Destruction of America

Money= destruction of america

Dazed wrote: What I see in you, Bugg, is someone who puts ego before understanding, and searches for the spotlight instead of forging community with his peers.

I've tried being one witht he "community of my peers" Yet I get flak for liking what I like. You're right, maybe I don't always do the right thing, but no one ever does. Before March of this year, I was arguebally one of the nicest people pn the forum, then I said LB was coming out with a CD and I got flamed. So I fought back. I've spent my WHOLE life being the nice guy, doing what other people want me to do, even if it doesn't benefit me in any way. I'm tired of it. That may sound selfish, but it's true. I shouldn't be counted on to help everyone on a whim. I'm my own person too, so I am allowed to have my own opinions. I'm not like some out-of-his mind insurgant, I'm human. I do what's right, not what's thought that I should do.

Dazed wrote: Its sad that there is so much talk of how this forum has gone downhill, and so much talk of what needs to be done, yet here we are with one of our supposed "regulars" lets the truth come out that, in the end, this is just some stupid place on the internet and he doesn't have to be resposible for his actions, not even to his reflection.

I never said that this forum was a wasteland for my feelings. I said I shouldn't have ot prove myself and my beliefs to people I don't/ will never meet. I AM responsibale for my actions, but name one "action" that has caused harm to anyone? I wouldn't consider myself a man if I didn't take responisbility. Hell, I'll take the bullet for my friends from time ot time, if the cause is right.

This forum is a greta place, where many friends have been made and there is a lot of comradiship(sp).

Before a couple of months ago, you would NEVER see me inside T&O, but I feel like I should release my opinions without being flamed ofr them, which has NOT happened.

I hope I made that clear to you.

Dune wrote: Now I see the center of Dib's argument. He's just mad because he hates getting made fun of by other cultures. It's nice to see that when someone speaks at a different tone in a different language to him he stereotypes them into calling him and infidel or something else stupid. Way to prove your point with stereotypical remarks.

Was that to me?

I debate in T&O opinions not to win or to lose but because I want to see what other people think and how I can work something out with someone that sees something different than myself. Nothing is ever going to be accomplished if two sides cant ever agree on anything. There have been several discussions where my stance on something has been changed because of the way someone esle sees things. Not nessisarily alot of change but the lines in my mind are constantly shifting which I think it very healthy for progress. People that dont ever change are just a waste of time.

Ejp414 wrote: and the other half hates Bugg.

Well, atleast it's only half

Dune wrote: Bugg wrote: Ejp414 wrote: and the other half hates Bugg. Well, atleast it's only half Maybe he's understating?

not to be ironic... but ya lost me

Bugg wrote: I've tried being one witht he "community of my peers" Yet I get flak for liking what I like. You're right, maybe I don't always do the right thing, but no one ever does. Before March of this year, I was arguebally one of the nicest people pn the forum, then I said LB was coming out with a CD and I got flamed. So I fought back. I've spent my WHOLE life being the nice guy, doing what other people want me to do, even if it doesn't benefit me in any way. I'm tired of it. That may sound selfish, but it's true. I shouldn't be counted on to help everyone on a whim. I'm my own person too, so I am allowed to have my own opinions. I'm not like some out-of-his mind insurgant, I'm human. I do what's right, not what's thought that I should do.

And because someone was mean to you you thought that sinking to their level is ok? What part of that is honorable? What part of your mind says "yep, this helps me hold on to my integrity". By giving in, and seeing nothing wrong with being like them, you become one of them, and tell me, do you consider people who would repeatedly dog you about something so simple, just to get a rise out of you, worth respecting?

Where did I say anything about helping anyone? I said do the right thing for yourself.

And I didn't say anything about being a nice guy. There is often a world of difference between nice and honourable. You don't try to be either, you try to be the “hero in white, never wrong-always right”. You try to dominate others with your opinions, but come off looking like the good guy, even to the point of irrationality in cases. Kind of like a religious fanatic actually, in that respect. You say here that you don't always do the right, thing, yet how often do you admit to being wrong.

