Skeptic losers

[billydkid]

I have discovered I have the ability to levitate and fly across the room. I have also discovered that I can leave my body and influence events at distant places and I can talk to the dead. These abilities would transform our perception of reality, but I have decided not to demonstrate them for anybody. You may not believe me, but that is because you are closed minded materialists - which makes you gay. I have also decided I do not want the million dollars (which doesn't really exist anyway and Randi would rig the test anyway) and I do not want to go on TV and become the most famous and richest and most admired man in the world. It would be a corruption of my gift. I realize I could use the riches I would recieve to alleviate the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world - I could save starving babies, I could help homeless people, I could build a refuge for all persecuted people all over the world, but I choose not to do those things. I just don't feel like it.

Science is bullcrap and people like Einstein and Newton and Richard Feynman are retards. I am way smarter than those guys. Evidence is for imbeciles. Randi hates me because I am so much smarter than he is. Sylvia Brown is very pretty and is a noble human being. The dead say "Hi", and that's about it. They have decided not to tell us anything important. Trees only exist when we are looking at them. There is no such thing as reality. Qualia!!! So there!!!

You just don't believe these things because you are not as developed as I am. The fact that you don't believe me is proof of this. It's just, like, beyond you. God talks to me. Just like the dead people, he doesn't have anything important to say. I am playing scrabble with Jesus on Thursday. There is no spoon.

[Z]

I have discovered...that I .. am...so...not...important...

Anyway, you left out a common word, redefined into meaninglessness - may I suggest 'harmony', 'superior', or perhaps 'intersubjective'? Also, I see no reference to quantum metaphysics, Edgar Cayce, Hume, the Qabbalist Tree of Life, or lemmings.

Further, you neglected to misinterpret the writings of a famous and respected member of academia to support your rant, and you lack the support of any third-world, diploma-mill graduate Ph.D. of questionable credentials.

Finally, your lack of spelling errors is atrocious.

Return to sender.

[billydkid]

Anyway, you left out a common word, redefined into meaninglessness - may I suggest 'harmony', 'superior', or perhaps 'intersubjective'? Also, I see no reference to quantum metaphysics, Edgar Cayce, Hume, the Qabbalist Tree of Life, or lemmings.

Further, you neglected to misinterpret the writings of a famous and respected member of academia to support your rant, and you lack the support of any third-world, diploma-mill graduate Ph.D. of questionable credentials.

Finally, your lack of spelling errors is atrocious.

Return to sender.My post was pretty lame - I'm not feeling particularly witty today, but you get the idea. Like many people, I find it insulting the way some people come in here and make unsupportable claims and then accuse anyone who doesn't believe them of being too blind and closed minded to understand.

[Freethinker]

Correct grammer? Coherent thoughts? Punctuation? Correct capitalization? Correct Spelling? Easy to pick you out as a fraud.

[Mojo]

I realize I could use the riches I would recieve to alleviate the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world - I could save starving babies, I could help homeless people, I could build a refuge for all persecuted people all over the world, but I choose not to do those things. I just don't feel like it. Wrong! You want do do all of this but are being prevented from doing it by negative pseudosKeptics.

And you forgot to refer to yourself in the third person.

[hopfen]

I find it insulting the way some people come in here and make unsupportable claims and then accuse anyone who doesn't believe them of being too blind and closed minded to understand.

What I find so hard to understand is why the regular posters here let such nonsensical material get strung out through page after page after page. After a relatively short number of exchanges, it seems pretty obvious that there is no chance of actually educating such people, let alone convincing them of their delusion, so why do you all let these threads go on and on?

[billydkid]

What I find so hard to understand is why the regular posters here let such nonsensical material get strung out through page after page after page. After a relatively short number of exchanges, it seems pretty obvious that there is no chance of actually educating such people, let alone convincing them of their delusion, so why do you all let these threads go on and on?Well, it can be sort of amusing. When it stops being amusing the threads generally die. (I know, so what am I complaining about???)

[hopfen]

If it were simply amusing, that would be fine. But frankly (and I mean no offense to anyone) it often looks to me like nothing more than an endless effort to impress each other. Sort of like an online Mensa gathering. Have your fun, but don't forget that these pointless endless threads turn some of us off.
I do enjoy some of them, and I learn from some, but I'm still mystified at how so many highly intelligent people can waste so much of their time.

[Sasha]

I thought the article was powerful and thought-provoking. I was a little dismayed to learn that after all this time I'm gay, but if you're psychic and you say so it must be true, so I can be cool with that. :cool:

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

Correct grammer? Coherent thoughts? Punctuation? Correct capitalization? Correct Spelling? Easy to pick you out as a fraud.
As much as I try to avoid stereotyping, that one is surprisingly accurate.



Oh, and Freethinker, it's 'grammar'. Sorry. :boxedin:

[Lonewulf]

Science is for nerds.

