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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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.Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito
Actually, I've come to the realization that the older I get the less I know. Thank God for the booze & happy pills.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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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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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...
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
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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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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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I think it's the test. If you're on the right-wing of the spectrum, it appears to be easier to be more authoritarian. I came to the conclusion that it's because of issues like abortion (just an example). I see my stance on abortion as guaranteeing freedom for the child, whereas the test appears to see it as opposing freedom for the mother. I don't recall if it asks about gun control at all. Regardless of that, however, my stance has shifted even more to libertarianism in the past year. On more recent political compass tests I fit somewhere between 31, 24, and 47.
I certainly was an authoritarian conservative at one point. My stance shifted from authoritarian socialist/social democrat to authoritarian "conservative" to libertarian-leaning conservative. Interestingly enough, I have retained traits of nationalism/patriotism at all points in that movement. Right now I would describe myself as a national libertarian conservative.
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