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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

This is a quick and easy method which anybody can use to suppress threads or posts you personally disagree with. Here's how... If somebody posts something you don't like, just start bumping older threads to the top of the forum. It doesn't matter if you're not really interested in continuing those threads or if you had no intention of posting in them before. Even if you have nothing to say and nothing you want to add to the older discussions, just go ahead and bump them to the top with some empty little comment. This will effectively bury the threads and/or posts you find personally disagreeable. Remember, this method is most useful when there is no legitimate complaint you can make against a thread or post, but only a personal bias against the poster that motivates you. Come on, try it! You'll see how well it works. Pretty soon, you'll be sweeping all the things you don't like under the rug in no time.

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eskimono
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posted July 26, 2010 09:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eskimono     Edit/Delete Message
What an excellent idea! You are indeed a genius.

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charmainec
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posted July 26, 2010 09:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

Thanks, eskimono!

Yeah, it's a little passive-aggressive,
but it works for Absinthe Dragonfly.

And, if it's good enough for a moderator,
it's sure good enough for me.

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eskimono
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posted July 26, 2010 09:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eskimono     Edit/Delete Message
I do it when people start fighting (no psychoanalysis please). Does that make me a genius too?

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Yin
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posted July 26, 2010 09:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Yin     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
What an excellent idea! You are indeed a genius.

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I do it when people start fighting (no psychoanalysis please). Does that make me a genius too?

eskimono, you are a genius by your own definition. See the quote above.

Please don't belittle Valus' insights by saying that his post in the beginning of this thread was genius. It was merely an observation. He has some awesome stuff to say and quite a gift of saying it too but there needs to be some discernment of where that genius peaks through and where he is just being human.

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Peri
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posted July 26, 2010 09:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
Are you starving for attention again, valus?

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Peri
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posted July 26, 2010 09:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
DP

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

Oh, yes, Peri,
and you're feeding me.

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charmainec
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posted July 26, 2010 09:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
Ja choc mousse cake wouldn't be too bad right now..

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Peri
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posted July 26, 2010 09:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
yes, I feel like doing it today for a change

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

eskimono,

I seem to have offended you.

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charmainec
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posted July 26, 2010 09:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
Well it has to be triple layered chocolate

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

Peri,

Suit yourself. As long as you aren't just being nasty. It always helps to have a real point to make. This thread, for instance, is making a point. Maybe you disagree? You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, but it's a little rude to immediately accuse me of just seeking attention. Just because my Sun is on the Midheaven, doesn't mean I'm seeking attention. It means my destiny brings me before the public. Personally, I think this thread raises an important point. I don't do anything just for attention. Even if I wanted attention, I wouldn't do that. I don't need to. I have too much to say that is valid. But thank you for sharing your nasty comment, even if it is just another way to dismiss the points I'm making and place all the attention on me. Perhaps its you who wishes to give me attention? I'd much rather you gave attention to the points I'm making. Oh, well.

Take care


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eskimono
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posted July 26, 2010 09:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eskimono     Edit/Delete Message
No? I am good.

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Peri
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posted July 26, 2010 09:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
Nasty comment? it was a question, I was just curious. Here's a cake for you

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 09:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message
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Nasty comment? it was a question, I was just curious.

Right.

Can you be honest for one second?

That's just a question. I'm curious.

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charmainec
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posted July 26, 2010 09:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
Alright you too... Valus I'm sure Peri was just teasing so lets not blow this out of proportion.

Finally cake!!! Thanks

Hmmm random question, how can one be "badly" hypoglycemic and told they have a sugar addition at the same time????? That's just nutsss.

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Peri
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posted July 26, 2010 09:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
I am honest and Charm is right am just teasing you

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Valus
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posted July 26, 2010 10:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

Eskimono,

This is way off topic,
but since you brought it up...

