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I'm sure you did, but it'd seem that you stood little chance against your own nature.

This is a terrible thread.

Boy, I'd really have thought there'd be enough evidence amassed in this thread alone to convince you.


Ari, do ya think there's any chance that your past:



...is blinding you to the obvious truth here?

I'm way better at athletic endeavors that all of you feeble shmucks but I don't really care about athleticism so that's not arrogant or pompous. In fact, even through I could walk all over all of you, I don't value this skill at all. I take it for granted, and don't appreciate my ability at all. You'll never be able to compete with me though, because I'm so many miles above you all in terms of ability. Again because I don't value this, it's not arrogance or pompous.

This is a terrible thread.

You're too old to judge.

That doesn't make it untrue

But what is truth really?

I'm just kidding, yes it's an awful thread.

If you believed all that were true, I would agree that it's not arrogant. I wouldn't sit around berating you for thinking so. Of course, you tossed in the name-calling to discredit it, which I don't think I was guilty of until I gave up, but I could overlook that as harmless trash talk nonetheless.

you don't see how insisting that something other people value isn't worth valuing, while at the same time asserting it's something that you have in abundance isn't arrogant or pompous?

Interesting. I guess it makes sense as long as you maintain that arrogance is strictly a self evaluation. It's not though.

That's why trolling is a worthwhile human endeavor.

Not that I'm trolling this thread. That was one of my idiosyncratic jokes. Which is probably not funny, because most of my jokes seem to fail. I do, however Troll. Just not in this thread. I seem to be very idiosyncratic in my trolling too, because Mindel was the only person who ever seemed to pick when I was trolling and when I was not.


Edited, Mar 25th 2013 12:29pm by Aripyanfar

Then I think all of you are arrogant and some of you surely think as much about one another. There, now we're even.

And no, I really don't if there's no actual meaningful value in it. That might be the way you see it. The way I see it is having more of something than is useful or necessary. If we are all approaching a point of diminishing returns regarding intellect, then having an excess is of no value. This is discussed in one of Grady's other articles, by the way, should anyone care to read it. At some point, even to, for example, a basketball player, being taller is not an advantage. At an absurd point, it becomes a detriment.

It's like Prussian marks. If I tell you that I have millions of Prussian marks, those who don't know better might think, "Wow, what a wealthy tool." And if I mentioned, "Oh, they're completely worthless in today's economy," you would think, "Oh, uh, nevermind, I guess."

The forum definitely needed a second Alma.

Whoa now, we don't even know if he has a sweet pair of No **** shorts. Don't overextend yourself here.

You're incredibly easy to manipulate. It was inevitable.