's reaction...

Oh, I just remembered something, you wrote, that your IQ was measured when you were 13 years old... acording to my limited knowledge, test for adults are different from tests for kids and tests for kids tend to show higher IQ than your actuall IQ is. So I really don't think you fall into that particular 0,5% of population, because otherwise, you would have allready realised the futility of arguing over shit on the net...