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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
as a real new person joining the grid i came out of curiosity after I heard on the local radio show about the behaviour here. the posting of burning flags and the sniper scope of kids in the sight. maybe the grid is useful, but after taking a quick look here, this is not for normal people. good luck to ibm and the rest of the sponsors... i wonder if they realize what the perception is. First you visit the forum just long enough to pull out of context 2 isolated visual images/metaphors which you criticize simply because at face value they allude to violent or objectionable behavior. You then use these 2 “out-of-context” metaphors as an excuse to label this entire forum as “not for normal people.” If we apply your logic, then Guernica is proof that Picasso was “not normal.” Therefore, going to art galleries is “not for normal people,” either. Perhaps by “not normal” you mean not psychologically adjusted? If so, would you care to qualify this statement? Or, was it your intention to define the criteria by which legitimate artistic expression can be distinguished from psychopathology? I must have missed that part. Did you mean, perhaps, that some members of this forum are “not normal” in a statistical sense? No, not everyone on this forum conforms to a behavioral repertoire that is acceptable and non-objectionable to every other member of the forum and to every member of the general public. Do you mean to say that you find this fact surprising and “not normal” on an internet forum? Please! But this is exactly what you mean, isn’t it, Daoust? Your covert assertion that all normal people will inevitably respond to the forum posts in the same way that you do is, frankly, “a bit over the top.” Despite the sophistry, it is obvious that you are simply attempting to marshal support that would allow only that content which you decide is “normal” to be posted uncensored. You then proceed to make the “logical leap” that the WCG and the Rosetta project will inevitably suffer if these “not normal” activities are allowed to continue. Yet you offer no proof, either logical or empirical, to support any of your statements. In fact, as SAKU1303 pointed out so well, the facts indicate that just the opposite is true. Did it ever occur to you that promoting the freedom of creative expression might be more valuable and stimulating to us than is the prospect of trying to live up to an impossible and ridiculous compulsion not to offend anyone at any cost? Self-honesty, personal integrity, clarity of thought, a genuine regard for other people, and a great sense of humor are a high price to pay for the slavery of “political correctness” that you are so eager to impose on everyone else. The fact of the matter is that we actually like ourselves enough to live as real people in a real world. So thanks for stopping by, Daoust. You have made a real positive contribution to the WCG, the Rosetta project and to all of us “not normal” people who are actually taking the time to make the world a little better for everyone. ![]() Pwnt! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
it's poor sportmanship to point out that calling someone a poor sport is in fact, poor spormanship, there sport. ![]() you just hurt my brain, i hope your happy. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
it's poor sportmanship to point out that calling someone a poor sport is in fact, poor spormanship, there sport. ![]() On a side not. I lived in a huge apartment complex that had a volleyball pool. One of the tenents was from another country. He had a habit of hitting the net with his hand, but swearing that he never touched it. After some weeks of this, we finally confronted him. "Don't you feel that it's poor sportsmanship to cheat all the time." He just smiled and said, "But I'm only cheating if I get caught. Right?" ![]() |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Great posts Julied.
McKay 'Don't let me catch you up to mischief Fletcher' Fletch 'I won't Mr McKay' McKay 'You won't what?' Fletch 'I won't let you catch me' |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I think it will survive the tantrums. This grid especially after the HPF project is finished may with that success and a few others become the Grid on the internet with maybe even a million devices going 24/7 on average.
Tough stat to adhere to takes a few million signups to achieve such an average. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Children in sniper sights
,Talk of violence ,Harsh outcrys of devious nature ,Sick and out-right egocentric, self gratification ,Lewd behavior ,And severe CHILDISH behavior ............. oh yeah and the cures to AIDS, CANCER, ALZHEIMERS, POVERTY, GREED, NATURAL NON-LIFESTYLE RELATER OBESITY, HEART DISEASE, and a complete shot in the face of all the people who claim our world is run by only the self serving .I will take the flak of this comunity if we can even somewhat help with these problems, but if you feel uncomfortable by all means leave. This is a project for caring people who may or may not have a slightly different sense of humor. But at least we are helping, what have you done? ![]() |
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