Don’t ever count on me to to act calm in the face of arrogant little fops who try to show their “superior” intelligence by deciding that books that they don’t like (more likely, didn’t understand) are unworthy of sharing with people who might enjoy them or if they’re as awful as all that, might provoke them into action or encourage them to question things.
Now, be on your way, you silly little prig.
YOU HAVE BORED ME. A deadly sin
La Voce
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s Lane holding his own hand.~~ Fred Allen (who knew he knew David B?)
So, I suppose if you had the following books in your possession:
How to Bash Fags
Lesbians Are Destroying Our Society
Proof that Homosexuals are Spawns of the Devil
Homosexuals Should Be Prevented From Having, Raising and Adopting Children
You’d want to make sure you gave them to everyone you know, right? Please. Take your self-righteous guardian of the people act elsewhere. David has a perfect moral right to not want to promote philosophies he finds dangerous. Get off it, already.
My, my, my. Such anger just because I didn’t like your suggestion (which, as I mentioned, you would have known ahead of time if you’d bothered to read the thread).
The only person acting like an “arrogant little fop” around here would be you. Nobody else got all pissed off just because I didn’t like their suggestion. Nobody else called me “brainless” and then suggested, without a shred of evidence, that I “didn’t understand” the books – just because I don’t believe in irrational things and don’t want to promote them.
As I noted in my previous message, I’ll remember to call upon you whenever I need a rational, logical, calm answer to something.
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Now, be on your way, you silly little prig.
YOU HAVE BORED ME. A deadly sin
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Apparently the “deadly sin” is that I dared to disagree with you – not that I bored you. If you were bored, you would simply go away and I doubt anybody here would’ve shed tears. But you specifically came back to whine and b*tch and moan because I didn’t like your suggestion to propagate nonsense. Well, too bad. If you can’t handle the opinions of others – and more importantly considering this is the message board for The Straight Dope, if you can’t handle dealing with things on a rational level – perhaps you should consider not participating in areas where you will <gasp> see opinions and conclusions you don’t like.
“The best medicine for misery is neither myth nor miracle, but naked truth.”
– Richard Walker, The Running Dogs of Loyalty: Honest Reflections on a Magical Zoo
Print out a nice label on your computer saying
This book is in the library of “John Travolta”
(or pick any other celebrity, I choose him because he’s a scientologist)
and then offer to sell them to a tabloid. “Books from JT’s library, with JT’s personal annotations!” Either that or hawk them on the JT fan club page.
Jacques Kilchoer
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
I started doing it when I was 14, mainly because it was something cool to play with at slumber parties. I don’t believe in any powers or the like. Anyone with any amount of intuition and BS skills can read Tarot. I have had some rather freaky coincidences before (the cards read that a guy I’d never met was going through an emotional separation from someone, and he was getting a divorce at the time–I’ve never seen anyone turn so white), but that’s all they are.
It’s still pretty fun, though, if you don’t take it seriously.
My friend has had similar experiences with people reading their problems into the cards. But one problem is, of course, that the meanings of the cards can represent so many things.
He did a couple readings for strangers at one of our (local skeptics group) meetings – as the first half of a meeting discussing the topic. While we thought we made the meeting announcement fairly clear, it appears some people didn’t really read it and thought it was going to be a pro-Tarot talk, and came for readings (we did say he would do a couple). So he did these in front of the audience – half of whom was made up of skeptics who knew he didn’t believe in it, half who didn’t know.
The second guy read his entire life into the cards. My friend did his best to avoid the situation, but the guy wouldn’t stop. He talked about his father with Alzheimers, his sister who wouldn’t help out, etc. He laid out his whole life there, and frankly, we were all a bit embarrassed because we knew the other shoe would drop soon.
That said, I hope it was a learning experience for him and the others there – showing that you can read what you want to read into the Tarot.
“The best medicine for misery is neither myth nor miracle, but naked truth.”
– Richard Walker, The Running Dogs of Loyalty: Honest Reflections on a Magical Zoo
An Open Letter to “The Voice”:
DON’T EVER PRESUME TO COMMENT ON MY INTELLIGENCE, WHEN YOUR OWN SUPERSTITIONS, IGNORANCE, AND ARROGENCE ARE HANGING OUT LIKE A DIRTY SHIRT-TAIL, YOU INSECT!
Ahem…
I am , at least, both intelligent and educated enough to know that no form of fortune telling can be validated by statistical analysis ; that is’ fortune tellers guesses about the future are no better than anybody else’s. Some fortune tellers can guess a lot about your personally, because they are often pretty fair amateur psychologists. But their guesses about the future are, well, guesswork.
An Open Letter to “The Voice”:
DON’T EVER PRESUME TO COMMENT ON MY INTELLIGENCE, WHEN YOUR OWN SUPERSTITIONS, IGNORANCE, AND ARROGANCE ARE HANGING OUT LIKE A DIRTY SHIRT-TAIL, YOU INSECT!
Ahem…
I am , at least, both intelligent and educated enough to know that no form of fortune telling can be validated by statistical analysis ; that is’ fortune tellers guesses about the future are no better than anybody else’s. Some fortune tellers can guess a lot about your personally, because they are often pretty fair amateur psychologists. But their guesses about the future are, well, guesswork.