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A postscript to "what happened to me"
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 (July 26, 2019 at 8:05 am)Jello Wrote: Surely at this point this off-topic stuff needs to be split from this thread? It's got literally nothing to do with the topic at hand. Wait why the hell did I apologize? I was accused of supporting and helping Osama by the member ! since when pointing out the faults of Osama's enemy was considered "helping Osama" ??? How insulting was this claim ? whyl did I apologize; I ask myself again? 
I would split the thread, but the OP is ridiculous, and there is no one to come back and respond to comments about the OP, so that doesn't matter. The new topic is also ridiculous, so I figure they can both just take up the same space.
I'm just jumping back into the threads and started reading what he was posting. I am thoroughly confused, WTF happened while I was away? lmao
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you." (July 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I'm just jumping back into the threads and started reading what he was posting. I am thoroughly confused, WTF happened while I was away? lmao I'm as oblivious as you. But as I was reading the posts, somebody wrote something that I objected to about terrorist organizations. Which is very unrelated to the OP. But this is the story of 3 posts from the whole topic only. The OP though is about the member robvalue getting a lot of hate for obviously saying something that people didn't like. Wanna headbang to green day songs? (July 26, 2019 at 12:45 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(July 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I'm just jumping back into the threads and started reading what he was posting. I am thoroughly confused, WTF happened while I was away? lmao Lol I was trying to read up on what he was talking about but in the wall of text I couldn't figure it out. They were like oh look who is brainwashed. What in the world was he changing his view on that he thought he was wrong his whole life?
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."  (July 26, 2019 at 8:17 am)Alan V Wrote:(July 24, 2019 at 7:30 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Insensitive prickish statements are applauded, if they're made against people we disapprove of. I never applaud such statements. I don't think that I'm THE (definite article) exception. There must be lots of people like this left. Maybe none of them can stand to use the Internet.  (July 26, 2019 at 5:50 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(July 26, 2019 at 8:17 am)Alan V Wrote: Do you applaud such statements? Or are you the exception? Sometimes such statements are bullying and groupthink. Other times, someone is being a loudmouthed asshole that is bothering EVERYONE. Sometimes, in those cases, someone says something like, "Shut the fuck up, you loudmouthed asshole!" It's hard not to applaud that when it happens. But how to differentiate from groupthink? That can be messy and difficult work... sorting out the category into which one falls. Things that get said on this forum fall in both categories, Belaqua. And despite my earlier criticisms about "this being the internet"... I do appreciate the fact that you speak up when you perceive groupthink to be afoot. As atheists, we really ought to be free of all intellectual convictions, especially socially perpetuated ones. But, alas, we are human beings, and (atheist or no) we come with a set of human-being-related foibles. A desire for social cohesion is one of them... and intellectual integrity will often take a back seat to that desire. Atheists like to think of groupthink as "just a theist thing" but that's not true. I will say that theists often hold aloft groupthink as some kind of virtue. At least atheists have enough shame to try to deny that they are engaging in groupthink. I get you, man. You're a gadfly. I happen to appreciate gadflies. But, keep in mind... I'm very much in a minority as far as that goes. And being a gadfly also has its social perils. But some people don't mind standing apart from the crowd. They say hemlock is an acquired taste. 
 (July 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I'm just jumping back into the threads and started reading what he was posting. I am thoroughly confused, WTF happened while I was away? lmao Rob fell down the right wing youtube rabbit hole. Its something I noticed on my youtube reccomendations, I kept getting right wing reccomendations while not being at all right wing. They were really weird. You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. (July 26, 2019 at 5:44 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Lol I was trying to read up on what he was talking about but in the wall of text I couldn't figure it out. They were like oh look who is brainwashed. What in the world was he changing his view on that he thought he was wrong his whole life? It's not a wall of text; it's a tower of text 
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