I'm burning out!

[stuck]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

[MoneyJungle]

I was wondering just earlier today if you were just lurking or out there being a productive citizen. I have no fucking clue. Lower your standards? I totally expected a comparison of your prolific posting to an alliterative elder-skank, though.

[outmywindow]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?
I have a zillion posts, but I don't feel as if I've had anything to contribute (or anything to contribute to) in a very long time. I don't think I'd have stuck around this long if I wasn't a madmin, to be honest.

[Madrigal]

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?
Yep. My posts make me sick before I type them out. "Shut up Madrigal! Always saying the same shit! Go read a book or something and get some new ideas in that fossilized brain of yours and then come back, kthx!"


I was wondering just earlier today if you were just lurking or out there being a productive citizen. I have no fucking clue. Lower your standards? I totally expected a comparison of your prolific posting to an alliterative elder-skank, though.

:lol:

[stuck]

I think we need a quality noobs thread. That literally scared the shit out of me when I was new.

It needs to be made by someone without shame. Maybe we need a thread to nominate that person.

PS: I actually responded to everything everyone said, in my mind.

[Madrigal]

I think we need a quality noobs thread. That literally scared the shit out of me when I was new.

It needs to be made by someone without shame. Maybe we need a thread to nominate that person.

I don't understand the concept (of quality n00bs, or shame).

[outmywindow]

I think we need a quality noobs thread. That literally scared the shit out of me when I was new.

It needs to be made by someone without shame. Maybe we need a thread to nominate that person.
So you actually shit your pants when you read it? As in, after viewing the thread, feces were present in your underwear which were not present before?

/quality contribution

[stuck]

I don't understand the concept (of quality n00bs, or shame).

Man if those had been reversed in order I'd have felt a little dissapointed.


So you actually shit your pants when you read it? As in, after viewing the thread, feces were present in your underwear which were not present before?

/quality contribution

Good thing I post from the toilet pretty often, eh?

[ApeTheDog]

You become limited in what you can do when people "know" you better on the forum. The last time I thought about what I could do for fun on this forum I thought it could be fun to have a pro christianity argument going here - but playing it ridiculously straight-faced and seriously... but the only people I'd be able to troll would be newbies.

[!diom]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

I think you're doing fine.

[pan_sonic_000]

INTPc jumped the shark in 2009.

[Architectonic]

I have an abundance of ideas to discuss. The problem is that none of you are interested in having in depth intellectual discussions anymore. At least in the many fields I happen to be interested in.

I'm just waiting for the congé.

[mpousoulas]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

I suggest a mental exercise.
You could post the opposite of what you are thinking and then engage in a discussion defending your posted point using unorthodox perspectives. If you end up to an argument that is the opposite of what you posted then what you first thought of posting is most probably the most novel idea you could think of. On the other hand If you end up proving to yourself the argument that you posted then the mental exercise that you went through was a success end you came up with a novel idea that you did not think before you posted.

[zago]

I've often felt this - being able to browse the entire forum and not see a single interesting thread.

I think the key is to just go with it. Stop posting so much, and save your comments for when you really feel like you have something to say. Don't make uninspired posts or threads.

With this sort of natural selection process... people not posting just to post... I feel we can evolve and keep things fresh.

[attila_the_hunny]

I just wait it out, but the forum has also gone through changes over the years.

The threads mostly recycle themselves and after a while you don't even bother respond since you covered the same topic a couple years ago. I used to be picky about what I posted, but these days I don't give a fuck. If I want to say something, I'll do it.

[kuranes]

I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I was surprised that you didn't make a comment on my thread about under-rated inexpensive microphones.

Yeah, the site can get boring sometimes. Then a new member ( like you ! ) comes along ! Yea !!

I think a lot of people want to confine many of their remarks to quick banter-like posts. This is a self-imposed constraint that may prevent some kinds of discussions from taking place.

[nonperson]

Wasn't Showgirls the most popular video in the USN for a good few years?

[rainfall]

Drunk posting. SRSLY. That's the way.

[BAJ]

.

I feel similarly. Further, I think half the people have me on ignore or they think I suck. They don't return my PMs. Nobody nominated me for any awards. I suppose I creep out some people, but seem innocuous to others. I detest myself sometimes.

