Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
Faustine's right that there is far too much effort wasted here on trying to control what gets posted, or should or shouldn't be, rather than improve the quality of the discourse and encourage new voices, in particular those different from one's own, and most especially different from one's pack-howling. But then there's pleasure in watching the establishment get dissed by disbelievers, and the attempts of guardians of the commons to police what's not theirs exclusively to rule. Professors get beat by students, get used to it. Filtering the painful truth aids embellishing the glory days to fans who seek security from tough auto-love masters. Feynmann was exceptional for laughing at himself, for demonstrating nothing kills imagination like pride and vainglory. Einstein was good at self-deprecation too. Perhaps that is the message cpunk genius CJ offered that authoritarians are compelled to filter, murderously by gun-enforced imprisonment and banishment from the forum, so destabilizable are the certain-minded by ridicule, especially when so well deserved.
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tim wrote: You're a waste of electrons here. Even Agent Farr was more on-topic. Is this some kind of ersatz chick thing? Posting about guns and survivalism is a chick thing? Sure, whatever you say. You conveniently edited my post to leave out what I was commenting on: your psychobabble about the MMPI and how to present oneself as a suitably servile sheeple. It's ironic that a neo-Calvinist Nietzschean would give a damn what people think of him one way or the other. Must be an alpha baboon thing. And for the record, my reference to the MMPI was nothing more than a passing comment until you replied and got me interested me in elaborating on it. Though I'll admit I never should have bothered responding to the thread in the first place, anyone who thinks it ought to die a natural death should for god's sake quit prolonging it. I didn't take issue with your posts about guns, did I? No, but only because it suited you. The alpha giveth a banana and the alpha taketh away... I've yet to see you add anything to the discussion about ostensibly list-related topics. While all of us post off-topic things at times, you are almost completely off-topic. Something I suggested to you last spring bears repeating: read up on some of the basics. I have been. Though somehow I never felt the need to generate and churn unnecessary posts to prove it. I also don't do me too posts; or delight in shooting fish in a barrel by pointing out incorrigible idiots' idiocy, etc. It's not as if my tiny handful of posts each week is anything a filter file couldn't cure. One wonders why you aren't drawing a bead on the high-volume, high-profile nuisances instead. Er, I mean, so to speak, that is. Your stories about living as a homeless person but now being paid to surf the Net (you say) Quite a convenient troll you have there. Not bad. If there's one thing that can get to a person who came from shitty circumstances and bettered themseves through intelligence, cunning and sheer strength of will alone, it's has to be something along those lines. (Did you catch that? Any unimaginative dimwit flunky out there looking to score ass-kiss beta brownie points by baiting me really should be taking notes.) But I would like to take this opportunity to say that if it makes any of you feel better to think I'm paid to surf the net or work as a Special Agent to spy on you or whatever else you happen to cook up in one of your more colorful delusional/alcohol-soaked moments, be my guest. You're on the wrong track and it's win-win all the way: your wasting time is its own reward. But if I'm really as uninteresting as all that, why anyone would bother is less than self-evident. may be fodder for Oprah's Online Chat Room (You go, girl!), but this is not that forum. If you didn't know I'm a woman you wouldn't have taken them that way. ~Faustine. *** When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. - --Harry S. Truman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjw3vWYXHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8Vc mACdHBwstaucKoewZv6sNFa3triW25YAn04mpG0t6X6PTuY/lS05PxfUFffq =MuMi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Faustine wrote: Black Unicorn wrote: You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days. Hey! I only asked you to dinner. LOL! I suppose I could figure out a way to meet you sometime so you don't know I'm Faustine...chalk another one up for the Index, I guess. ;) ~F. *** Apemantus' Prayer: Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself: Grant I may never prove so fond; To trust man on his oath or bond; Or a harlot, for her weeping; Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping: Or a keeper with my freedom; Or my friends, if I should need 'em. Amen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjw3wsgXHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8WZ EACfS9sC1FT4zaJrzww/V5pjn8MrNJwAoLB4DH9GP1YM9LVbwBFe40ngopIL =zerN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tim wrote: You're a waste of electrons here. Even Agent Farr was more on-topic. Is this some kind of ersatz chick thing? Posting about guns and survivalism is a chick thing? Sure, whatever you say. So I felt like writing about a few things from my experience that were off topic this week, who cares. If you find them fatuous and irrelevant, there's always the filter file. At the very least, you could stop writing substantive replies to them that generate even more off-topic content. And I do happen to think off-topic content is better than no content at all. You know, the kind of post that says nothing apart fron bitching about someone else's. Like this one. You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days. (I was about to include a whole paragraph of inflammatory comments regarding the aforementioned, but thought better of it. What's the point? I'm too busy and life's too short. To each his own. FOAD. Whatever.) ~Faustine. *** When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. - -- Harry S. Truman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjw2Qq4XHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8U9 JwCfWJzoz8q0oGz7oNfxL4rtSOBONGoAn2UxCPX45CyaUsJlSZ8EgqbyUEq2 =0K13 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering) You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days. Hey! I only asked you to dinner.
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
At 04:14 PM 1/4/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days. Please, do post, with full headers, dearie. We're curious about the level of creativity of FBI agents. ~ Agent Faustine.
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering)
On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 04:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tim wrote: You're a waste of electrons here. Even Agent Farr was more on-topic. Is this some kind of ersatz chick thing? Posting about guns and survivalism is a chick thing? Sure, whatever you say. You conveniently edited my post to leave out what I was commenting on: your psychobabble about the MMPI and how to present oneself as a suitably servile sheeple. I didn't take issue with your posts about guns, did I? I've yet to see you add anything to the discussion about ostensibly list-related topics. While all of us post off-topic things at times, you are almost completely off-topic. Something I suggested to you last spring bears repeating: read up on some of the basics. Your stories about living as a homeless person but now being paid to surf the Net (you say) may be fodder for Oprah's Online Chat Room (You go, girl!), but this is not that forum. --Tim May The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able may have a gun. --Patrick Henry The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. --Alexander Hamilton
Re: Faustine's paranoia index (or: mindless OT bickering),
You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days. (I was about to include a whole paragraph of inflammatory comments regarding the aforementioned, but thought better of it. What's the point? I'm too busy and life's too short. To each his own. FOAD. Whatever.) ~Faustine. Death threats? I missed them,please reprint. I ran across a museum of old time ersatz chick things, ersatz of the ersatz era long generated by Hollywood, and was told there used to be a major grower of nubile young ersatz, film star forever virgins, in the region but now all you could get were the pitiful fake ersatz chicks on the corporate campuses, bisexuals, polysexuals, polymorphous sexuals, kaliedescopic deviants, tree humpers, auto fetishists, vulture capital putas, animal rights for horrific practices, and the perdurable ersatz coprophiliacs all across the ersatz golden west, the last dregs of ersatz America where men used to be men in military and western gun-shooting drag and women were indescribable if not innocent whores like momma and baby sister. Somewhere western novels took over western imagination and horses asses became ersatz heroes unable to appreciate the real chick thing so obsessed were they at dreaming of being motherfucked.JYA *brilliant*
