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    Simple Question, now vote in the poll.

    For me it has to be an unequvicoal yes. I look back on some of these first threads and what I wrote (at the tender age of 15) and I am shocked. Not becuase I am wrong per se (altough I am one some things) simply becuase my understanding was so limted. Kind off odd to see a fourm has that affect
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    Default Re: Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World

    Yes, it's quite fun to look back on old posts... I recently noticed my english was much better 5 years ago.

    As for the org as a world changing organisation... no. My job here pays my bills but that's it.
    Abandon all hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mithrandir View Post
    Yes, it's quite fun to look back on old posts... I recently noticed my english was much better 5 years ago.
    Mine was worse. I stole your English.

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    Default Re: Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World

    Yes, to a degree. Iowa is a pretty cozy, tolerant little place, but its not exactly diverse in experience or thought process.
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    Default Re: Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World

    nice to see peoples viewpoints from outside the US. But not really.

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    Has to be a yes... It came at a time when I was becoming more aware of politics anyway and I was always going to intrested and follow it a certain amount but this place has allowed me to see it in much more depth than I would have... it has also helped me understand others views...

    This along with alot of historical context to current day events that I would have mostly not known otherwise...

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    Five years of the .org has taught me I shall have to convince the world by brute force, not reason.

    It has also become clear to me that Texans either have a short attention span, or still don't know how to make polls.
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    Its taught me that many people are smarter than me.

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    The Org has not only broadened my horizons in terms of political and cultural understanding, it has also turned me into an elite Special Forces commando who sleeps with many women all of the time.

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    Not at all. I always read Google News, Economist, and Time, so Backroom did not quite change my understanding of the world. But it did make me a better debater, a centrist, and it increased my typing speed to the point where I outpace every one of my classmates - this is really the best thing .Org did for me (because it most of my posts are elsewhere, the Backroom cannot really be credited solely with this achievement of mine).

    Thank you for that, Orgahs

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    Actually, I've come to the realization that the older I get the less I know. Thank God for the booze & happy pills.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    Actually, I've come to the realization that the older I get the less I know. Thank God for the booze & happy pills.
    Yea verily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
    The Org has not only broadened my horizons in terms of political and cultural understanding, it has also turned me into an elite Special Forces commando who sleeps with many women all of the time.
    BA-ZING!

    In the almost five years I've been around here, the backroom has taught me that the world is a frightening, and depressing place. Mostly because you people exist to defy the natural order, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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    It has convinced me there are more people out there who are wrong if that counts for something...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Five years of the .org has taught me I shall have to convince the world by brute force, not reason.
    ROFL, my thoughts when I saw so many sincere replies to the monarchy thread.
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    Default Re: Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World

    Theres a monarchy somewhere?

    I thought the world was a republic.

    Maybe I need to go on a holiday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Five years of the .org has taught me I shall have to convince the world by brute force, not reason.


    Louis, if you ever feel like being worshipped, just PM me, and I will do so

    I will be damned if I ever met a person as humorous and witty as you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post


    Louis, if you ever feel like being worshipped, just PM me, and I will do so

    I will be damned if I ever met a person as humorous and witty as you.
    That's my job
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    That's my job
    But, but, but....

    We can institute a religion, y'know. And why in the Devil's name does Louis not have a fan-club SG? Every other lame bloke in .Org has it, but I do not recollect seeing a group dedicated to Louis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    But, but, but....

    We can institute a religion, y'know. And why in the Devil's name does Louis not have a fan-club SG? Every other lame bloke in .Org has it, but I do not recollect seeing a group dedicated to Louis.
    Becuase mine and Louis' relationship is a closed one and I'm very jelaous. SO BACK OFF
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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