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  2013-04-10 12:09:25 AM
Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?
 
  2013-04-10 12:11:26 AM
A lie is simply a truth that hasn't happened yet, subby. There are no lies, only spoken potential.
 
  2013-04-10 12:29:09 AM
Liar.
 
  2013-04-10 12:39:19 AM
why would anyone believe a French model?
 
  2013-04-10 12:56:05 AM
i guess we'll never know the truth, because i murdered OP and his sister. now please kindly vote for this post as both smart and funny.
 
  2013-04-10 01:03:24 AM
FTA:  Mr Johnson posted the information on Reddit but was angry to learn he had been made the subject of a Shadow Ban, which makes it look to other users like you have been banned, even though everything looks normal to you.

So, wait, does that mean he just keeps posting stuff and he can see it, but nobody else can?

Hello?
Anybody there?
Anybody?
 
  2013-04-10 01:13:09 AM
Reddiwip user?

www.biz.uiowa.edu
 
  2013-04-10 01:26:13 AM
That's funny.... it shows seven comments in this thread but I only see six?
 
  2013-04-10 01:44:06 AM
CaptSacto: That's funny.... it shows seven comments in this thread but I only see six?

maybe you should ask for a recount?
 
  2013-04-10 02:08:18 AM
I remember someone pointing out the difficulty of deliberately ODing an unconscious meth addict with meth, specifically because "unconscious" and "meth addict" are mutually exclusive.
 
  2013-04-10 02:17:28 AM
tenpoundsofcheese: why would anyone believe a French model?

Uhhh...bonjour.
 
  2013-04-10 02:19:08 AM
his sister sound like a stuck up prat
 
  2013-04-10 02:19:27 AM
i.imgur.com
 
  2013-04-10 02:19:30 AM
Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.
 
  2013-04-10 02:19:48 AM
I am heir to the post-it note legacy and spend my days rolling bowling balls up hill with my tongue

ladies?
 
  2013-04-10 02:19:59 AM
I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....
 
  2013-04-10 02:21:06 AM
Serious business
 
  2013-04-10 02:21:13 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.


Todd Akin had an idea such as yours and it works just about as well.
 
  2013-04-10 02:21:55 AM
I just can't believe someone would go on the internet and tell lies

*Whistles innocently*
 
  2013-04-10 02:24:11 AM
As a 6'1" male with a penis 9" long and 2" thick with only 2% body fat who drives a Lamborghini to the modeling agency that I founded from my success as a male model where I help other aspiring models make it big in the industry, internet liars make us all look bad, make us all look like we are nothing but liars and worse.  Now, I've only just got back home from the Gym like 26 minutes ago or else I would have responded sooner...
 
  2013-04-10 02:24:33 AM
thomps: i guess we'll never know the truth, because i murdered OP and his sister. now please kindly vote for this post as both smart and funny.

Done.  Please don't kill me.
 
  2013-04-10 02:25:13 AM
8 inches: I just can't believe someone would go on the internet and tell lies

*Whistles innocently*


lol
 
  2013-04-10 02:25:17 AM
Omahawg: I am heir to the post-it note legacy

I invented Post-Its.
 
  2013-04-10 02:26:00 AM
SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.
 
  2013-04-10 02:26:26 AM
You can't OD on meth. It's essentially non-toxic. Only an idiot would have ever believed this.
 
  2013-04-10 02:26:29 AM
Summoner101: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Todd Akin had an idea such as yours and it works just about as well.


They've still got right wing shills all over, but a troll, if it's legitimate....
 
  2013-04-10 02:27:30 AM
impaler: I remember someone pointing out the difficulty of deliberately ODing an unconscious meth addict with meth, specifically because "unconscious" and "meth addict" are mutually exclusive.

This too.
 
  2013-04-10 02:27:53 AM
Greening reddit links from daily fail ? Be seeing you. IOW- FU.
 
  2013-04-10 02:29:55 AM
I never tell lies on the internet

/3Horn
 
  2013-04-10 02:30:01 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by
ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY
 
  2013-04-10 02:30:23 AM
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I am about to receive large sums of cash but in order to do so I need $15,000 to unlock these funds.
Currently all my funds are tied up in  other investments. If you are kind enough to provide me with this money I will be sure to pay you back in the sum of 1 MILLION DOLLARS
 
  2013-04-10 02:32:40 AM
Pocket Ninja: A lie is simply a truth that hasn't happened yet, subby. There are no lies, only spoken potential.

I invented time travel and invisibility. Also I have just been crowned supreme emperor of the universe,
 
  2013-04-10 02:36:04 AM
gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY


Whoa, really?  I largely bailed out of here during the last election cycle when politics threads were ended before they even had a chance to begin (by the same dozen or so people every time) and found myself really pleased with the amount of actual discussion going on over there.  Aside from the Ron Paul threads, I don't know that I've seen much support for him over there.
 
