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Hello F(r)iends,

Gamer, you sparked an idea for me… Let’s hold the ILP festival in a private island (I guess I’ll have to buy one). This way, we can hold a no holds barred contest betwix them animals.

I’d put my money on the shark. Now, if you make it between a shark and a polar bear, I’d put my money on the bear. I’ve got Bruce Willis as a 2 to 1 favorite over Depp, and I’ve got Einstein winning on a technicality.

We can also do Lion vs. Tiger; Polar vs. Grizzly; Badger vs. Wolverine; Shark vs. Dolphin; Phirana vs. Fighting fish; and so on…

It’s a bit sad… I can assure you that your wit and charm has been noticed. You were at peak performance against Dunamis some time ago (although eventually he won the contest) and I would hope you return to form before the ILP festival…

If Detrop is Drexler then… I must do a list of ILP as NBA.

Ben = Red Auerbach (cause he’s not a player, but a helluva manager)
Dunamis = Michael Jordan (cause he’s almost perfect)
Polermarchus = Wilt Chamberlain (cause he’s almost a myth and definitely a legend)
Xanderman = Scottie Pippen (cause he’s under Ben’s shadow…*)

Tabula Rasa = Magic Johnson (cause he’s unique in his abilities to do well)
Gamer = Larry Bird (cause he’s the best to shoot someone down)
Tentative = James Worthy (cause no team would function without a guy like him)
Zenofeller = Dr. Julius Erving (cause he is great but overshadowed by Jordan)

James No.2 = Bill Russell (cause he’s underappreciated, underestimated)
Pinnacle of Reason = Benoit Benjamin (cause it’s a bad pick…)
Phaedrus = Charles Barkley (cause of his commenting abilities)
Impenitent = Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (his {sky} hooks/Imp-isms are awesome)

Scythekain = Gary Payton (so much bullshit comes outta his mouth but I still like him…)
Ucissore = Karl Malone (cause he’s mean, plays hard, and is smart baller)
GateControlTheory = Chris Webber (cause he’s unaccomplished)
FtheNaysayers = Allen Iverson (cause he often talks shit, but sometimes backs it up)

Aspacia = Rasheed Wallace (cause she just doesn’t get it: technicals)
Psyque = Isaiah Thomas (cause he’s an annoying prick that you hate to love)
Sagesound = Norm Nixon (cause he’s almost great, but just short of it)
Jerry = Jerry West (cause who else! The guy is awesome, go capitalism!)

Bob = Bob Cousy (cause who else! Nice guy but not on court)
Old_Gobbo = David Robinson (cause he’s a nice guy… but sometimes gets lost)
TheAdlerian = Shaquille O’neal (cause he can be funny and can be a dick)
Thirst4metal = Hakeem Olajuwon (cause he beat Shaq and Robinson and was the best center since Kareem’s retirement)

-Thirst4Basketball
[size=75]* I meant no harm to Xander, rather to Pippen…[/size]

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It would be great to see this. Good enough for pay-per-view. If perhaps a couple of members would collaborate in writing up a debate topic such that neither De trop nor Gamer could benefit from research and only debate based on intellectual acuity—wow.

But the hardest part is…coming up with a debate topic that cannot be researched.

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well i’d like to weigh in on this. i’m not sure what to say…
everybody recognizes that gamer is a brilliant rhetor. after all, he writes copy. i imagine his quality at psychological manipulation is top notch. but he gets stale. this is nothing he doesn’t know. he even knows that sometimes when he says a lot he says nothing, i told him. his diminishing pleasure at posting his ‘wit and irony’ (is that what it is?) is a direct result of his diminishing pleasure at reading his wit and irony, for the reason given. in any event, his quality is still vastly superior to any of us here, and as such is one of the only reasons i keep coming back, because certainly, chances are, i don’t read your posts (skim if that).

detrop swings wildly with his ideas. every so often he will land an idea, criticism, insult, or whatever directly on your chin and you’re not sure where it came from, it was uncharacteristic. i believe he connected with something in his last post, which was of a superior quality.

gamer, you say you won’t engage in a sparring contest because you don’t want to hurt feelings or whatever. well, thats fine. i on the other hand have no dignity, and personally think you are a lair and a fake. its obvious you have ALWAYS thrown jabs in your posts, tethered with a pseudo, almost-to-the-point-of-being-a-PoR-level-idea.
but thats fine, writing posts like this is so much better than doing philosophy, if this isn’t what philosophy is.

