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Mightion Defensor said this about your mom:
A large ego that constantly needs reinforcement, would be my description.
Reinforcement or addition?
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So quoth Mr. Parcelan:
Reinforcement or addition?
Same thing.
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Knight Rider:
Same thing.
Reinforcment implies that my ego needs constant attention to be sustained. Addition implies that it is growing.
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Mr. Parcelan was naked while typing this:
Reinforcment implies that my ego needs constant attention to be sustained. Addition implies that it is growing.
Reinforcement can also mean to add onto what is already there.
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Nobody really understood why JooJooFlop wrote:
Reinforcement can also mean to add onto what is already there.
In some countries, they eat snakes
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Mod stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
The only thing you've really done is blacklist some random guy on the chance that he could possibly be somethor, brag and threaten people a lot.
Wow, sounds like a post-Communist, former-Soviet-bloc despot... Let's bomb his house!
I personally haven't noticed anything different since you took over. You seem not to use your powers too much, which I think is the way power should be used. I fit in under the "don't really care" category.
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Mr. Parcelan wrote:
Reinforcment implies that my ego needs constant attention to be sustained. Addition implies that it is growing.
Actually, I was thinking more of a leaky tire where you have to keep adding air to it every few days.
Though the number of banned accounts would jump rapidly. 
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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
I just gloss over your opinions anyways, since they're inevitably the same thing.
Gloss as you will, it doesn't change the fact that you haven't done anything in any way useful as a mod so far.
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Xyrra had this to say about Robocop:
Dolomite. Best mod evar.
I have a fan!
I still don't know why Drysart up and removed me one night. I'm not going to imply anything, but I was indirectly arguing with Abbigail, who was his female IRC mod of the week at the time, because she reported the same thread like 900 times the night before he removed me.
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This one time, at Manticore camp:
Whose "The Government" and how come they never hop in and say "Hi"?
For the last few years before Parcelan got modded mods had seperate anonymous mod accounts to prevent drama, so if for example you were to become mod you wouldn't use mod actions from your manticore account but instead from your richard nixon or whatever account.
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Mod had this to say about Pirotess:
For the last few years before Parcelan got modded mods had seperate anonymous mod accounts to prevent drama, so if for example you were to become mod you wouldn't use mod actions from your manticore account but instead from your richard nixon or whatever account.
oh...
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Drysarting:
No, I actually put women in power because they tend to be more level-headed than men.
Have you known women long?
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Jensus who doth quote:
can i be a mod
No, you're a sociopath.
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Then why did you try to fuck him like a bitch, Maradon!?
No, you're a sociopath.
That will always be funny to me.
Unless Jens goes and actually does become a sociopath.. then it'd be kinda creepy.
It's not something people hear about.
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The propaganda machine of Sean's junta released this statement:
That will always be funny to me.Unless Jens goes and actually does become a sociopath.. then it'd be kinda creepy.
A sociopath is defined as someone who is without a conscience. There is a book called "The Sociopath Next Door" which claims that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath. This seems ludicrous at first, but if you keep the definition of sociopathy in mind, you can see how one doesn't have to be a raving, violent lunatic to be one. Also, just because you don't have a conscience doesn't mean you can't experience fear (fear of prison, consequences, etc.). This means you can be a sociopath and still obey the law as much as you feel you have to obey it, in order to avoid being caught and being punished.
Personally, with all the people in the world who mistreat their pets, abuse their children and spouses, drive like assholes, and stab people in the back to get ahead in life, I think 1 in 25 is erring on the side of caution.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Karnaj who doth quote:
A sociopath is defined as someone who is without a conscience.
Well shit, I'M a sociopath.