  2013-04-10 02:39:31 AM
I LOVE IT when a genuine Internet Tough Guy is reduced to the quivering, pubescent child that he is, soiling himself and flailing about, squealing that "It's all just a joke!"

People only behave badly online because WE LET THEM.  If there are consequences such as this, then suddenly AS IF BY MAGIC, they straighten up and behave.
 
  2013-04-10 02:40:58 AM
images3.wikia.nocookie.net
He needs to practice his lying more.

/Never tell the same lie twice.
 
  2013-04-10 02:42:45 AM
I have proof that aliens, Jews, bigfeet, the mob and Jackie Gleason conspired to kill JFK.

/ One of these days Kennedy, one of these days.....
 
  2013-04-10 02:42:50 AM
Bill_Wick's_Friend: I never tell lies on the internet

/3Horn


me either

=smidge=
 
  2013-04-10 02:45:14 AM
Scrawny gamer? LOL!
 
  2013-04-10 02:47:28 AM
gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY


Lies; dirty commie lies! RON PAUL is the direct political heir of the holy, the great; THE REAGAN. Anything you say that is negitive simply bounces off of then sticks to you.

/ you dirty commie
 
  2013-04-10 02:49:50 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY

Whoa, really?  I largely bailed out of here during the last election cycle when politics threads were ended before they even had a chance to begin (by the same dozen or so people every time) and found myself really pleased with the amount of actual discussion going on over there.  Aside from the Ron Paul threads, I don't know that I've seen much support for him over there.


Discussion on reddit? You mean the place with groupthink and upvoting system that forces unpopular or differing thoughts are pushed down into oblivion.

I read reddit for awhile, it got boring hearing the same thing over and over again because the same ideas are constantly upvoted and the differing views are always voted down.

My co-worker has been editting down his reddit bookmarks due to the amount of not only repeated ideas pushed over and over again, but the fact that what happens is not really discussion, it is more like a backslapping contest.
 
  2013-04-10 02:50:10 AM
I killed someone once. Actually, it was two people. A single bullet. From 2kms away. Slight westerly breeze.

I used to be a special forces marksman. Black Ops. Elite Martial Corps. Division X. If you wait for the targets to walk in front, or behind the other, you can shoot through their eyeballs and achieve a double hit with one bullet. It was my trademark. There were videos on Youtube before they got hanked off. You can only find it in specialist underground sites now. Many of them are titled 'Super Soldier Magic Bullet Trick'.
 
  2013-04-10 02:50:25 AM
cameroncrazy1984: tenpoundsofcheese: why would anyone believe a French model?

Uhhh...bonjour.


sounds legit.
 
  2013-04-10 02:51:18 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.


With shatty arse "tree" comment formatting.

I could never get into slash dot.
 
  2013-04-10 02:56:51 AM
Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.


No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.
 
  2013-04-10 02:56:52 AM
Had no idea what reddit was till some guy on cnn complained that all the stuff he posted on there ruined his life, because his true identity got out like, compared it to a superheros secret identity being revealed.....

If you confess to a crime even if you didnt do it shouldn't you still have to suffer all of the consequences in the form on years of community service or weekly public beatings?
 
  2013-04-10 02:57:57 AM
Great Janitor: As a 6'1" male with a penis 9" long and 2" thick with only 2% body fat who drives a Lamborghini to the modeling agency that I founded from my success as a male model where I help other aspiring models make it big in the industry, internet liars make us all look bad, make us all look like we are nothing but liars and worse.  Now, I've only just got back home from the Gym like 26 minutes ago or else I would have responded sooner...

It's amazing that you can still afford that Lamborghini after you've been skipping your CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS TO ME FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS.

Hurry up and make amends or I'm going to take you and that hyper-virile trouser snake of yours to court. I don't care what the test results say, this is your baby.
 
  2013-04-10 02:59:58 AM
thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY

Whoa, really?  I largely bailed out of here during the last election cycle when politics threads were ended before they even had a chance to begin (by the same dozen or so people every time) and found myself really pleased with the amount of actual discussion going on over there.  Aside from the Ron Paul threads, I don't know that I've seen much support for him over there.

Discussion on reddit? You mean the place with groupthink and upvoting system that forces unpopular or differing thoughts are pushed down into oblivion.

I read reddit for awhile, it got boring hearing the same thing over and over again because the same ideas are constantly upvoted and the differing views are always voted down.

My co-worker has been editting down his reddit bookmarks due to the amount of not only repeated ideas pushed over and over again, but the fact that what happens is not really discussion, it is more like a backslapping contest.


