“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself – that is, is not the transcendental subject – but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
There are many Dopers who spend lots of time posting to Great Debates.
There are many others who read GD threads, but don’t post much.
And still others that stay away from GD entirely.
Scott, obviously you are in the first category. In all seriousness, I would like to ask you (and all other GD frequenters) what are your motivations, your goals, in spending time debating on this board.
In that vein, I’ve started this poll in IMHO.
I’d appreciate it if the folks in this thread (you too, Scott) would pop over and respond to that poll for me. (No arguing in that thread, please).
I thought it was beer and strippers.
Of course we could always dip the strippers in milk and roll them in graham cracker crumbs while drinking beer, and thus combine the best of both worlds. But then what about Uvula Donor’s ribs?
What were we talking about again?
Regards,
Shodan
I’ve been concentrating on the London Bombing thread, and the thread I started as a spin-off from that thread, so let me know if **Scott **or **Shodan **have posts that need rulings. I haven’t seen **Scott **in any of the threads I’ve been reading today.
You know it’s been a good day when you can say this.
I was hoping for spongecake und schnapps, myself.
I don’t see how dipping strippers in milk and crumbs, drinking beer, and eating ribs are mutually exclusive activities. Actually, if we can get someone to show up with a case of whipped cream, some feathers, and a Twister game, I think we’d have just about everything we need.
You should get slack.
Oh, State. Humph, still don’t like y’all. All those bricks. C’mon. But at least you have an IHOP.
I don’t see this becoming the least bit ugly, since I don’t feel any real feelings of being hurt from words on a page, no matter how many people they represent. However, I while I certainly could go on posting defense’s people see in my behavior, I will not, since, as you have pointed out that this would keep the thread going on longer. First however, I feel the need to answer the question of why I always feel I am right, and Bricker/Shodan/Sauron are always wrong.
Ok, I have read over this thread, and tried to figure out something. Why is it that I think I am always right, and Bricker is always wrong. Well, I think I figured it out. It seems to be a two part answer. Since the first part picks apart a kind of hole I see most threads by conservatives, I will leave it out. From past experience, if I insult something I see, and make some other point in the same thread, people will only pay attention to the insult.
The second part is that I am guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty! Then again, so are Shodan and Bricker. You see, we are all guilty of reading threads, and seeing what we think we said, rather then what we actually wrote. Sauron, for example reads the words “Social Mores”, and mentally inserts “Morality”, or even the completely different idea of “Views of morality”, depending on how he feels. Ya see, I do not feel like conceding that I was wrong about any of the points I made in earlier threads. After all, I know I was 100% right. I know what I said. Just like Sauron. Problem is some people who I have not argued with in those same debates have come on this thread to tell me that I was both wrong, and unintelligible. Thus, I must be guilty of both, some of the time. I refuse to believe I am always wrong. Why? Because of the logical error know as argument from authority.
You see, some people have agreed that I am pretty smart. Since no one would call an unintelligible maniac “smart”, I must be right some of the time. Perhaps, looking over things, I only post unintelligibly when the issues involved have not pushed my “Full-steam ahead!” buttons.
Have you considered that you may be narcissistic?
Here you go. One of mine.
Really? “any of the points”?
100% right?
You know what you said?
So you were 100% correct in your (never supported) assertion that Hollywood created a bad meaning for the word “hacker”? Have you been hiding from this post?
(I don’t mind this thread going on longer. Everything he posts here is keeping Scott from cluttering up some other Forum with more gibberish and more errors.)
HOw about it, jsgoddess–would you call an unintelligible maniac “smart”?
I might.
Daniel
[sub]trying to think of the name of the scientist on The Simpsons[/sub]
Professor Frink.
And no possibility that you might sometimes be wrong and Bricker might sometimes be right.
And you can sit there and claim that that last sentence was posted by an smart person?
Why the insult? Have you ever tried just making your point without insulting first?
What do Shodan and Bricker have to do with anything? If your personal vendetta is against them specifically, and conservatives as a whole, then make your case. Don’t try to hide behind the ol’ “Well Shodan and Bricker do it, so I can too!”. If you are indeed correct, then make your case. The trouble is, and you might have heard this before, nobody can understand what the fuck you are trying to say.
No shit.
So you’re an authority on everything and we should just take all your arguments as the truth and go on. Thanks for clearing that up, that could have saved us all a lot of arguing.
I miss the connection between being smart and being right. Smart people can be wrong sometimes. And there are plenty of brilliant maniacs with criminal minds, I’ll wager some of them are more intelligible than you (you might hit that logical fallacy link, I think one slipped you by).
No, you post unintelligibly most of the time, but it seems to be WORSE when you are in full steam ahead mode. That you think you are doing better when full steam ahead just shows how skewed your perception is.
No, I just didn’t notice it. I suppose when I have more time I can try and tear it apart, but…
Wait, I must remember what boofuu said.
tom, I must not have been clear. I gave an example of Sauron thinking he was right, when in fact, he was wrong. This is due to his reading what he thinks he wrote/what he would have liked to wrote. Then, I talked about how I believe I am always right. You see, the two are connected.
Basically, the entire point of that post is that I am right some of the time, and most likely wrong some of the time. I it appears I can not tell which is which. My feeling that am right 100% of the time has nothing to do with reality. Nor does the idea that I am wrong 100% of the time. Same idea for “gibberish and errors”.
Cite for either side of the argument:
I repeat: Dubya? Is that you?
I suspect that the only time your points are clear are when you have copied someone else’s words.