However, it also doesn't matter. It is nice if someone presses some "feel good about myself" button or gives me attention (positive or negative), but increasingly my life does not depend on the existence or non-existence of other beings. This is a phrase that keeps going through my mind lately: "existence and non-existence of beings."

Forms and substance are seemingly very illusive, but I return instead of drifting away.

[bclark619g]

I'm going through some serious stress in my personal life now and this is coloring my view of the forum. I am not in the mood for looking at new threads because the majority of the time the beautiful start made by an OP is trashed by the third or fourth reply. Too many comedians/obnoxious smartasses deigning to reply to anything. It's like watching any cable news channel pundit spouting nonsense all the damn time. If I put all of them on Ignore, there wouldn't be anything to read, that's how I feel about it.

[rainfall]

They don't return my PMs.

That's because you have a prolapsed anus with poop coming out of it for an avatar. I'm sure it's great art, but it looks nasty, whatever it is. Plus you come off as a little bit crazy. Just telling it how it is, man.


http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2851/avatar1109133gif.jpg

Seriously, that's a prolapsing ass with a piece of poop in it, if I ever saw one. And I saw enough.


Nobody nominated me for any awards.

Me neither, my friend, me neither.. :boohoo: Stay strong, friend... One day... One day they'll recognize us as immovable pillars of community and adorn our dead ebodies in the beautiful gold... Just stay strong.

[stuck]

I'm going to respond to every last motherloving post. That's novel for me.


I was wondering just earlier today if you were just lurking or out there being a productive citizen. I have no fucking clue. Lower your standards? I totally expected a comparison of your prolific posting to an alliterative elder-skank, though.

Yes, sadly my shame is seethrough, not unlike a sapporo-soaked slip on a thai sex slave. My standards were pretty low, I post whatever I feel like posting at the moment. In this way, the forum is my rut, I sneak out to it in the middle of the night with my jars of sterno and pomade, lube up the hole in the trunk and done what god never intended.


I have a zillion posts, but I don't feel as if I've had anything to contribute (or anything to contribute to) in a very long time. I don't think I'd have stuck around this long if I wasn't a madmin, to be honest.

Well yes but why? It can't be lack of novelty or spent momentum-every one of us generates new ideas and perspectives. I think it's self-deprecation.


Yep. My posts make me sick before I type them out. "Shut up Madrigal! Always saying the same shit! Go read a book or something and get some new ideas in that fossilized brain of yours and then come back, kthx!"


See, self-deprecation strikes one of the more beloved forum members.


You become limited in what you can do when people "know" you better on the forum. The last time I thought about what I could do for fun on this forum I thought it could be fun to have a pro christianity argument going here - but playing it ridiculously straight-faced and seriously... but the only people I'd be able to troll would be newbies.

I don't know. Even for me, a high-profile whore who has no shame and no quality control, I don't think many people are ever really succeeding at "knowing me". Maybe this is different for the people who want to bone each other here, but then they're just getting to know a reflection of reality, at best. You could turn christian and act totally sincere and people would be extra WTF. go for it.


I think you're doing fine.

Therapy? I like the new, cuddlier idiom.


INTPc jumped the shark in 2009.

I wouldn't know since I've only been here since HEY WAIT A SECOND.

This begs a question that I'm not going to ask.


I have an abundance of ideas to discuss. The problem is that none of you are interested in having in depth intellectual discussions anymore. At least in the many fields I happen to be interested in.

I'm just waiting for the congé.

Do you have an example of this?


I suggest a mental exercise.
You could post the opposite of what you are thinking and then engage in a discussion defending your posted point using unorthodox perspectives. If you end up to an argument that is the opposite of what you posted then what you first thought of posting is most probably the most novel idea you could think of. On the other hand If you end up proving to yourself the argument that you posted then the mental exercise that you went through was a success end you came up with a novel idea that you did not think before you posted.

Sounds like some kind of advocacy that could only be thought up by lucifer himself! Allow me to retire to my squat beneath the old stone bridge and mull this one over during my meal of infant bones.


I've often felt this - being able to browse the entire forum and not see a single interesting thread.

I think the key is to just go with it. Stop posting so much, and save your comments for when you really feel like you have something to say. Don't make uninspired posts or threads.

With this sort of natural selection process... people not posting just to post... I feel we can evolve and keep things fresh.