As opposed to here, where Phil Herup some other troll of the month comes in and shiats all over the conversation, derailing everything by repeating the same nonsense and then refusing to back it up, and the entire thing just becomes a ragefest where everyone throws up their hands and gives up on discussing the actual topic?  I dunno, I'd rather hear some good ideas talked to death, and it's not uncommon that ideas from all over the spectrum get upvoted due to the fact that they aren't just people being disingenuous for attention.  As for the ideas that are pushed down into oblivion... well, a lot of them really deserve to be.
 
  2013-04-10 03:00:29 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.


Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.
 
  2013-04-10 03:02:17 AM
RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.


The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.
 
  2013-04-10 03:04:55 AM
GungFu: I killed someone once. Actually, it was two people. A single bullet. From 2kms away. Slight westerly breeze.

I used to be a special forces marksman. Black Ops. Elite Martial Corps.
Core

FTFAccuracy
 
  2013-04-10 03:05:02 AM
J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.


Dingdingding!
 
  2013-04-10 03:05:21 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY

Whoa, really?  I largely bailed out of here during the last election cycle when politics threads were ended before they even had a chance to begin (by the same dozen or so people every time) and found myself really pleased with the amount of actual discussion going on over there.  Aside from the Ron Paul threads, I don't know that I've seen much support for him over there.

Discussion on reddit? You mean the place with groupthink and upvoting system that forces unpopular or differing thoughts are pushed down into oblivion.

I read reddit for awhile, it got boring hearing the same thing over and over again because the same ideas are constantly upvoted and the differing views are always voted down.

My co-worker has been editting down his reddit bookmarks due to the amount of not only repeated ideas pushed over and over again, but the fact that what happens is not really discussion, it is more like a backslapping contest.

As opposed to here, where Phil Herup some other troll of the month comes in and shiats all over the conversation, derailing everything by repeating the same nonsense and then refusing to back it up, and the entire thing just becomes a ragefest where everyone throws up their hands and gives up on discussing the actual topic?  I dunno, I'd rather hear some good ideas talked to death, and it's not uncommon that ideas from all over the spectrum get upvoted due to the fact that they aren't just people being disingenuous for attention.  As for the ideas that are pushed down into oblivion... well, a lot of them really deserve to be.


You know there is an ignore button. You can even color code people so you know if you need to skip a post. The upvoting system makes reddit end up reading like a hive mind. Popular people are up voted, unpopular ones are down voted. Ideas should not be heard only because you think they need to be heard. That narrowminded one-sided view is exactly why I prefer it here. I am not about having my reading sorted by a bunch of college kids, deciding what they think is the best idea. I want to read differing ideas and make up my own mind.

As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.
 
  2013-04-10 03:06:17 AM
miss diminutive: Great Janitor: As a 6'1" male with a penis 9" long and 2" thick with only 2% body fat who drives a Lamborghini to the modeling agency that I founded from my success as a male model where I help other aspiring models make it big in the industry, internet liars make us all look bad, make us all look like we are nothing but liars and worse.  Now, I've only just got back home from the Gym like 26 minutes ago or else I would have responded sooner...

It's amazing that you can still afford that Lamborghini after you've been skipping your CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS TO ME FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS.

Hurry up and make amends or I'm going to take you and that hyper-virile trouser snake of yours to court. I don't care what the test results say, this is your baby.


Little does she know; that baby is really a watermelon in a diaper.

/ shhhhh! Don't say anything
 
  2013-04-10 03:08:52 AM
ragefaces.s3.amazonaws.com
 
  2013-04-10 03:11:03 AM
J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.


Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this  http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk.  Not all opinions are worth listening to.
 
  2013-04-10 03:11:50 AM
demonfaerie: [images3.wikia.nocookie.net image 417x406]
He needs to practice his lying more.

/Never tell the same lie twice.


And his stitching.
just sayin
 
  2013-04-10 03:16:32 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.

Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this  http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk.  Not all opinions are worth listening to.


So reddit users are cool with censoring those ideas that they disagree with. Many that is some 1st amendment freedoms right there. This is the place that supposedly has a hardon for Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the father of the dissenting view, but you couldn't tell that by reading reddit.

Let the fools open their mouths and show themselves to be fools, is a better way to deal with it. Instead reddit takes the bury your head in the sad approach.
 
  2013-04-10 03:17:23 AM
Sad was meant to be sand, but honestly either one works.
 
  2013-04-10 03:17:58 AM
thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.


I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.
 
  2013-04-10 03:20:37 AM
thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.

Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this  http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk.  Not all opinions are worth listening to.

So reddit users are cool with censoring those ideas that they disagree with. Many that is some 1st amendment freedoms right there. This is the place that supposedly has a hardon for Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the father of the dissenting view, but you couldn't tell that by reading reddit.

Let the fools open their mouths and show themselves to be fools, is a better way to deal with it. Instead reddit takes the bury your head in the sad approach.


