From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-11-18, Nathan Smith  wrote:   
   > oldernow  writes:   
   >>    it's not that   
   >>  i'm looking down   
   >>  on you as though   
   >>     you're dumb   
   >>   
   >>   it's just that   
   >>    attempting to   
   >>  discuss anything   
   >>    with someone   
   >>   who hasn't done   
   >>  roughly the same   
   >> homework on a topic   
   >>     is painful   
   >>   
   >> so i put feelers /   
   >>   tests out there   
   >>   
   >>  which attempt to   
   >> help others reveal   
   >>  how much homework   
   >>    they've done   
      
   > What your describing is what some call mental   
   > masturbation. Not calling you out personally, I   
   > am simply letting anyone reading this know that   
   > people who engage in mental masturbation often   
   > aren't worth discussing anything with even if   
   > they spent all those "long hard hours" reading   
   > the first 2% of Wikipedia articles and watching   
   > 5 minute videos. Their "greater intellect" is   
   > mostly just a sham obscured by the ways which   
   > communication online takes place. Underneath   
   > that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure villain flavor   
   > ego is a sad little worm like creature who   
   > feeds off the souls they crush online. If you   
   > run into one of these worms don't reply. Their   
   > "greater intellect" will not rub off on you. They   
   > are just there to make you stroke their sad   
   > little penis. These people are not worth your   
   > time. Just run.   
      
   All mental is arguably masturbation, especially   
   from another's point of view.   
      
   The mental illness called ego (which is rooted in   
   the idea of being a separate, free-willed being)   
   puts possessors thereof in the troubling position   
   of having to trust your "greater intellect" as   
   being able to see the "greater intellect" you   
   refer to as being the sham of a sad little worm.   
      
   It seems to me it's best to let others find their   
   own way through the hideous realm of sad little   
   worms bouncing off the illusions of themselves   
   and each other. If you don't like something,   
   ignore it. Or not. If you see a pattern, I've   
   heard there's a mechanism called the "killfile"   
   that might be of service so long as the sad   
   little worm in question remains consistent with   
   the posting identity. Or not.   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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