Do you want me here?

[Saya]

I'm Buddhist myself but they don't need to know that.

[Duane]

I'm Athiest, well, I'm off to do Athiest duty, as some of the religious people say here*brings along kerosine a, matches, and a bible*

[Jaye Jang]

Same difference, Duane. Beating people over the head with a bible is forcefeeding religion, and beating people over the head with a burning bible is forcefeeding lack of religion. It just amounts to both both sides of the 'intolerance' coin.

[Duane]

That was just one of my horribly bad jokes. Me, I'd never burn a bible.... unless I was stranded on a island, and all I had to use for tinder was a bible, then I would.

[Jaye Jang]

Duane,

I know you wouldn't, sweetie, but there are people who would do both or either, and they're both pointless endeavors. People are people. You can't change them. You just have to be verry patient, which is not always easy.

[Duane]

Be patient, but I want them to stop. If they don't stop this second, I'm going Punisher on their dim heads!

[coffy x]

Here's a "yes".

[viscus]

Princess Urethra seems to have fucked off, this thread can die now.

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Everything you said is pretty stupid.
First of all, it is gossip.
Second, no I don't always post as if I'm in a bad mood, you just choose to overlook when I'm nice or ambivalent. I can point out like a million instances when I've been perfectly nice and friendly. I won't, because you're a big girl and if you choose to keep thinking the way you do despite it being proveably incorrect, that's up to you.

As for the age thing, I've never said age should be overlooked.
I've said it shouldn't be a deciding factor.

Oh! You -did- reply! My bad. XD

Well, I'm sure there -are- times you've been perfectly nice, but in general, when I see a post of yours, it just isn't...happy.

As for the age thing, you're right...which is why it confused me as to why supposedly 'gossiping' with teens should be any better or worse than 'gossiping' with anyone else. O.o Really, you're quite confusing.

[In all seriousness, though.....why so serious?]

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by LetheanBlacklight

It is when you aren't christian.....
Where I'm at, the general mentality is:
If you're not christian then you are of satan and going to hell ect.

Yikes! x_x;;; They don't sound like much fun.

BTW, Christian + Goth + Liberal here. Can't get much more unpopular than that.

[Godslayer Jillian]

What about atheist leftist hippie?

[PortraitOfSanity]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

What about atheist leftist hippie?

Present...

Well, part hippie anyway.

And, yea, that's a lot more unpopular than goth christian liberal...

[kikrox]

do what makes you happy >>

[Godslayer Jillian]

Then I shall bang a pair of sixteen year-old twins!

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua

Unless, deep down, you like having the so-called 'morons' around because it somehow makes you feel better about yourself.

I can understand if you don't have the experience necessary to realize this, but being among the most intelligent people in a given population is often less than pleasant. Sure, the idiots can, through their antics, provide me with fleeting amusement, and my superiority over them has afforded me a degree of success in the generally meritocratic economic system of the contemporary United States, but I'm almost certain I would prefer to live in a world inhabited primarily by my intellectual equals. It'd be a fucking Utopia.

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus

I can understand if you don't have the experience necessary to realize this, but being among the most intelligent people in a given population is often less than pleasant. Sure, the idiots can, through their antics, provide me with fleeting amusement, and my superiority over them has afforded me a degree of success in the generally meritocratic economic system of the contemporary United States, but I'm almost certain I would prefer to live in a world inhabited primarily by my intellectual equals. It'd be a fucking Utopia.

Well, you could always join a think tank or become a professor at a pretigious university or something.

For some reason, this conversation is reminding me of Big Bang Theory..

[Jaye Jang]

Tam li,

Sorry to disillusion you, but I worked for a professor at a prestigious university many moons ago. You know what they talk about when they think-tank -- what any other locker-room geek talks about. I found them pretty disappointing, but I learned something. People are people, no matter where they come from --- and yes professors may have intellects that are in the stratosphere and still have minds that are in the gutter.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

Then I shall bang a pair of sixteen year-old twins!

Just go cross-eyed while fucking one for the easy way out.

[Unimatrix 00]

I'm staying. I just needed a while to cool down. I hope you'll find my input more pleasurable this time around.

[gothicusmaximus]

There you have it, folks. Democracy doesn't work.

[LetheanBlacklight]

Then everything is destined to fail *until I stand corrected*

[Duane]

Yes...*throws the first draft of his martial arts novel onto the ground, pours gasoline onto it, and lights it on fire*

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by Jaye Jang

Tam li,

Sorry to disillusion you, but I worked for a professor at a prestigious university many moons ago. You know what they talk about when they think-tank -- what any other locker-room geek talks about. I found them pretty disappointing, but I learned something. People are people, no matter where they come from --- and yes professors may have intellects that are in the stratosphere and still have minds that are in the gutter.

Actually, that doesn't surprise me much; one constant in the world is that humans are very different, yet very much the same no matter where you go or what you do.