If you go out to dinner with your friends, and eventually crowd out the guy saying racist shiat, you're not censoring him.  Somebody's words being deemed ridiculous or unhelpful isn't the same as someone being silenced.
 
  2013-04-10 03:20:58 AM
Reddit users are like gossipy old women aren't they?
 
  2013-04-10 03:21:26 AM
impaler: I remember someone pointing out the difficulty of deliberately ODing an unconscious meth addict with meth, specifically because "unconscious" and "meth addict" are mutually exclusive.

not necessarily. I had a neighbor back in the day and his younger brother bragged now and again about how he used to be a hardcore meth addict. He used to say he would have to do an Incredibly high dose to get to bed. If what he said was true, I can understand what lie-bear said. Mind you, it's only because of this story that I would believe or know this.

\FWIW, I believed him
 
  2013-04-10 03:22:22 AM
thenumber5: his sister sound like a stuck up prat

Or, she realizes the brother's stupidity and doesn't want her information linked to him.  Especially on the Internet.
 
  2013-04-10 03:22:42 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.


So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.
 
  2013-04-10 03:22:52 AM
I've been lying to you all for years.

I'm not really a Paramedic.

I'm...TWO DUCKS IN A MAN COSTUME!

25.media.tumblr.com
 
  2013-04-10 03:26:34 AM
hardinparamedic: I've been lying to you all for years.

I'm not really a Paramedic.

I'm...TWO DUCKS IN A MAN COSTUME!


That's quacked up man, that's quacked up!
 
  2013-04-10 03:28:16 AM
Rhino_man: Schrödinger's lie is true.

It may be, but not until you know the outcome of whether the lie is true or not.
 
  2013-04-10 03:28:55 AM
thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.


I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion.  I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place.  I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with."  I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting screeds wholeheartedly defending his ridiculous opinion, I'm talking about people who get off on simply ruining shiat.
 
  2013-04-10 03:31:49 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.

Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this  http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk.  Not all opinions are worth listening to.

So reddit users are cool with censoring those ideas that they disagree with. Many that is some 1st amendment freedoms right there. This is the place that supposedly has a hardon for Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the father of the dissenting view, but you couldn't tell that by reading reddit.

Let the fools open their mouths and show themselves to be fools, is a better way to deal with it. Instead reddit takes the bury your head in the sad approach.

If you go out to dinner with your friends, and eventually crowd out the guy saying racist shiat, you're not censoring him.  Somebody's words being deemed ridiculous or unhelpful isn't the same as someone being silenced.


But, are differing views necessarily rediculous?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this; but, I think the point is; shouting down a view because you don't like it doesn't make that view rediculous.
 
  2013-04-10 03:32:46 AM
Abacus9: Rhino_man: Schrödinger's lie is true.

It may be, but not until you know the outcome of whether the lie is true or not.


... which is exactly why it hurts my farkin' brain.
 
  2013-04-10 03:32:47 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion

how so? Ignore just means you don't see their comments, everyone else is free to read it if they wish.
 
  2013-04-10 03:34:24 AM
i.imgur.com

Bonjour!
 
  2013-04-10 03:36:53 AM
Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.

I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion.  I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place.  I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with."  I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting screeds wholeheartedly defendin ...


The reason the ignore function is superior is that you alone can decide what you read and not read. On reddit you have to scroll down to see what differing views are. On fark, I see them right in the order they were posted. Also, it gets rid of that person from your list on any thread you read, so ignore is superior in that it only affect you.

This whole idea that people need to be downvoted because you don't like what they say is exactly why I don't frequent reddit. I just don't like others deciding what I should read and in what order.

As for censorship, having to scroll down sometimes numerous pages effect everyone in the thread, ignore only effects you.
 
  2013-04-10 03:37:02 AM
Pocket Ninja: A lie is simply a truth that hasn't happened yet, subby. There are no lies, only spoken potential.

I wish this had been the Boobies...
 
  2013-04-10 03:37:04 AM
hardinparamedic: I've been lying to you all for years.

I'm not really a Paramedic.

I'm...TWO DUCKS IN A MAN COSTUME!

[25.media.tumblr.com image 850x637]


I always suspected you were a quack.
 
  2013-04-10 03:38:01 AM
Rhino_man: Abacus9: Rhino_man: Schrödinger's lie is true.

It may be, but not until you know the outcome of whether the lie is true or not.

... which is exactly why it hurts my farkin' brain.


Just be glad you're not the cat.
 
  2013-04-10 03:44:07 AM
Abacus9: Rhino_man: Abacus9: Rhino_man: Schrödinger's lie is true.

It may be, but not until you know the outcome of whether the lie is true or not.

... which is exactly why it hurts my farkin' brain.

Just be glad you're not the cat.


img.math-fail.com
 
  2013-04-10 03:47:27 AM
Abacus9: I always suspected you were a quack.

