Posted by Hunter [12.211.202.152 - 12-211-202-152.client.attbi.com] on 03 June 2003 at 00.02.35 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: But anyway....This is such a waste of my valuable time. posted by Seraphina22 on 02 June 2003 at 16.54.15 ZuluTime:

As I browsed through the text of these latest attempts to boost your self-esteem by lashing out at others, it suddenly occurred to me what a waste of my precious time that this truly is.

1. Moral highground. 2. Attempt to deny appeal to flattery. 3. Sad.

     And yes, my time is precious.

Which is why you spew emotive bullshit onto the board like this. Sure it is.

I have so many more important things to worry about than playing this message-board game with you.

You're just pissed because you can't figure out why ...@... doesn't work anymore. Crybaby.

I have so many more productive things to do than to sit behind a computer all day and lash out at my opponents in a game that ultimately has no prize for the winner, and no penalty for the loser.

Translated: I'm taking my ball and going home.

When this first started, I thought I was dealing with mature adults.

You were; we, on the other hand, realised we weren't dealing with anything that had the maturity of a gone-over artichoke.

I'm now questioning that. I'm dealing with people who are well-read, but that's not always a sign of maturity.

Neither is asserting maturity at every turn; that's the sign of a pissed off teenager. Yes. You're fucking mature; you're old enough to dri-ive.

Oh, and let's not forget the level of education I'm dealing with here. Alcyonian has been sure to remind me of that in every post she's made. (Interestingly enough, you guys have assumed because I don't fit your standards of an educated person, I'm not.)

Yeah; you're right; you have not PORTRAYED yourself as educated, thus nobody has inferred education. Fuckin' funny how that works, ain't it?

There are many things I could say to totally shoot down alot of your theories you came up with this time.

Really? Show me. Oh, I bet you are, since you're "wasting your precious time"....

Such as your own failed attempt to recognize sarcasm, instead taking it as an attempt to flatter you or, as you put it, "ass kissing."

No, I'm pretty sure I pegged the appeal to flattery there. You just don't quite understand what it is, any more than you can understand how we pegged everything else about you in under three seconds....

I was going for humility, but the sarcasm found its way in.

No. You're now trying to cover up an appeal to flattery by pretending it was humility that accidentally was sarcastic. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on the appeal to flattery, because if that was accidentally sarcastic humility, you're worse at lying than we all thought.

Tragic flaw of mine.

Like your inability to go twenty lines without bombastic self-reproach?

At any rate, these latest posts have made me realize what I'm dealing with here. I think you sound just as ridiculous as you think I do.

Only because you don't understand half of what's being said. Yet another tragic, hoepfully fatal flaw.

Obviously, there is no middle ground. Still, even now I'm tempted to go into a lengthy discussion about what my beliefs really are. Apparently, you are having trouble believing me when I say I'm not a Christian. When I was practicing Christianity, I was eager to profess it. Would a true Christian deny that he was?

Yes. If you'd read the fucking bible, you'd know that a true Christian hides as much as a true Wiccan. You pray in fucking closets, for fucks sake.

If I were a Christian, I would believe that by denying Christ, I was securing myself a place in Hell.

Which demonstrates that you're as much of a Xter as every last fucking "I'm not smart, I'm saved" dickmunch as has ever come through that room.

Yes, I've been there and done all that, so I can say "it feels great." Yes, I believe Jesus THE MAN existed-- most historians do.

And you've never once backed up that claim, except with an appeal to the fucking HISTORY CHANNEL.

But anyway. I don't want to get wrapped up again in trying to prove myself to a bunch of hateful computer junkies trapped in Buffy-the-Vampire- Slayer-world.

Buffy? Where? Buffy's over. What made you draw that show into this? Did you see it somewhere and think OOH, how clever let me use it? Sorry; I'm oddly not trapped in a world where magic is real....

If this REALITY that you live in consists of hiding behind a computer all day, chatting with your "invisible friends" because you aren't capable of maintaining real relationships outside of the one with Gremlin the Great, Master of the Grempire, (you said it, not me) then I'm certainly happy that I'm not part of it.

