SmashTheState

[Michael_Ellis]

@Tengu

You keep files on lesbians?

It saves money on filing cabinets.

[Zoe]

But I can never find one on sale.

[Zoe]

Isn’t SmashtheState one that believes that lizards are conspiring to take over the world? And not just any old lizards. We are talking shape-shifters like Queen Elizabeth II and Boxcar Willie among others.

Don’t you just hate it when people state the obvious?

ivn1188: …maybe you should look at your own worthless posts and realize that while it takes balls to hop on a board full of self-proclaimed MENSA members…

No. It doesn’t. You were lied to. You don’t have to be afraid or sexist anymore.

SmashtheState might like The Farm in Middle Tennessee. It’s been going since the 1960s I think. It may be too organized for him.

[Der_Trihs]

@Zoe

Isn’t SmashtheState one that believes that lizards are conspiring to take over the world? And not just any old lizards. We are talking shape-shifters like Queen Elizabeth II and Boxcar Willie among others.

Not exactly I think; he just claims that they think like reptiles and that schizophrenics can see them as lizards because they are shamans. :rolleyes: From here :

@SmashTheState

Schizophrenia is not really a mental illness. Most anthropologists agree that the prophets, fakirs, saints, and shamans of times past were schizophrenic, and there is a large body of research about this fascinating condition. For example, it’s been found that schizophrenics who are allowed to listen to their “voices” without interference tend to be much higher functioning than those whose “voices” are suppressed through drugs or therapy. This suggests that schizophrenics have a traditional role to perform in human culture, and that it has become a problem only because we have robbed schizophrenics of their jobs.

Schizophrenic artwork is rife with archetypes. It’s probably the single most common trait shared among schizophrenics. This suggests that schizophrenics see more that the general population, not less. The problem is that they are seeing the various archetypal symbols directly, without the translation into more concrete representational forms that the rest of us use.

In the case of David Icke, he is extremely perceptive in his observations. Those he calls “reptilians” really are reptilian in the sense that they are motivated by the reptilian portion of the brain, all rage and lust and greed and selfishness. The more gentle mammalian and primate parts of their brain, those which give us the capacity for empathy and compassion, are either malfunctioning or suppressed. Because David Icke perceives this directly rather than through the more abstract representations the rest of us use, he literally sees them to be lizards. A person wishing to understand the true form of the world beneath its surface could do worse than to pay close attention to the modern shamans like Icke.

[Sage_Rat]

But he’s our very own pet Anarchist, y’all!

Just let him run free and say cute little anti-The Man epithets, and we can all come in and go, “Aww, look at the koot widdle baby, he made a mess on the GD. In’t that preeeecious.” Personally, I think it’s great.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ivn1188

Some people post snarky attention-whoring one liners, and others bash out long rants for fun and to get a rise out of the people they not-so-secretly despise.

Yes, yes. What amazes me is that you do so and still project a high opinion of yourself, that you don’t see what profoundly self-hating and pathetic behavior it is to spend all your time hanging around people you don’t respect for the purpose of agitating them. Jesus, man, get a life.

[BrainGlutton]

In the case of David Icke, he is extremely perceptive in his observations. Those he calls “reptilians” really are reptilian in the sense that they are motivated by the reptilian portion of the brain, all rage and lust and greed and selfishness.

Actually, that sounds more mammalian. IME, reptiles (so long as you don’t mess with them) are a lot mellower than that.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@fachverwirrt

I just love me Lucky Charms.

Ah, but do you know what the original colours were? I once wrote a snarky attention-whoring one liner listing them.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@BrainGlutton

Actually, that sounds more mammalian. IME, reptiles (so long as you don’t mess with them) are a lot mellower than that.

Indeed. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.

[fachverwirrt]

@Other_Dreams

You’re kind of cute.

Ah, thanks.

@Miller

Huh. For some reason, I was under the impression that you were a lesbian.

Well, I do like me some pussy.

(Also… really?)

[Marley23]

SmashtheState gets picked on for being different and out of the SDMB mainstream, it’s true. But the more of his posts I read, the more I see his true cause appears to be proving his own superiority to everybody else, not bringing down the system or helping the homeless or whatever he says it is. Not that I’ve never seen that kind of thing before, but I guess it shows he knows he’s doomed to failure otherwise.

That said, the stuff he was spouting in the schizophrenia thread was full-on bullshit.

[Skywatcher]

@Marley23

the more of his posts I read, the more I see his true cause appears to be proving his own superiority to everybody else, not bringing down the system

So he’s essentially a conspiracy theorist without conspiracy theories?

[VinylTurnip]

Better to rule the Bums, than to serve the State.

–Milton’s Satan, sort of

[Jackmannii]

@FoieGrasIsEvil

I like Smashy. I also like typing Smashy. What a wonderful nickname.

It’s like potatoes that are mostly mashed, but still have a few lumps in them.

You’ve hit upon the key dialectic here, epistemiologically speaking.

If you value lumps of insight, but have to wade through an endless puree of drivel to find them, you lose patience.

Smash just needs to radically increase his lumps-to-drivel ratio.

[Quartz]

@Marley23

SmashtheState gets picked on for being different and out of the SDMB mainstream, it’s true. But the more of his posts I read, the more I see his true cause appears to be proving his own superiority to everybody else, not bringing down the system or helping the homeless or whatever he says it is.

Yes. He doesn’t seem to respect the right of other people to have views different to his own, even though they may be wrong. The same can be said about certain people on the left, too.

But Smashy really reminds me of Small British Shop Owner. Not in politics but in style.

[CannyDan]

@mswas

This is every male member of the Straight Dope.

http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/neckbeard.jpg

Yep, a personal appearance that is the epitome of “rode hard and put up wet”.

Oh, and the bars in the window are a nice touch. Cheerful, even.

Moreso than mine, drat it.

[RedFury]

@Michael_Ellis

It saves money on filing cabinets.

I also find the deposit slit quite handy.

[Stoid]

ivn1188 I’d like to shake your hand, buy you a beer, give you a round of applause, etc.

Solid 10.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@Jackmannii

You’ve hit upon the key dialectic here, epistemiologically speaking.

If you value lumps of insight, but have to wade through an endless puree of drivel to find them, you lose patience.

Smash just needs to radically increase his lumps-to-drivel ratio.

Band name?

d&r

[Binarydrone]

The way that I am reading the OP is that in essence there are a very few people around here that seem to actually think and who actually have any balls in terms of expressing their convictions and standing by them. I am sure that someone is going to be along any second now to claim that I am being whooshed by the whole thread but it seems to me that the predictable masturbatory one lines and in-joke bullshit that this thread is getting as a response pretty much prove the point that the OP is trying to make. Good job one and all!