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I hung in some philosophical discussions over the past two years. Only in the last few months have I frequented the Mundane Babble section more than anything. The problem is if I set my mind on something, use Google, get in a mood, there is no limit to what I can appear to accomplish in this medium. I can win any philosophy debate (not that I have or do) by skimming and comprehending soundbites from enough arcane sources to confuse you, plus I can digest large and complicated philosophical passages in a manner disproportionate to my education or upbringing. I can take a guess at your psychology and almost always be right and make your skin crawl. And even if I’m wrong, there are backup plans, double meanings, exit clauses. So there is no risk. Please call me out as sound and fury signifying nothing, fine and dandy fuck you. When the philosophers tire of my psuedo deconstructionist shenanigans I will slum in MB for awhile, or wax sentimental about our comraderie here. We are all just making conversation while waiting to die. Every post I write is merely a testament to that fact, that freedom, that opportunity. I have said nothing. I have said everything. The preternaturally clever bulletproof posturing was masturbating, a feeling of power to bolster self-esteem, and an altruistic impulse to entertain. I have never found or utilized my genius, if such exists in me. The closest I got was through music. I hope you enjoyed that vacuous post, Monooq. Maybe you should ask yourself why next time you come back, and wonder what elusive lonely nectar you’ve been sipping and how you got to calling it nothing. For me this has always been about showing eachother what people are. Philosophy starts with people, you know.

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Dear Thirst4Oneiromancy,

Everytime you post a who’s-who of ILP I sit back and say “Yes - that’s the definitive post - it won’t ever be topped…” And then you come up something still better… :laughing:

I want to see the super-heros and villains version of ILP next…

The [size=75](not so)[/size] Fantastic Four:

Aspacia: The invisible Girl (You can see right through her arguements)
PoR: The Thing - dumb as a stump, but insults bounce right off him…
Adlerian: Mr. Fantastic - No limit to how far he can stretch a point…
Angst-Ridden: The human torch - flames everybody he touches…

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Ah… this is a cool thread. Didn’t notice it until just now.

I am happy with Bill Russell. Would have preferred Hakeem though. He was the shit. :slight_smile:

Regards,

James

p.s. I have never dreamed about ILP. I am usually lucid in my dreams, so I do what I want. Flying is good, for instance. But that’s just me.

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Tab, your fantastic four made me cry with laughter

Thanks

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Jeez, I got Larry Bird! I’m not worthy. It almost makes up for my sub-Jeff Ruland performance in the “Can’t Make Him Change His Mind” thread. I was hoping for a globetrotter. Dunamis…he’s not a player. He’s the owner in the skybox who controls destinies.

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I enjoyed it as well. (keeping it short)

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Hey…seems pretty easy…how much does it pay? hardeeharhar…

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Hmmm…I usually dream about oiled men wrestling naked…don’t know if you men want to be a part of this…perhaps I should opt out. :smiley: hah…ha.ha

I had a dream about Tab. I was typing away and accidently hit the “Tab” key on the keyboard. It said "Ouch! That was uncalled for eh,wot? "…it had a voice like what I always imagined Bertie Wooster would sound like.
“Tab?” I asked the key. “Yes…suprise!” then Tab started laughing. It sounded like fahafahafaha. He told me his wife was Caps Lock. Then I flew out my window. Weird.

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Did you ever play the balloon debate game, in a debating society or as a game at a party or somesuch? I once had a dream whereby myself and several other ILP members were in such a predicament. Not that the dream yielded any particular insights, but it might be an interesting thread if anyone is interested in starting one or participating in one. Good-natured of course, all in the name of entertainment and inspiration, the magic of television. Puppets can say what men cannot.

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That’s the exact sort of joke I can imagine Tab making upon finding himself in such a situation.

:smiley:

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Yesterday, after work, I browsed ILP for 20 minutes then decided to take a quick, late afternoon, siesta…. then BANG!.. there I was (in my dream) checking out the ILP threads.

There was the usual drama, commotion and noise (which was interesting in itself) all of which went on for ages when suddenly someone posted something that brought the board to a complete, and silent, standstill.

I peered at it with the expectation that this was going to be something profound, or devastating, or both, then read:

[b]Ummmm….

-Imp[/b]

I remember feeling that this was probably quite profound – if only I could break the code. Then I woke. :astonished: