Geez, I just read the thread that Cervaise kindly provided.
This guy is not stupid. He doesn’t have the brains to be stupid. He is utterly, irreversibly brain dead.
If smarts wuz donuts, he’d be the hole.
Get yourself to a Mental Health Clinic right away, seethruart, before you become a drooling imbicile.
Never mind. It’s too late.
Sheesh.
happy 100 posts my little maple sugar candy leaf of love.
jarbaby
Dear god almighty…
I just read the links and I’m… I don’t know what. Appalled, amused, saddened that he’s not getting the help he so obviously needs.
Cervaise’s response linked above was beautiful though.
Honey, stop it. We’re in the pit.
{Meet me at the malt shop after class.}
Nice post, Cervaise.
For the participants in this thread’s consideration:
There does come a point where further confrontation regarding an individual’s delusions serves no useful purpose for the delusional individual, and may even increase agitation and hostility. Summing up one’s feelings regarding the situation, presenting said feelings, then detaching from the situation could represent the optimal response.
I speak in the general case here only, but as a physician, I have learned when to walk away, and when to run.
QtM
Mad props to Cervaise for his post in that thread. He said exactly what was on my mind, and more eloquently than I could have written.
And excellent advice, Qadgop the Mercotan. I only responded to him once or twice relatively early in the thread, but gave up when I saw that trying to reason with him was akin to explaining quantum mechanics to a cocker spaniel.
This guy’s mind is not only closed, it’s been welded shut by the force of his own delusions.
On the upside, it’s the most entertaining (in a disturbing, “look-at-the-car-wreck” kind of way) thread I’ve seen since the days of JDT and his foreskin fixations.
Update! Update!
Seethruart may have just given himself away.
In his most recent post, he said the following:
Could this be the beginning of his admitting that his moon fixation is just a fantasy?
I called him on it in my response to that post, but I don’t expect an answer. Certainly not at least a rational one.
No, no, no. He says “your” fantasies. Meaning, of course, our fantasies about the moon being uninhabited, as opposed to his well-supported scientific observations of the Great Wall of Mare Serenitatis or whatever.
Ah.
From the last post, if he is indeed delusional and not just The Best Troll of All Time:
I think this potentially is a very scary situation. If it isn’t, then he is indeed the UltraTroll with the Amazing Steel Penetrating Attention Span. At least in the second case, when he eventually blows his cover he will be tossed faster than fried chicken after 10 shots of tequila with the little plastic sombrero on the cap.
I’m sorry. You’re right.
Really, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to keep posting over there, but it’s like a crack habit.
I swear I’ll really try to stop now.
I agree. He should be simply ignored.
He’s a troll, pure and simple, and he’s doing what he does out of pure desire for attention. He can’t garner “good” attention- such as having written a clever and insightful post, or carrying on a well-reasoned and intelligent discussion- so he settles for “bad” attention.
Flames, rants, insults and depreciations of character are seen by 'Art as simply four more people paying attention to him, and reading his works.
I’ve argued with him in various boards under various names- his and mine- and he simply cannot have a rational or valid conversation. He CAN’T. Questions go unanswered- the more pointed the question, the more pointedly it’s ignored or redirected. His sole argument is “I’m right, you’re just refusing to see the truth” and “you’re deluding yourself” and so on.
In fact, Sofa King’s post here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=85245
Quite accurately sums it up thus:
*OP: I come armed with the truth as I understand it. Believe me.
SDMB: Cite?
OP: Here is a list which was sent to me via e-mail.
SDMB: Your list is factually incorrect here, here, and here. Circular reasoning is employed here. Here is the latest scientific evidence which not only refutes your point of view, but also supports another theory which you are claiming to be false. Here is a lifetime’s worth of sources you can examine which prove you wrong, and finally, here is an appeal to your common sense.
OP: La, la, la, la. I can’t hear you. In summation, I’m right and all of you are wrong.
SDMB: Didn’t you hear us, you blindered fool?
OP: La, la, la, la. The fact that you are arguing with me underscores the validity of my position.
SDMB: You didn’t hear us, did you? *
Look no further than the entire three-hundred-plus thread going on now… He claims everyone else but him is “deluded” or “blind to the truth”. But it seems to me that if one person sees something, but three-hundred-plus other people don’t, then that something is just a faint figment of a tired mind.
Stop replying to him, and the thread will die. Ignore him in other threads and he will eventually go away. He came here from The Bad Astronomy board because he got more attention, he gets more hits, and he has a richer pot of dirt in which to spread what he considers his fertilizer.
No matter what, you will NOT get a meaningful reply, he can NOT hold a meaningful conversation, and you will NOT “beat him with logic”, because that word has no meaning for him.
Am I nothing if not helpful.
The only thing I’m concerned with is whether or not he is really psychologically troubled to the point of doing somebody harm.
I could care less if he wants to see President Taft in the face of his Timex, but if I keep ragging on him (which is kind of fun), I’d hate to find out he noosed up on his ceiling fan or worse fire bombed The Chicago Reader or some psychotic shit, ya know?
Laugh if you want, but what he saw in those pictures is REAL. I saw it myself. You can see my own PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=85424
You might consider giving the guy a bit more respect. Just because you’re closed-minded and unwilling to face the truth, unwilling to believe that the “almighty NASA” might actually LIE to you…
I know a guy named Adam. He’s a nice guy, generally. He doesn’t communicate very well (a slice of autism combined with heavy drug use, I think). His primary form of communication is shifting back and forth on his feet, blinking his eyes a few times, spasming, and muttering, “Fucken’… fucken’… shmigget…” or some other nonsense word, like “froyhoyen” (we think that’s how it’s spelled). Sometimes he’ll just make weird beeping noises. Other times… well… he’ll be eerily coherent.
Now don’t get me wrong. I like Adam. He’s a nice guy, and he’s got some good stuff going on in his brain. It just has a hard time coming out of his mouth, is all.
He’s a handful… things get blown out of proportion to him, and he does odd little things for no reason (one time, he hid in a big barrel, and then jumped out and screamed “Frumasarah!” at the top of his lungs). He can get angry if he thinks he’s been slighted. And, of course, he’s always muttering, “Fucken’… fucken’ trees… cowboy hats… fuck.”
Despite all the hampers to his communication, I’ve found him to be a far more receptive and coherent individual than Mr. Art is. I dunno… I think I keep posting to that thread because it either gives me some sort of morbid fascination, or it makes me feel smarter than I really am. In either case, I’ve seen the guy repeat “I have all the evidence I need” far more times than I care to count.
Needless to say, my next Chick Tract parody will be “The Apollo Missions: Starships and Space Cities Prove It A Hoax”.
I love you, Opal.
Oh, Doc Nickel! If only I could learn from my own self!
I fucked with the guy again, and not only did I get nowhere, but I thought I detected signs of increasing hostility, just as Quadgop suggested.
I’m outa there. There’s nothing I can do to help the guy, and I’m just going to try like hell not to hurt him.
let not our compassion prevent us from knowing he’s a total assneedle.
Stopitstopitstopit.
“assneedle”
“Crumpetnipples”
“fucknuttian”
“Blind, naked mole of ignorance”
!!!
I laughed so hard, I nearly had to eat my own legs to make it stop.