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Once upon a time, on a forum far, far away...
StoreTags: bad bleach hair, wankers, trolls
Author: Zanf on July 25 2006 Viewed 4115 times. 23 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Someone wise once posted a thread in a forum a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, that said about "Ignoring bad behaviour and rewarding good".
I am too old and grisled to remember all the wise words that this alien overlord emparted to us but the thread title was a good encapsulation of his wisdom on the subject.
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bsr
someone even wiser said in said thread: 'attacking a troll is like masturbation, it's good at the time but you feel dirty afterwards'.
still relevant and still true.
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Zanf
Another wise thing someone said that i liked was: "most people confuse knowledge with intelligence but thats like confusing a glass of milk with a cow".
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bleen
someone also said, "why is a mouse when it spins?"
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yghartsyrt
true word from old people.
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Raaphorst
African artist Ali Farka Toure once said this:
"If you know something and don’t want to share it, then you are selfish. You came after someone, and someone else will come after you. You can’t learn the entire sea by heart. No. That is why god created waves in the river and in the sea. Some leave, and some come."
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Zanf
beautiful.
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Roshi
This reminds me of the NY Times article that is super popular right now: link . How Shamu saved my marriage. Basically: don't reinforce bad behavior by acknowledging it.
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lunatinker
once wise said someone: "Hey! Where the fuck are my hard boiled eggs!"
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jdg
i once had this scab i kept picking at it, it took forever to heal, and now i have scar
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mlbot
attacking trolls makes you go blind
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n9
I write things that are stupid in little windows on my computer. And then I close the window and no, I don't want to save. Eventually I hope that this will make me grown up.
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quip
Raaphorst said: "African artist Ali Farka Toure once said this:
"If you know something and don’t want to share it, then you are selfish. You came after someone, and someone else will come after you. You can’t learn the entire sea by heart. No. That is why god created waves in the river and in the sea. Some leave, and some come.""
i like this alot. i try and teach people the stuff i know cos i know people find it helpful and that i can give people the gift of knowledge. people have taught me stuff here and elsewhere and i know that it helps. if everyone taught a little of what the know, and people were receptive then the world would be better.
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mlbot
I came up with a better way to phrase that.
You can't hoard knowledge, but you can whore it.
let us meditate upon this truth together.
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Plissken
A student said to the chief monk, “Help me to pacify my mind!â€
The chief monk said, “Bring your mind over here and I will pacify it.â€
The student said, “But I don’t know where my mind is!â€
The monk replied, “Then I have already pacified it.â€
The student said, “Explain to me in detail what you have just done.â€
The chief monk was silent.
The student said, “Well?â€
The monk hung his head, saying, “I tried to confuse you so that you would go away.â€
from here: link
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betamod
From the Principia Discordia, my "bible":
A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America
confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself
the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled. One night in a
coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated
mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do
not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon
rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main
hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast
corner, face the corner, and meditate." He did just as the Zen Master
instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He
worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the
second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on.
He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He
worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him.
His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his
faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people
walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting
there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is
a shithead."
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