Anti-Intellectual Lobbying

Me am quite progressive. Me am growing progressively, really really fast! Zoom!

I thought that shit was like golf.. so when I got a 10 I was really proud

Haven't. I'll see ya in DC on the 24th.

The problem is --your definition from the dictionary supports MY argument rather your own

Oh I agree. Siggy should have posted the definition to the word "scollop." I had to look it up.

OMG, tell me it isn't so.. all this time I thought she was a european....

But then of course Ulrika thought I was Siggy's alt. A high complement that would have surprised the hell out of Jonq and Ferran!!

haha! I remember thinking the same thing when I read her thinking that!!


err, I hope I just made sense...

I am only responding to this out of amusement, so take it with that grade.

First point, any time someone says something is "patently false" without any proof, that is reinforcing the fallacy. Notice that it is not just false, it is PATENTLY false. Ok, show me how that is patently false?

Second point, I don't even know who Ulrika is, just saw read her posts. Perhaps he/she is a wonderful, intelligent person, I can't judge and it seems to me that you can not like or dislike someone you don't know However, I don't agree with a lot of things he/she says and I was not happy with the original post of this thread. Again, by distorting my point to make it look as if I don't like Ulrika you are trying to devalue my original argument, ie another attempt to create a fallacy Nice try though hehe

Am I an intellectual because I know the world is too ?

This looks like a nice thread.
Can I hide here ?

I'm trying to escape from a horrid thread I made in a moment of madness about estimating GOM's profits. Where I just had a really humiliating experience for the first time here. I actually found myself scraping around to support a fraying argument, with my ego threatening to switch in big time.

Now I know how so many people here must often feel (OMG - did you see that - its at it again !)

I found a slightly pathetic lateral-thinking way out sideways, but I'm skulking here to let things die down a bit, if thats ok.

I feel a bit chastened. So you might even find me a tiny bit nice, till I've recovered my usual under-control, non-egotistical self importance.

Ye gods ! Did I really just say that ? "non-egotistical self-importance" ? WTF ?

Anyway...........Shhhhhhhh.... nobody tell I'm here............

I'll even act intellectual if you like...........


Edit: Post more! Post faster ! Hide me!

Two Russian intellectuals engage in a battle of the minds.

LOL. I worry about that everytime I post something. I'm sorry it happened to you. Welcome to this thread. Beware the sharks in the water.

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Can we please use smaller words? Im so confused.

Oops. My vote created a three-way tie. Sorry about that.

haha! You got to love SL forums, the amount of entertainment here AND the "intellectual enlightment" is worth my LL subscription even if I never log on to the game! This is priceless!

317 years in the future, two students of Trans-Imperial American History are studying an electronic text called "The Complete Internet Archive 2000 - 2010".

Katrina404: Look at this. Its a thread from an old forum. Apparently, the forum was connected to Metaverse v0.003.

Rita420: They used to call 0.003 Second Life, or SL for short.

Katrina404: I know that! What do I look like, a dubya?

Rita420: You wish you were that skanky.

Katrina404: Anyways, back in 20 od 5, one of the forum intellectuals started this thread about anti-intellectuals...

Rita420: Yeah, I heard about that thread! Her name was Ureka or something...

Katrina404 The chick in the sparkplug logo.

Rita420: Yes. One in the same.

Katrina404: Can you believe the stuff they wrote? Those posts go on forever, and they typed every word. By hand, even. Carpal tunnel was common back then.

Rita420: How do they find the time to write so much? They used to do 40 hour work weeks back then. They didn't have plastic pals to help them. Shit, they even drove automobiles to their places of employment. Inefficient lives, yet they could pound out crap that would make Tolstoy piss himself with its lack of brevity.

Hugo911: Excuse me, lady and cyborg, but that very thread just happens to be the foundation of all Metaverse law, and the cornerstone of the Imperial Constitution...

Rita420: The Constitution was also copied partially from a rack of old Pre-Imperial America postcards.

Rita420 and Katrina404 chime in together: Don't Mess With Texas! Show Me the Money!

