Defy this age of sarcasm! - Page 3

lookout123 · 04-27-2005, 04:23 PM

well, i guess the promotion of your beliefs and ideals mustn't be very important to you if you delete your posts because people respond to them in a way you don't care for.

BTW - post deletion is bad form. just tell us you've changed your mind, or you think we're stupid, or your panties are really starting to pinch - but don't delete.

Be Less Bored · 05-15-2005, 04:30 AM

Why bother when there's an abundance of apathy?

OnyxCougar · 05-15-2005, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

well, i guess the promotion of your beliefs and ideals mustn't be very important to you if you delete your posts because people respond to them in a way you don't care for.

BTW - post deletion is bad form. just tell us you've changed your mind, or you think we're stupid, or your panties are really starting to pinch - but don't delete.

So THAT's what happened. I thought I was gonna have to check in with wolf there for a minute.

cowhead · 05-24-2005, 03:35 AM

I wondered what happened.. damn as always a day late and a dollar short.. and oh SHIT! where are my pants!

busterb · 05-24-2005, 09:00 PM

Hell! I'm lost also. Maybe on purpose?

plthijinx · 05-24-2005, 10:21 PM

sniff sniff, did someone just shit in my airplane and bail out?

what a dork.

don't worry CH & bust, i was a day late and a buck short too....

cowhead · 05-25-2005, 03:17 AM

eh? what can you do? KEEP POSTING!!! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA! in the mainc sort of way..

xoxoxoBruce · 05-25-2005, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

One of the problems with these kinds of utopian societies, even ones developed by people who misunderstand Heinlein, are the sonsofbitches running them still want to take my guns.

They feel in their utopian society you don't need a gun. Therein lies their flaw. They have no comprehention of using a gun for anything other than committing or preventing a crime.

mrnoodle · 05-25-2005, 09:53 AM

feh. that's not just in utopia. that's in this country as well. Guns Are Bad™ is this generation's Just Say No. Utterly useless and illogical, but when adhered to, gives one the feeling of Doing Something About The Crime Problem.

Initial Caps Are Fun.

cowhead · 05-27-2005, 02:19 AM

sorry.. like the Anarchists.. sorry but when everyone is 'equal' the ones with the most teststerone and guns will be telling the rest of us what to do... since no-one will duel me with a sword. I keep a gun.. yeah the bullets are in the car... but... if someone breaks in... oh lordy will they have a suprise! (took 4 years of fencing, until I broke my wrist in a duel.. worth every bit of it too! great fight!)

Troubleshooter · 05-27-2005, 09:11 AM

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who didn't.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O'Rourke

Lady Sidhe · 05-27-2005, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who didn't.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O'Rourke

Ooh.. I LIKE that one. I'll have to add it to my quotes list. Basically the last couple of sentences:

"There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. "

That's what's missing...taking the consequences.

Lady Sidhe · 05-27-2005, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

Ahhhhhh yes.... of Castles In The Air. [draws from pipe] [blows concentric smoke rings] I'm reminded of an old poem I once read of Castles In The Air.

Castles in the air.
Neurotics build them.
Psychotics live in them.

And Rita Rudner's mother cleans them...

Lady Sidhe · 05-27-2005, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

re: sarcasm

The status quo here is that EVERYBODY has to take their licks at one point or another, particularly in the philosophy thread.

Oh, yeah...he's right on that one. If you're coming here for warm fuzzies, you landed on the wrong planet. This is the CELLAR, babe...and the first rule you learn (took me a while-just ask Wolf) is: grow a thick skin...yes indeed...something along the lines of alligator or armadillo.... Eventually, you learn not to take it personally, even if it is. ESPECIALLY if it is.

04-27-2005, 04:23 PM	#31
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	well, i guess the promotion of your beliefs and ideals mustn't be very important to you if you delete your posts because people respond to them in a way you don't care for. BTW - post deletion is bad form. just tell us you've changed your mind, or you think we're stupid, or your panties are really starting to pinch - but don't delete. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

05-15-2005, 04:30 AM	#32
Be Less Bored Throwing turnips off the truck Join Date: May 2005 Location: not on a farm Posts: 36	Why bother when there's an abundance of apathy? __________________ bored? Be Less Bored -- or call US: +1 206-203-4119 D'oh .. and you were worried about google?

05-24-2005, 03:35 AM	#34
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	I wondered what happened.. damn as always a day late and a dollar short.. and oh SHIT! where are my pants! __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

05-24-2005, 09:00 PM	#35
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Hell! I'm lost also. Maybe on purpose? __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-24-2005, 10:21 PM	#36
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	sniff sniff, did someone just shit in my airplane and bail out? what a dork. don't worry CH & bust, i was a day late and a buck short too.... __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

05-25-2005, 03:17 AM	#37
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	eh? what can you do? KEEP POSTING!!! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA! in the mainc sort of way.. __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

05-25-2005, 09:53 AM	#39
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	feh. that's not just in utopia. that's in this country as well. Guns Are Bad™ is this generation's Just Say No. Utterly useless and illogical, but when adhered to, gives one the feeling of Doing Something About The Crime Problem. Initial Caps Are Fun. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

05-27-2005, 02:19 AM	#40
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	sorry.. like the Anarchists.. sorry but when everyone is 'equal' the ones with the most teststerone and guns will be telling the rest of us what to do... since no-one will duel me with a sword. I keep a gun.. yeah the bullets are in the car... but... if someone breaks in... oh lordy will they have a suprise! (took 4 years of fencing, until I broke my wrist in a duel.. worth every bit of it too! great fight!) __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

05-27-2005, 09:11 AM	#41
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who didn't. Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O'Rourke __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

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