Old 09-28-2006, 03:26 AM   #41
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Wait, what?

What did I do? I am confused.
Double negative.

Interestingly enough, that would have flown completely over my head if I hadn't picked up English Grammar for Dummies today when I had some time to kill in Borders. I didn't agree with a lot the guy said, but I did learn that "can't help but" is a double negative.

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Old 09-28-2006, 03:36 AM   #42
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I like how Rai just doesn't like Laharl and La feels he needs to make a deal out of it. Rai can be an ass, I can be an ass. You just have to avoid em or ignore em. Right? I just don't see where this thread would be going. Really, I haven't read where this thread has went, but I don't see where La was trying to make it go.

La, get some balls.

Rai, follow the Bambi rule.
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Old 09-28-2006, 11:57 AM   #43
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Double negative.

Interestingly enough, that would have flown completely over my head if I hadn't picked up English Grammar for Dummies today when I had some time to kill in Borders. I didn't agree with a lot the guy said, but I did learn that "can't help but" is a double negative.

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Uh, yeah, actually. That's the point. It's like saying the author cannot NOT write about something that touches home with their personal ideas. See? Still perfectly understandable.

@ UberMario:

The size of my testicles is in question now because I'm not going to take crap from a skeezy dweeb only capable of acting tough online because people would just laugh at him in person for opening his mouth? Okay, buddy.
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Old 09-28-2006, 02:57 PM   #44
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BACK ON TOPIC.....

It isn't being a different personality on the net that bothers me, I have to admit, that I have formed some changes myself, between how I am online and offline, although I am basically the same person.

My problem is with the people who say "Hell, it is the internet, I can be an ass, cause I never have to see these people". This is the type of person that says "You are only breaking the law if you get caught".

People who say it is different because it is the net, are actually just showing their true colors of how they would be in real life when they feel there are no ramifications for their actions. Of course, this isn't 100% true. No one idea is 100% true, but I have seen this type of thing time and time again.
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Old 09-28-2006, 04:26 PM   #45
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Do you act differently around your friends than your parents?
Do you act differently at school as opposed to at home?
Do you act differently at work as opposed to at school?

See, I think its fine to act differently in these situations. Obviously if you're with your grandmother you're not going to swear and tell dirty jokes, but if you're with your best buds, why the hell not!

This is the same logic I apply to the internet, you act differently in different places not necessarily because you're acting out of personality in any of them, you simply are intelligent enough to adapt your actions to what is suitable for the time and place.

If a joker doesn't tell jokes at a funeral they're not being a coward, they're not being duplicitous, they're being NORMAL, they're being a good person.

If anything I said here seems to contradict what I said before (and it might) then disregard what I said before and listen to this. I actually forgot about the stance I formulated about treating different people differently (not as in racism, if that's what you're wondering, we were talking about what their relation to you was (friend, acquaintance, enemy, stranger, etc.))

@Laharl: Calling what you beleive "the Truth" or whatever is probably why everyone hates you. What is white to you is black to us (us as in, the atheists and agnostics of FFR).
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Old 09-28-2006, 04:48 PM   #46
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Uh, yeah, actually. That's the point. It's like saying the author cannot NOT write about something that touches home with their personal ideas. See? Still perfectly understandable.
The thing about "can't help but (noun)" is that it's easily turned into a single negative without ruining the meaning by saying "can't help (gerund)". As such, "can't help but (noun)" is inherently grammatically incorrect.

In your case, the correct thing to say would be "can't help writing a novel".
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The point is that I do and say whatever I want in real life. The internet serves as that extra amount of output for my cynicism while I'm doing my homework.

Not a big deal.

But if I say something to you here seriously, I'd say it to your face. Regardless of how tough you think you are...

By "you" I'm not talking about Laharl exclusively.
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Old 09-28-2006, 08:14 PM   #48
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I think Cenright captured what I was meaning better than I ever could have.

@ Hr2: When I say "The Truth", it's not that there is a black or white. I mean, there is, but I realize it's different for each person. Most people don't really care to get their viewpoints and beliefs pinned down enough that their ideas even could become definite.

The reason I am disliked here is because I'm not afraid of telling people they are acting like a two year old, and that their ideas aren't formulated so much as brainwashed into them. I realize it's an unpopular stance. Funny thing is, I wouldn't really care to bring it up except that others go out of their way to say that to me. Treat me with respect, I treat you with respect. Treat me like scum, I treat you like scum. I actually prefer to treat people with respect. I really do. I just don't bother with people that are incapable of doing so. People only seem to respond to people that act the same way they do, though, which is a crying shame.

I should make a whole new topic on that, but I'm out of Flame-Proof®.
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Old 09-28-2006, 08:53 PM   #49
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I think Cenright captured what I was meaning better than I ever could have.

