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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Here's my question: Why would a God who can create the universe (and who knows what beyond that, if anything) care if you believed in him or not? TM
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Do you discount that God could have an ego? Is it beyond the realm of possibly that someone in a position of authority and control would want a little ass-kissing? Do you work at biglaw?
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i invented the "anticipated response"
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TGI think this joke has gone from poking fun at paigow to most of you actually trying to take credit for something. and that makes it beyond played out.
TM
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When I first read this, as always i thought i'd take your constructive criticism to heart, and never do an "I invented" post again.
Then, with reflection I realized this would be unfair to the board generally and you in particular. Let me explain:
Why does one post*?
All posts are driven by vanity- we think we can amuse, or educate, or contradict, or flame- but at the heart is a belief that some thought in our brain should be spread across this electronic table we share. That T. is vanity at its purest.
When I do an "I invented", I do believe it; I'm not teasing paigow. It is a manifistation of my vanity, as are all my posts.
I digress, but even your posts sometimes bear a hint of vanity.
You postulate that "I invented" posts are "played out" since they are based upon ego. I submit this is a diffficult test to follow in that all posts are ego-based. I suppose you could argue "I invented" posts are even MORE ego based than most.
Let go to your main thesis: "I invented" posts are strongly ego- based and "played."
I would never question your pronouncement of what is played. You know this sort of thing; surely i cannot shake the opinion.
But here is the rub- if an "I invented" post is 80% vanity, and thus not good for posting, then a line should be drawn to exclude such posts and all which are even more vanity.
In particular, the "its played" post is 86% vanity. If the "I've invented" is played as too much vanity, then QED, so is the "thats played" post. J'accuse Thurgreed, J'accuse!
This would be too slippery a slope. The board needs you to point out for it that which is played. Thus, we cannot draw the line you urge. I will thus continue with "I invented" posts.
*target of anticipated response