Well yes, and good common sense, but what I mean is that I'm not seeing anything interesting, while a different point of view would find plenty. Otherwise, yes, I have slowed down a lot.


I just wait it out, but the forum has also gone through changes over the years.

The threads mostly recycle themselves and after a while you don't even bother respond since you covered the same topic a couple years ago. I used to be picky about what I posted, but these days I don't give a fuck. If I want to say something, I'll do it.

This is the kiln in which the ubertroll is formed. I appreciate a certain amount of meta-threading by the elders.


I was surprised that you didn't make a comment on my thread about under-rated inexpensive microphones.

Yeah, the site can get boring sometimes. Then a new member ( like you ! ) comes along ! Yea !!

I think a lot of people want to confine many of their remarks to quick banter-like posts. This is a self-imposed constraint that may prevent some kinds of discussions from taking place.

Ah, I saw it and didn't have much to say. I'm not really a mic whore-I don't know my shit in that arena.

Yeah, so where's the new good newb thread? I have a lingering appendix of shame that's waiting to burst and I can't stress it by starting it myself.

Yes, the banter doesn't bother me, I just don't want to make it too much myself. Especially in blogs, that kinda slows it down. I read blogs more than I post in them.


Wasn't Showgirls the most popular video in the USN for a good few years?

For a damned good reason. Verhoeven is a genius.


Drunk posting. SRSLY. That's the way.

bah. the mrs. and I are sober again for the time being. maybe if i hyperventilate before posting?


.

I feel similarly. Further, I think half the people have me on ignore or they think I suck. They don't return my PMs. Nobody nominated me for any awards. I suppose I creep out some people, but seem innocuous to others. I detest myself sometimes.

However, it also doesn't matter. It is nice if someone presses some "feel good about myself" button or gives me attention (positive or negative), but increasingly my life does not depend on the existence or non-existence of other beings. This is a phrase that keeps going through my mind lately: "existence and non-existence of beings."

Forms and substance are seemingly very illusive, but I return instead of drifting away.

haha
there's the stuff. It's entirely probable that your posts are appreciated. I feel that a lot of the posts here simply inspire too much discussion, and I can't spare the length of time and commitment to give them a real response.

I guess the moral is that I should just continue posting less and better.

[starla]

.

I feel similarly. Further, I think half the people have me on ignore or they think I suck. They don't return my PMs. Nobody nominated me for any awards. I suppose I creep out some people, but seem innocuous to others. I detest myself sometimes.

However, it also doesn't matter. It is nice if someone presses some "feel good about myself" button or gives me attention (positive or negative), but increasingly my life does not depend on the existence or non-existence of other beings. This is a phrase that keeps going through my mind lately: "existence and non-existence of beings."

Forms and substance are seemingly very illusive, but I return instead of drifting away.

Why anyone would come to INTPc hoping for affirmation is beyond me. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

[MacGuffin]

Sometimes you just need a break.

Think of new things to post, new ways to play with the Ne. You'll go thru fallow periods where nothing much interests you, then something will spark your interest.

I have a couple of ideas I'm thinking about...

[bclark619g]

Why anyone would come to INTPc hoping for affirmation is beyond me. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

For someone looking to join INTPc, finding a place where other INTPs are active can make one think that it would be a welcoming place, more like a fraternity or something, where you will be accepted like the prodigal son. Believe me, the disappointment soon comes.

[starla]

For someone looking to join INTPc, finding a place where other INTPs are active can make one think that it would be a welcoming place, more like a fraternity or something, where you will be accepted like the prodigal son. Believe me, the disappointment soon comes.

You could only think that if you didn't read any of the threads first.

[stuck]

For someone looking to join INTPc, finding a place where other INTPs are active can make one think that it would be a welcoming place, more like a fraternity or something, where you will be accepted like the prodigal son. Believe me, the disappointment soon comes.

I think it's entirely in your attitude, which can create a nice lil snowball in your mouth because our sort(s) tend(s) to:

1. read into things
2. be insecure

I felt pretty comfy here, and it was a bit like being welcomed into a fraternity, albeit one where nobody would look at you in the eyes.

[YHWH]

.

I feel similarly. Further, I think half the people have me on ignore or they think I suck. They don't return my PMs. Nobody nominated me for any awards. I suppose I creep out some people, but seem innocuous to others. I detest myself sometimes.

