I see you left out the middle. What haven’t they done to earn your opprobrium, eh?
Extremist!
Maybe Der Trihs just isn’t as unpopular as some people like to think?
On a related note I’d very much appreciate it if, when pitting Der Trihs or anyone else, people took a little more care not to abuse the royal ‘We’, as in “Are we just ignoring him now?” It smacks of playground bullying. Frankly, for what little it’s worth smiling bandit, if it was a choice between keeping you or Der Trihs, I’d vote for him. Nothing personal but I think he’s alright.
(Oh, and a quick message to the first person to make a joke about “Royal wee”. Fuck you!)
Believing in talking snakes without evidence is pretty stupid. The fact is there is no evidence for any religion on Earth. So choosing one of the thousands is irrational. And pretending it is real is irrational.
Not my fantasy. I was showing how stupid your belief in Chi is.
I will also agree that intelligence has nothing to do with believing the same things you do.
This argument is so puerile that it’s not even worth responding to. The correct response to it is, “Not even wrong.”
Showing eh? I guess I can’t compete with that logic. ;p
LOL. Bottom line, there remains very little that you can understand that I cannot. I can do math, I can understand science. I lack training in particular disciplines but I can pick them up very quickly when I submit myself to the training.
So your definition is based off of a particular term of art that I have applied. You continue to not understand the difference between art and science. The methods of Qi IMV are an effect of inclination of the practitioner. It’s a way of cultivating one’s perception, and has little bearing on whether or not Qi is a scientifically demonstrable energy force. It’s simply that if I give you a Swedish Massage my inclination will be different from giving you a Shiatsu. And I guarantee you that the two methods will feel quite differently. And I’ve experienced directly how cognitive bias limits the effectiveness of Shiatsu. Someone who is open to it will get more effect than someone who is opposed to it. At the same time, all massage is a form of ‘energy’ work as it’s an external application of force to internal physionomic processes. So even if I am engaging your Golgi Tendon Organ reflex to relax a muscle, it’s still, ‘energy’ work. All massage relates to macro-imbalances kinesthetically. So if I approach it from a Qi-based inclination, it merely means I am approaching the problem from a different direction. I don’t need for it to be scientifically true for it to be practically effective.
So you can continue to be derisive about a topic you know far less about than I do, and use it as evidence of your superior intelligence, but it doesn’t phase me at all.
Nitpick: faze.
I see that handwaving is your response to stuff you aren’t smart enough to defend.
Eh, to each his own.
I might also note that you appear to be double jointed. I have rarely seen someone pat themselves on the back so well.
That really got my Chakrams in a tizzy.
I assume my feelings on astronomy wouldn’t phase a professional astrologer either.
I don’t know if I’m smarter than you. I do know that you are plenty fucking irrational.
What was this thread about again?
Admittedly, I am in moods of self-loathing most of the time, but I’ll respond to Der Trihs even when I am not. He has good things to say in Cafe Society, in particular. I disagree with his stridency when in GD, but so what? I’m sure people grow weary of many things about me.
OK, point taken. I guess what I meant to say was that, while Der Trihs is openly aggressive (LIAR ! YOU ARE A HATEFUL LYING SACK OF SHIT !), IME Shodan’s aggression is more passive aggressive and insidious/understated. I can muster sympathy for the former (I was a teenager, once, and young) but none for the latter.
Ok LOLbohan. You can be like Der Trihs is you really want.
You can say that again.
Let me help you out then: you’re not. I don’t think you’re a “moron”, the way you think so many other people are, but mswas outclasses you in the thinking category by a significant margin.
Don’t mention it.
And you are free to be as stupid and delusional as you would like. Free country. Just don’t pretend you’re not a moonbat.
Asinus asinum fricat.
LOL. I am stupid because I disagree with your dogma. 
Ok, sure. I’ll continue to think you are too stupid because you cannot evaluate an art by its own criteria and instead judge it for not being something it’s not.
I’ll take your opinion with a grain of salt, since you want to legislate your irrational prejudice towards homosexuals into law.
Mswas may be a silly head, but to my knowledge he isn’t a hateful, angry bigot like yourself.
Psst. Chi doesn’t exist. There are no meridians. There is no tan tien. You are subscribing to a world view no less moronic than the Humorism.
I’ve heard that to be the case from more than one poster. And if makes a contribution there and isn’t a Jerk, good for him. Maybe he just need to be kept out of GD. On the other hand, most times someone gets Warned it’s due to specific posts. If he gets enough of them, or is simply a big enough Jerk enough of the time, he gets banned—even if he makes valuable contributions elsewhere. There is mention of a poster that I think predated me, Collounsbury, that the mods evidently thought made tremendous contributions, but they gave him the boot in spite of it.
Moron. Bigot. Moron. Bigot. Moron. Bigot…
Nice range you get there, Schmuckey. I can’t tell you haw devastated, AND IMPRESSED, I am.
I didn’t say it for your benefit you vomitous homophobe.
Is that differentiated enough?
This is beneath you. Really. But it is perfectly appropriate and made me snicker. I think it works so well because that’s what I do when I see his name anyway. He’s like a big loud chucklehead, spouting how everyone around him is so stupid, a moron, etc., all the time completely unaware that there’s snot hanging out of his nose, food in his teeth, and a men’s leopard thong hanging off one of his ears.