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Dogomush
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Some observations on the people of this forum

#1815594 - 08/14/03 11:44 PM (23 years, 1 month ago)

People here are interested in spirituality and/or philosophy, and mostly we categorize ourselves as being "believers" and "skeptics." But there's another dualism we fall into on both sides of that main category. I don't know what to call the smart ones, but the other ones are called the numbots. Or maybe the philosobots or the deepdrones. Or how about a combination, the dronebots.

The dronebots don't speak from their own experience, they like to spout spiritual wisdom they got straight from a website or a guru, and often they won't even use their own words. Sometimes they just cut and paste, or maybe link, or maybe copy word for word from a book. They generally have no insight, because they haven't gained the wisdom through experience, and any dickhead can read a silly book.

In fact, let me paraphrase something I read in The Inner Teachings of Daoism. I'd quote directly but I don't have the book here, but I like memorising smart stuff other people said so I can shine the wisdom flashlight in people's eyes: "Students all over the world read some ancient books, ponder a few mystical stories, and think they know the dao. Empowered by their ignorance, these people eventually get students of their own and unknowingly mislead them into the pits of foolishness. It is wrong to do this." I embellished the part about "pits of foolishness" they didn't put it like that.

Anyway, here are some symptoms of these dronebots so you can identify them on this very forum. You'll find they're everywhere. They could be someone you've known for a very long time, maybe someone very close to you, maybe even... YOU!

The dronebot doesn't defend his position very well. This is because the dronebot gets all his wisdom and knowledge from books. Authors can be very convincing and have powerful arguments, but when the dronebot tries to use these arguments in real situations (like on this board) suddenly he finds the points weak and lacking substance. In a controlled situation he can say his stuff and sound smart, but once he has to elaborate on his meager understanding to someone who might question what he believes, the structure of his conviction crumbles like a pile of cheezies and the spiritual beliefs are shown to be nothing but unnaturally flavoured orange dust.

The dronebot supplements his position's structural integrity with other people's words. I mentioned this already. It's like when a bodybuilder takes steroids to get big muscles. The short term gains are substantial.. Spiritual muscle beyond your own wording and understanding, but before too long the debating world's equivalent to random drug testing comes on the scene and shames the dronebot into silence with a harsh ideological dismantling. You don't wanna know what happens if use of these materials goes unchecked.

The dronebot doesn't like it when people openly disagree with them or challenge them to support their stance. This is because the dronebot doesn't even understand the position he defends. He usually resorts to accusing the skeptic of being "close-minded" or "negative." On some level the dronebot knows the house of his ideas is built on a foundation of breakfast cereal, and to temporarily keep the building level the dronebot props a few sticks up against it. When the building inspector comes calling and accuses the dronebot of not having a house up to code the drone says "No, it's fine! Don't be so negative, why are you even here if all you do is say my house isn't up to code?"

And lastly, the dronebots are really "into" spirituality. They see spirituality as this pretty young girl they are pursuing. It's not a part of their life, but they want it to be so. The dronebot chases this girl, but instead of meeting her, copulating, and uniting their energies, the dronebot's relationship to Ms. Spirituality is a little weirder.. unhealthier.. The dronebot might walk around thinking of himself and classifying himself as her boyfriend ("I'm a buddhist! I'm a shaman, I'm a this, I'm a that!") The dronebot develops an infatuation. He imagines the girl naked.. lying on a bearskin rug, watches some porn movies, shaves his back... Where was I going with this? Yeah, basically, the dronebot is to spirituality as a stalker is to a woman.

Soo.... are YOU a dronebot? Am I???

:kiss:

note that swami is the ultimate exposer of dronebots. By casually making light-hearted fun of people's ideas dronebots get all freaky like an old old woman who visits the tanning salon too much. And has an implant in her brain and owns a gun and bathes in petroleum jelly and then slides down the hallways of a nunnery on her belly.

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