QuoteAin't nothin' about usin' long words in there.

Untrue. Specialists need special language. Knowledge is for those who work for it. It won´t come in plain english. Wisdom could come in understandable language. Education, not so much.

Philosophy is all about words and their meaning with differnt authors. There´s even several dictionarys and guides for specific authors. That´s just how it works.

You can, of course, denounce all of Philosophy or special areas of education as elitist bullshit.

I´d call that anti-intellectualism, though.

See, it´s not like the posters made up those words. They are, like, real academia & stuff.

Any minute now, JB will quote George Orwell at us.

I´m more and more puzzled about JimBob. His behaviour seems different from the impression I had gotten before, in just a weeks timespan.

Settembrini, it's like this: JB is a bully. As long as he can be slapping somebody around, he doesn't care about being consistent or honest. If I were a psychologist, I might diagnose some feelings of inferiority.

JB, when you read this, read it carefully: I don't hate you. If anything I feel a little bit sorry for you. I think there's some good in you, which is why I still bother to reply to you on occasion. I even waved an olive branch at you a while back. I think you should consider whether you need to get some help.

I think you should consider whether psychological diagnosis is possible by means of reading someone's internet posts, and whether you yourself have any qualifications in that area other than your own arrogance.

Which is to say: fuck off.

That's what I love about the RPGsite. One big happy family.

Just two questions: who's Al and who's Peg? And can I get some pics of Kelly?

I'm unshakeably arrogant, but that's my problem.

You tell people how to talk, you dump on anybody espousing ideas that aren't yours, you stir up trouble, you lie about people you play with and you lead lynch mobs.

Thus, you make your problems other people's.

"Ms Bundy, Mr McMurray would like to see your tits."


P.S. Only a vicious, lying bully would create threads like this. Later, a couple of the same people I had some trouble with. Oh no! I am human! Sometimes I get along with people, and sometimes not! :melodramatic:

Quote from: JimBobOzP.S. Only a vicious, lying bully would create threads like this. Later, a couple of the same people I had some trouble with. Oh no! I am human! Sometimes I get along with people, and sometimes not! :melodramatic:

See, I never said you were vicious (look it up). You've got a social conscience and respect for humanity in the abstract. You and I even have mutual friends. But if I had a party I would not invite the internet persona of JimBobOz, because he would end up haranguing people just because he felt like it, in a loud, unpleasant, goading, bullying tone. And God forbid I should have a guest who used academic terms, or maybe even one who spoke English imperfectly.

Now, I'm going to go and reply in your HeroQuest thread, because I like HQ. How about you think about what I've said to you, what Lev said to you, and what Elizabeth and Ben said to you, right here on this forum? Is it really just getting along and not getting along, or is there something up?

Quote from: droogNow, I'm going to go and reply in your HeroQuest thread, because I like HQ. How about you think about what I've said to you, what Lev said to you, and what Elizabeth and Ben said to you, right here on this forum? Is it really just getting along and not getting along, or is there something up?

I'm glad that you'll reply on that HQ thread, I've no doubt you'll have interesting and useful things to say.

As for what this or that person has said, I again suggest that you not try to psychoanalyse on the basis of a few internet posts. A and B may not get along, and C may get along with A, but not B, while D gets along with B and not A - does this mean that A has some psychological problem?

As to judging from their posts, take the right posts from the right people and anyone could be made to look bad. For example, on the basis of your own public posts alone (setting aside anything I might have heard from others), you're a frequent drug user who's threatened his boss at work with a metre-long metal ruler. Does that mean that droog is a violent drug addict?

I don't think so; we've also seen that you're a husband and father, and that many people game with you quite happily and don't find you unpleasant. So are you saint or sinner? Do you need professional help for the drugs and violence, or does your husbandhood and fatherhood qualify you to lecture others on their lifestyles... simply from reading some posts?

I'm glad you wouldn't invite internet-persona JimBobOz to a party, since I wouldn't go to a party where I'd expect to be called a cunt, and told to seek professional help. As J_Arcane said, being called a cunt by droog is no great accomplisment - wow, looks like you really do need anger management therapy! Or maybe not? Maybe it's hard enough to really know someone when you know them face-to-face, and not really possible to know someone through their internet posts, or second or third hand?

Don't pretend to know me, and I won't pretend to know you. I think that's fair, yes?

Come on, man. It's not a few isolated posts, it's a pattern of behaviour. And it's not your lifestyle I'm lecturing you on, it's your online habit of hectoring other people about their language and ideas. You, sir, are a baboon.

I'm not angry with you, JB. I'm trying to help. Maybe when I call you a cunt it's because you're being a cunt.

Oh man, fuck all of you guys.

Jimbob, you're like those guys in highschool I used to talk to from time to time. You gotta big mouth, and you like to throw your weight around. You don't really mean poorly, but if you get run into well, fuck you if you complain. Don't like getting run into for no reason? Don't leave homeroom. It's like you always have to represent, everything's a sleight, and being polite is for suckers.

You come off as a bully. Maybe you're all like, "Bullshit, no I don't." But, hey, let me clue you in. You do. Ask yourself why.

Droog, man, jesus. You're not any different. No wonder you people are always butting heads.

Quote from: Thanatos02Droog, man, jesus. You're not any different.

Could be....

It's just that 22, 23 pages in we're down to calling each other cunts. I figure you're two decent guys to chat with when you're not trying to come off as no-punch holding hard-asses who gotta' tell it like it is.

And, you know, I've read this whole damn thread, and I still can't keep what it's about straight 'cause it's gone in so many directions.

Quote from: Thanatos02It's just that 22, 23 pages in we're down to calling each other cunts. I figure you're two decent guys to chat with when you're not trying to come off as no-punch holding hard-asses who gotta' tell it like it is.

I didn't call anyone a cunt. I specifically said I didn't think he was one, that it would be misjudging him to do so; I just asked for the same consideration.