However, it also doesn't matter. It is nice if someone presses some "feel good about myself" button or gives me attention (positive or negative), but increasingly my life does not depend on the existence or non-existence of other beings. This is a phrase that keeps going through my mind lately: "existence and non-existence of beings."

Forms and substance are seemingly very illusive, but I return instead of drifting away.

I think of you as one of the more interesting folks in here. You do creep me out, but that's fine since it's all virtual.

[bclark619g]

You could only think that if you didn't read any of the threads first.
Or off your meds.

[!diom]

I felt pretty comfy here, and it was a bit like being welcomed into a fraternity, albeit one where nobody would look at you in the eyes.

I look at you in the eyes every time I come here. You're just not reciprocating. Time for a new avatar?

[BAJ]

Thanks everyone!

I changed my avatar to what I make IRL, and decided to focus less on my prolapsed anus.



http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/bowl4sc_edited_7.jpg

[stuck]

I look at you in the eyes every time I come here. You're just not reciprocating. Time for a new avatar?


Thanks everyone!

I changed my avatar to what I make IRL, and decided to focus less on my prolapsed anus.



http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/bowl4sc_edited_7.jpg

Don't be coy, guys.

/woolf

[BAJ]

Don't be coy, guys.

/woolf



Ha!


I'm a Koi farmer and also a COY farmer! I'll have to use that sometime!

:theclap:

[YHWH]

Dude, why? I think your paintings are some of the most authentic I have ever seen. Anyone criticizing them knows shit about art.

[rainfall]

Dude, why? I think your paintings are some of the most authentic I have ever seen. Anyone criticizing them knows shit about art.

Go lollygagging kthnx.

[avolkiteshvara]

The threads mostly recycle themselves and after a while you don't even bother respond since you covered the same topic a couple years ago. I used to be picky about what I posted, but these days I don't give a fuck. If I want to say something, I'll do it.

Yep


I think of you as one of the more interesting folks in here. You do creep me out, but that's fine since it's all virtual.

Agree.


I think I had a lot of stuff pent up, stored unconsciously. I got to drain that when I got here. I think this is where our P kicks in. Once the initial carnal-psycho-dump has completed, what else is there.

How do we use this infrastructure to grow something beyond the "Inflated IQ Forum" ? I think something like Linkd is the next step. Hustlers career thread was also a good start. It might require giving up some anonymity that I personally covet.

[Imhotep]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.
How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

There are a few posters who infrequently leave gems among the detritus of new posts and threads. I don't know if any of you have a novel in you, but maybe together a truly epic book could be written that would cause a collective jawl dropping.

That sounds like way too much work. You should probably just go to TypeC and work on your inferior functions. You'll have lots of shit to say when you get back. :grin:

I am irrelevant.

[elfsprin]

I don't know if any of you have a novel in you, but maybe together a truly epic book could be written that would cause a collective jawl dropping.

i already started one of those, and no one is biting.

[Karl]

I was a horrible poster starting out, so it's easier for me.

[C.J.Woolf]

I totally expected a comparison of your prolific posting to an alliterative elder-skank, though.
:lol: "Alliterative elder-skank". A worthy user title if ever I saw one.


I have an abundance of ideas to discuss. The problem is that none of you are interested in having in depth intellectual discussions anymore. At least in the many fields I happen to be interested in.
I'll bet many of us can say that. Our interests are all over the place.

If you're feeling uninspired, or worse, if somebody else beat you to all of your inspired posts, don't sweat it. You'll find something to post about in good time.

[s0978]

I think most of us who've been around a long time- we postwhored in the beginning, on site everyday, then calmed down, then got bored, then started to come and go. I don't have a lot to say anymore, my level of engagement is different, I get busy and sometimes weeks or months go by between visits, but I've always enjoyed having an this online community to check in with.

[aelan]

it follows the regular ebb and flow of relationships offline to me - i'm never 100% engaged all the time with real life people anyway, why'd online be different?

mostly, i've been sticking to my blog, but even then, i don't find the words some days.

