Acosmicist UNLIMITED fightin' the power thread

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm here to stay, like herpes 

I'm okay with that.  I'm a "give the people what they want" kinda guy.

I love that "I'm here to stay" is almost inevitably the last thing they post before they leave forever.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I come from an anonymous forum, where the only reason moderation ever gets involved is if someone posts strictly illegal imagery.
After so many years of being surrounded by a combination of legit assholes (anti-semitic conspiracy theorists, holocaust deniers, and every "order" of horrors you can imagine and more) and people who just pretend to be assholes because it makes real assholes look even worse, you reach a point where it becomes funny within its own context.
You begin to incorporate their strategy into your own reality tunnel, not because it is so effective at winning arguments, but because it's so effective at disrupting a person's perception.
Conspiracy theory is one of the most interesting aspects of this.
"Joan Rivers died less than a week after accusing Michelle Obama of being a transgendered person. Coincidence? I think not."
The one that really kills me, is that any time a news source is posted which says something that can even be remotely interpreted as anything less than an outright promotion of Neo-Nazism, the users will point to the author of the article, and 8 times out of 10 it's a Jewish-sounding name.
It's not so much that it's true, it's that when you look hard enough with an open mind, you can begin to see why people might form the outrageous worldviews they do.
I'm not a racist at heart. I love Jews. I think they're doing a great job of subverting gentiles to be their willing slaves. You might even say I'm a Jewish Supremacist.
I'm not anti-Christian, either. I'd suck Jesus' circumcised penis like it distributes communion wafers made of 100% Kosher Beef Jerky.

I'm not being offensive to offend people. I'm urging people to stop being offended.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Cut them up and boil them big dash of cummin and a little bit of butter. Best mash evar!

Please, no cummin in my mash. 

[LMNO]

Cut them up and boil them big dash of cummin and a little bit of butter. Best mash evar!

Please, no cummin in my mash. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

LOL! Way to find out there's only one 'm' in cumin 

[Demolition Squid]

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A falsehood which preserves order is clearly preferable to a truth which permits chaos.
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Leaving aside the rest, I think it is worth reiterating that order and chaos are not opposites. Preserving order can - and often does - increase chaos. Permitting chaos can - and often does - lead to more order. None of these qualities have anything inherently to do with truth or falsehood.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

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A falsehood which preserves order is clearly preferable to a truth which permits chaos.
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Leaving aside the rest, I think it is worth reiterating that order and chaos are not opposites. Preserving order can - and often does - increase chaos. Permitting chaos can - and often does - lead to more order. None of these qualities have anything inherently to do with truth or falsehood.

It's that whole entropy-emergence tension, the beautiful dance of the universe.

I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he's trolling, but the less charitable possibility is that this kid is actually this dumb but thinks he's smart, possibly as a side effect of spending his formative years on a chan-alike.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Well well. Quite the overachiever this one. Less than two pages of posts and already has an UNLIMITED thread all for himself. I remember getting similar back in the day. Difference being that I was merely unacquainted with Internet etiquette and this one seems to be some sort of a mutant Poptart, but without any of the charm of regular Poptart.

I mean I didn't and won't waste my time reading this guy's stuff, but MAN did he go straight to the top.

Nowhere to go from here but



TELL US HOW WE'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG!! I'M LISTENING INTENTLY!!!

[hooplala]

He sure showed us what.

[Cain]

I was overwhelmed.

No, wait, what's the other one?  Right, I was underwhelmed.

[Ben Shapiro]

I come from an anonymous forum, where the only reason moderation ever gets involved is if someone posts strictly illegal imagery.
After so many years of being surrounded by a combination of legit assholes (anti-semitic conspiracy theorists, holocaust deniers, and every "order" of horrors you can imagine and more) and people who just pretend to be assholes because it makes real assholes look even worse, you reach a point where it becomes funny within its own context.
You begin to incorporate their strategy into your own reality tunnel, not because it is so effective at winning arguments, but because it's so effective at disrupting a person's perception.
Conspiracy theory is one of the most interesting aspects of this.
"Joan Rivers died less than a week after accusing Michelle Obama of being a transgendered person. Coincidence? I think not."
The one that really kills me, is that any time a news source is posted which says something that can even be remotely interpreted as anything less than an outright promotion of Neo-Nazism, the users will point to the author of the article, and 8 times out of 10 it's a Jewish-sounding name.
It's not so much that it's true, it's that when you look hard enough with an open mind, you can begin to see why people might form the outrageous worldviews they do.
I'm not a racist at heart. I love Jews. I think they're doing a great job of subverting gentiles to be their willing slaves. You might even say I'm a Jewish Supremacist.
I'm not anti-Christian, either. I'd suck Jesus' circumcised penis like it distributes communion wafers made of 100% Kosher Beef Jerky.

I'm not being offensive to offend people. I'm urging people to stop being offended.

[Acosmicist]

I achieved Hall of Shame status in just a handful of hours posting?

This has to be a record.

[Acosmicist]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e4781acddbfc4dbaa9aa68af5187c485/ex-navy-seal-alleges-anti-gay-bullying-cia-workers

Jones said that during his time working in Afghanistan that people he was working with called him an anti-gay name, and he said they were defensive when he confronted them about it. Jones alleged in the complaint that his team later ditched him in 120-degree temperatures without water, making him walk part way back to their compound before they stopped to give him a ride.

"I heard a faint laughing followed by a distant, 'He can walk back!' The door closed and they drove out of sight," Jones said in a statement sent to the newspaper, which obtained a copy of the complaint.

Navy Seals get anally devastated over anti-gay bullying...

And to think, all of this could have been avoided if he had just offered to suck them off.

[Acosmicist]

Best philosophy joke ever:

Logic.

Ethics

[Acosmicist]

Except, of course, for the fact that Libertarianism is not in the slightest self-interest of Libertarians.

That depends on which Libertarian you're asking.