Who Else Enjoys JPP?

[Granule]

Every once in a while I take a stroll through the complaints/announcements type sections and find the most confusing points of view. I have to believe that everyone here understands that he or she could bail on this forum at any given second. So why, for the love of God, do some JPP members treat this place like it's high school detention?

 

[leaningright]

I thoroughly enjoy this site....and all of the sites I ever used. I can't remember them all. fullpolitics.com was one... Maybe politics.com ... Like I said, I can't remember them all.

I read who I want to read, ignore who I want to ignore and comment when I wish to ... and I don't stay on here 24/7.

 

[Granule]

I should point out that I'm not here strictly for the entertainment value of this place, but it's certainly the main reason. I simply don't have time to research a point and mount a cogent enough argument to sway other's opinions. I did enough of that in college, and really, my wife wouldn't put up with that anyways.

 

[Minister of Truth]

I come here for entertainment. Somewhere between P.Com, FP, and JPP, I got a bit burned out on taking things seriously. I do consider this site to be a news source for me, because people are always linking up articles to discuss/flame over, and there's enough news mentioned here that this site does serve a purpose beyond entertainment.

 

[Celticguy]

Every once in a while I take a stroll through the complaints/announcements type sections and find the most confusing points of view. I have to believe that everyone here understands that he or she could bail on this forum at any given second. So why, for the love of God, do some JPP members treat this place like it's high school detention?

Excellect question. Of course this is not the only place so effected but it is worse here. IMO gimicks like tolerating sock puppets is an unhelpful distraction. That being said, your heavy posters enjoy it so maybe thats the niche you fill.

 

[DigitalDave]

I said other, because it's a pretty much "All of the Above". I've came for debate, left dissapointed. Enjoyed the socializing and goading the loonies occasionally. I come here for a laugh sometimes, but like a good discussion if I can get one going.. lol.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

I need an occasional roll in the mud.....

 

[Granule]

When I first came to this forum, I remember swagalicious commenting on how one of the forum posters was dumber than the horse he fucks. As I laughed I knew I had come to the right place.

 

[Sun Devil]

I should point out that I'm not here strictly for the entertainment value of this place, but it's certainly the main reason. I simply don't have time to research a point and mount a cogent enough argument to sway other's opinions. I did enough of that in college, and really, my wife wouldn't put up with that anyways.

You have a wife?

 

[Rune]

I should point out that I'm not here strictly for the entertainment value of this place, but it's certainly the main reason. I simply don't have time to research a point and mount a cogent enough argument to sway other's opinions. I did enough of that in college, and really, my wife wouldn't put up with that anyways.

No wonder you are such a dumbass. How the fuck could you not have time to research something, yet you have plenty of time to spill your ignorance here? Maybe if you did some fucking research you could contribute something.

Research is remarkably easy, fast and efficient these days. Google could be your friend, if you weren't a moron.

 

[Granule]

You have a wife?

Yup. And she also agrees that anyone who supports fetus murder is fit for Hell.

 

[Granule]

No wonder you are such a dumbass. How the fuck could you not have time to research something, yet you have plenty of time to spill your ignorance here? Maybe if you did some fucking research you could contribute something.

Research is remarkably easy, fast and efficient these days. Google could be your friend, if you weren't a moron.

That's interesting. You seem to be up to your man breasts in research, and you still sound like a dime store philosopher. Get your fat ass back to Wikipedia and edit something.

 

[Rune]

That's interesting. You seem to be up to your man breasts in research, and you still sound like a dime store philosopher. Get your fat ass back to Wikipedia and edit something.

[h=1]Definition of granule in English:[/h]
[h=2]granule[/h]Syllabification: gran·ulePronunciation: /ˈgranyo͞ol
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[h=3]NOUN[/h]

• 1a small compact particle of a substance

 

[Cancel 2020.1]

I'm down w/ JPP.

 

[Minister of Truth]

Yeah, you know me!

 

[Sun Devil]

Yup. And she also agrees that anyone who supports fetus murder is fit for Hell.

So that means your wife is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church?

 

[Dantès]

It was mildly entertaining to my cynical mind to see Damocles and Zappa vote "disappointed."

