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Absent mindedness

  • 14-02-2009 12:49am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892
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    Damn it! I just now realised I forgot to go to EirtaKon this year....or last year by now.

    *sigh*

    Was it any good?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 Varkov
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    I have facts for those who think and arguments for those who reason. Before I launch into my rant, permit me the prelude caveat that disrespectful power brokers demand the advantages other people have earned without the disadvantages, like having to earn them. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that we must stop tiptoeing and begin marching boldly and forthrightly towards our goal, which is to bring the communion of knowledge to all of us. Perhaps I am making an appeal to the intelligence of the reader not to be fooled by ChocolateSauce's demagoguery, but remember that by writing this letter, I am unmistakably sticking my head far above the parapet. The big danger is that ChocolateSauce will retaliate against me. He'll most likely try to force me to have to fight with one hand tied behind my back although another possibility is that I don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to condemn ChocolateSauce's hypocrisy because doing so clearly demonstrates how he holds onto power like the eunuch mandarins of the Forbidden City—sterile obstacles to progress who give rise to ruthless, unrealistic bigamists.

    Some will say I exaggerate but actually I'm being quite lenient. I didn't mention, for example, that ChocolateSauce is unquestionably up to something. I don't know exactly what, but his functionaries are blissfully ignorant of his antisocial zingers. This is equivalent to saying that I don't know what makes him think that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Maybe he's been sipping cuckoo juice. The fact of the matter is that ChocolateSauce spouts a lot of numbers whenever he wants to make a point. He then subjectively interprets those numbers to support his remonstrations while ignoring the fact that no matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how he's the most tribalism-prone brigand in the annals of Man. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also educate the public on a range of issues.

    ChocolateSauce says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by ChocolateSauce himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. He has written volumes about how truth is merely a social construct. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that he thinks we want him to seek vengeance on those unrepentant souls who persist in challenging his communications. Excuse me, but maybe I have a tendency to report the more sensational things that he is up to, the more shocking things, things like how he wants to keep us everlastingly ill at ease. And I realize the difficulty that the average person has in coming to grips with that, but if I thought that his conjectures had even a snowball's chance in Hell of doing anything good for anyone, then I wouldn't be so critical. As they stand, however, I can conclude only that ChocolateSauce's mind games are like a Hydra. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to lead the way to the future, not to the past. The only way to destroy his Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the knowledge that I shall not argue that ChocolateSauce's newsgroup postings are an authentic map of his plan to reduce history to an overdetermined, wireframe sketch of what are, in reality, complex, dynamic events. Read them and see for yourself.

    So, ChocolateSauce, maybe the problem is not with moonstruck, addlepated crooks, but with you. His subliminal psywar campaigns promote a redistribution of wealth. This is always an appealing proposition for ChocolateSauce's myrmidons because much of the redistributed wealth will undoubtedly end up in the hands of the redistributors as a condign reward for their loyalty to ChocolateSauce. If he has any children, I recommend that ChocolateSauce teach them about love, trust, cooperation, community, reason, negotiation, and compromise rather than violence, paranoia, and fear. His modes of thought represent an inseparable mixture of reason and human madness, but always in such a way that only the madness can become reality and never the reason. If, after hearing facts like that, you still believe that all minorities are poor, stupid ghetto trash, then there is really no hope for you. If I didn't think he would nourish surly ideologies, I wouldn't say that by brainwashing his accomplices with antipluralism, he makes them easy to lead, easy to program, and easy to enslave.

    I don't know what sort of abuse ChocolateSauce was subjected to as a child that made him such an illiberal ogre but I do know that the same poisonous spirit that infects adversarial scapegraces also pollutes ChocolateSauce's thinking. That's self-evident, and even ChocolateSauce would probably agree with me on that. Even so, we must work together to advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. What can you do to help? For starters, you might want to lend support to the thesis that ChocolateSauce lives in a world of privileged emotion devoid of any connectable empirical dots. I personally derive great satisfaction in doing that sort of thing because ChocolateSauce has allowed himself to become a spokesman for the same point of view shared by rash, duplicitous sensualists, fatuous, frowzy cockalorums, and unforgiving radicals while masquerading as an outspoken radical bucking the system. As for the lies and exaggerations, you might say, "I honestly hate it when filthy windbags like ChocolateSauce go on with such vigor about subjects they don't even know about." Fine, I agree. But ChocolateSauce doesn't want us to know about his plans to obliterate our sense of identity. Otherwise, we might do something about that. And that's what writing this sort of letter is all about. It's a way to point out that the emperor has no clothes on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 The Sweeper
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    I'm locking this until the daytime mods can come online and sort out the apparent nutjobbery.

    Mark me: anyone starting another thread on this or trying in any way, shape or form to antagonise the posters, including by abusive PM (which you all may forward to me if you receive one), and I'll be handing out bans - consider this the pre-emptive warning.


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