[quote]Kuz wrote:
And your point would be? FYI, at the time that people believed that, there were not several billion people on the planet, but that aside…[/quote]
I don’t know how many people were on the planet at that time or any other and I don’t think that you do, either. However, I’m pretty sure that accepted scientific doctrine would have it that there were at least several billion people on this planet 500-1000 years ago.
My point was that you are a lunatic by virtue of your populist beliefs. I mean this in a literal sense. Populist doctrines are endlessly amusing because one can always find at least several million people to support any notion, no matter how idiotic. And whichever populist cause you end up supporting, there will always be another population of millions or billions who do not subscribe to your particular view. Thus, by the standards of hundreds of millions of people, you are either completely wrong, a lunatic, or worse, a heretic, depending on the view in question.
This is the fate of all populist ideologues. Fun with statistics. A template for mental masturbation: Did you know that [insert number with no literal value, only abstract] believe [insert any notion that you can think of]?
This inherent conundrum might well lead to spontaneous combustion of populist ideologues [one can only hope!] if not for their universal defense mechanism of hermetically sealing themselves within their own microcosms of belief (read:ignorance).
You, therefore, are one of these hermits, a virtual slave to your habitat, whereas I am an untethered traveler and surveyor of the universe around me.
I can hardly bring myself to address your inquiries in the plane of their conception, for I have seen far too much to limit myself in such a way. I have been kicked off other forums for expressing views that would have made me popular on this one. I have seen dozens of “microcosm majorities”, ubiquitous in their own spheres of influence yet completely unmentioned or even contradicted in others. Perhaps with this bit of insight, you might understand why I cannot lend the slightest hint of credence to any populist or collectivist ideology, even for a second. But if you can’t, it is no matter. In your world, I am the man who knew too much…
[quote]Kuz wrote:
It’s easy to believe one dominates if you create a world in your own head where you are clearly right on every point you make…[/quote]
That’s a difficult quality to attribute to me considering that I largely deal with what I am given on this forum. It should be noted that total domination of the substantial sort is uniplanar. What this means is that I get off on beating people at their own level - not by pontificating miles above them, as is my natural tendancy. Like Lucifer, I descend from the heavens to embroil myself within the chaos and ignorance of the masses far below.
[quote]Kuz wrote:
I think it’s painfully apparent that you have not convinced another soul on these forums of that fact.[/quote]
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything on this forum. Rather, they are the ones who have convinced me of their own pitiful state of ignorance and hopelessness. However, to stick with my theme of uniplanar domination, consider the following rumination on your line of thought:
Just how many people on this forum have convinced others of anything which they did not already believe? I certainly can’t name any examples; can you? Most of the discussions go round and round in circles, bringing up the same points of contention and inevitably leading to the same dead ends. In the realm of creation, I am every bit as much of a failure as every other poster on this forum - no more, no less; I cannot create or endow my own qualities of intelligence within another.
The difference between myself and others is that I do not try to. I am an angel of destruction, not creation. I recognize that ignorance is incurable and thus, creation impossible. Destruction is the only solution, and I both excel and revel in it. What does it mean to be a failure in the impossible? Why, it means success of course! I am the most successful poster on this forum. And if anybody else knew it, it wouldn’t be true.
A final thought:
Truth is my vitality.
The absence of truth, [commonly refered to as ignorance], yours.
We cannot coexist any more than truth and ignorance.
The supreme irony of the universe is that we do.
