Originally posted by: NumbaJuan
Well ya see, I read a post and I was gonna reply but then there was a knock on the door. It was one of those religious fanatics (not that there?s any thing wrong with that) next thing ya know my dog gets out and bites one of the fanatics right square on the buttocks! He starts yelling and screaming that he is gonna kill that f?ing dog if I don?t do some thing. I (not a religious fanatic) proceed to tell the guy that Jesus would not be proud of that at all. My next door neighbor saw all this going on while he was washing his car. He thought the dog was trying to hump the fantics leg. One thing leads to another so he starts hosing em both down with the hose. Then while all this going on my poor neighbor?s car is just sitting in the sun getting sun spotted to the max..poor guy. Anyways, I have forgot my point now, but I?m sure that there is a lawsuit coming.
You going to sue your English teacher? j/kOriginally posted by: NumbaJuan
Well ya see, I read a post and I was gonna reply but then there was a knock on the door. It was one of those religious fanatics (not that there?s any thing wrong with that) next thing ya know my dog gets out and bites one of the fanatics right square on the buttocks! He starts yelling and screaming that he is gonna kill that f?ing dog if I don?t do some thing. I (not a religious fanatic) proceed to tell the guy that Jesus would not be proud of that at all. My next door neighbor saw all this going on while he was washing his car. He thought the dog was trying to hump the fantics leg. One thing leads to another so he starts hosing em both down with the hose. Then while all this going on my poor neighbor?s car is just sitting in the sun getting sun spotted to the max..poor guy. Anyways, I have forgot my point now, but I?m sure that there is a lawsuit coming.
Originally posted by: prodigy
I will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Prodigy as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Prodigy probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his pigheaded publications, which, after all, are the things that let down ladders which the imperious, high-handed, and selfish scramble to climb. To begin at the beginning, he is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. Responsible citizens indisputably do not treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification. I feel this way because if we can understand what has caused the current plague of nugatory yahoos, I believe that we can then get us out of the hammerlock that he is holding us in.
Quite simply, Prodigy maintains that the sun rises just for him. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that he possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition," much less achieve it. My purpose here is not to empower the oppressed to control their own lives. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions to our Prodigy problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that there is a format he should follow for his next literary endeavor. It involves a topic sentence and supporting facts. It's directionless for Prodigy to revive the ruinous excess of a bygone era to bounce and blow amidst the ruinous excess of the present era. Or perhaps I should say, it's materialistic.
Call me overbearing if you'd like; I will still do everything in my power to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Prodigy. Then, I will announce to the world that if Prodigy can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that his editorials enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Wild Rhetoric. In the meantime, in asserting that priggism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us, he demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. Although the themes in his insults are limited, when he says that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, in his mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like he believes he has said something very profound. In the past, people like Prodigy would have been tarred and feathered for trying to separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities.
From a purely technical point of view, if he makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain. In general, his rejoinders are corporatism at its worst. Sure, there are exceptions, but the next time he decides to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats, he should think to himself, cui bono? -- who benefits? Prodigy will borrow money and spend it on programs that enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of his spin doctors to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant long before he can convert me into one of his expositors. He got a little carried away with his ignominious utterances. But don't take my word for it; ask any filthy rabble-rousers you happen to meet.
(The merits of his sentiments won't be discussed here, because they lack merit.) Verily, we must remove our chains and move towards the light. (In case you didn't understand that analogy, the chains symbolize Prodigy's whiney shell games, and the light represents the goal of getting all of us to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of crotchety, belligerent voyeurism.) Some people are responsible and others are not. Prodigy falls into the category of "not". I respect his zingers, although he does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that he is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.
How can we trust Prodigy if he doesn't trust us? We can't. And besides, just because he and his collaborators don't like being labelled as "hypocritical scamps" or "snippy dummkopfs" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. He claims that society is supposed to be lenient towards the worst classes of satanic authoritarians there are. I contend that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that the problem with Prodigy is not that he's lecherous. It's that he wants to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Believe you me, he commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. He then ensures that these people stay in those positions, because that makes it easy for him to force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics.
Prodigy says that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. But then he turns around and says that he has achieved sainthood. You know, you can't have it both ways, Prodigy.
Someone has been giving his brain a very thorough washing, and now Prodigy is trying to do the same to us. He refers to a variety of things using the word "anthropomorphization". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, he's saying that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance. At any rate, I have absolutely no idea why he makes such a big fuss over imperialism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that when I'm through with Prodigy, he'll think twice before attempting to nail people to trees.
If the only way to make Prodigy's raving recommendations understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike is for me to wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell, then so be it. It would truly be worth it, because he claims that his decisions are based on reason. Well, I beg to differ. I am, of course, referring to a recent occurrence which is so well-known, it requires no comment, except to add that Prodigy's reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, he always begins an argument with his conclusion (e.g., that public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't) and therefore -- not surprisingly -- he always arrives at that very conclusion. Do Prodigy's confreres raise the quality of debate on issues surrounding Prodigy's uncouth publicity stunts? No, that would be the correct and logical thing to do. Instead, they perpetrate acts of the most money-grubbing character.