@ Hr2: When I say "The Truth", it's not that there is a black or white. I mean, there is, but I realize it's different for each person. Most people don't really care to get their viewpoints and beliefs pinned down enough that their ideas even could become definite.

The reason I am disliked here is because I'm not afraid of telling people they are acting like a two year old, and that their ideas aren't formulated so much as brainwashed into them. I realize it's an unpopular stance. Funny thing is, I wouldn't really care to bring it up except that others go out of their way to say that to me. Treat me with respect, I treat you with respect. Treat me like scum, I treat you like scum. I actually prefer to treat people with respect. I really do. I just don't bother with people that are incapable of doing so. People only seem to respond to people that act the same way they do, though, which is a crying shame.
By the way I was extremely religious up until about 3-4 years ago, considering religious influences had not left me at all at this time (in some ways they had escalated) I would say that it would be VERY hard to say I've been brainwashed; I came to my conclusions about religion a few years after developing some serious doubts about divine intervention and creationism.

I didn't mean that your "the Truth" stuff was a black and white issue, I was just saying that it is a pretentious thing to call your belief "the Truth" with capitalized letters. It seems very condescending to anyone who doesn't believe in the same thing as you, and many of us have done just as much research into our beliefs (current or former) and many of us are also very spiritual too, we just direct our spirituality at something other than god. I think that you stereotype atheists more than you claim to be being stereotyped.

Calling your stance "the Truth" does not treat our stances with any respect at all. While many of our members don't treat your stance with respect, it would be nice for you to realize that some of us don't think you're treating our stance with respect either. I have grown weary of religious conversations, I've had too many with some of my friends, but this is another kind of thing, and I dunno, I don't think you're an idiot, and I think you could gain (at least my) respect if you kept making topics like these ones and maybe tried to be less condescending.
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Old 09-28-2006, 09:08 PM   #50
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Well, see, I also don't have a problem with you. :P One thing that it takes awhile to realize is that I speak in generalizations when I'm talking to someone specifically, and it's mostly to highlight a flaw in that specific person than it is to talk about that entire community. It's a bad habit I've picked up from being on the recieving end of that criticism for all of my life, and you know what? I'll work on it and try not to.

Also, I don't think I have specifically stated my stance as being The Truth. I am in constant search of it, because I don't believe it's obtainable in it's entirety in this life. I feel that there are a lot of things I believe that are pieces of it, but I bet they are the same parts you might consider to be utter, undeniable Truth yourself. (Let's say for example that murder is wrong. I think most everyone on earth agrees with this. There are specifics as to what constitutes murder we could argue on, but basically, if someone kills another and you label it as murder, you believe it was wrong.) Basically, I think it's the search for whatever The Truth is in your life that's important, not so much the end result.
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Old 09-29-2006, 01:07 AM   #51
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Also, I don't think I have specifically stated my stance as being The Truth. I am in constant search of it, because I don't believe it's obtainable in it's entirety in this life. I feel that there are a lot of things I believe that are pieces of it, but I bet they are the same parts you might consider to be utter, undeniable Truth yourself. (Let's say for example that murder is wrong. I think most everyone on earth agrees with this. There are specifics as to what constitutes murder we could argue on, but basically, if someone kills another and you label it as murder, you believe it was wrong.) Basically, I think it's the search for whatever The Truth is in your life that's important, not so much the end result.

Nice obtuse undefineable philosophy there.
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Old 09-29-2006, 03:33 AM   #52
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I just read through everyone's arguments here and although a number of different topics have been brought up I would like to address what seems to be the original one; people acting different on the internet than in real life.

I agree that it happens a lot. There is no way to deny that people change small things about the way they act while on the internet. In some extreme cases people change their whole life on the internet (such as changing their family status and profession). As it was said before, this is no different to real life where we change the way we act, depending on who is around us and the situation we are in.

However there are many different reasons why people do this on the internet. In some cases people are looking for acceptance from others whereas in other cases they might be simply looking to vent some excess anger or stress. In both these cases I don't see anything negative.
If a person works 9-5 every day in a small cubicle for a boss who couldn't care less, they will build up anger and stress. If they are timid they may be unlikely to share their feelings with their real life friends causing the anger to build up over time. However if they can then go on the internet and express this anger in an environment where they won't hurt their job or other people how can it be a bad thing?

The main point I am trying to make is that changing yourself on the internet is very much a healthy thing to do. If a person is able to relieve stress through acting out a 'persona' in an environment where they cannot physically hurt anyone instead of going out and starting a fight, how can it be a bad thing?

I realize there are some flaws in my argument, such as in the case of a pedophile taking on the persona of a child in order to gain trust or an unstable person being affected by something someone said to them on the internet. However nothing is 100% good, there will always be negative consequences.
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Old 09-30-2006, 12:05 PM   #53
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Thanks Laharl. I THOUGHT that was what you were trying to get at.
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