what i've learned living amongst the brainwashed -- part III
$Zero
it's much easier to be delusional than to be non-delusional.
but...
-$Zero...
what i've learned living amongst the brainwashed -- part II
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/d731cefd3a151638
Mark
So...
When did you live among the delusional?
Was there a leader?
Was there a room full of guns?
Were the wives and young girls considered property?
Did you have to work out in the garden?
Was it 5 miles to the nearest neighbor?
Did you ever sell roses on the freeway?
Did you ever distribute literature at the airport?
Does the thought of granola bars gag you?
Did deductive reasoning get you expelled?
Best Kool-aide, grape, cherry, or antifreeze?
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Mark
wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:57:32 -0700 (PDT), $Zero said in misc.writing:
>
> >what i've learned living amongst the brainwashed -- part III
>
> >it's much easier to be delusional than to be non-delusional.
>
> >but...
>
> your alley. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist ... Nothing is at
> last sacred but the integrity of your own mind ... What I must do is all that
> concerns me, not what the people think ... A foolish consistency is the
> hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
> divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as
> well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in
> hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,
> though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
>
> A man before his time.
Aren't you aware how utterly stupid those words of Emerson
are? It's a nonsensical tutorial on narcissism that exemplies
the precursive thinking that led to social degeneration in
America. Psuedointellectual nouveau for that time.
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Grand Mal
"Paul Harwood" <no-emai...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:21:51 -0700 (PDT), Mark said in misc.writing:
> it,
> but who knows?
Exactly what Emerson told you to do in the quote.
But you knew that already.
And I think that laying the blame for America's social
> degeneration at Emerson's feet is just a tad overblown.
But it "exemplies the precursive thinking..." ohgawd. How utterly stupid.
Mark
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> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:21:51 -0700 (PDT), Mark said in misc.writing:
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> degeneration at Emerson's feet is just a tad overblown.- Hide quoted text -
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I'm not blaming Emerson. I'm saying that his statement
exemplifies the precursive thinking,(and it was ahead of his time)
whereby we evolved into the "me generation". It seemed
clever back then, but I see it as a naive assessment for
living on an overcrowded morally depraved planet.
And that's just *my* neighborhood.
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Mark
> But it "exemplies the precursive thinking..." ohgawd. How utterly stupid.-
How stupid of you to call me stupid,
especially when I know that you do
not know what I know but instead
assume what you think you know,
which you actually don't, is correct,
and then cock your head like a
chihuahua watching a porno film
and involuntarily bark the word stupid.
To exemplify precursive thinking is to be a
quintiessential example and yet a forerunner
of a school of thought.
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Grand Mal
"Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 10, 1:52 pm, "Grand Mal" <ironw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> But it "exemplies the precursive thinking..." ohgawd. How utterly stupid.-
-How stupid of you to call me stupid,
No, no, I meant those *words* were stupid.
Uh, no. It sounds wrong, even when I say it. That's the last cue I take from
you.
-especially when I know that you do
-not know what I know but instead
-assume what you think you know,
-which you actually don't, is correct,
-and then cock your head like a
-chihuahua watching a porno film
-and involuntarily bark the word stupid.
Mackie? Is that you?
-To exemplify precursive thinking is to be a
-quintiessential example and yet a forerunner
-of a school of thought.
-*******
Considering some of the misspelled, mispunctuated, misinformed drivel you've
posted in that last couple days I think you're getting more than a little
above yoursef calling Ralph Waldo Emerson 'stupid'.
Mark
Grand Mal
"Mark" <theoret...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 10, 4:09 pm, "Grand Mal" <ironw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
-Not true.
Heh! You missed them. But they were pretty well hidden.
danger...@gmail.com
> what i've learned living amongst the brainwashed -- part III
>
> it's much easier to be delusional than to be non-delusional.
It's okay. The Reverend Moon explained it all to me.
DB
Piet de Arcilla
I can relate to thinking one thing today and something completely
different tomorrow, but it seems nonetheless pathological. But there's
no point in trying to suppress it; you should only learn
humility...why use "hard" words when tentative will do?
Mark
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True