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.

[giznort]

A true thinker = a real stinker

[Just A Nobody]

If you do not like FR, do not come here. Freedom is a wonderful thing!

[CurlyBill]

Another on in B4 the Zot!

[son of caesar]

yes, you are a good little democrat. IF YOU WISH TO TEACH, FIRST YOU SHOULD LEARN. what a dork, i bet he is now watching brokeback mountain on a huge plasma screen so he doesnt miss any details.

[mware]

You are hear for a couple hours and claim you are giving up teaching us.

Stay awhile and try learning.

[Steel Wolf]

This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs

That would explain the title of your vanity post.

[nuconvert]

Well, it can spell

[F16Fighter]

"There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck."

And we'll use you to grease those train wheels.

[paul51]

Please , no. Don't give up on me. Please.
See ya

[CurlyBill]

Troll Alert!!!

[Alouette]

[Terpfen]

You're leaving already? But you just signed up!

[Owen]

Always nice to have the self declared superior folk posture themselves as teachers of the lesser mortals of the world. Even amusement can become boring. This guy managed it before he got started.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Uses a lot of fancy schmancy words, don't he? See what staying awake during a couple Sociology 101 classes will do to a lad?

[Toby06]

Wow, you give up awfully easily seeing as you just signed up today!

[giznort]

Is that you, Hillary? Or you, Chuckie?

[Jeff Head]

Ya, ya, ya. If it is so bad, then do as you say and leave...go make your own board to be the utopian board you claim to know so much about. Others have tried...note their traffic and actual impact...none to date can claim the traffic or the impact that FR has had.

Is that what really galls you...that despite being so "bad", it still gets the traffic and the impact?

Oh well...two last comments then.:

1) Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, and;

2) ... IBTZ.

[Fintan]

 

Second? Third?

[mirkwood]

"a true thinker". So far above the rest of us intellectually that the nic informs us of that opinion.

[SE Mom]

Awwww...thanks for sharing.