Bugg wrote: I never said that this forum was a wasteland for my feelings. I said I shouldn't have ot prove myself and my beliefs to people I don't/ will never meet. I AM responsibale for my actions, but name one "action" that has caused harm to anyone? I wouldn't consider myself a man if I didn't take responisbility. Hell, I'll take the bullet for my friends from time ot time, if the cause is right.

Name one of these threads that has done someone any good. Tell me how calling Ryan an idiot for expressing his opinion by linking to an article(the same thing you've been doing) is right. Tell me how calling me vulgar names isn't harmful.Tell me how “forgetting” that you did it is taking responsibility for you actions. Tell me how saying 3/11 was a good thing isn't harmful, and how then denying you said it is taking responsibility for your actions.

And to take this from a moral stance to a logical one, why are you in here “arguing” if you don't want to prove your opinion to people? Why do you get so enflamed and call people names and doggedly persist in ignoring us when we find holes in your logic, call you on your hypocracies, and then back up and change your stance entirely, unless you mean to prove your point to people? If you don't want to have to defend your opinions, you shouldn't post threads about them, shouldn't reply to people that attack them, and shouldn't attack other people whose opinions differ, right?

In one of the arguments in Regulars, you even told me that you weren't actually fully reading my posts, just skimming them, yet you responded without hesitation, and most of the time without actually replying to my point, just rambling the same thing you had been saying, yelling at me, or nit-picking at metaphors and examples. That sounds like someone who wants to win an argument, not someone who wants to express his opinions. What does it sound like to you, Bugg?

Obviously, if you don't feel you have to prove yourself to us, you wouldn't argue with us, right? Yet you obviously like arguing with us, and will even move away from the point to technicalities to win, as you said earlier. Don't those two reasoning contradict each other?

but I feel like I should release my opinions without being flamed ofr them, which has NOT happened.

Does that make your reactions any more right?

Now you're just lying to me bugg, and once again ignoring the parts of my argument you can't mount a defense to, most of which are the major points of my agrument.

You're also being hypocritical, again. You say you don't divert from the point of the argument, yet your first point is correcting a minor detail(and really, does it matter how many people one killed, they are still a murderer). You then go on to repeat something you have said several times, and wasn't even something I commented on. I made no connection between you and .ryan regarding your seperate threads, yet here you are defending your attacks on him as if I did. All I did was state that calling him names was in no way the "right thing to do", here you are trying to rationalize it again, and keep from answering the over all question.

Once again proving that you do try to draw me away from the real arguments I'm making. Yet thats something you later claim you don't do that, either. You claim to never leave the point of the argument to find technicalities, yet everything you've said here is either a nit-picking, running away with an example I made, or completely off topic. Yes, you held to the point very well.

You also claim that I don't find holes in your logic. I did that in my previous post, by pointing out that you don't feel you have to prove anything to us, but attack other people so much, and spread your opinions with more fervor than a Jehovah's Witness*, and asking you how those two things togther make any sense. That shows a hole in your logic, you don't act by what you say. If you believe that everyone should be free to voice their opinion, and you shouldn't have to prove yourself to us, you wouldn't attack us or argue ar all with us. Thus, I showed that you do differently than you say you believe. And thats not only hypocracy, but a self made hole in the logic you use to live your life.

Much more important that the logic you use in your arguments, I think.

Go back to my previous post, re-read it, and then give me a point-by-point repose, or at least something closer than what you tried here. Find a way to refute the point of my argument as a whole, rather than the individual details. Use your own examples, create your own metaphors, make your counter-points in ways that make them clear to us, not you.

Edited by Dazed

I hate bugg

Imigrants make damn fine burritos

Not a pope wrote: I hate bugg Imigrants make damn fine burritos

Good for you, you've been here less than a day.

I never said no immigrants, I said no ILLEGAL immigrants, and you guys can't get that through your heads.