Time to start pushing Anti-Vaccination and Homeopathy for Cancer, then.

*sigh*
 
  2013-04-10 03:53:04 AM
Rhino_man: Abacus9: Rhino_man: Abacus9: Rhino_man: Schrödinger's lie is true.

It may be, but not until you know the outcome of whether the lie is true or not.

... which is exactly why it hurts my farkin' brain.

Just be glad you're not the cat.

[img.math-fail.com image 500x372]


Heisenberg may or may not have expected this.

hardinparamedic: Abacus9: I always suspected you were a quack.

Time to start pushing Anti-Vaccination and Homeopathy for Cancer, then.

*sigh*


If it's good enough for an expert like Jenny McCarthy, it should be good enough for a couple of costumed ducks!
 
  2013-04-10 04:03:45 AM
carnifex2005: [i.imgur.com image 453x576]

24.media.tumblr.com
 
  2013-04-10 04:14:55 AM
hardinparamedic: Abacus9: I always suspected you were a quack.

Time to start pushing Anti-Vaccination and Homeopathy for Cancer, then.

*sigh*


External forces cannot cause cancer. All cancer is genetically programmed at birth. The same chemical differences that cause lung cancer also make those people more susceptible Auschwitz to nicotine addiction. Prove me wrong.
 
  2013-04-10 04:16:45 AM
ransack.: hardinparamedic: Abacus9: I always suspected you were a quack.

Time to start pushing Anti-Vaccination and Homeopathy for Cancer, then.

*sigh*

External forces cannot cause cancer. All cancer is genetically programmed at birth. The same chemical differences that cause lung cancer also make those people more susceptible Auschwitz to nicotine addiction. Prove me wrong.


Uh disregard Auschwitz there because I cannot explain that.
 
  2013-04-10 04:19:27 AM
ransack.: ransack.: hardinparamedic: Abacus9: I always suspected you were a quack.

Time to start pushing Anti-Vaccination and Homeopathy for Cancer, then.

*sigh*

External forces cannot cause cancer. All cancer is genetically programmed at birth. The same chemical differences that cause lung cancer also make those people more susceptible Auschwitz to nicotine addiction. Prove me wrong.

Uh disregard Auschwitz there because I cannot explain that.


That is a quote from Heinrich Himmler
 
  2013-04-10 04:30:20 AM
I'm surprised they found his claim in the first place among all the Social Justice Warrior horseshiat Reddit is filled with.
 
  2013-04-10 04:35:47 AM
Lunchlady: I'm surprised they found his claim in the first place among all the Social Justice Warrior horseshiat Reddit is filled with.

You're against social justice? Really?
 
  2013-04-10 04:46:56 AM
This... sentence... is... false!

*Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it.*
 
  2013-04-10 05:16:21 AM
The first couple times I saw this, I could have sworn it said, "killed him with his own drums". I actually had to go back and re-read the damned thing to figure out I was just an idiot.
 
  2013-04-10 05:45:42 AM
So making a stupid meme with a bear is "confessing" now?

And Reddit seems to be 95% picture memes and very little other content.
 
  2013-04-10 05:50:27 AM
ransack.: External forces cannot cause cancer. All cancer is genetically programmed at birth. The same chemical differences that cause lung cancer also make those people more susceptible Auschwitz to nicotine addiction. Prove me wrong.

i.imgur.com

What the hell, man?
 
  2013-04-10 06:04:57 AM
I Ate Shergar: Pocket Ninja: A lie is simply a truth that hasn't happened yet, subby. There are no lies, only spoken potential.

I invented time travel and invisibility. Also I have just been crowned supreme emperor of the universe,


Barack? Is that you?
 
  2013-04-10 07:45:30 AM
Abacus9: Lunchlady: I'm surprised they found his claim in the first place among all the Social Justice Warrior horseshiat Reddit is filled with.

You're against social justice? Really?


I really enjoy certain corners of the reddit community.  If you are on reddit and aren't subscribed to r/askscience, you are missing out big time.  The sports communities like nfl and cfb are a little less appreciative of unadulterated snark, but they're also less trolly.  Gaming people should keep an eye on rpg and boardgames, because you see some really neat ideas.  Some political subreddits can sustain an informed conversation, because the voting system largely works to marginalize the crazies.

But regarding the crazies. In the wider spectrum of reddit, there are some creeps and some shiatbirds.  SRS is tainted by people who either don't get the joke or take it too far, and they've done a lot of damage to the concept of "hey, let's not tolerate people saying really vile things".  The men's rights' community is part of that backlash, but they don't do much more than incessantly whine and bark at the moon.  For the people responding to the RON PAUL comments upthread, yes, the Paulistas were a problem during the election cycle.  A bunch of 17-year-old libertarian wannabes had downvote bots that went after people who made negative comments about Paul or Libertarians in a couple of the political threads.  I think they finally banned those twerps and then after the election they gave up on their quest.

