So What's A White Boy To Do?

[Dildo Argentino]

SGitR.  'Nuff said.

Yep. It's unfortunate.

It is!  When he isn't being a douche SGitR, he can be insightful.

What's SGitR?

The jackass that is so used to being the Smartest Guy in the Room that he assumes he will continue to be smarter or more educated over a wide variety things regardless of the truth.

Yeah, I guess the two things he said that weren't retarded really WERE an anomaly. More's the pity.

There's a pattern here, have you noticed?   

"holist agrees with me" - hey-ho, he may be a biped after all!

"holist doesn't agree with me and does not shut up about it no matter how rude I get" - hey, he is an asshole after all, what a pity!

Boring.

Nope.

You are a jackass.

It is completely possible to disagree with people here and still be considered a biped, but you would know that if you pulled your blinders off and stopped looking for ways to be offended and insulted.

Actually, friend, it seems to me that depends to a rather significant degree on what you disagree about. I don't wear blinders and I am not looking for ways to be offended and insulted. The "random insults for laughs" style adopted by some members has at times raised by paranoia to unacceptable levels, but I have my hand on the button, and it tweaks.

[East Coast Hustle]

Yeah, I guess the two things he said that weren't retarded really WERE an anomaly. More's the pity.

There's a pattern here, have you noticed?   

"holist agrees with me" - hey-ho, he may be a biped after all!

"holist doesn't agree with me and does not shut up about it no matter how rude I get" - hey, he is an asshole after all, what a pity!

Boring.

Actually, holist, it has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with how you say it.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Yeah, I guess the two things he said that weren't retarded really WERE an anomaly. More's the pity.

There's a pattern here, have you noticed?   

"holist agrees with me" - hey-ho, he may be a biped after all!

"holist doesn't agree with me and does not shut up about it no matter how rude I get" - hey, he is an asshole after all, what a pity!

Boring.

Actually, holist, it has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with how you say it.

Being a smug passive aggressive little fuckwit will never win peoples respect, Holist.

[LMNO]

It's not that people can't HAVE sacred indian objects, it's that they can't BUY them.

But wouldn't you think that the people buying them don't really consider those objects sacred in the first place?

Additionally, I wouldn't think that 'sacredness' is a finite resource.  If you have a sacred (to you) drum, and someone buys it, making it no longer sacred (to you), can't you just make another sacred (to you) drum?

[Dildo Argentino]

Yeah, I guess the two things he said that weren't retarded really WERE an anomaly. More's the pity.

There's a pattern here, have you noticed?   

"holist agrees with me" - hey-ho, he may be a biped after all!

"holist doesn't agree with me and does not shut up about it no matter how rude I get" - hey, he is an asshole after all, what a pity!

Boring.

Actually, holist, it has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with how you say it.

Well if that is indeed the case, I have a problem with that...

The problem being that with written communication, misreading tone, especially between people of widely different cultural backgrounds, is very frequent. And the way to get around it is to assume that the person is being open, friendly or possibly attempting some freaky-ass humour before jumping to the conclusion that they are being pissy. And what is being said should get and keep centre stage. Unless one is there for drama and playacting, which is, of course, a perfectly respectable motivation.

[AFK]

It would seem to me that sacredness is in the heart of the beholder.  It is cultural, but also very individual.  A Bible is just a book to me, even though I grew up in a very devout Baptist culture.  But to my Mom & Dad, their Bible is completely sacred. 


For me, as an individual, my musical instruments are very sacred to me because I have a very spiritual attachment to music, that sacredness COULD be transferrable if the person buying had a similar spirituallness with regards to music, or maybe it's just a thing to them. 


So I think there are a lot of variables at play depending on who is selling or buying any kind of cultural artifact or object.

[Dildo Argentino]

Actually, holist, it has nothing to do with what you say and everything to do with how you say it.

Being a smug passive aggressive little fuckwit will never win peoples respect, Holist.

I'm not smug, I'm just not insecure.

I'm not passive at all, I don't see where you get that.

Agressive: yes. Wow! An agressive member on PD! Heavens. By PD standards, I'm not even all that aggressive.

(By the way, just in case you feel the inclination to hand out free English lessons, I know what "passive aggressive" means. There is a great deal of that behaviour going on around here, I agree. But it ain't me.)

Little fuckwit: Well, I'm short, if that's what you mean, but quite fat... and no. I am not a fuckwit, nor a mouthbreather, nor an idiot, nor a robot, nor a... whatever. As I said, when I first turned up here, I am a bear about. Try to live with it.

People's respect? Is that a subject you feel you are an expert on?

Your respect? No thanks. Keep puking on me, it just adds to my burnish. 

Holist? - holist. Puhleeze!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, I guess the two things he said that weren't retarded really WERE an anomaly. More's the pity.

There's a pattern here, have you noticed?   

"holist agrees with me" - hey-ho, he may be a biped after all!

"holist doesn't agree with me and does not shut up about it no matter how rude I get" - hey, he is an asshole after all, what a pity!

Boring.

Except that nobody said you might be a biped after all.  We agreed with you on a couple of things.

Fact is, you're an unpleasant asshole.  That can be okay, if you're funny about it.

You aren't.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Thread is now about Holist.  Again.

Thread split on request.

[LMNO]

Why do people keep responding to him?

[Elder Iptuous]

because it's part of our sacred culture.

[Aucoq]

because it's part of our sacred culture.

[LMNO]

because it's part of our sacred culture.

I'll buy that.

[Dildo Argentino]

Except that nobody said you might be a biped after all. 

I think you'll find, oh All-Seeing-One, that somebody did.

We agreed with you on a couple of things.

Yes.

Fact is, you're an unpleasant asshole.

Actually, the fact is somewhat different to that.
The fact is that you think I am an unpleasant asshole.

Coming from such an accomplished unpleasant asshole as yourself, I should take that opinion seriously.

But I can't, because I know I am not an unpleasant asshole. I get plenty of feedback, from plenty of people who have not only read a couple of hundred things I've written for a bunch of American nutters, but who actually have known me for years. So I know. You ain't talking me out of it, comprende?

That can be okay, if you're funny about it.

It can even be okay if you are not funny about it. You yourself are living proof.

You aren't.

Not your kind of funny.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The fact is that you think I am an unpleasant asshole.

Yeah, well, in social situations, perception is everything.