Shooting at CT Elementary School. WTF AMERICA?!

[Don Coyote]

"You need this gas guzzling, 24 inches lifted, all time 4 wheel drive, with reclining bucket leather seats, AC, MP3, Bluetooth  to show the world how much of a rugged individualist you are. Nothing says rugged and individual like owning the same high priced crap as everyone else."

How about:

"Boy, it's a good thing we all think for ourselves here in Discordia.  We're so good at it that vigilance is not necessary."

Discordia, it parodies itself?
Or
Discordia, thinking for itself so hard it....something something

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Exactly... and as the Common Walls project existed to try to expound upon, a divided population is an easy population to control and manipulate. The "Rugged Individualism" meme is inherently divisive.

DING!  Post of the fucking year.  That's a connection I hadn't made.

We can do something with this.

I was just about to say something similar.

Also, it's funny there's a dichotomy between the pro-healthcare stance around here, the pro-takes-a-villiage mentality expressed, even and pro-Project-Mayhem-no-precious-snowflake-or-unicorn memeswamp... and the now-rearing "individuality" idea.

Plus, far too many hyphens.

I don't see any problem with any of the above.  What I see a problem with in this thread has been TALKING POINTS, and people believing shit that ISN'T SO.

And people venting dusty & archaic butthurt over things that only they remember or care about.

Which is more funny than anything else.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"You need this gas guzzling, 24 inches lifted, all time 4 wheel drive, with reclining bucket leather seats, AC, MP3, Bluetooth  to show the world how much of a rugged individualist you are. Nothing says rugged and individual like owning the same high priced crap as everyone else."

How about:

"Boy, it's a good thing we all think for ourselves here in Discordia.  We're so good at it that vigilance is not necessary."

Discordia, it parodies itself?
Or
Discordia, thinking for itself so hard it....something something

Or how about BACKSLIDING, PERNICIOUS SINNERS?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

GET OUT OF MY SELF-CONSISTENT WORLDVIEW, YOU MANIAC.

[LMNO]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

Apparently so.  You can scream about the elephant in the living room all day long, you'll just get hoarse.

[Pæs]

I REJECT THE IDEA THAT I AM REJECTING IDEAS AUTOMATICALLY.

[Don Coyote]

"You need this gas guzzling, 24 inches lifted, all time 4 wheel drive, with reclining bucket leather seats, AC, MP3, Bluetooth  to show the world how much of a rugged individualist you are. Nothing says rugged and individual like owning the same high priced crap as everyone else."

How about:

"Boy, it's a good thing we all think for ourselves here in Discordia.  We're so good at it that vigilance is not necessary."

Discordia, it parodies itself?
Or
Discordia, thinking for itself so hard it....something something

Or how about BACKSLIDING, PERNICIOUS SINNERS?

I have SINNED^TM for showing my ass like that of the monkeys and neglected my APPOINTED HOLY BIDNESS^TM!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

Telling ya, the last two pages are a GOLD MINE.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

GET OUT OF MY SELF-CONSISTENT WORLDVIEW, YOU MANIAC.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"You need this gas guzzling, 24 inches lifted, all time 4 wheel drive, with reclining bucket leather seats, AC, MP3, Bluetooth  to show the world how much of a rugged individualist you are. Nothing says rugged and individual like owning the same high priced crap as everyone else."

How about:

"Boy, it's a good thing we all think for ourselves here in Discordia.  We're so good at it that vigilance is not necessary."

Discordia, it parodies itself?
Or
Discordia, thinking for itself so hard it....something something

Or how about BACKSLIDING, PERNICIOUS SINNERS?

I have SINNED^TM for showing my ass like that of the monkeys and neglected my APPOINTED HOLY BIDNESS^TM!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn near every person in this thread, myself included, has been shamelessly wallowing in baboonery.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

I work with children. I can rephrase things like a motherfucker.

[Don Coyote]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

I work with children. I can rephrase things like a motherfucker.

And now cognitive dissonance has taken on a slightly different meaning.

[LMNO]

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

I work with children. I can rephrase things like a motherfucker.

I like it because the thing most people forget is that the phrase includes the process of resolution.  People don't just go around dissonantly cognitive (at least not for any reasonable amount of time).  They find the easiest path towards resolution, and often that is, "it never happened."

What's especially funny is that when I made a series of posts undermining my own earlier arguments, people COULD NOT SEE THE POSTS.

Too much ouch on the old 2d circuit.

Ideas that are really uncomfortable often become invisible.

This is a beautiful layman rephrasing of "cognitive dissonance".

I work with children. I can rephrase things like a motherfucker.

And now cognitive dissonance has taken on a slightly different meaning.

How so?