[Hustler]

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

It does not feel like everyone can mentalize my response. If they could, they would stop posting stupid shit and getting into hopeless arguments with me. In answer to the overall question you pose, I do it because people need some community in their lives, and they need leaders to look up to in that community. That's me. I'm here to keep imparting my wisdom and intellect to the INTPs here, because I like INTPs, and they deserve a good e-hero. It feels good and is ethically sound to give back a little when the world has given you so much, and INTPc is one of my chosen recipients of this kindness.

[nonperson]

It does not feel like everyone can mentalize my response. If they could, they would stop posting stupid shit and getting into hopeless arguments with me. In answer to the overall question you pose, I do it because people need some community in their lives, and they need leaders to look up to in that community. That's me. I'm here to keep imparting my wisdom and intellect to the INTPs here, because I like INTPs, and they deserve a good ego-hero. It feels good and is ethically sound to give back a little when the world has given you so much, and INTPc is one of my chosen recipients of this kindness.

You're so vain, you probably think this thread is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this thread is about you
Don't you? Don't You?

[Harion]

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?
they're INTJ's more than Ps
srsly, it's regular for INTPs to quickly lose interests in things
then pick it up after awhile

[Phreon]

Yep

I think I had a lot of stuff pent up, stored unconsciously. I got to drain that when I got here. I think this is where our P kicks in. Once the initial carnal-psycho-dump has completed, what else is there.


W0rd

Phreon

[Dman]

Start a fight with somebody who can go the distance. It keeps you engaged, and is entertaining for the rest of us. You have to really put some heart into it though, make it as genuine as possible.

[fripping]

just let the apathy work its magic

look i don't even use periods anymore

[Violet]

To the OP:

You look exactly like someone I know, assuming that's you in your avi. I compared pictures. This creeps the hell out of me. I can't figure out if your him or not. Your glasses are different and you have thicker (I think) facial hair. This seriously creeps me out. Your online personality and his real-life personality are even "close enough." I am leery.

[Rhu]

To the OP:

You look exactly like someone I know, assuming that's you in your avi. I compared pictures. This creeps the hell out of me. I can't figure out if your him or not. Your glasses are different and you have thicker (I think) facial hair. This seriously creeps me out. Your online personality and his real-life personality are even "close enough." I am leery.

Look, we all have crushes on stuck at bronze in real life. And he visits all of us in our dreams. Dancing in a speedo.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

[stuck]

Look, we all have crushes on stuck at bronze in real life. And he visits all of us in our dreams. Dancing in a speedo.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

The drugs can wear off, but the memories can't.

[Violet]

Look, we all have crushes on stuck at bronze in real life. And he visits all of us in our dreams. Dancing in a speedo.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

Who said there was shame, more like a palatable fear that makes the heart pound... :sadbanana:

[Rhu]

Who said there was shame, more like a palatable fear that makes the heart pound... :sadbanana:

Physiologically, there is little difference between this claim of "fear" and the rush of exhilaration at the gentle sway of his whiskers.

The sight of it is like being gently caressed by a bed of algae.



Oh, sigh with me, Violet.

[Violet]

Physiologically, there is little difference between this claim of "fear" and the rush of exhilaration at the gentle sway of his whiskers.

The sight of it is like being gently caressed by a bed of algae.



Oh, sigh with me, Violet.

Im glad someone else feels the same way about algae:wub:

[stuck]

Run and play in my beard, children. Run and play.

[Rhu]

Im glad someone else feels the same way about algae:wub:
I'm fairly certain that I'm not alone on this forum in saying: if I had a pool, I'd probably never clean it.


Run and play in my beard, children. Run and play.
Would it be sacrilege if I just...

:blush:

[stuck]

The beard is an ecosystem. You cannot remove energy from the beard, you can only borrow it. Whatever you deposit in the beard was always there, so there is no need for shame or regret. After you are long gone, others will take the things that you have left from the beard. They will have their own loves, their own lives, forged from the very molecules that defined your body. The beard is forever.

[Violet]

I'm fairly certain that I'm not alone on this forum in saying: if I had a pool, I'd probably never clean it

Preference goes to natural bodies of water :wub:

Warning: if you have a sunburn, stay away from the algae. It will get into the layers of your skin and feed off the pigment. To find a large patch of normally white skin turning grey/brown and slowing spreading over your shoulders... is a scary thing.

Stuck At Bronze: you are not him, be glad. His life is shit.