Also, if you walk out into a snowstorm, you'll be just fine; snow is made of crystals, and crystals can't harm you. They're healing thingies!

[Chimera]

Science is bullcrap and people like Einstein and Newton and Richard Feynman are retards. I am way smarter than those guys. Evidence is for imbeciles. Randi hates me because I am so much smarter than he is. Sylvia Brown is very pretty and is a noble human being. The dead say "Hi", and that's about it. They have decided not to tell us anything important. Trees only exist when we are looking at them. There is no such thing as reality. Qualia!!! So there!!!



Ah, this was hilarious. Thanks for the :D

[SimonD]

If it were simply amusing, that would be fine. But frankly (and I mean no offense to anyone) it often looks to me like nothing more than an endless effort to impress each other. Sort of like an online Mensa gathering. Have your fun, but don't forget that these pointless endless threads turn some of us off.
I do enjoy some of them, and I learn from some, but I'm still mystified at how so many highly intelligent people can waste so much of their time.

I think it's for the humour, or they are bored, or like me, working the night shift and trying to stay awake (not that I am saying that I'm highly intelligent;) ) . A good laugh always wakes me up.

[LawnOven]

If it were simply amusing, that would be fine. But frankly (and I mean no offense to anyone) it often looks to me like nothing more than an endless effort to impress each other. Sort of like an online Mensa gathering. Have your fun, but don't forget that these pointless endless threads turn some of us off.
I do enjoy some of them, and I learn from some, but I'm still mystified at how so many highly intelligent people can waste so much of their time.


Haha, well I'm pretty sure no one here is paid to entertain you. You can always change the channel. :)

[Jimbo07]

I'm still mystified at how so many highly intelligent people can waste so much of their time.

I'll paraphrase Dilbert (I think):

You'd be surprised how little practical application intelligence has!

:D

[Kilgore Trout]

Funny post and I was enjoying until I got to the derogatory remark about Richard Feynman. Then I got mad and sent negative energy out to you, Billy.

Err wait. I mean.

lol gudpost but Richerd Fineman, wuz k00l so im usin my psickic powers on u

[Fnord]

If it were simply amusing, that would be fine. But frankly (and I mean no offense to anyone) it often looks to me like nothing more than an endless effort to impress each other. Sort of like an online Mensa gathering. Have your fun, but don't forget that these pointless endless threads turn some of us off.
I do enjoy some of them, and I learn from some, but I'm still mystified at how so many highly intelligent people can waste so much of their time.

Mensa?!! :eek:

RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

[BillyJoe]

So, what's the bit about the spoon?

[pv+]

Mensa?!! :eek:

RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

Sorry, had to laugh at this. Mensa is where my son goes every lunch time because in Italy, especially in schools, it's the canteen! :)

[Hitch]

So, what's the bit about the spoon?


There may, as the philosopher says, be no spoon, although this begs the question of why there is the idea of soup.
If you recognize the quote, pat yourself on the back.

[Freethinker]

Oh, and Freethinker, it's 'grammar'. Sorry. :boxedin:

AaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhHHH!!!!!!!:id: That one always seems right when I type it, but looks so wrong when I read it. Why do my fingers spell words differently than my eyes? No apology needed, I can learn from my mistakes, but only when I'm aware of them.

[BillyJoe]

That one always seems right when I type it, but looks so wrong when I read it.You should always spell grammer wrong. It sounds so right to do so. ;)

[articulett]

Well, it can be sort of amusing. When it stops being amusing the threads generally die. (I know, so what am I complaining about???)

I always enjoy a good round of provoke the woo. It helps me deal with the actual woo who inhabit my reality. Those who come to preach at a skeptics forum are fair game, right? Why, it sometimes seems as if they were unintelligently designed for our own amusement. Some people are very clever at keeping them engaged which has entertainment value.

Remember, it's spring break which means it is the season for the holy and the drunk and the young to get on line and try to earn some heaven bonus points or pay off karmic debt. I say, take advantage of the situation for your own amusement and/or the amusement of fellow skeptics.

Who knows--a seed of "thought" might actually get planted that could bloom later.

[billydkid]

Mensa?!! :eek:

RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!I hate it when my wife gets that!

[Mashuna]

If you recognize the quote, pat yourself on the back.

Not quite sure of the quote, maybe Thief of Time?

[BillyJoe]

Is there a "Matrix" connection?

[Fnord]

I hate it when my wife gets that!

I don't know which was worse; being a Mensa member and having to deal with incessant "one-upsmanship" or being a Freemason and having to deal with rampant ignorance and mediocrity.

I'd rather have a free bottle if front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.

[thaiboxerken]

I can fly a card like a whirly bird, a hummer, between my hands. I can make any card jump to the top of the deck. I can predict cards that in person's hand. My shoelaces can, amazingly, and awesomely, and cooler than an icecube, tie themselves. James Randi, fraud as he is, is scared of my abilities so I won't bother with the million dollar prize. The cube factor is too scary him. I nned a beer.


