I might count this as my Friday post...

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Most people I know ahve probably heard about Ron. What you might not know is that Ron and I get into large "discussions" from time to time. I had a rather long reply to some stuff he said and I thought I would share. This all began with an update to my profile on Facebook and Ron's comment to it

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Doing Great

[corlawc]

I've talked with Ron but I don't know him that well, so this post was most fascinating.

You are doing great! The reason I didn't give you topics is because in order to update regularly, you have to be able to come up with topics and motivation on your own. Thusfar your range of topics has been diverse, interesting, and a good read. Congratulations :)

[svafnae]

*jaw drops*

You know, you guys have the most surprising conversations when you're not discussing video games.

This comment thing better not have a limit.

[anonymous]

Senor Phil, what is this trickery? If I need to I'll end up making an LJ account just to respond to you

Down with Phil!

[anonymous]

It was here at Mercer that I had my epiphany. During my time as an undergrad I bumped into all sorts of people. Academic elites like yourself, Dr. Dark, Hoof, D, Simon, JD, Becca, Mizz all of you guys pretty much. I would later talk to all of you sometimes on a one on one basis, sometimes in groups but it was always the same. It was during these talks that I realized something, all of you guys were a product of your environment. I pegged all of you as exceptionally gifted individuals able to solve any task but it would always boil down to if it wasn't in a book, you guys brushed it aside or downright didn't know it. This isn't problematic at all though because its natural to only care about what affects you

Waaaaay too long

[anonymous]

Phil, you being "selfish" isn't a rare trait. Infact, Adam Smith, the father of Economics said that "man is self-serving in nature." It is HUMAN for you to think about yourself first but guess what? In doing so, you ACTUALLY further the goals of society and here's how. You grow up thinking about yourself, wanting to become educated and to eventually have a nice productive family. All you ever did in life was aimed at accomplishing this goal. Sure you did some people wrong during your travels but your eventual end would produce

roflwaffles

[anonymous]

You say "well Ron, you started too late." I say "well Phil, you are living 50+ years in the damn past." In today's society, to be a changing force in the environment, all one needs are effort, intelligence, massive amounts of resources and tremendous amounts of power. While I'm sure the notion of a headstart is a good one, you are misguided in that there is an actual mold a world changer needs to fit. I need power. Power comes from money since everything in life has a cost. Even my life as well as your's has one. Think for a second, just because you can't pay the cost does not mean it doesn't exist. Maybe noone in the world can pay the cost and then its irrelevant right? Wrong, it still shows that on some level, you can be bought. There is a WHOLE lot more to this argument. However, understanding that everything and everyone can potentially be bought is all that is important because it shows I can offer incentives in return for your action in most cases

Random thought of the day

[anonymous]

Most people by now have seen the Fruit of the Loom commercial featuring their little jingle "You Can't Overlove Your Underware". Ignoring the pedophilic undertones of going on about the boy, note the lyric "A boy in pure white briefs". Now note that the boy in the commercial is wearing blue boxers. Now, when you're making an underware commercial, and you're specifically gonna mention the kind of underware a certain character is suposed to be wearing... dont you think that the commercial should actually SHOW that?

-Marc

Re: Random thought of the day

[anonymous]

lol