The one thing that disappoints me is the white supremacy community on reddit.  Keep in mind, anyone can create a subreddit.  I have one for my local rpg group and my Minecraft server.  People can create all sorts of weird shiat (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT GO TO R/SPACEDICKS), and that means that the knuckle-draggers who think white people are getting a raw deal will occasionally crawl out of their little self-created hole and post in general threads - then it looks a little more like a Fark Politics Tab thread.
 
  2013-04-10 07:47:15 AM
illannoyin: [i.imgur.com image 850x408]

Bonjour!


That girl is so freaking cute
 
  2013-04-10 08:18:26 AM
I was telling my wife, Morgan Fairchild, about that this morning.
 
  2013-04-10 08:21:41 AM
Rabid Badger Beaver Weasel: This... sentence... is... false!

*Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it.*


1.bp.blogspot.com
 
  2013-04-10 08:29:13 AM
thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.

I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion.  I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place.  I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with."  I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting screeds wholeheartedly defendin ...

The reason the ignore function is superior is that you alone can decide what you read and not read. On reddit you have to scroll down to see what differing views are. On fark, I see them right in the order they were posted. Also, it gets rid of that person from your list on any thread you read, so ignore is superior in that it only affect you.

This whole idea that people need to be downvoted because you don't like what they say is exactly why I don't frequent reddit. I just don't like others deciding what I should read and in what order.

As for censorship, having to scroll down sometimes numerous pages effect everyone in the thread, ignore only effects you.


Dude, it takes like three seconds to learn how to use reddit. Drop your 90 year old man attitude and actually try to learn how the site operates.
 
  2013-04-10 08:30:55 AM
Dr.Zom: So making a stupid meme with a bear is "confessing" now?

And Reddit seems to be 95% picture memes and very little other content.


It's far more than that. The problem is that the first thing people see are the default subreddits, most of which are a cesspoll of stupidity, along with a long list of bad shiat. I don't doubt that a lot of people see that and run away. But there are also a lot of great, topic specific subreddits, which are mostly free from the asshattery that pervades the more heavily trafficked subreddits. And don't get me wrong, there are a lot of assholes on Reddit who spew some of the most vile stuff anyone is likely to read on the internet. But a lot of that can be avoided, if desired. I spend almost all of my time in my specific subscribed subreddits.

Aside from the assholes, the biggest issue with Reddit is the voting system. It is almost impossible to have a contrary or unpopular opinion. People will just down vote it to hell and once it goes lower than the threshold, it sort of disappears.
 
  2013-04-10 08:34:42 AM
The meme, which refers to anything this is shared and spread across the internet, quickly spread
Maybe it's just early but,WTF am I reading?
 
  2013-04-10 08:37:52 AM
It's like I told my sweet cancer baby, who's only got two weeks live unless we can come up with $500,000 for her life saving surgery and treatments, you really cannot believe a word anybody from the Internet types.  Being such a sweet angel as she is, Dahko'ta just doesn't understand why anybody would lie, like all those people that claimed they donated money for the $500,000 in surgery and treatments but never actually donated a dime.  Because of the lies, I don't believe she'll get the $500,000 in cancer surgery and treatments that she needs to live, but on the flip side, it means she also doesn't believe the doctors when they tell her she needs $500,000 in surgery and treatments to cure her cancer so that she won't die in two weeks, likely before her 8th birthday.
 
  2013-04-10 08:54:25 AM
MrHappyRotter: It's like I told my sweet cancer baby, who's only got two weeks live unless we can come up with $500,000 for her life saving surgery and treatments, you really cannot believe a word anybody from the Internet types.  Being such a sweet angel as she is, Dahko'ta just doesn't understand why anybody would lie, like all those people that claimed they donated money for the $500,000 in surgery and treatments but never actually donated a dime.  Because of the lies, I don't believe she'll get the $500,000 in cancer surgery and treatments that she needs to live, but on the flip side, it means she also doesn't believe the doctors when they tell her she needs $500,000 in surgery and treatments to cure her cancer so that she won't die in two weeks, likely before her 8th birthday.

You should have used homeopathic medicine.

Now she'll die because YOU trusted Big Pharma, sheep.

24.media.tumblr.com
 
  2013-04-10 09:12:13 AM
UNC_Samurai: and that means that the knuckle-draggers who think white people are getting a raw deal will occasionally crawl out of their little self-created hole and post in general threads - then it looks a little more like a Fark Politics Tab thread.

Man I hate white people.
 
  2013-04-10 10:01:38 AM
FTA: The sister said that it was an 'ill-advised prank' by her 'scrawny gamer' brother and that he was just doing it to get more popularity on the Internet.

