Er...


Frozen badger!

Oh, you naughty ticket!

jamest wrote:

surreptitious57 wrote:I would question the very broad generalisation that people do not enjoy their jobs. No doubt some dont but this cannot be assumed to be a universal or near universal truth. I think job satisfaction is definitely significantly higher among university educated middle class because it gives them status and was probably planned in advance. I think that for the lower class a
job is more a means of just paying the bills and nothing else

{Muppet}

Have you even had a [long-lasting] fucking job?

Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.

-- Marvin

I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.

-- Marvin

I think you ought to know, jamest is feeling very depressed...

james appears to be less than happy with his lot in life and so assumes it must be the same for everyone else as well
Completely over looking the fact that personal contentment is not some fixed absolute but is actually on a spectrum

It might help his view of his lot in life a bit if he didn't stay up till all hours of the morning coiling down half-formed mind-turds on the internet. But will he be told?

I think his single mindedness can be an asset for him as an independent thinker that is not afraid to be unpopular if it means referencing the truth. And the flip side of that is it can also bring out his arrogance. I think there is a very thin line between
the two. I certainly admire his remarkable tenacity after twenty years of debating atheists. He gives it his all and then some

Debating atheists? I admit to not having read every post he's ever made, but of the ones I have read, a common theme appears to be that a claim is made and then the insistence that an argument or explanation has been made has ensued, without actually filling in that middle bit. Add talk about cunts, robes, sandals, squires and badgers. I mean, like, whatever, but if you're going to give something your all, it helps if there is a something.

Fallible wrote:It might help his view of his lot in life a bit if he didn't stay up till all hours of the morning coiling down half-formed mind-turds on the internet. But will he be told?

It would also help if he admitted psychotherapy is legitimate.

Small steps.

Its important to remember that james is here representing the other side so to speak. Just because he has been here from the beginning and we are therefore used to him does not alter that fact. I am not sure that I could survive twenty years on the other side. And so whatever one may think of his philosophy one cannot doubt his commitment to pursuing truth regard less of any thing else. His brutal honesty is a truly admirable quality. It shines through because it is so rare. Very few people are this honest to be quite frank. So I admire any one who tells the truth without fear or consequence to the degree he does

Honesty. OK.

I don't think discussing the person is really the right approach. If I were to disagree with you, surreptitious, it would automatically breach the FUA.

You're supposed to discuss the posts. Those I've seen on this subject tend to be frequently FUA breaking and full of non sequiturs rather than reasoned debate from the "other side".

To be frank, I think Andrew4Handel has probably devoted more effort to making the case that life sucks and nobody deserves to be alive than anyone else anyway, if we're handing out props for disagreeing with the majority view.

jamest's also bloody generous/charitable....takes bravery to be generous IMO......cowards horde their riches.

You are obviously not seeing what I am seeing and I dont necessarily expect you to either. But I can see
it and that is all I am saying. We each see people in different ways and some of us are more sensitive
to identifying certain characteristics than others. And so for me that characteristic is brutal honesty

I'm sure he is, KIR, but we're talking about posts, not people, as Thommo said. However, I'm wondering how many people here have been generous and then not told everyone about it.

Fallible wrote:I'm sure he is, KIR, but we're talking about posts, not people, as Thommo said. However, I'm wondering how many people here have been generous and then not told everyone about it.

That's not accurate fal - I told the forum about it; not him.

surreptitious57 wrote:You are obviously not seeing what I am seeing and I dont necessarily expect you to either. But I can see
it and that is all I am saying. We each see people in different ways and some of us are more sensitive
to identifying certain characteristics than others. And so for me that characteristic is brutal honesty

Brutal honesty about what?

Keep It Real wrote:

Fallible wrote:I'm sure he is, KIR, but we're talking about posts, not people, as Thommo said. However, I'm wondering how many people here have been generous and then not told everyone about it.

That's not accurate fal - I told the forum about it; not him.

You had a go at him and he berated you for doing so after he had given you money.

Fallible wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:

Fallible wrote:I'm sure he is, KIR, but we're talking about posts, not people, as Thommo said. However, I'm wondering how many people here have been generous and then not told everyone about it.

That's not accurate fal - I told the forum about it; not him.

You had a go at him and he berated you for doing so after he had given you money.

The cat was out of the bag before that IIRC....I'm pretty fucking certain it was anyway.