On the rise and fall of empires (or, "What goes up must come down")

[Golden Applesauce]

I checked in at 50/75/100 pages, just to see if anything interesting had happened.

Saw some new HIMEOBS images, not much else.

[Kai]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

Actually, yes.

JOIN US.

JOIN US.

For serious? I have better things to do with my time than rehash old arguments. So do you guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm 300+ miles offshore running on 4 days of no sleep. It's either this or take an impromptu swim call.

And what do YOU have to do that's so important?

Join us.




JOIN US.

On Thursday morning I leave for Pittsburgh. It will, if I accept it, be my first freelance consulting job. Short term, at a museum, doing high definition photography.

In August, I start a PhD program.

In between, I am reading and writing and talking about SCIENCE, none of it relevant to what is going on here right now. Which seems to be rehashed arguments that people can't seem to stay away from because they see other people talking about it and have no self control to just ignore threads that aren't worth looking at. Contrary to what I might have wished to do down in Scientism. Far more useful for me to post science on Facebook, where people will read and converse with me about it. And incidentally, includes many PD'ers.

And right now I'm off to sleep. Night.

[Freeky]

Kai, I don't know if you're doing it on purpose or not, but you're sounding a bit--okay, a lot-- like a pretentious douche.  I'm just saying, because maybe you don't know it, and it's really kind of upsetting, because I really have mad respect for you, and you are talking down at everyone here, being snooty. 

[East Coast Hustle]

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to call it douchey but it is coming off as sort of self-important. But hey, we all have our moments.

Kai, no matter how important you think what you're doing is, never lose sight of Rock 'n' Fucking Roll and Saturday Night.

[Epimetheus]

I hope I'm not the only one who's okay with people having conversations about whatever they damn well please.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I hope I am not the only person who has been ignoring that thread.

Actually, yes.

JOIN US.

JOIN US.

For serious? I have better things to do with my time than rehash old arguments. So do you guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm 300+ miles offshore running on 4 days of no sleep. It's either this or take an impromptu swim call.

And what do YOU have to do that's so important?

Join us.




JOIN US.

It's either drugs

or facebook

OR SEGUIN

*tears* *snot*

[Freeky]

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to call it douchey but it is coming off as sort of self-important. But hey, we all have our moments.

Kai, no matter how important you think what you're doing is, never lose sight of Rock 'n' Fucking Roll and Saturday Night.

Self important, yes.  Much more better than "douche."  Sorry, couldn't grab that out of my brain.

[East Coast Hustle]

I hope I'm not the only one who's okay with people having conversations about whatever they damn well please.

I missed the part where anyone else even remotely implied otherwise.

[Freeky]

Also Kai, that sounds hella awesome.  Good luck on your PhD program.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Kai, I don't know if you're doing it on purpose or not, but you're sounding a bit--okay, a lot-- like a pretentious douche.  I'm just saying, because maybe you don't know it, and it's really kind of upsetting, because I really have mad respect for you, and you are talking down at everyone here, being snooty. 

I like Kai, but...yeah.

On Thursday morning I hope to sleep as late as possible. Nyquil, if I wake up before noon, should knock me out for a few hours extra. Short term, I will have managed to pass the day until it is too hot to have full-body contact with the bed.

In August, same shit.

In between, I will take calls from whiney clients and hang on the internet a lot, none of it relevant to anything but giving me something to do to keep from walking out in front of a semi and live to hopefully have another day or so out of town at some point. I will visit rehashed arguments and shit all over RWHN because he is one of Them and I know what kind of people They are. I could stay away but I have nothing better to do. I will eventually read every thread whether it is worth looking at or not. I will exercise enough self control to keep from pickling my liver with cheap whiskey or picking up heroin in hopes that I may someday scrape up enough cash to move to San Marcos or Austin. Contrary to what I might have wished to do I am here. Far more useful for me to stay on the internet than try to befriend zombies.
And right now I'm off to fuck around in stupid drug threads some more. Night.

[Epimetheus]

I hope I'm not the only one who's okay with people having conversations about whatever they damn well please.

I missed the part where anyone else even remotely implied otherwise.

Where does the problem lie, then? What is wrong with having a similar conversation again and again, if everyone doing so chooses to do so? I don't see how it's bringing PD down, nor how it shows that the people posting are stupid/impulsive/shortsighted, etc.

[Cain]

Kai's not saying anything I didn't say a couple of weeks ago.  You know, when all this started.

And PD's been on a long decline, anyway.  Shit like this doesn't happen overnight.  Like barbarian invasions, drugs threads are a symptom of a deeper malady.

I hope I'm not the only one who's okay with people having conversations about whatever they damn well please.

I missed the part where anyone else even remotely implied otherwise.

Where does the problem lie, then? What is wrong with having a similar conversation again and again, if everyone doing so chooses to do so? I don't see how it's bringing PD down, nor how it shows that the people posting are stupid/impulsive/shortsighted, etc.

Because it means people like myself, and Kai, and Roger, and no doubt many others go "fuck it, what's the point in contributing, when we can just discuss drugs for another 150 pages".

It says "we care more about rehashing stale old arguments which never get resolved than we do about rants, in depth discussion threads or, I don't know, maybe talking about discordianism.*"



*I realise this term may be unfamiliar to some readers.  It's an obscure 1960s countercultural religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion, whose adherents spend all their time swapping conflicting data on marijuana.

[Telarus]

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

We have to rehash these topics every six months or so, so the new guys can experience the heart of retardedness first hand.

[President Television]

I hope I'm not the only one who's okay with people having conversations about whatever they damn well please.

I missed the part where anyone else even remotely implied otherwise.

Where does the problem lie, then? What is wrong with having a similar conversation again and again, if everyone doing so chooses to do so?

"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!"

I think you can see where I'm going with this.