Just to be clear. There are strict and more loose definitions of the word "genius". Maybe, by a very loose definition, I could be one, but if I've ever claimed that, it's only been in a cheeky way, and out of frustration. I don't think I'm a genius. Let me repeat that for the hard of hearing: I don't think I'm a genius, even though a number of people, including several Knowflakes, have called me one. I'm more rational than most, and honest enough to admit it, but that's a far cry from claiming to be a genius. It is a word I don't wish to use lightly, even if I have misused it in the past out of frustration.

I have a lot of respect for genius and for people of genius. Particularly, literary and philosophical genius. Most of my idols are geniuses. Some more than others. But all of them are possessed, at least, of a spark of genius. It doesn't show up in every single thing they write or say, nor, I think, would any of them claim that it does -- after all, nobody, not even Shakespeare and Da Vinci, was a genius all the time; they were human beings, who gave vent to many sides of their personalities -- but it definitely shows up unmistakably in some places.

I've endeavored, with much of my writing, to emulate genius. And, yes, I think that, once in a while, I say something highly original, terse, and insightful, which gives evidence of a certain spark of genius. Does that make me a genius? No, I don't think so. Just somebody with an occasionally original and insightful turn of mind. But that's only to be expected, from someone with an Aquarius Moon, Sun/Uranus, Venus/Uranus, and Uranus exactly conjunct the Midheaven. It's almost surprising that I'm not a genius, with aspects like that. All I've got is a little spark.

It's probably the only real gift I can lay claim to, and, often, I'd much rather have some of the gifts I see in the people around me. Yin, for instance, has a kind of genius for kindness and diplomacy. Unlike many people, who just play games and pretend to be nice while looking for ways to undermine you, she actually means the kind things she says. She always tries to understand other points of view. If she holds her tongue, its not to avoid confrontation, but, to protect the feelings of others. She's amazing, honestly. I'm very lucky to have her, and I tell her that often.

I hope that clears up some of your assumptions about me. I'd appreciate it if you, and a dozen other people, would stop throwing that in my face, since I've made my position explicitly clear, many, many times now. I will quote from another thread, just to give you a general idea of a few ways in which people (who believed themselves to be geniuses) have sought to redefine the term, over the centuries. As you can see, in certain instances, the term is used fairly loosely, and doesn't signify something as rare and lofty as we often assume it does.

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Various philosophers have proposed definitions of what genius is and what that implies in the context of their philosophical theories.

In the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, a genius is someone in whom intellect predominates over "will" much more than within the average person. In Schopenhauer's aesthetics, this predominance of the intellect over the will allows the genius to create artistic or academic works that are objects of pure, disinterested contemplation, the chief criterion of the aesthetic experience for Schopenhauer. Their remoteness from mundane concerns means that Schopenhauer's geniuses often display maladaptive traits in more mundane concerns; in Schopenhauer's words, they fall into the mire while gazing at the stars.

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. For Kant, originality was the essential character of genius. This genius is a talent for producing ideas which can be described as non-imitative. Kant's discussion of the characteristics of genius is largely contained within the Critique of Judgement and was well received by the Romantics of the early 19th century.

In the philosophy of David Hume, the way society perceives genius is similar to the way society perceives the ignorant. Hume states that a person with the characteristics of a genius is looked at as a person disconnected from society, as well as a person who works remotely, at a distance, away from the rest of the world...

In the philosophy of Nietzsche, genius is merely the context which leads us to consider someone a genius. In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche writes,

"Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated; their prerequisite has always been, historically and physiologically, that a protracted assembling, accumulating, economizing and preserving has preceded them -- that there has been no explosion for a long time."

[— Friedrich Nietzsche]

In this way, Nietzsche follows in the line of German Idealism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius


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AbsintheDragonfly
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posted July 26, 2010 10:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AbsintheDragonfly     Edit/Delete Message
I am under NO obligation to read any posts on here. I read posts that interest me, and also I post when I have the time to do so. I am a busy person. I have 4 children, I homeschool them, and I'm working hard on getting a small business up and running.

What kind of mod would I be if I didn't at least look at posts in the part of the forum I mod?

I'm now closing this deliberate attempt at starting an argument.

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