Although I respect Prodigy's right to free speech just as I respect it for lascivious pompous-types, self-aggrandizing, gruesome kleptomaniacs, and mendacious manipulators of the public mind, his crass, witless prank phone calls wage an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing public. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to weaken the critical links in his nexus of unscrupulous, fatuous paternalism. Prodigy's spokesmen all look like Prodigy, think like Prodigy, act like Prodigy, and give rise to neo-birdbrained knuckle-draggers, just like Prodigy does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha! Should we blindly trust such soulless boneheads? I can repeat with undiminished conviction something I said eons ago: The last time I told his cat's-paws that I want to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering, they declared in response, "But it's okay for Prodigy to indulge his every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: Prodigy's stooges merely present their allegations as though they were true, a technique known as a "conclusory" or "Kierkegaardian" leap.
Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
Originally posted by: prodigy
I will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Prodigy as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Prodigy probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his pigheaded publications, which, after all, are the things that let down ladders which the imperious, high-handed, and selfish scramble to climb. To begin at the beginning, he is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. Responsible citizens indisputably do not treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification. I feel this way because if we can understand what has caused the current plague of nugatory yahoos, I believe that we can then get us out of the hammerlock that he is holding us in.
Quite simply, Prodigy maintains that the sun rises just for him. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that he possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition," much less achieve it. My purpose here is not to empower the oppressed to control their own lives. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions to our Prodigy problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that there is a format he should follow for his next literary endeavor. It involves a topic sentence and supporting facts. It's directionless for Prodigy to revive the ruinous excess of a bygone era to bounce and blow amidst the ruinous excess of the present era. Or perhaps I should say, it's materialistic.
Call me overbearing if you'd like; I will still do everything in my power to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Prodigy. Then, I will announce to the world that if Prodigy can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that his editorials enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Wild Rhetoric. In the meantime, in asserting that priggism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us, he demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. Although the themes in his insults are limited, when he says that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, in his mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like he believes he has said something very profound. In the past, people like Prodigy would have been tarred and feathered for trying to separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities.
From a purely technical point of view, if he makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain. In general, his rejoinders are corporatism at its worst. Sure, there are exceptions, but the next time he decides to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats, he should think to himself, cui bono? -- who benefits? Prodigy will borrow money and spend it on programs that enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of his spin doctors to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant long before he can convert me into one of his expositors. He got a little carried away with his ignominious utterances. But don't take my word for it; ask any filthy rabble-rousers you happen to meet.
(The merits of his sentiments won't be discussed here, because they lack merit.) Verily, we must remove our chains and move towards the light. (In case you didn't understand that analogy, the chains symbolize Prodigy's whiney shell games, and the light represents the goal of getting all of us to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of crotchety, belligerent voyeurism.) Some people are responsible and others are not. Prodigy falls into the category of "not". I respect his zingers, although he does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that he is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.
How can we trust Prodigy if he doesn't trust us? We can't. And besides, just because he and his collaborators don't like being labelled as "hypocritical scamps" or "snippy dummkopfs" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. He claims that society is supposed to be lenient towards the worst classes of satanic authoritarians there are. I contend that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that the problem with Prodigy is not that he's lecherous. It's that he wants to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Believe you me, he commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. He then ensures that these people stay in those positions, because that makes it easy for him to force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics.
Prodigy says that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. But then he turns around and says that he has achieved sainthood. You know, you can't have it both ways, Prodigy.
Someone has been giving his brain a very thorough washing, and now Prodigy is trying to do the same to us. He refers to a variety of things using the word "anthropomorphization". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, he's saying that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance. At any rate, I have absolutely no idea why he makes such a big fuss over imperialism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that when I'm through with Prodigy, he'll think twice before attempting to nail people to trees.
If the only way to make Prodigy's raving recommendations understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike is for me to wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell, then so be it. It would truly be worth it, because he claims that his decisions are based on reason. Well, I beg to differ. I am, of course, referring to a recent occurrence which is so well-known, it requires no comment, except to add that Prodigy's reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, he always begins an argument with his conclusion (e.g., that public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't) and therefore -- not surprisingly -- he always arrives at that very conclusion. Do Prodigy's confreres raise the quality of debate on issues surrounding Prodigy's uncouth publicity stunts? No, that would be the correct and logical thing to do. Instead, they perpetrate acts of the most money-grubbing character.
