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I hate:
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ignorance
Arrogance
Ageism
Lookism
Mac-hate-ism 
PC's



Word.

Those things create the friction, which create the sparks, which creates the energy that makes the world go 'round.

Sure, you could hate one or two of 'em, but without all of them we'd cease to exist as human beings. I know, I'm not a John Lennon "Imagine" type. I'm sorry.

But I do think it's funny that you hate the things that involve hate. I don't like throwing over-used words around, but isn't that a paradox?

thats also a weak paradox.

Which leads me to something i hate. People (under 18) who think their philosphors because they ask questions like " IF you coudl go back what would you do differently in your life?"  Wow i wonder how long it took you to think of that one

It's like when people get high for the first time and think they come up with some brilliant insight, ie. the classic "what if MY blue is different from YOUR blue? Like, if the sky is blue for me, but you'd call it green if you saw it the way I do?"

For that matter, people who think they do their best when high on (IYFIDH) really irritate me. Like the guy in my class who won first place in the city-wide poetry contest when on pot and codeine simultaneously. The poem itself was crap. I could write better in my sleep. In fact, I'll bet I do, then someone steals them and makes a killing selling anthologies of anonymous poetry.

Depends. If 4-6 beers allows you to concentrate better (you alcoholic, you) then whatever. But if you shoot better when completely drunk/stoned/otherwise, and incapable of coherent thought, then I hate you But really what I hate is people whio think they're better when drunk, or write something when high then (when sober*) treat it as the greatest thing they've ever written - and it sucks balls.

* I use drunk/sober for alcohol, and stoned/sober for more clandestine drugs - illegal or otherwise. IE. pot, shrooms, etc. What is the official opposite of stoned? I don't think it is sober.

thats also a weak paradox.

Which leads me to something i hate. People (under 18) who think their philosphors because they ask questions like " IF you coudl go back what would you do differently in your life?"  Wow i wonder how long it took you to think of that one

I'd learn to type before attacking the very people who can express an idea better than you can.

Then again, I'm 19, so maybe I shouldn't take offense to that.

And if it's not an attack aimed towards me at all, then you should really do anything you can to seperate ideas. Bad things happen when you don't. =\

I also hate it when people do things just to get people angry or to see a reaction. It doesn't make you special at all.  I wasn't refering to you when I mentioned the " If you could what would you do differently?" question. But if you took offense at that then i guess it did apply to you.  Kakarotto was right that was ironic not a paradox

Amatuer philisophers use almost meaningless gernaric pharses to avoid really answering a question.

I also hate it when people do things just to get people angry or to see a reaction

Well, you analysed my motives pretty quickly. Not that it was hard to guess them - they were blatantly insulting.

It doesn't make you special at all

Um...the idea wasn't to make myself seem special. As you so nicely pointed out in your first statement, the idea was to provoke a reaction from you. Please don't contradict yourself.

Amatuer philisophers use almost meaningless gernaric pharses to avoid really answering a question.

Pardon, but this seems to be exactly what you are doing. Using an almost meaningless phrase not to answer a question, but to attempt to save face. The "amatuer [sic]...meaningless gernaric [sic] pharse [sic]" follows:

ok echoboom heres one you might get. this is following the lines of your other sayings.

Dolphins are the IB kids of the ocean. Everyone thinks their smart but they still get caught in tuna nets.

Which comments? I don't use trite analogies like that (or is it a simile?)

If you want me to interpret it...

It's really a very uncreative way of dressing up the simple statement that "no one ever got off on account of their intelligence". There have probably been a dozen variations of that statement - I'd hazard a guess that you can look them up in a dictionary of colloquialisms.

If you're attempting to comment on the fact that I'm an IB student, it becomes a little more insightful through your assumption that I see myself as more intelligent than the rest of you, and therefore post seemingly incomprehensible comments (which you then attempt to shoot down - unsuccessfully, I might add). You then go on to make a point that I am, in fact, no better than the rest of you, by using a tone that insidiously chides the subject.

But I don't believe that you could have come up with all that, considering the errors you make in sentence structure ("following the lines of...") and grammar (everyone thinks their [possessive] smart...).

Happy now?

Don't push me any further.

Oh, and just an edit note: It's better to avoid errors in your text before you decide to flame someone. Otherwise it just becomes ammo for the person you're flaming. At the very least you could press command-; in Safari to check the spelling.

you know what i hate? flame wars where people say snide things that aren't out and out insulting. come on LKS and Echo! let's see some blood! 

So, LKS, was that the best "philosophical" comment you could come up with? I can't wait for "what is the sound of one hand clapping?".

Let's have a sophists' debate! 10 points to anyone who knows what that means! (I'm counting on you, Jon...)

A sperm and an egg create life.
A man and a woman create romance.

well, in the 1500s it was believed that a sperm and a cucumber could create life. Also that rage turned into rats and meat turned into maggots. People must have been stupid. Didn't they ever see baby rats? Or contemplate a human birth?

also, here's an interesting thing:

Smart Man + Smart Woman = Romance
Smart man + dumb woman = pregnancy
Dumb man + smart woman = affair
dumb man + dumb woman = marriage

except in extreme cases, it's usually true. Sad, but true.

<nosarcasm>
By the way, why do you live in smurf, TN?
</nosarcasm>

Okay, here goes:

A sophist's debate is obviously a debate of great thinkers. One would take this as a compliment. However, you have a section in your post that is outlined as "no sarcasm" thereby implying that everything prior to that outline WAS sarcasm. So, the comment "I'm counting on you, Jon" and everything tied in with it implies that I have no business in a sophist's debate, which is silly because intelligence is relative.

In allegorical terms?
A lion among elephants is one thing.
A lion among zebras? Quite another.

Which comments? I don't use trite analogies like that (or is it a simile?)

Similes have the "as a" don't they? It could be seen as an allegory... Or just an off-hand remark.

I was merely putting <nosarcasm> as a qualifier - a bit like saying "no offense" before you say a potentially insulting coment.

And I agree that it is a bit funny to say "don't push me any further". But that's what happens.

Mmph.

No, I said "I see". Your computer must be misinterpreting the packets as "Mmph".