[Rhu]

The beard is an ecosystem. You cannot remove energy from the beard, you can only borrow it. Whatever you deposit in the beard was always there, so there is no need for shame or regret. After you are long gone, others will take the things that you have left from the beard. They will have their own loves, their own lives, forged from the very molecules that defined your body. The beard is forever.
If... if the beard were better cultivated, would there be an end to scarcity of resources? Can it truly provide for us all?


Preference goes to natural bodies of water :wub:

Warning: if you have a sunburn, stay away from the algae. It will get into the layers of your skin and feed off the pigment. To find a large patch of normally white skin turning grey/brown and slowing spreading over your shoulders... is a scary thing.

Since you're alive to talk about it, it's obviously nonfatal. So now forewarned and fearless, I might be able to use this knowledge to make people think that I have a bigger penis!

[Violet]

Since you're alive to talk about it, it's obviously nonfatal. So now forewarned and fearless, I might be able to use this knowledge to make people think that I have a bigger penis!


It is non-fatal if stopped. Imagine a mirco-organism that slowly eats all the good bits in your skin, eventually rendering it useless. A person could suffocate to death. How long can a person live without functioning skin?

But imagine what a pretty corpse you'd make! All grey/brown, like the little aliens. Imagine the controversy you could stir up.

[Rhu]

It is non-fatal if stopped. Imagine a mirco-organism that slowly eats all the good bits in your skin, eventually rendering it useless. A person could suffocate to death. How long can a person live without functioning skin?
I've already got bad skin! Don't crush my dreams like this! Cannot one man's parasitic infection be another man's symbiotic enhancement?


But imagine what a pretty corpse you'd make! All grey/brown, like the little aliens. Imagine the controversy you could stir up.
I'd have to leave the beardy creche and find a place to publicly die where people are the most bored, uneducated, and paranoid.





...but I don't know anybody in Kansas.

[Violet]

I've already got bad skin! Don't crush my dreams like this! Cannot one man's parasitic infection be another man's symbiotic enhancement?


I'd have to leave the beardy creche and find a place to publicly die where people are the most bored, uneducated, and paranoid.





...but I don't know anybody in Kansas.

Would dying within the beard disrupt it's ecosystem? Would that be the legacy you want to leave the the next beard-goer?

It would be easy, get one of those old aluminum 5th wheels. Alert the police of a "suspicous accident scene." Drive into the middle of the desert and into a cliff.. leave plenty of shreds. Consipiracy theory born.

[Noel]

Run and play in my beard, children. Run and play.


The beard is an ecosystem. You cannot remove energy from the beard, you can only borrow it. Whatever you deposit in the beard was always there, so there is no need for shame or regret. After you are long gone, others will take the things that you have left from the beard. They will have their own loves, their own lives, forged from the very molecules that defined your body. The beard is forever.

So.

There's this dangling, red spaghetti monster that appears momentarily from time to time and I don't really know nor understand what it's trying to communicate. I suspect the creature might be a pantomimist of some sorts, but lets be honest here, there's only so much you can communicate sans appendages right? So ffs, why does it keep on coming back?

Also, what's the deal with the apple inside the grove?

Peace.

[teleforce]

i don't remember this place being so boring when i was a n00b. it's probably the novelty wearing off and somehow losing the sense of anonymity that attracted me in the first place. i'm still anonymous, but knowing that someone may respond as if they know me (whether or not they do, in varying degrees) puts a lot of pressure on me.

[Neville]

Site's dead. Move along folks.

[C.J.Woolf]

Site's dead. Move along folks.
Care to set an example?

[Neville]

Care to set an example?

*sigh* That's it?

[Violet]

*sigh* That's it?

What else could you do?

[bclark619g]

*sigh* That's it?
We pretty much don't beg for people to stick around. We just pay attention to those who do that we, on an individual basis, connect with in some way that we value.

You will either find your group here or you won't.

[Neville]

What else could you do?


We pretty much don't beg for people to stick around. We just pay attention to those who do that we, on an individual basis, connect with in some way that we value.

You will either find your group here or you won't.

Way to miss the point.

[Violet]

Way to miss the point.

then elaborate?

[Neville]

then elaborate?

Just figure it out.

[Violet]

Just figure it out.

Because if I missed the point... this really helps.

[bclark619g]

Just figure it out.