Mission Accomplished
 
  2013-04-10 10:05:17 AM
Great Janitor: As a 6'1" male with a penis 9" long and 2" thick with only 2% body fat who drives a Lamborghini to the modeling agency that I founded from my success as a male model where I help other aspiring models make it big in the industry, internet liars make us all look bad, make us all look like we are nothing but liars and worse.  Now, I've only just got back home from the Gym like 26 minutes ago or else I would have responded sooner...

Hmmm...
www.orvis.com
divide by pi...

I WIN!

/still shorter
//hung like a bell bollard
 
  2013-04-10 10:08:28 AM
thiefofdreams: The reason the ignore function is superior is that you alone can decide what you read and not read. On reddit you have to scroll down to see what differing views are. On fark, I see them right in the order they were posted. Also, it gets rid of that person from your list on any thread you read, so ignore is superior in that it only affect you.

This whole idea that people need to be downvoted because you don't like what they say is exactly why I don't frequent reddit. I just don't like others deciding what I should read and in what order.

As for censorship, having to scroll down sometimes numerous pages effect everyone in the thread, ignore only effects you.


I was going to gift you TF until you used the wrong spelling of "affect".
 
  2013-04-10 10:15:16 AM
imgs.xkcd.com
 
  2013-04-10 10:20:33 AM
Knowing that murder has no statute of limitations I would not even joke about that one, unless it was someome who died before I was born.

Also I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.
 
  2013-04-10 11:08:21 AM
WillofJ2: Had no idea what reddit was till some guy on cnn complained that all the stuff he posted on there ruined his life, because his true identity got out like, compared it to a superheros secret identity being revealed.....

If you confess to a crime even if you didnt do it shouldn't you still have to suffer all of the consequences in the form on years of community service or weekly public beatings?


Well, if you live in Texas, yes.
 
  2013-04-10 12:37:31 PM
Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.

The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.


But your proposing a false assumption: that in order to be classified as a liar, one must lie 100% of the time. The only real qualification to be classified as a liar is that you are known to be telling a lie at the time or that you have earned a reputation for telling lies. There's nothing that says that a liar cannot tell the truth at times. So in the original statement, he's lying 50% of the time.
 
  2013-04-10 01:28:17 PM
RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.

The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.

But your proposing a false assumption: that in order to be classified as a liar, one must lie 100% of the time. The only real qualification to be classified as a liar is that you are known to be telling a lie at the time or that you have earned a reputation for telling lies. There's nothing that says that a liar cannot tell the truth at times. So in the original statement, he's lying 50% of the time.


"Everything I say is a lie."  If this statement is true, then it is a lie.  Period.  Therefore it's paradoxical.
 
  2013-04-10 02:09:54 PM
I am...  Batman.
 
  2013-04-10 03:46:52 PM
Your Boss: I am...  Batman.

As I read that, the ending credits for The Dark Knight Rises were rolling on my screen.  Ain't that some shiat.
 
  2013-04-10 04:10:19 PM
GungFu: I killed someone once. Actually, it was two people. A single bullet. From 2kms away. Slight westerly breeze.

I used to be a special forces marksman. Black Ops. Elite Martial Corps. Division X. If you wait for the targets to walk in front, or behind the other, you can shoot through their eyeballs and achieve a double hit with one bullet. It was my trademark. There were videos on Youtube before they got hanked off. You can only find it in specialist underground sites now. Many of them are titled 'Super Soldier Magic Bullet Trick'.


I know what a "magic bullet" is but I don't think I want to know what kind of tricks a super soldier would be doing with one.
 
  2013-04-10 04:12:24 PM
WillofJ2: Had no idea what reddit was till some guy on cnn complained that all the stuff he posted on there ruined his life, because his true identity got out like, compared it to a superheros secret identity being revealed.....

If you confess to a crime even if you didnt do it shouldn't you still have to suffer all of the consequences in the form on years of community service or weekly public beatings?


No, that is called cyber bullying, which is the worst thing ever when it happens to a hot teenage girl, but acceptable when it is someone the internet doesn't like.
 
  2013-04-10 05:27:00 PM
On the internet, there's a first time for everything.
 
  2013-04-10 06:11:49 PM
Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.

The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.

But your proposing a false assumption: that in order to be classified as a liar, one must lie 100% of the time. The only real qualification to be classified as a liar is that you are known to be telling a lie at the time or that you have earned a reputation for telling lies. There's nothing that says that a liar cannot tell the truth at times. So in the original statement, he's lying 50% of the time.

"Everything I say is a lie."  If this statement is true, then it is a lie.  Period.  Therefore it's paradoxical.


No. The statement 'I am a liar.' is true. The statement 'Everything I say is a lie' is a lie because not everything he says is a lie. Yet, he has told a lie, which validates the truth of the first statement.
 
  2013-04-10 06:30:02 PM
RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.

