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What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend?
    #2319114 - 02/09/04 06:53 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319125 - 02/09/04 06:57 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

Maybe it's all of them.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319126 - 02/09/04 06:57 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

Personally, I'm here to find like-minded people, explore new ideas, and attack & defend (merely for the occasional ego boost).

Hmm...maybe I'm being too honest?


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319133 - 02/09/04 06:58 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

I try to learn the most I can, all that i can get out of the threads and the progression of a discussion. But sometimes i lose the point of some threads, and i dont end up learning too much. I can see a lot of behavior, but other than that, i try to pick up as much information as i can. The more clouded that information is though, the harder it is to pick up on.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319136 - 02/09/04 06:59 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

To learn, most definately.

Though this may not be true for everyone...I'm quite sure it is for me.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: trendal]
    #2319160 - 02/09/04 07:03 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319165 - 02/09/04 07:05 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

Shucks...now I feel like a jackass  :stoned:


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: trendal]
    #2319171 - 02/09/04 07:06 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think there is neccassarily any purpose to us being here, and I especially disagree with attacking and defending as possibilities..  Attack & Defend reminds me of a spectrum, equal to black and white - one side vs the other - this is the kind of view I think a lot of us are trying to pull away from - if there was one purpose that can be agreed upon, it's to experience.  We're all here, and we all experience - learning is something that comes along with that, bu as the purpose, I don't think so...

who knows tho..  I just spew bullshit half the time anyways :wink: :laugh:


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Viaggio]
    #2319176 - 02/09/04 07:07 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319221 - 02/09/04 07:18 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

I guess I'd be considered an "attacker," but it's not so much to defeat others as to make them defend their views. I hate it when people make outrageous claims and then when those claims are questioned they claim their beliefs are being persecuted. If a person can properly defend their beliefs in the face of skeptical inquiry, they have my respect.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319284 - 02/09/04 07:31 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

Folks always ask "why are we here?" or "what is the meaning of life?", yet are 'why' and 'what' and other questions only concepts which exsist in the human experience. Maybe we need to see beyind our humanisms and accept that 'it just is'.

Just a thought


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Sole_Worthy]
    #2319293 - 02/09/04 07:33 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

I think MM was trying to define the typical poster's intention...right?


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319301 - 02/09/04 07:35 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

I'm here for the interaction I do not get in real life.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Viaggio]
    #2319314 - 02/09/04 07:37 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

im sleepy


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: silversoul7]
    #2319320 - 02/09/04 07:38 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319335 - 02/09/04 07:41 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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It's exactly like the time I was abducted. The Martians made many claims that simply couldn't be true. I tried probing them for answers but they merely turned it around and probed me. In the end, we were probed, a lot. 




:lol: I am putting you on probation for that one.


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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Viaggio]
    #2319342 - 02/09/04 07:42 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2319349 - 02/09/04 07:43 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319350 - 02/09/04 07:44 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

my purpose in being here is to get out of here. 

attacking and defending are for tools :nut:

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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
    #2319356 - 02/09/04 07:45 PM (20 years, 1 month ago)

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Like many people here, I joined for the mushrooms, but stayed for the sex.




I thought it would be cool to combine both of them, until I got a nasty fungus from sex.


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