Hugo911: Ureka couldn't have possibly known that the thread she started would change the planet, and eventually spread across deep space to consume 4 other colony systems. To this day, some historians believe the thread was just started to cause a little forum buzz.

Rita420: Damn, time for my meds! Can't get caught trying to kill all humans again! (inserts medchip into forehead interface) Ahhh, minty!

*Clap*

Very good!

Ah, so if we don't want an escape from reality, which is a service and will thusly never be a true country, to become more and more like a true country with bill of rights, government, free speech, trials, tax, wellfare, and all that hubbub to no not become worthless as an escape, because we want to keep SL as an escape from reality and not deal with the same tripe there that we do in real life, we're suddenly all anti intellectuals who are afraid of change?

*snerk* Yeah. Nice generalization there.

EDIT: And no, I didn't bother reading the whole thread. I'm too stupid and opposed to intellectualism and change to do that. Hur hur.

EDIT2: And I'm reading.


Okay, so we're no longer anti intellectual, now we're simply irrational because we don't agree with your point of view. That's nice. I'm sure I'll find more! *continues reading cause she's terribly bored and finds this amusing*

EDIT3: Okay after 6 pages of semantic tripe I'm done reading. Calling someone an anti-intellectual who irrationally resists change is an insult in most places where people don't debate semantics like they have read the dictionary and the thesaurus ten times over. Oh, oops, was that anti-intellectual of me?

All I've seen of these supposed "irrational anti-intellectuals" is that they think a government will cause them a lot of woes, in a place where they pay for a service that allows them to get away from the woes they have to face in every day life. I don't see how such a logical extrapolation is to be called anti-intellectual. I know how badly my government's decisions are affecting me and those around me, a government with billions behind it, and thousands of worker drones to do research, draft up models for propositions, and just generally lending expertise where expertise is needed.

How is it irrational or anti-intellectual to extrapolate that if Unit A with Resources X makes a lot of decisions that adversely affect people, decisions people would rather not deal with, that Unit B with Resources 0.000001*X will do the same damn thing, and probably do worse than Unit A? It's a sensible extrapolation. Sensible also could be called cognizant. Cognitive extrapolations are anti-intellectual?

From where I'm sitting Ulrika's own posts in this thread have been far more anti-intellectual than those in threads on this forum that have spoken against her and this political tripe fad that seems to be going on now.

But I'm sure like my other rational responses to this whole veritable media circus, this post too shall be completely ignored. Although I suppose a few of the bits in this post were emotional and thus anti-intellectual, I suppose little irrelevant snippets of offense will be lifted out, and the vast core of the matter above ignored, to be endlessly debated in semantics. Anything to ignore a good, rational, dare I say intellectual counter-argument for the sake of the agenda, eh?

I'm not interested in debate, so I haven't bothered reading any of the other comments. My apologies if my opinion has previously been echoed.

I'm not against politics. I'm against global politics. If people want to play politics, they're free to do so. However, they should not wield any power which is not explicitly yielded to them.

Basically, I support free government in private sims or collections of private sims. In such a system, it becomes possible for conflicting political systems to exist in parallel. This is the most fair.

I support projects like Nutella-berg (No offense. I can't remember how to spell it and I love chocolatey hazelnutty goodness). However, that support is contingent on the understanding that I can withdraw support at any time. I view SL as a microcosmic demonstration of Libertarian ideals, and don't believe that political campaigns to eliminate this freedom should be supported. In short, keep it in your sims. Don't tell me how to live my second life.

Global politics exist in SL and there are folks telling you how to live right now.

Lobbying affects SL features and rules which then "tell you" how to live. For instance, the feature voting system is a quasidemocratic lobbying tool which is affecting SL as we type. The forum is also a lobbying tool that has directly affected Linden policy (think about how outcries of favoritism have shaped policy). Another example is how the Lindens changed the way the auction system worked to benefit large land resellers (land barons) at the expense of the small land owner.

Everything you deny surrounds you. It's as if you're a fish stating you're against water.

~Ulrika~

Ah, post ignored yet again, right on schedule, I must say.