I never expected to see them agree on much of anything!

 

[zappasguitar]

Who's down with JPP?

 

[Yoda]

I put other because Im a noob and havent been around long enough.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I mostly stick to off topic. When I'm not at off topic, I'm mostly just trolling, walking into a dumb thread, lobbing a Molotov cocktail, and then walking back out again. As I have grown older, I have been serious less and less often. I was once a Libertarian, but slowly I lost faith in Saint Paul (hash collission!) and his merry band of rambling lunatics. So, I became nothing. But I still stuck around, just for the thrill of the debate. Liberals, I think, could always see that I was truly not of them, even though I walked among them - not a liberal, just an anticonservative, with no beliefs but spite. But even that loses its novelty with time, and I've found myself less and less willing to care about fewer and fewer things. So, I have found myself modifying my political beliefs, whenever I find someone willing to agree with me I know it's time to chunk out the old and find something new (a satire of hipsters). I have grown cynical, and so don't fight anymore. This is not out of a lack of faith in the power of any movement to change things, but a belief that any democratic revolution will likely just fuck things up even more than they currently are. The only thing worse than mainstream Republicans and Democrats are the naive, idiotic Tea Partiers, Paultards, and Occupiers trying to replace cynical, heartless political machination with the fairy dust of ideology. What happens when you put a hundred men of principle in a room together? Nothing.

I am pretty much the opposite of Leaningright, in that he's a dedicated localist, and has more allegiance to the institutions geographically closer to him, while I hate my town more than my state, my state more than my region, my region more than my country, my country more than western civilizaiton, and western civilization more than humanity at large. IMHO, the three greatest tragedies in all of history were the Islamic defeat at Tours, the Mongols turning back and falling apart when they were right on the cusp of turning Europe into a barren wasteland, and the failure of the Ottoman seige of Vienna. I'm not overly fond of humanity either, but Greens are too annoying to go down that route. Besides, I must eat meat to avenge the plants. My anti-localist hierarchy of hatred is, again, out of pure spite - I admit that, had I been born anywhere else, it's fully possible that I would have been treated with every bit as much cruelty, but here I was born, and so here my hatred stays.

At the current moment, I'm a conservative communist, an apologist for socialism and monarchy. This has me covered on most fronts, when the subject is old, well, monarchs brought order and stability to society in a time before democracy was practical, when it's new, I just veer socialist as far as necessary to offend the sensibilities whoever I'm talking about (to most Americans, basic socialism is all that is necessary; to liberals with stiffer stomachs, I call them cowardly and weak kneed soft-rightists; to fellow socialists, I'm pretty much a Leninist). The main point here is to be the inverse of Plato's preference for oligarchy - to me, the best government is the mob, tyranny will do in a pinch, just anyone but the petty nobles and plutocrats. As such, I tend to argue against the entire enlightenment (monarchy being obscelesced by it, socialism being a Romance era reaction to it), which is good, because most Americans think the enlightenment farted febreeze and shat rainbows, so rejecting it is incomprehensible, American lese-majeste. The exception, of course, is when I come upon someone from the far right attempting to reject it, in which case I'm its fiercest defender (this is mostly an issue with the European far right, the American far right generally worships the enlightenment even though they don't understand it). Also, I like Alexander Hamilton.

I am enamored with China, as China's pretty much as far away from here as it's possible to get (...ignoring latitude). The Chinese are assholes, but I'm an asshole as well, so it suits me well enough. Western civilization is dead, Europe is the undeveloping world, America may have more a bit more sticking power, but will inevitably get swallowed by the rise of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) regardless. Yes, even if the Republicans win the next election. As for Japan, fuck them. Avenge Nanjing! Diayoudao shi Zhonguo de!

I await the liberation of Taiwan.

This was all a bit self-indulgent. I took one too many Vyvanse'. Here's some Darqwolff copypasta, to help drown out my narcissistic torch in the glow of his vast sun:

It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said.


In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area. An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.


My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it. I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).


I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.


I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.


I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.


I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things. I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.


I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.


The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them. I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.



That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that). I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments). And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.


All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?