How's that for an authentic post by a woo?

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

I can fly a card like a whirly bird, a hummer, between my hands. I can make any card jump to the top of the deck. I can predict cards that in person's hand. My shoelaces can, amazingly, and awesomely, and cooler than an icecube, tie themselves. James Randi, fraud as he is, is scared of my abilities so I won't bother with the million dollar prize. The cube factor is too scary him. I nned a beer.


How's that for an authentic post by a woo?
Punctuation use is too good. Not enough random capitalization. One type of font, fontsize, and fontcolor. No soup for you.

[Elizabeth I]

BILLYDKID YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOU'RE AVITAR THE SPIDER IS THE SIGN OF SATAN YOU SIT IN YOU'RE WEB AND SIPN YOUR LIEs WHEN THE INOCENTS ARE LURRED IN THEIR STUCK!!! YOUR JUST WAITING WAITING WATING ARENT YOU FOR THE FLYS TO TAKE YOU'RE BATE THENYOU WILL SUCK THEM DRY AND THROW THEM AWAY...


[seriously, loved your post but your avatar gives me creeps all the way to the bone. I have a mean spider phobia. <<<shivers>>>]

[Hawk one]

If you recognize the quote, pat yourself on the back.

Of course, that quote was most likely inspired by the even more famous quote from - as billyjoe's already guessed - The Matrix:

There is no spoon.

Said by one of the kids Neo meets right before talking to The Oracle.


So I'm taking it that the OP was more likely to refer to that one. ;)

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

BILLYDKID YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOU'RE AVITAR THE SPIDER IS THE SIGN OF SATAN YOU SIT IN YOU'RE WEB AND SIPN YOUR LIEs WHEN THE INOCENTS ARE LURRED IN THEIR STUCK!!! YOUR JUST WAITING WAITING WATING ARENT YOU FOR THE FLYS TO TAKE YOU'RE BATE THENYOU WILL SUCK THEM DRY AND THROW THEM AWAY...


[seriously, loved your post but your avatar gives me creeps all the way to the bone. I have a mean spider phobia. <<<shivers>>>]
It's a tat, isn't it?

[billydkid]

It's a tat, isn't it?Yes Arkan, it's my new tat. Sorry Elizabeth, spiders sort of creep me out too, depending on the type. I kind of like those big bodied black and yellow garden spiders- though I wouldn't want one crawling on me. A couple of years ago we brought a plant inside for the winter and this monstrous spider crawled out of it - a giant brown thing with a body the size of my thumb. I threw a paper towel on it and stepped on it. It popped like a grape - almost made me puke. The thing about spiders is they are sort of like machines - machines that bite. They even walk using hydraulics. Pretty creepy.

[I less than three logic]

It's a tat, isn't it?
Yeah, looks like a tattoo to me too.

ETA: Too slow... yet again. :D

[billydkid]

Is there a "Matrix" connection?Yes, sorry, I got it from The Matrix.

[BillyJoe]

Something to desensitise you to spiders. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml66x4Dw8Vc

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

yes, Next Time Type It In All Bolded Caps!!!!!!!!!!!! With Lots Of Exclamation Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BillyJoe]

There was a friggin' big, gaping, wide-mouthed smile there! :wide-eyed

[The Atheist]

BILLYDKID YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOU'RE AVITAR THE SPIDER IS THE SIGN OF SATAN YOU SIT IN YOU'RE WEB AND SIPN YOUR LIEs WHEN THE INOCENTS ARE LURRED IN THEIR STUCK!!! YOUR JUST WAITING WAITING WATING ARENT YOU FOR THE FLYS TO TAKE YOU'RE BATE THENYOU WILL SUCK THEM DRY AND THROW THEM AWAY...

That is just bloody marvellous!

Uttery word perfect - you could post that on any fundie board and they'd be giving you hi-fives and saying prayers and calling halleluja for your wit and intelligence.

(Did you use to be a christian?)

[billydkid]

yes, Next Time Type It In All Bolded Caps!!!!!!!!!!!! With Lots Of Exclamation Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ye s, I thought about that later. It would have made it better.

[Elizabeth I]

That is just bloody marvellous!

Uttery word perfect - you could post that on any fundie board and they'd be giving you hi-fives and saying prayers and calling halleluja for your wit and intelligence.

(Did you use to be a christian?)
Thank you, thank you...my wit and intelligence have often been remarked upon, as well as my beauty and modesty. :blush: ;)

And I did used to be a Christian, but I'm an even better mimic. (But it's HARD to get something just wrong enough but not too wrong.)

Sometime I'll tell the story of the Church of Kotyk, a true classic from the days of Prodigy. I was the official church heretic. It was in the Church that I learned to post in incoherent Internet.