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Dextrose is offline Dextrose
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Unfortunately there's really nothing there to psychoanalyze. Who takes a moderating job on an internet forum and spends their time policing others? Ming is the only exception I have ever met to this. Partly because he is older and has kids and has already been very successful in the advertising industry. Are you over 40 though making good money and have a family? I think not.

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Dextrose, I hope you have read the FAQ about the forum rules.


He hasn't even called anyone clueless yet...

Odin is offline Odin
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Sep 2000
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Unfortunately there's really nothing there to psychoanalyze. Who takes a moderating job on an internet forum and spends their time policing others? Ming is the only exception I have ever met to this. Partly because he is older and has kids and has already been very successful in the advertising industry. Are you over 40 though making good money and have a family? I think not.


Being successful in advertising makes you successful? It makes you a f*cking paraste on society, they do no useful work, they just make stuff thst use emotion to create excess demand.

Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
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Aug 2001
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Uh-oh.

Agathon is offline Agathon
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Odin's right, advertising is largely information pollution... now where is Ming...

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Whose DL is Dextrose?

I am tempted by saying MalevolentLight, but it isn't clear yet.

Dextrose is offline Dextrose
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Being successful in advertising makes you successful? It makes you a f*cking paraste on society, they do no useful work, they just make stuff thst use emotion to create excess demand.


I love how people living within the cozy confines of academic institutions attack everything capitalist when they have probably never held a real job in their life. Creating excess demand provides a service to those selling goods. It informs the public of the existence of these goods and creates an atmosphere of competition for other companies to make known what they offer as well. Were it not for advertising, it would be impossible for companies to sell on a national scale. You would have companies killing the competition in their small area and establishing small monopolies since their only avenue of spreading knowledge of their product would be through word of mouth. Those in advertising and marketing are the backbone of a capitalist society. You are in favor of a capitalist society right? I mean, you couldn't be a communist I'm sure... not in this day and age.

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Sorry....

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I find that hard to believe. J.S. Mill was a socialist.


Or rather a classic liberal . Someone who argues that government's only role is to remove barriers to behaviors that do not harm others is hardly a socialist .

Isaiah Berlin sure didn't think Mill was a socialist as he complained that Mill didn't value equality and social progress and was solely for negative liberty (freedom from), but not positive liberty (freedom to).

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Supporting NAMBLA is tantamount to supporting their practices.


We must ban the Klan and other organizations which may offend! Supporting their right to exist is tantamount to supporting their practices!


I beat you to this point -- so you get no cookies.

BlackCat is offline BlackCat
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The worst thing is that they haven't mentioned the real dangerous books such as the bible and other kinds of religious scriptures, but of course, it's a list made of people that could be suspected of being religious.


The Bible, the Koran, and the Vedas get disqualified on the basis of not having been written in the last two centuries.

What do you suggest? Book of Mormon? Dianetics? The Kitab-i-Aqdas?


Sorry, my fault - didn't bother to read the article

Anyway, I think that any religious book no matter when or where it is written is a great danger to humnakind, so all of your suggestions fall into the danger category.

The Emperor Fabulous is offline The Emperor Fabulous
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I think we found a replacement for Malevolent Light

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Conservatives are against reading. It might turn people gay!!!

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Ming is the only exception I have ever met to this.


You have met Ming. That's nice, that makes you a DL.

ML's DL, to be specific.

Agathon is offline Agathon
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Great Asher quote in your sig, UR. l)

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As an english major, I find it depressingly non-fiction focused. Where's The Naked Lunch??? Certainly, few fictions have the same political influence of the ten listed, but one cannot dismiss popular writing. From a liberal perspective, the fictions of Ayn Rand are right up there as a harmful book.

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Great Asher quote in your sig, UR. l)


It helps if you know the context... specifically, that the "you" refers to UR...

Dracon II is offline Dracon II
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I see no problem with the ACLU helping Marlon Brando Look Alikes

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From a liberal perspective, the fictions of Ayn Rand are right up there as a harmful book.


You're only saying that because I got "Ayn Rand" in the "Which sci-fi author are you) thread

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Communists would consider the Black Book of Communism to be harmful.

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It helps if you know the context... specifically, that the "you" refers to UR...


I've no doubt it did, but the laugh's not on UR.

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Great Asher quote in your sig, UR. l)


Asher in a rare moment of truthfulness

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You're correct, it was a moment of truthfulness

DaShi is offline DaShi
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You have met Ming. That's nice, that makes you a DL.

ML's DL, to be specific.


Bravo on more fantastic logic. Was he banned on this reasoning?

 
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