The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.

But your proposing a false assumption: that in order to be classified as a liar, one must lie 100% of the time. The only real qualification to be classified as a liar is that you are known to be telling a lie at the time or that you have earned a reputation for telling lies. There's nothing that says that a liar cannot tell the truth at times. So in the original statement, he's lying 50% of the time.

"Everything I say is a lie."  If this statement is true, then it is a lie.  Period.  Therefore it's paradoxical.

No. The statement 'I am a liar.' is true. The statement 'Everything I say is a lie' is a lie because not everything he says is a lie. Yet, he has told a lie, which validates the truth of the first statement.


I'm waiting for this to happen to one of you...

www.speculativefaith.com
 
  2013-04-10 06:36:20 PM
RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: RoyFokker'sGhost: Rhino_man: SpdrJay: I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie....

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU U UUUUUUU

/Paradoxical statement is paradoxical.

No it's not. Lying by saying everything you say is a lie still makes you a liar even if you told the truth with the first statement. Because if you sometimes tell the truth, then not everything you say is a lie.

The statement "Everything I say is a lie" is, in itself, paradoxical.  You see, if everything you say is a lie, then that means that the self-indicting statement is a lie... which means that not everything you say is a lie, thereby indicating that there is the potential for truth in said statement... and if it's true, then it's a lie and therefore cannot be true.  So it cannot be a lie.

Schrödinger's lie is true.

But your proposing a false assumption: that in order to be classified as a liar, one must lie 100% of the time. The only real qualification to be classified as a liar is that you are known to be telling a lie at the time or that you have earned a reputation for telling lies. There's nothing that says that a liar cannot tell the truth at times. So in the original statement, he's lying 50% of the time.

"Everything I say is a lie."  If this statement is true, then it is a lie.  Period.  Therefore it's paradoxical.

No. The statement 'I am a liar.' is true. The statement 'Everything I say is a lie' is a lie because not everything he says is a lie. Yet, he has told a lie, which validates the truth of the first statement.


I'm gonna bow out now before my brain melts.
 
  2013-04-10 09:01:00 PM
Shakin_Haitian: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general.  Yes, attention whoring looms large.  But man.  As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years.  It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.

I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion.  I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place.  I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with."  I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting ...


Groupthink is how reddit works. It is a bunch of college students self-backslapping and voting down things they don't lie. I prefer honest open discourse where I can tell how crazy the person is because all their posts are right there.

I am not being 90. I tried it for a while and decided I didn't like reading the same 10 attention whore's opinions because people and there hold some at a higher regard than others.

If I want to look at pics of cats or hear about Ron Paul or see pictures that are on facebook/4chan/9gag/ or some pic of food/pets/babies/what someone thinks is funny, I can go to imagur and see reddit without having to read a bunch of other crap.

Right now, as of writing this, the top 5 things of reddit's hot list.

1)Luigi's Manson
2)Someone in ripped skinny jeans, AWing.
3)Some dude's pic from 1987 talking abotu harhar we dressed silly back then
4)The Bitcoincrash
5)A pizza guy tipping thread.

Yeah that sounds like the kind of place I want. It is like the college aged attention whores just get to whore it up. Sorry, but that kind of schlock is the reason I avoid reddit.

No offense but half this shiat wasn't funny or entertaining when I was in college.

But by all means, you should go back there to post more, and less here.
 
  2013-04-11 12:00:54 AM
RoyFokker'sGhost: "Everything I say is a lie." If this statement is true, then it is a lie. Period. Therefore it's paradoxical.

No. The statement 'I am a liar.' is true. The statement 'Everything I say is a lie' is a lie because not everything he says is a lie. Yet, he has told a lie, which validates the truth of the first statement.


Look, the statement "I am a liar" is completely irrelevant to the paradox. "Everything I say is a lie" is true if I always lie, which makes it false because it was true. It's paradoxical because it cannot at the same time be both true and false, and yet it seems to be. The problem lies more in linguistics and the shortcomings of language than with an actual paradox.
 
  2013-04-11 12:02:27 AM
MrHappyRotter: It's like I told my sweet cancer baby, who's only got two weeks live unless we can come up with $500,000 for her life saving surgery and treatments, you really cannot believe a word anybody from the Internet types.  Being such a sweet angel as she is, Dahko'ta just doesn't understand why anybody would lie, like all those people that claimed they donated money for the $500,000 in surgery and treatments but never actually donated a dime.  Because of the lies, I don't believe she'll get the $500,000 in cancer surgery and treatments that she needs to live, but on the flip side, it means she also doesn't believe the doctors when they tell her she needs $500,000 in surgery and treatments to cure her cancer so that she won't die in two weeks, likely before her 8th birthday.

This is why you shouldn't use the internet to get a medical diagnosis.
 
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