You should be in the High IQ subforum.

[Hustler]

Site's dead. Move along folks.


Care to set an example?


*sigh* That's it?

Since you asked...

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/20785f106ad2a23e13cab6f9949128b2We_Have_Had_A_Meeting.jpg

[Neville]

Since you asked...

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/20785f106ad2a23e13cab6f9949128b2We_Have_Had_A_Meeting.jpg


*sigh* That's it?

Ever the disappointment.

[Architectonic]

It's not over 'till the fat NF sings. The more that join, the greater the probability.

[Limey]

I lashed out and blamed the forum for my lowered productivity by unsubscribing from all threads (a few thousand).
I'll be emailed less, it's a start...

[LuridLemur]

I kinda shifted into using this place as a dumping ground. Only really come back to post shit in my own threads. Occasionally somewhere else if it's interesting. Haven't really thought about mbti in a few years either. I mostly look at blogs and threads of people I feel I kind of know or understand.

Never was much for long involved discussions.

[ApeTheDog]

The circle of no-life:

- check subscribed threads. Unsubscribe from ones that are bothering me by showing up in my CP too often.
- check new posts.
- mark forum as read.
- restart later.

[euterpenc]

Probably cause the philosophy section is now in purgatory.

[K9Lawliet]

I don't really have much to say anymore and I ain't even got 300 posts. Turned into a lurker.

[Ashi, K?]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?
As someone who managed to miss the entirety of your celebrated run at “the central”, let me offer up myself to be the proverbial audience of one to your writer in the coming era of renewed Bronzemenship¹.

The people, they clamour for it.


You become limited in what you can do when people "know" you better on the forum. The last time I thought about what I could do for fun on this forum I thought it could be fun to have a pro christianity argument going here - but playing it ridiculously straight-faced and seriously... but the only people I'd be able to troll would be newbies.
I wonder if I could passably use this social interaction-imposted limitation of social interaction as an excuse for my alleged cryptic² persona. Luckily no one here knows me well enough to reasonably discern the difference between this and the secret truth.³

Incidentally, you should do that thread, brotherdog.


INTPc jumped the shark in 2009.
I thought we/they had been doing that every year since 2005.

I kid because I love, but seriously, leave them fridges alone, INTPc!

_____________
¹I promise to never use this term again.
²Not a jab at you.
³Note to those who do in fact know me well enough: nuh uh!

[stuck]

!

The world's smallest exclamation point.

"Audience of one," meet "army of one." Someone fetch me my tron suit.

[Ashi, K?]

The world's smallest exclamation point.

"Audience of one," meet "army of one." Someone fetch me my tron suit.

I must warn you, sir, I was the family champion at Intellivision's awkwardly named “Tron Deadly Discs”, which I persistently misremember being named “Discs of Tron”.

[INThoughtPolice]

Is this a side-effect of working in the entertainment biz? Or am I the one flawed with all my guilt-free worthless posting and cereal thread-killing?

[john_d.]

I read pages 1,2 and 9. My contribution to the "general" idea, based on moderating on a couple of other boards since 2002/2003, is there are "mini-generations" that pass through.

The original generation, after a while, has done it all / seen it all and the thrill is gone except for the occasional tidbit that comes through, and they feel like the board is dead. That original generation either drags the board down while they individually grapple with the situation they are personally going through, or they allow the next generation to prosper (mentally) and take the reins -- assuming there is a next generation with the interest and the maturity to keep it fresh and moving forward.

[john_d.]

Afterthought... don't INTP's tend to master/analyze something sufficiently then move on? :)

Staying on the same task for 2-3 years is like a lifetime. (or maybe that's ADD, which seems to have a lot of overlap)

[Limey]

I load up the central. I stare at a few threads, and don't feel I have anything novel to say. I feel like Gina Gershon in Showgirls, an old blown-out whore.

How do the greats sustain their wrath? Don't you ever feel like everyone can just mentalize your response, and therefore it makes you irrelevant?

My personality disorder/s prevent me from staying the same person for very long.

For example, right now, I'm a Lebanese whore with hemorrhoids, sponsored by <link edited by LR>
It's the Lazarus approach, it's theater 101.

[A Knight Errant]

Don't feel bad.

I blew my wad doin' my intro thread and now I just lurk.