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In a disastrous attempt to be funny and clever, Karnaj wrote:
A sociopath is defined as someone who is without a conscience. There is a book called "The Sociopath Next Door" which claims that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath. This seems ludicrous at first, but if you keep the definition of sociopathy in mind, you can see how one doesn't have to be a raving, violent lunatic to be one. Also, just because you don't have a conscience doesn't mean you can't experience fear (fear of prison, consequences, etc.). This means you can be a sociopath and still obey the law as much as you feel you have to obey it, in order to avoid being caught and being punished.Personally, with all the people in the world who mistreat their pets, abuse their children and spouses, drive like assholes, and stab people in the back to get ahead in life, I think 1 in 25 is erring on the side of caution.
I'm just morally opposed to irrational standards with no objective basis. Basically, all morality. That doesn't make me a sociopath though. 
ba-dum-crash
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Quoth Jensus:
I'm just morally opposed to irrational standards with no objective basis. Basically, all morality. That doesn't make me a sociopath though.
You should read up on morality, because the above statement is just dumb. Quite a bit of morality is rational, in that the standards of conduct are necessary for society to exist in any state other than anarchy or tyranny.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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In a disastrous attempt to be funny and clever, Bloodsage wrote:
You should read up on morality, because the above statement is just dumb. Quite a bit of morality is rational, in that the standards of conduct are necessary for society to exist in any state other than anarchy or tyranny.
You should stop restrictions like that in as though I hadn't considered them okay thanks .
Edit: The problem is you're saying the means are rational as long as you assume the goals are rational, which I don't see any rational reason to.
Edit edit: Or at least, they have no objective value. You may be able to pull out some definition of rational that fits the bill, but you know what I mean, so try not to argue semantics. Jensus fucked around with this message on 05-08-2005 at 03:34 PM.
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Quoth Jensus:
You should stop restrictions like that in as though I hadn't considered them okay thanks.
Edit: The problem is you're saying the means are rational as long as you assume the goals are rational, which I don't see any rational reason to.
How much philosophy have you actually read? Or are you actually trying to argue for anarchy or tyranny. . .or the even more absurd notion that we can all just get along without any notion of right behavior?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Jensus flip-flopped when they said:
You should stop restrictions like that in as though I hadn't considered them okay thanksEdit: The problem is you're saying the means are rational as long as you assume the goals are rational, which I don't see any rational reason to.
Edit edit: Or at least, they have no objective value. You may be able to pull out some definition of rational that fits the bill, but you know what I mean, so try not to argue semantics.
Personal survival and survival of the species and thus the continuation of your genes. It's about as rational as it gets.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabits doth run and play while Jensus gently hums:
Explain why maintaining society or the human race is objectively good.
It's self-evident. If you think otherwise, you have the burden of stating a case.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Jensus had this to say about Captain Planet:
You should stop restrictions like that in as though I hadn't considered them okay thanksEdit: The problem is you're saying the means are rational as long as you assume the goals are rational, which I don't see any rational reason to.
Edit edit: Or at least, they have no objective value. You may be able to pull out some definition of rational that fits the bill, but you know what I mean, so try not to argue semantics.
You Sophist--moral relativism has been wrong for 2400 years, and it's not about to give it up any time soon!
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Vorbis startled the peaceful upland Gorillas by blurting:
You Sophist--moral relativism has been wrong for 2400 years, and it's not about to give it up any time soon!
At least the Sophists took pride in the quality of their arguments.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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While possessed by the spirit of Somthor, Vorbis wrote:
You Sophist--moral relativism has been wrong for 2400 years, and it's not about to give it up any time soon!
It's not moral relativism, it's nihilism.
Bloodsage: It's not self evident either. Unless you accept that there is some divine law that rules all, which I have no reason to believe there is, then there is no ultimate goal to work towards that doesn't have a non-absolute value attached to it. Therefore, all ideologies hold the same value: zero, regardless of their goal.
Freedom, survival, self-improvement, power, every goal I can think of is only a thing to strive for if you assume it is.
