Daily reminder: not beating your partner is "controversial"

[Jenne]

Meh, this all sounds like the "art imitating life" vs. "life imitating art" debate.  A meme is supposed to reflect something that's already out there.  Sure, it can reinforce it with the truthiness of it, but it doesn't carry much power beyond that.

It's still the individual's choice whether or not to pick it up and make any use of it.

[LMNO]

That last sentence is what I'm getting from your strenuous objections to the 11/12 - 2/3 memebomb; that people will see it, and be attacked by a vicious idea that will wrestle their consciousness and morals to the ground, and force them to act, slapping wives, girlfriends, sisters and mothers.  And then, when captured, they will say the meme out loud, and all in range will suddenly kick their grandmothers in the uterus.

But they're ultimately blameless -- the memebomb made them do it.

I think you might have been paying more attention to the strenuous mockery, and strawman construction, than to the words I actually wrote.

Ahem...

We shouldn't get too hung up about the far reaching moral implications of certain statements unless you really think that language is mind control. And if you do, (cram wiggles his fingers, implying a magic spell) STOP THINKING THAT. 

Why should I not think like that? Everything I've seen points to that conclusion

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Jesus fucking christ.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I thought for a while there was a danger that this might be turned into an active memebomb, but without that risk, my interest in arguing this quickly vanishes.

http://principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/?action=show&id=4010

http://principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/kwotes.pl?action=show&id=4013

[Captain Utopia]

That last sentence is what I'm getting from your strenuous objections to the 11/12 - 2/3 memebomb; that people will see it, and be attacked by a vicious idea that will wrestle their consciousness and morals to the ground, and force them to act, slapping wives, girlfriends, sisters and mothers.  And then, when captured, they will say the meme out loud, and all in range will suddenly kick their grandmothers in the uterus.

But they're ultimately blameless -- the memebomb made them do it.

I think you might have been paying more attention to the strenuous mockery, and strawman construction, than to the words I actually wrote.

Ahem...

We shouldn't get too hung up about the far reaching moral implications of certain statements unless you really think that language is mind control. And if you do, (cram wiggles his fingers, implying a magic spell) STOP THINKING THAT. 

Why should I not think like that? Everything I've seen points to that conclusion

There is no contradiction here.

I think they work that way, I do not think I understand all the mechanisms by which they work - I do not profess the ability to predict them beyond anything but a crude approximation.

If you think you understand what an electron is, and how it interacts with its environment.. then obviously you can now tell me the winner of the next Superbowl?

[LMNO]

My statement says that you believe a meme will control people's minds.


Your statement says you agree with that.



Now SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[Fuquad]

I propose a new meme.

The meme will be contained within the next set of quotation marks.

"The only way that fictionpuss can be correct about how memes work is if he leaves the Principiadiscordia.com forums and never comes back"

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Fictionpuss, stop being a fucking wiener.
Nobody's gonna read that meme and say "wow you know, i'd really like to go beat the shit outta ma grammy now" and if they do, the seed was already there and they were on the verge of doing it anyway.

shut up. shut up. shut the fuck up.
your argument is so god damned boring and redundant it makes me wanna whack you with a whiffle bat. one what squeaks upon impact.

like so:

~squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak-a squeak!!~

butthorn.

i hate people who argue just to argue. even if they don't really believe the side they're arguing for. like my brother-in-law.

[Kai]

Nobody's gonna read that meme and say "wow you know, i'd really like to go beat the shit outta ma grammy now" and if they do, the seed was already there and they were on the verge of doing it anyway.

This really reminds me of one of the last trolls we had. Who was that? somebody who took things all too literally

Maybe I'm too tired because I forget.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I think it was Fictionpuss.

edit-
PS- remember that guy?

[Kai]

I think it was Fictionpuss.

edit-
PS- remember that guy?

Same person? I don't think so.

Want to say it was a Daruko account.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

sorry Kai, i was being facetious 

[Kai]

sorry Kai, i was being facetious 

Must just be that tired.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

 

take nap

[LMNO]

sorry Kai, i was being facetious 

Guess which word fictionpuss is about to use 50 times in the next 7 posts, incorrectly.