Stephen wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 1:49 pm
Johnny, help! I’m drowning in garbage-talk —
throw me a lifeline!
Dear Stephen,
I'll throw you three!
1-
Never wrestle with pigs. It is amuses the pig and makes you look muddy.
2-
Keep talking, it's good for AdSense impressions.
Seriously, in a world of facebook-idiots and reddit-junk, search engines indexed forums are our most precious friends. For all of us.
3-
Never listen to a word I say.
I'm the consensus' worst enemy in pretty much everything.
I didn't watch the latest shows here, as I have no interest in anything. But it seemed pretty entertaining to me no...? And... Isn't that what we are all looking for, especially during the summer time?
In case you didn't notice yet,
the entire world is made of pure bullshit. Fortunately for all of us, in this massive pile of garbage, there are some truly extraordinary hidden gems of wisdom. Wisdom is always buried in a shitload of crap. Always. Just like diamonds in the rough. It takes tons of rock to recover one tiny carat of gold. It takes tons of bullshit to discover the most valuable treasures. The things is, if we don't dig and don't get our hands dirty, we won't find anything.
The trick, (not just here but everywhere, and especially on the old-fart-dominated portions of the internet,) is to know how to read between the lines and discriminate the old hardened ego BS from the truth. Sadly, this is the way of the modern world. Not just only here and there, but freaking EVERYWHERE. As you could read it for years in my old signature on all my posts, a good way to quickly identify the signs of old man rut is to start with this simple advise of mine:
Never trust a guy who recommends T4s and pins.
Most importantly., keep in mind that the world is a participative effort. The world is what we make it, and nothing else. And this, here, is the way that it looks. A forum is nothing but a small scale version of the world. Let's all analyze our reactions to each other's posts here. And observe carefully how this actually creates the very fabric of the world around us. Isn't that beautiful and fascinating?!! (At least from an anthropological point of view...)
And oh, please... Keep talking!
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
-Steph Hawking
PS: For me, I think doing something retarded for many decades doesn't make one's opinion more worthy. Quite the opposite. Just like gently flexing the back knee and double-planting on geriatric terrain with freaking-expensive hi-tech telemark gear doesn't make someone an authority on the subject. And I also think that giving advice related to gear one has never tried is just lame. But that's just me. Again, never listen to me.
Manney wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 4:10 pm
Aren’t you the least bit interested in seeing
@lowangle al back up any of the batshit crazy claims he makes?
Dear Bear,
Thank you for all your great input and your contributions. I really appreciate it.
But don't bother getting muddy, it's not even worth it. Let the old fart bathe in his own shit... You know just like me that there ain't no cure for old man rut... Distorting the reality according to our own egocentric needs and believing our own lies afterward is terribly lame... But hey, nothing new here... Same old same old...
Some people learn from their past mistakes. Others will only keep feeding their own retarded and narrow-minded views until the end, never learning a thing and missing the whole point of living...