I freely admit that I could be wrong, and if you can provide me with an example of something everyone must logically agree is a good thing, then I accept defeat. I just can't think of anything. Jensus fucked around with this message on 05-08-2005 at 06:00 PM.
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Quoth Jensus:
It's not moral relativism, it's nihilism.Bloodsage: It's not self evident either. Unless you accept that there is some divine law that rules all, which I have no reason to believe there is, then there is no ultimate goal to work towards that doesn't have a non-absolute value attached to it. Therefore, all ideologies hold the same value: zero, regardless of their goal.
Freedom, survival, self-improvement, power, every goal I can think of is only a thing to strive for if you assume it is.
Now you're just being ridiculous. Unless you're going to argue that it's perfectly fine with you if you're terrorized and enslaved by anyone more powerful than you are. . .in which case, see my first sentence.
Any idiot can fall back on the famous statement, "Cogito ergo sum," and argue that anything beyond that is illusion, unprovable, or whatever else makes their wang harden. . .but even if the world doesn't exist as we perceive it, it's logical to act as if it does. In which case it's also self-evident that civilization is better--in every way--than the alternative.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I'll keep assuming it.
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Asha'man wrote this stupid crap:
I assumed Parcelan was nominated as a joke, and having no actual mod powers.I'll keep assuming it.
Rest assured, the only time I will ever abuse my powers is for the good of the people, such as forcing Zaza and Bloodsage to hold hands and skip down the lane.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Jensus said:
It's not moral relativism, it's nihilism.Bloodsage: It's not self evident either. Unless you accept that there is some divine law that rules all, which I have no reason to believe there is, then there is no ultimate goal to work towards that doesn't have a non-absolute value attached to it. Therefore, all ideologies hold the same value: zero, regardless of their goal.
Freedom, survival, self-improvement, power, every goal I can think of is only a thing to strive for if you assume it is.
I freely admit that I could be wrong, and if you can provide me with an example of something everyone must logically agree is a good thing, then I accept defeat. I just can't think of anything.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but are you saying that people don't HAVE to do anything? If so, then I suppose I'd agree with you. It doesn't mean there's no reason to do anything.
Biggest motivator I can think of is comfort.
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While possessed by the spirit of Somthor, Lashanna wrote:
Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but are you saying that people don't HAVE to do anything? If so, then I suppose I'd agree with you. It doesn't mean there's no reason to do anything.Biggest motivator I can think of is comfort.
I think Bloodsage and I are sorta talking about the same thing and I just don't have the lingual capacity to say what I mean =/. Suffice to say there's no MORAL reason to do anything.
And yeah BS, that's essentially what I'm saying. There is nothing morally wrong with someone enslaving me because they're more powerful than I am. "Now you're just being ridiculous" is a terrible argument, btw. Jensus fucked around with this message on 05-08-2005 at 06:23 PM.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabits doth run and play while Jensus gently hums:
I think Bloodsage and I are sorta talking about the same thing and I just don't have the lingual capacity to say what I mean =/. Suffice to say there's no MORAL reason to do anything.And yeah BS, that's essentially what I'm saying. There is nothing morally wrong with someone enslaving me because they're more powerful than I am. "Now you're just being ridiculous" is a terrible argument, btw.
"I'm cool with being enslaved," is a ridiculous thing to say. It's patently not true.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage has a secret obsession with Richard Simmons, as evidenced by...
"I'm cool with being enslaved," is a ridiculous thing to say. It's patently not true.
You're misinterpreting what I said. I said there is nothing morally wrong with someone enslaving me from their point of view. That does not mean I'm down with being enslaved because well, humans as a species aren't down with being enslaved. Were I a completely rational, logical computer who only judged things from a totally objective moral point of view, then I would be cool with being enslaved.
Humanity is just flawed like that.
Of course, if every sentient being in the universe was like that, there'd be noone who would bother to enslave me in the first place because well, why would you? Jensus fucked around with this message on 05-08-2005 at 06:37 PM.
