Has The Backroom Increased Your Understanding of The World
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
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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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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Mine was worse. I stole your English.Originally Posted by Mithrandir
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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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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...
Great place!
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nice to see peoples viewpoints from outside the US. But not really.
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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.
Awwr.
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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.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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Yea verily.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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Not a jot.
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Do not mind that traitor... It is difficult to learn when one is so busy spamming
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I used to be such a jerk. Now I'm an older and wiser jerk. Whether that maturity has anything to do with the Org remains a matter of fierce debate.
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Before I visited the Backroom, I had no idea there was an outside world. I was much happier back then.
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ROFL, my thoughts when I saw so many sincere replies to the monarchy thread.
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Theres a monarchy somewhere?
I thought the world was a republic.
Maybe I need to go on a holiday.
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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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I learned almost nothing from this place. For the most part, I learned more about someones position from researching it myself and not from their self righteous explanation/elaboration.
One exception:
Around when I first entered, Crazed Rabbit was awesome enough (although a bit hostile in the beginning) to fully explain his pro gun stance which I thought was more sensible then the anti gun people in the thread mostly regurgitating the same appeal to emotions. I have been for the most part pro gun since.
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My english has improved considerably, but did I learn anything, no not really. Entered at a different stage of my life I guess.
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Yes. Not only understanding but my opinions and personality. In short the backroom changed my life..
Forever.
"A lamb goes to the slaughter but a man, he knows when to walk away."
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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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That's my job
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.
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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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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Becuase mine and Louis' relationship is a closed one and I'm very jelaous. SO BACK OFFBut, 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.
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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I challenge you to a duel. Being gentleman that I am, I give you a choice of weapons.
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He [among others] got me too when I joined. I was a raging, isolationist left-winger when I signed up at the .Org (not communist exactly, but an authoritarian social democrat...a little bit between the SPD and the SED/Die Linke). Various events, not least those at the .Org, made me do almost a complete 180. I'd never bothered to research conservative theory before, and when I started, I loved it immediately. Never looked back.
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So I always wondered, EMFM, how is it that you are so authoritarian? Only KukriKhan and me are less libertarian in this whole Backroom. And I am not even completely certain if Kukri was serious...
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