Now, where did I say that? I never said that I couldn't maintain a relationship outside of the 'invisible friends' on the computer [and by the way, nice attempt at rehashing something I used; too bad you fucked it up]. You see: these people actually exist. If you think we don't, then you've got bigger problems than I originally thought. BEYOND the pathetic armchair psychology. Fucking crack a book once in a while -- and next time, get past the indicia of the DSM-IV. I did; it was great. I done learnded shit.

And by the way, I said, Gremlin, not Gremlin the Great, nor did I ever include the word "Master" in anything I stated. Please, if you're going to quote, quote accurately. I realise the tears blur the screen, but it's bloody well RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU.

Although your lack of the common courtesies (which, yes, even some animals are capable of extending) is somewhat disturbing, please know that none of your pathetic little insults were successful in either making me question my beliefs, or "hurting my feelings," for lack of a better phrase.

And I, being better at psychology than you, can tell that you're wrong, by the way you focus on it so severely. Sad, really. Very, very sad. Why don't you just give up? Fucking kill yourself; get it over with. Nobody cares about you.

I'm certain you could say the same thing about what I've said. The only difference is, it was never my intent to "hurt your feelings."

You were never capable of hurting anyone's feelings here. You're insignificant.

Get out of your world? Gladly. I've spent way too much time in it as it is. I won't do it by taking your suggestion and killing myself, as much as that will disappoint you.

I didn't expect you to know how. Down, not across, fucknut.

But I will do it by calling a cease-fire to this petty little war of wit we have going on here.

Yay, moral highground again! Hey, how's the air up there?

If it makes you feel better, I will concede. You win, Hunter. You get the big shiny prize. Congratulations. Put it in your trophy case.

What prize? Is this another lie of yours? Wow. Right in the same post. AGAIN. Amazing.
     Sorry; I wasn't expecting any prize. I also know that you're not conceding. You're attempting to save face in front of anyone who might see this. It's really rather sad.
     While you're up there on that moral high ground, you might as well just jump....

I will go back to fighting the more important battles of life that you don't seem to have any notion of-- raising a family, making a living, maintaining real relationships with real people, learning and growing spiritually, and avoiding programs like Buffy the Vampire Slayer at all costs.

Let me tell you a little about my life: I served in the military. I got hurt. I got fucking disabled. I was in there serving so pissant little whiners like you could go on with your pathetic little lives, and have the freedom to beleagure me with your moral highground bullshit.

I don't raise mewling human larvae; I raise lizards -- far more difficult than your whiny little shits, and far more intelligent.

I maintain relationships with real people, and I do it without having to go see them face to face, so I can bitch and moan about them behind their backs.

I learn every day; what do you do?

And avoiding Buffy? What brings that into this again? Are you still weeping because your masturbatory fantasy dusted?

I'm not even going to come back to read the lengthy essay that you will no doubt find the time to write in response to this one. You and your little scientist friends, and all of your other highly educated groupies can have it all to yourselves.

You keep talking as if I'm the reason these people are here. Attempt to flatter me again? Fucking pathetic.

I do want you guys to know one thing though, before I exit your world and never look back

...she says as she reloads the page obsessively, unable to stay away....

--despite all of the things that have been said, I still see the goodness in all of you. Not that your goodness depends on being recognizable by people like me--I'm just saying that I'm not afraid to admit that I realize you guys aren't as evil as some would like to think.

Demonstrate incontrovertibly that we think we are evil. In order to do so, however, you must first demonstrate exactly what evil is.

There's a good side and a bad side to all of us. Whichever one we feed the most eventually devours the other one. But anyway...I'm rambling again.

Yes yes, all that precious time. Reload. Reload...precious...must...look....

Well, it's been fun. (Kinda.) Good luck, and may the Higher Power in the Universe, whatever It may be, continue to bless you and keep you from harm's way.

And may you be the first to have your fragile mind destroyed before Cthulhu devours you upon his awakening from dreaming....\