Recent content by TheThinker

A great big congratulations on actually conveying your rant eloquently! I can empathise a little, I grew up with an older sister who could do no wrong. She won awards and scholarships left and right, got the top of the state for her end of school exams, is doing honours in some ridiculous...

"... I don't care that my opinion is often wildly outspoken, and ignored by the majority, I'd rather offend someone and get them questioning or defending their own view than to just continue adding pointlessly to a thread." and "...I sometimes just make a long and intentionally counterintuitive...

And I bet that little gem took a lot of thought too. Wow, is sarcasm hard.

Being concise has never been my strong suit, I am working on it but the nature of a cathartic rant is that you keep going until your frustration is spent. No, you both missed where I said that this is true of almost everybody, and I acknowledge that I am an offender as well. How is it...

Oh god, I wish I had that image to begin with. A lot of the results of surveys I have been looking at place peoples own attitudes as vastly different to what they think any other random persons attitudes would be, because they assume for some reason that they are naturally nobler than the...

Well not exactly, as I made some threads that were search bar approved for the sake of having a different topic brought up, but they were all met with minimal attention, which was one of the things that made me go on a rant. I saw all these threads a while back complaining about the lack of...

You are right; it did bother me. Perhaps some need of self validation mixed with the confirming of my own beliefs (that people would not bother with any reply, or a quick one liner) that I talked about in the OP. Hey, I just learned something about myself. Haha, glad you felt like posting...

News to me, I wanted to change my name so I made a new account. Besides, what if more than one person uses the computer and forum. If my brother has an account, I get banned?

Interesting, I had to analyse the documentary of Status Anxiety by de Botton for an assignment. For some reason I hadn't considered that people might really care what a group of strangers on the internet thought of them. I guess it isn't unnatural to care even instinctual, and I think I do a...

I don't think it is unreasonable to think that people want some decent discussion, considering all the threads that people make saying "What's with all the repeat threads" and complaining about how the forums are going downhill. I'm not assuming everyone comes on here for a deep discussion...

Well, thanks for saying something relevent. I don't understand the post count thing. I grab a new name and face so often on here that mine never gets extremely high. It just doesn't seem like an important measure of credibility to me.

I definately had the same thing, though to a lesser degree no doubt. I took a lot of time off study, and coming back everyone a few years younger is now my peer. I made an effort to make friends when I was first at uni, but now when I talk to people I just get bored so quickly with what they...

I've always taken anarchy as every man for himself, not always in the sense that you might kill to get what you need, but that everyone does things their own way without being told what is right or wrong and being guided by any institution. I think anarchy can work, but not now. I think it is...

How is ranting bad? Ranting is brilliant. I wrote that in 20 minutes, and said what I felt without any desire to change any of those feelings to cater to anybody. Sure, rants might often just be a whole lot of nothing mixed with a bit of anger or frustration, but I'll be damned if I'd ever call...

I'm sorry to disappoint. This is in fact a thread about how people love these inane little threads (I changed the title, so now this makes very little sense) . I'm sorry to be deceptive, but it's the only way to get people to come into a thread. Indeed, this thread may be a challenge in itself...