Although I respect Prodigy's right to free speech just as I respect it for lascivious pompous-types, self-aggrandizing, gruesome kleptomaniacs, and mendacious manipulators of the public mind, his crass, witless prank phone calls wage an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing public. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to weaken the critical links in his nexus of unscrupulous, fatuous paternalism. Prodigy's spokesmen all look like Prodigy, think like Prodigy, act like Prodigy, and give rise to neo-birdbrained knuckle-draggers, just like Prodigy does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha! Should we blindly trust such soulless boneheads? I can repeat with undiminished conviction something I said eons ago: The last time I told his cat's-paws that I want to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering, they declared in response, "But it's okay for Prodigy to indulge his every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: Prodigy's stooges merely present their allegations as though they were true, a technique known as a "conclusory" or "Kierkegaardian" leap.
what he said
Originally posted by: GhettoFob
Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
Originally posted by: prodigy
I will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Prodigy as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Prodigy probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his pigheaded publications, which, after all, are the things that let down ladders which the imperious, high-handed, and selfish scramble to climb. To begin at the beginning, he is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. Responsible citizens indisputably do not treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification. I feel this way because if we can understand what has caused the current plague of nugatory yahoos, I believe that we can then get us out of the hammerlock that he is holding us in.
Quite simply, Prodigy maintains that the sun rises just for him. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that he possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition," much less achieve it. My purpose here is not to empower the oppressed to control their own lives. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions to our Prodigy problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that there is a format he should follow for his next literary endeavor. It involves a topic sentence and supporting facts. It's directionless for Prodigy to revive the ruinous excess of a bygone era to bounce and blow amidst the ruinous excess of the present era. Or perhaps I should say, it's materialistic.
Call me overbearing if you'd like; I will still do everything in my power to demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Prodigy. Then, I will announce to the world that if Prodigy can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that his editorials enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Wild Rhetoric. In the meantime, in asserting that priggism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us, he demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. Although the themes in his insults are limited, when he says that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, in his mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like he believes he has said something very profound. In the past, people like Prodigy would have been tarred and feathered for trying to separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities.
From a purely technical point of view, if he makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within his pea-sized brain. In general, his rejoinders are corporatism at its worst. Sure, there are exceptions, but the next time he decides to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats, he should think to himself, cui bono? -- who benefits? Prodigy will borrow money and spend it on programs that enact new laws forcing anyone who's not one of his spin doctors to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant long before he can convert me into one of his expositors. He got a little carried away with his ignominious utterances. But don't take my word for it; ask any filthy rabble-rousers you happen to meet.
(The merits of his sentiments won't be discussed here, because they lack merit.) Verily, we must remove our chains and move towards the light. (In case you didn't understand that analogy, the chains symbolize Prodigy's whiney shell games, and the light represents the goal of getting all of us to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of crotchety, belligerent voyeurism.) Some people are responsible and others are not. Prodigy falls into the category of "not". I respect his zingers, although he does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that he is always being misrepresented and/or persecuted, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.
How can we trust Prodigy if he doesn't trust us? We can't. And besides, just because he and his collaborators don't like being labelled as "hypocritical scamps" or "snippy dummkopfs" doesn't mean the shoe doesn't fit. He claims that society is supposed to be lenient towards the worst classes of satanic authoritarians there are. I contend that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that the problem with Prodigy is not that he's lecherous. It's that he wants to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Believe you me, he commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. He then ensures that these people stay in those positions, because that makes it easy for him to force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics.
Prodigy says that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. But then he turns around and says that he has achieved sainthood. You know, you can't have it both ways, Prodigy.
Someone has been giving his brain a very thorough washing, and now Prodigy is trying to do the same to us. He refers to a variety of things using the word "anthropomorphization". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, he's saying that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance. At any rate, I have absolutely no idea why he makes such a big fuss over imperialism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that when I'm through with Prodigy, he'll think twice before attempting to nail people to trees.
If the only way to make Prodigy's raving recommendations understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike is for me to wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell, then so be it. It would truly be worth it, because he claims that his decisions are based on reason. Well, I beg to differ. I am, of course, referring to a recent occurrence which is so well-known, it requires no comment, except to add that Prodigy's reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, he always begins an argument with his conclusion (e.g., that public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't) and therefore -- not surprisingly -- he always arrives at that very conclusion. Do Prodigy's confreres raise the quality of debate on issues surrounding Prodigy's uncouth publicity stunts? No, that would be the correct and logical thing to do. Instead, they perpetrate acts of the most money-grubbing character.
Although I respect Prodigy's right to free speech just as I respect it for lascivious pompous-types, self-aggrandizing, gruesome kleptomaniacs, and mendacious manipulators of the public mind, his crass, witless prank phone calls wage an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing public. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to weaken the critical links in his nexus of unscrupulous, fatuous paternalism. Prodigy's spokesmen all look like Prodigy, think like Prodigy, act like Prodigy, and give rise to neo-birdbrained knuckle-draggers, just like Prodigy does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha! Should we blindly trust such soulless boneheads? I can repeat with undiminished conviction something I said eons ago: The last time I told his cat's-paws that I want to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering, they declared in response, "But it's okay for Prodigy to indulge his every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: Prodigy's stooges merely present their allegations as though they were true, a technique known as a "conclusory" or "Kierkegaardian" leap.
what he said
yep
Originally posted by: dparker
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Yes.
Yup.
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Yes.
