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To: Hardraade
Maybe Polarik just likes screwing with people?

“Some men just wanna watch the world burn.” - Said in my best Michael Caine impersonation.

Another possibility is that to Polarik, this is just an intellectual exercise in how people come to absorb information and what they believe to be true based on their preconceptions and desires. And in this experiment, FR is just a big Skinner box to him and Freepers are just a bunch of rats to be rewarded or punished as the experimenter sees fit.

It's possible.

167 posted on 08/04/2010 10:52:10 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: El Sordo; Hardraade

Its certainly plausible!

We might just be lab-rats for Polarik. Who knows?


168 posted on 08/04/2010 10:56:13 AM PDT by Danae (If Liberals were only moderately insane, they would be tollerable. Alas, such is not the case.)
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To: El Sordo

I had actually considered that based on some rather extensive research into statements he made on other forums having nothing to do with THIS subject. That is a totally plausible explanation.


169 posted on 08/04/2010 11:01:34 AM PDT by MestaMachine (De inimico non loquaris sed cogites- Don't wish ill for your enemy; plan it)
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To: El Sordo
Maybe Polarik just likes screwing with people?

Everything is possible, but the facts (empirical data, to some people) certainly suggests that the screwing is for-profit. You can chat with the self-appointed expert on personal needs for $2 a minute.

On the other hand, it's all so stupidly done - including the skinnerboxing - that it also indicates a twilighted loon.

172 posted on 08/04/2010 11:06:01 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: El Sordo

Huh???? (As in, what’s that you said? I’m a little deaf.)

Sorry. I couldn’t resist, El Sordo. Aren’t we all, sometimes? A little deaf, I mean.


177 posted on 08/04/2010 11:21:26 AM PDT by Greenperson
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