I've given up on trying to teach anyone here anything (They gave Socrates hemlock, now this guy.)

[a true thinker]

There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck. This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs, and Jim's site policies -- which amount to excluding reality and actual dialogue in favor of political/militaristic pornography -- is conducive to cognitive dissonance, which at the times your worldview is threatened leads you into psychotic breaks (on the political cognitive plane, that is, and just maybe in other realms too). Not to mention that your baseline politics is based in mythology about American demographics, science, economics, ethics etc. You spoonfeed each other in the first place, so rationality on FR is always constrained to small scope matters. (You try to make up for this by shifting rapidly to things on which you share prejudices.)

FR is a purist's dream illustration of Kant's opinion that "Most people claim to be thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." The name of the site is an Orwellian joke -- the only freedom truly here is the animal kind the uncivilized insist on, the only 'res publica' of interest is of acting in conspiracy to screw the public good for private gain, the only laws and people you truly like are the ones that permit/protect the anarchy, parasitism, and thievery you prefer, and immoralism is the true religion you espouse. FR is a mismanaged zoo, really, and I like coming here on occasion -- the sights are alternatingly horrifying and amusing, but always a reminder of what the Enlightenment was a fight against.

Best wishes.

[Babu]

My first IB4TZ!!!!

[Lady Jag]

[Darkwolf377]

Why are you trying to reason with someone who probably woke up today, saw the white stuff falling from the sky, and ran to DU to announce that Nuclear Winter had begun?

[LibLieSlayer]

KANT never COULD... dumbass!

LLS

[scratcher]

Me too!

[Lady Jag]

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Individuals with Wernicke's aphasia may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, add unnecessary words, and even create new "words."

[DogBarkTree]

Were you trying to say something?

[UCANSEE2]

An opus on the first day as a registered user. That must be a first!

Happens a lot, lately.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Is there no intelligence on the planet they come from?

[Babu]

Bare your little tush now, true thinker, the pretty nurse has your meds for you ...

[Dog Gone]

[Fury]

Is this Judith Haney?

[Glenn]

This is a pretty darn good opus, as opi go.

[UCANSEE2]

They always come here to 'teach'.

That is how you identify newbies as well.

Though I have seen a rare few who come in with open ears.

[clintonh8r]

If your minder is reading this to you...Thanks for the analysis. Now G.F.Y.

[Dog Gone]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes, some are like under-developed film, waiting to be made complete by the proper exposure.

In this ones case, someone opened the camera at high noon.

[carlr]

If you were as your screen name suggests,you would see that the dems have nothing but tired,failed rhetoric designed to keep themselves in power and the masses (you) ignorant.

Nuff of the nice stuff,

THAT looks like it might have hurt.

[crazyhorse691]

There's no helping you.

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What a condescending bunch of pseudointellectual hogwash. If you think you exist solely to help out the less fortunate(you define less fortunate based on your perceived intellectual superiority)life will be harder on you than anything I can say or do. Just don't get splatter on me when you end up blowing your brains out with a shotgun blast.