[Preechr]

You are a very weird guy, kahljorn.

I totally respect your ability to use logic and form opinions, yet I generally have no respect for your opinions once stated. Please don't take that as an insult. Your ability to be so right and so wrong at the same time amazes me. The world inside your head is brightly lit and everything seems well-connected, it's just that what's in there generally has no relation whatsoever to reality.

I keep wanting to sit down and take apart posts of yours such as this one, but then I remember the times I've tried that before. It makes me dizzy. It just does no good. We could discuss stuff for days at a time, and nothing would come of it. You are either one click on the dial away from being Geggy (whom I don't consider stupid, just confused) or a troll that does a great job of keeping threads going.

The answers you invent to problems you've invented show how intelligent you are. The problem is, you haven't ever bothered to accumulate any actual WISDOM. If a discussion comes up about a book or a person, you are Johnny on the spot with all the knowledge you've accumulated from a cursory glance at Wikipedia or a quick skim of a linked article, but you won't actually go out and get a freakin BOOK on a topic that interests you and READ IT, preferring instead to ask someone to nutshell whatever it is for you.

That's a tremendous waste, in my opinion, of the above average brain in your head. Quit being so intellectually lazy. Stop making up excuses for how you behave. There's no nobility to it at all, no matter how easily you can convince yourself there is. Again, this is not an insult. If I felt you had no chance of progressing past the level you've chosen, I'd just ignore you and move on. You can question my right to say this or the accuracy of my assessment of you, but I'd ask you to first question what it is you are defending and why.

If you respected the power of objective reasoning at all, you wouldn't be caught saying things like, "You know I really don't know why people think humans are anything more than animals." I once made you an offer that I'd mail you brand-spanking-new copies of several books I'd love to see you read. That offer is still open. PM me an address, and you will have them in a week.

You will re-join reality one day, but doing so is a life-long process. You will thoroughly enjoy it, and it will totally be worth the trouble, and I hope you will do it sooner rather than after you go completely nuts. The world needs people like you to consider themselves more than just animals. What makes you human is that you can THINK. You can REASON. You have options other than instinct and self-gratification. You have no limits other than those you place on yourself. I promise you that I'm not the only person in the world that's noticed the chains that bind you.