Professional-quality Rationalizations

[VRBeauty]

I''m spending a lot of time playing a certain on-line game because it helps me identify the conditions that allow me to be most focused. By playing a lot of games (at home, of course!) at various times of the day and night, at various intervals after meals or exercise, and with varying background conditions... one of these years I''ll be able to identify my concentration "sweet spot." That knowledge should help me in all aspects of my life.

(OK, so that wasn''t exactly pithy. Some concepts are just more complex and harder to explain than others!

)

Consider the gauntlet thrown!

 

[yssie]

Hmm.. let's see..


How's this?


My time on PriceScope has allowed me to pursue new interests, develop and hone a new skillset, and meet new people from various walks of life with whom I can share and learn in a supportive community that fosters education. I regularly practice good researching technique: examine the problem history, check facts, inspect studying and reporting procedures, and consider and propose alternatives. By participating in forum discussions I am able to cultivate my communication skills, work on my debating abilities, and gain experience contributing my ideas and knowledge in an effective, meaningful manner.





ETA: I don't actually speak like that, fortunately

 

[Gypsy]

In awe. Not gonna compete, just wanted to gawk. That''s some mad skills ya both got, right there!

 

[zoebartlett]

Yssie -- That sounded really smart!

 

[kama_s]

I occasionally receive inquiries from people who have read my previous letters and want to know why I maintain that Diamonds raises an enormous hullabaloo and tries to drown me out every time I state in public that condescending, blathering wackos often prove their point by relying on untenable conjecture and unverifiable hearsay. I always try to answer such inquiries to the best of my ability and that''s precisely what I''m about to do now. Some background is in order: While it''s out destroying our moral fiber, the general public is shouldering the bill. Sadly, this is a bill of shattered minds, broken hearts and homes, depression and all its attendant miseries, and a despondency about Diamonds''s attempts to undermine the basic values of work, responsibility, and family. I''ve never bothered Diamonds. Yet Diamonds wants to eliminate the plebiscitary mechanisms which ensure a free and democratic society. Whatever happened to "live and let live"? My message is clear: Diamonds asserts that I and others who think it''s a rabid nobody are secretly using etheric attachment cords to drain people''s karmic energy. That assertion is not only untrue but a conscious lie.

Diamonds recently stated that it can walk on water. It said that with a straight face, without even cracking a smile or suppressing a giggle. It said it as if it meant it. That''s scary because it occasionally writes letters accusing me and my friends of being capricious resentful-types. These letters are typically couched in gutter language (which is doubtless the language in which it habitually thinks) and serve no purpose other than to convince me that its peons claim that "the rigors that Diamonds''s victims have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement." First off, that''s a lousy sentence. If they had written instead that Diamonds is being a vengeful shyster just for the sake of being a vengeful shyster then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, Diamonds says that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life.

In essence, anyone willing to study and ponder my position on most current matters will unquestionably find that Diamonds''s power is built on lies. That''s clear. But people sometimes ask me why I seem incapable of saying anything nice about Diamonds. I''d like to—really, I would. The problem is, I can''t think of anything nice to say. I guess that''s not surprising when you consider that if I have a bias, it is only against oleaginous, belligerent perjurers who discourage us from expressing our editorials in whatever way we damn well please. Now that this letter is over, I pray that my logic and passion have convinced you that Diamonds''s cringers are not only the most inhumane gutter-dwellers you''ll ever see but are also the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of our nation.

 

[yssie]

Wow, Kama, that was quite the invective

That belongs on a billboard somewhere.




ETA: deleted b/c it's probably against forum rules to denounce certain political agendas.

 

[kama_s]

Date: 1/22/2010 6:44:04 PM
Author: yssie
Wow, Kama, that was quite the invective

That belongs on a billboard somewhere.




ETA: deleted b/c it''s probably against forum rules to denounce certain political agendas.

It''s from an online random complaint generator program! Make your own random rant: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

 

[yssie]

Haha that shouldn't be so much fun

 

[that_someone_special]

Date: 1/22/2010 7:37:16 PM
Author: kama_s

Date: 1/22/2010 6:44:04 PM

Author: yssie

Wow, Kama, that was quite the invective

That belongs on a billboard somewhere.





ETA: deleted b/c it''s probably against forum rules to denounce certain political agendas.

It''s from an online random complaint generator program! Make your own random rant: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

So.
Much.
Fun.

 

[kama_s]

Date: 1/22/2010 8:51:01 PM
Author: swedish bean

Date: 1/22/2010 7:37:16 PM
Author: kama_s


It''s from an online random complaint generator program! Make your own random rant: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

So.
Much.
Fun.

Once again, I am writing in response to Princess Swedish Bean''s crotchets, and once again, I merely wish to point out that Princess Swedish Bean is willing to use any method, no matter how scientifically unsupported and disreputable, to confirm her a priori beliefs. To get immediately to the point, it seems that no one else is telling you that Princess Swedish Bean''s views are antiquated, misguided, and inane. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, if Princess Swedish Bean''s litanies get any more peremptory, I expect they''ll grow legs and attack me in my sleep. She believes that the best way to reduce cognitive dissonance and restore homeostasis to one''s psyche is to perpetuate myths that glorify nepotism. Unfortunately, as long as she believes such absurdities, she will continue to commit atrocities.

Princess Swedish Bean vacillates between unpatriotic false-flag operations and mumpish teachings. Here, too, the exception proves the rule: Almost every day, Princess Swedish Bean outreaches herself in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It''s definitely breathtaking to watch her. Her bait-and-switch tactics deserve to be criticized because they exploit other cultures for self-entertainment. She says that there won''t be any blowback from her forcing me to stampede into the abattoir. What she means by this, of course, is that she wants free reign to have a serious destabilizing effect on our institutions.

If Fate desired that Princess Swedish Bean make a correct application of what she had read about favoritism it would have to indicate title and page number since the vicious killjoy would otherwise never in all her life find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, I cannot believe how many actual, physical, breathing, thinking people have fallen for Princess Swedish Bean''s subterfuge. I''m entirely stunned. Her faculty for deception is so far above anyone else''s, it really must be considered different in kind as well as in degree. Princess Swedish Bean is terrified that there might be an absolute reality outside herself, a reality that is what it is, regardless of her wishes, theories, hopes, daydreams, or decrees. In any case, I enjoy the great diversity of humankind, in our food, our dress, our music, our literature, and our forms of spiritual expression. What I don''t enjoy are Princess Swedish Bean''s uneducated, feral vituperations, which preach hatred. To recapitulate, Princess Swedish Bean''s whinges are colored and flavored to appeal to noisome fast-buck artists.