Are we just ignoring Der Trihs (This isn't a Pitting, but I don't know where else to put it.)

Official/unofficial considerations aside, how is that not a tautology?

Why don’t you just berate the moderators with a constant call to ban Der Trihs?

Regards,

Stop whining.

Well, they didn’t filibuster it, so presumably it was just a pro forma show of irresponsibility rather than a sincere one. :smiley:

I’m really enjoying these lectures from Shodan about responsible conduct on the board.

I’m on team Der! Love him.

I just ignore him/her. :cough cough:

You’re a drama llama and like to see it stirred up. I’ve got my eye on you Fokker! :stuck_out_tongue:

Ha. I love Shodan, too, for the record.

That’s my take on him as well. **Der **is very passionate and in-your-face about some issues, but his antagonism isn’t based on simple naysayer-ism. He believes in his shit, and his shit is based on facts, nevermind how he extrapolates and exaggerates from them.
I admit I don’t take him seriously on everything, but he doesn’t bother or annoy me. Posts from **Shodan **or Rand Rover (where the fuck is he at, anyway ?) seem much more aggressive and sometimes in bad faith, to me. I know they make my blood boil something fierce, sometimes. OTOH, while I may have dismissed Der Trihs’ opinions, he never ever posted anything that made me want to thump him.

Regards and I could care less if it annoys everyone,
Kobal2

LOL, whatever. It has nothing to do with diplomacy. He is unable to grasp the basic concepts of issues that he addresses on a daily basis.

That’s more evidence of his being stupid or more specifically you being stupid and attributing it to him. Massage Therapy is the least controversial of all the treatments that fall under the loose rubric of alternative/complementary medicine. You can deny the healing benefits of massage therapy but you’d be at a variance the the vast majority of doctors. shrugs If you do not believe in the healing benefits of massage therapy then you are simply ignorant of basic myology. :wink:

To quote a certain president of the US, “I’m not an ideologue.” There are well thought out conservative stances. However, they aren’t the ones the right is pushing right now. Take as an example, they rail against the stimulus. Any economist (who isn’t a tremendous ideologue) will tell you it was necessary and probably too small. But they still attack it, because their constituents don’t want to hear about a bitter pill, they want to hear about how the Dems are socialisthomosexualmarxistabortionistas!!!1

I want there to be an intelligent right, it needs to be there to provide balance and moderation. But they are, in the 21st century at least, currently acting a little shrill and ignorant. And by that I don’t mean every person who holds conservative views, I mean the ones that parrot talking points that are lies, and the leadership.

But this isn’t about me, right? :smiley:

To put it simply. I define intelligence as the ability to comprehend the subject at hand. I don’t define it as you do by one’s adherence to particular dogmatic talking points. Your definition is rote, mine is critical. :wink:

Well, I’ve been told that just quoting someone and going “this” irritates people, so I have to stop agreeing with him all the time.

I think he grasps them all too well. Religion is objectively stupid. If it were belief in Elves it would be laughed at. But because it has a special standing in our culture we allow for stupid beliefs to be mainstream.

You are certainly right. My problems must be attributable to a negative-chi attack from when I fought the ghost of Wong Fei Hung in the Forbidden City last week.

Sorry Chester. Chi doesn’t exist. As I’ve often said, massages feel good, and are certainly useful for some therapeutic purposes. However, they aren’t magic.

I pretty much stopped responding to his posts awhile back. No point, really. There are probably at least half a dozen posters I treat the same way. A few on the right, a few on the left.

Great Googly Mooglies! Why in Heaven’s Name would you want to know something like that?

Emphasis mine. Nice straw man there. Or were you not talking to me? I’m not sure where you’d get that idea about me, since I stated exactly the opposite.

Can we change this thread into a mswas pitting? Maybe we can get him to go all mental again! C’mon pleeeeeze!!!

:smiley:

Well, this really isn’t about Shodan, but a comparison of his and DT’s posting habits may be edifying. One perhaps significant observation is the Der Tris repeatedly and incessantly accuses Christians and conservatives, as classes, of hypocricy, while Shodan repeatedly and incessantly accuses members of this board of hypocricy; i.e. it seems quite a bit more personal to him.

I find them both tin-eared, entirely unreasonable, and IMO they contribute next to nothing to any discussion they happen to take a dump in, but I consider DT marginally less obnoxious on the basis that he seems to understand that personal insults do not, as a rule, bolster one’s position.

In bad faith maybe but if you think Shodan is more “aggressive” than Der Trish then you have some serious goggles on. I’m saying that as someone who doesn’t really like Shodan’s style or content at all.

Objectively stupid huh?

Your fantasy life is prominent in your reality I see? A healthy imagination is good for a growing boy. :wink:

Your the one obsessed in Qi. :wink: You are using the word magic in a meaningless way. Who said anything about magic? I certainly did not.

The fact remains your view of intelligence regards which canon of belief one accepts and which one denies. For me intelligence is not a matter of whether or not you believe the same things I do.