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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4610171, member: 96864"]If any of you want to see some REAL stuff to argue about i recommend visiting ("certain seedy imageboards") and wallowing in the hellish inferno of anonymous soul-scorching vitriol and hatred for a few days. If your comparatively rather delicate collective sensibilities aren't shattered and you don't immediately drop dead from the shock of it all, it serves as both the crucible through which true backbone is forged and boot camp where ones ability to debate real-time in the middle of a chaotic intellectual warzone is nourished and strengthened. And since it's anonymous, one is required to have the strongest facts and arguments as one can't rest upon personal reputation, dusty sheepskins and popularity to harvest "likes" as a proxy for determining who "won" over there.</p><p><br /></p><p>As such, this here was like naptime during kindergarten, hilariously sensitive all around, though obviously many were pulling punches out of politeness or decency. Consensus-driven, generally pseudointellectual pearl-clutchers, emotional thinkers, rubes and crass trolls alike all get eaten alive by the true pros. Consensus =/= fact or reality, and as quoted earlier the intelligent among us know which battles to choose and which individuals or ideas are to be ignored or nurtured.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not calling anyone out specifically, but seeing the debate performance of a bunch of comfortable boomers here compared to the titanium backbones and razor-sharp wit and logic of unemployed 20 year old imageboard nerds I felt compelled to pause my self-imposed cross-forum vacation to address it and have a chuckle at the lot of ya! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I hope you're all actively protecting your assets/wealth, staying healthy active and nutritionally balanced, and also preparing for the coming winter with wisdom and foresight as the virus ordeal alone is just the tip of the iceberg of nonsense we'll all be forced to go through. It's the eye of the storm friends, don't get complacent please because I hope to see y'all on the other side and resume sharing and discussing our lovely treasures (no good coins lately but I've lucked upon more nice antiquities).</p><p><br /></p><p>Please try to steel yourselves because the coming horrors will make all this petty squabbling look like paradise in comparison. "They" want us disunited and distracted, busy fighting over trivialities when we need more unity and community than ever before! Choose your battles wisely friends because an existential war is coming. That said, I don't honestly have much hope for my fellow man so my absence from the internet has been spent stocking up and fortifying my castle, family, body and soul against what's yet to pass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck everyone, this transcends petty politics and personality differences. I can't help but weep for all the beautiful people who don't deserve the debasement, destitution and horrors that are inevitable. The scariest stuff I've ever seen is coming down the pike now and no one will emerge unscathed. I love you all and pray we meet again in peace and prosperity on the other side. Please be strong and good to each other, we need it now more than ever.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4610171, member: 96864"]If any of you want to see some REAL stuff to argue about i recommend visiting ("certain seedy imageboards") and wallowing in the hellish inferno of anonymous soul-scorching vitriol and hatred for a few days. If your comparatively rather delicate collective sensibilities aren't shattered and you don't immediately drop dead from the shock of it all, it serves as both the crucible through which true backbone is forged and boot camp where ones ability to debate real-time in the middle of a chaotic intellectual warzone is nourished and strengthened. And since it's anonymous, one is required to have the strongest facts and arguments as one can't rest upon personal reputation, dusty sheepskins and popularity to harvest "likes" as a proxy for determining who "won" over there. As such, this here was like naptime during kindergarten, hilariously sensitive all around, though obviously many were pulling punches out of politeness or decency. Consensus-driven, generally pseudointellectual pearl-clutchers, emotional thinkers, rubes and crass trolls alike all get eaten alive by the true pros. Consensus =/= fact or reality, and as quoted earlier the intelligent among us know which battles to choose and which individuals or ideas are to be ignored or nurtured. I'm not calling anyone out specifically, but seeing the debate performance of a bunch of comfortable boomers here compared to the titanium backbones and razor-sharp wit and logic of unemployed 20 year old imageboard nerds I felt compelled to pause my self-imposed cross-forum vacation to address it and have a chuckle at the lot of ya! :wacky: Anyway I hope you're all actively protecting your assets/wealth, staying healthy active and nutritionally balanced, and also preparing for the coming winter with wisdom and foresight as the virus ordeal alone is just the tip of the iceberg of nonsense we'll all be forced to go through. It's the eye of the storm friends, don't get complacent please because I hope to see y'all on the other side and resume sharing and discussing our lovely treasures (no good coins lately but I've lucked upon more nice antiquities). Please try to steel yourselves because the coming horrors will make all this petty squabbling look like paradise in comparison. "They" want us disunited and distracted, busy fighting over trivialities when we need more unity and community than ever before! Choose your battles wisely friends because an existential war is coming. That said, I don't honestly have much hope for my fellow man so my absence from the internet has been spent stocking up and fortifying my castle, family, body and soul against what's yet to pass. Good luck everyone, this transcends petty politics and personality differences. I can't help but weep for all the beautiful people who don't deserve the debasement, destitution and horrors that are inevitable. The scariest stuff I've ever seen is coming down the pike now and no one will emerge unscathed. I love you all and pray we meet again in peace and prosperity on the other side. Please be strong and good to each other, we need it now more than ever.:([/QUOTE]
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