Einstein called chess a waste of time, what do you think?

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NervesofButter wrote:
llama36 wrote:

Of course, a good reason to argue why it would require me to know everything, is that this is obscure knowledge... which supports my point about the idea not getting any traction.

Look, I have no personal preference on this topic. If his wife was a genius that's fine... but like everything else I'm not going to believe it until I have a good reason... and a random person mentioning it online is not a good reason.

If its on the web then its true

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I guess you're upset I called you a random person... but obviously that's what you are.

Don't take it personally... everyone on this website is a random person to me. I don't know you (or Elroch, or anyone). You can claim your IQ is a million, but that doesn't mean anything to me, because it's just words. Elroch can claim he has 100 math degrees, but that too doesn't mean much to me because I have no way of verifying that.

In general I stay agnostic towards that stuff.

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MorningGlory84 wrote:
llama36 wrote:

Ok, well, you'd think it would have been something I'd heard before, yes? How great Einstein's wife was, but I haven't. The only person I've heard that from is you, and if I changed my mind every time a single person said something I wouldn't have much of a mind.

IIRC the first time you mentioned it, I googled, and found some 50 year old book. Ok, well, it's been 50 years and apparently it didn't gain any traction. So I'm not interested.

I stopped engaging with Optimissed because he seems like an innocent soul and I don't wish to be rude to him. But he has that unfortunate tendency conspiracists/superstitious people do of thinking that believing something different to the "mainstream" on almost every issue makes them an elevated thinker. Speaking to people who will continually expand the sphere of the conspiracy rather than consider changing their mind is impossible. I learned this speaking to 9/11 Truthers about a decade ago and it's not an experience I would repeat.


I didn't stop interacting with you, even though you're an over-bearing know-it-all. If you can't live with me in an argument regarding more/less anything, I suppose it's only natural you should resort to making childishly derogatory asides. Another one who thinks they own the truth and aren't bright enough to realise they're a bit thick. Go away again. happy.png


Incidentally, I concur with the mainstream opinion regarding you!

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llama36 wrote:

I guess you're upset I called you a random person... but obviously that's what you are.

Don't take it personally... everyone on this website is a random person to me. I don't know you (or Elroch, or anyone). You can claim your IQ is a million, but that doesn't mean anything to me, because it's just words. Elroch can claim he has 100 math degrees, but that too doesn't mean much to me because I have no way of verifying that.

In general I stay agnostic towards that stuff.

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.

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PizzPigFreak_OhYeah wrote:

Yoloswagger69 wrote:

As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?



Einstein was a caveman who knew nothing about precious concepts of time.  She could barely dress herself; let alone comb her hair. 

"she"

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PizzPigFreak_OhYeah wrote:

Yoloswagger69 wrote:

As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?



Einstein was a caveman who knew nothing about precious concepts of time.  She could barely dress herself; let alone comb her hair. 

While your thralupping in your trough of crud do you oink in enjoyment of deleting your abusive posts, for someone to respond and you shart out a good one?

You’re known for posting then removing it to make others look asinine, considering your appalling drops of muddy garbage.. You’re again reported and will again be were you to be banned and ensue another.

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Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. Wouldn't want to be you.

Heh, ok, he's all yours Elroch.

Have fun you two.

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….they certainly belong off entirely, NoB. happy

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I've seen it happen before when the trolls come.

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Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.  [changed from "Wouldn't want to be you."]

A more petty and malicious reply I cannot recall on these forums in a decade.

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it’s sad so many just care to disrupt the can be fun forums =/

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llama36 wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. Wouldn't want to be you.

Heh, ok, he's all yours Elroch.

Have fun you two.

Talk about playing big kids. Deliberately aggressive and unpleasant to see if I'm as nice a person as I pretend to be? Talk about pathetic .... maybe I am as nice and that doesn't give you the right to judge. Take your friend MG with you.

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btickler wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.  [changed from "Wouldn't want to be you."]

A more petty and malicious reply I cannot recall on these forums in a decade.

Don't start again. "I tried, you lost" had a lot of recent context and I think it's more accurate to say what you just wrote about what you just wrote.  What's even malicious about it?? You've been doing ok, abstaining from trolling but Llama is pretty much the same as you are. If you wanted others to list your malicious comments they'd probably vomit so stop being so hypocritical.

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btickler wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.  [changed from "Wouldn't want to be you."]

A more petty and malicious reply I cannot recall on these forums in a decade.

In a heated moment one guy on the forums tried the same line of attack. He deleted those posts later and privately messaged me an apology, which I accepted, and we both moved on.

I haven't had any alcohol in, maybe a little over a year now, so that part of it isn't hurtful, but the obvious malicious intent is a bit breathtaking.

A bit ironic that I chastised you for engaging with him... should have followed my own advice.

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Optimissed wrote:
btickler wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.  [changed from "Wouldn't want to be you."]

A more petty and malicious reply I cannot recall on these forums in a decade.

Don't start again. "I tried, you lost" had a lot of recent context and I think it's more accurate to say what you just wrote about what you just wrote.  What's even malicious about it?? You've been doing ok, abstaining from trolling but Llama is pretty much the same as you are. If you wanted others to list your malicious comments they'd probably vomit so stop being so hypocritical.

As per usual, you will follow up this claim with not a single quote even close to being this over the line.  

I would invite you to try to find one, but you have never done it in a decade.

*You've* been doing arguably better, but clearly your essence remains.  People here on the forums have such short attention spans, you get away with this stuff by only revealing your underlying nature occasionally.  The rest of time you hide your bile, like the Gustave Dore muck dweller you are.

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Don't pretend there's any real and justifiable reason for your trolling. You've had a month or two off several times before and then continued it, making a fake excuse. If you continue you WILL be reported for trolling.

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llama36 wrote:
btickler wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

No wonder you're an alcy. OK I tried, you lost.  [changed from "Wouldn't want to be you."]

A more petty and malicious reply I cannot recall on these forums in a decade.

In a heated moment one guy on the forums tried the same line of attack. He deleted those posts later and privately messaged me an apology, which I accepted, and we both moved on.

I haven't had any alcohol in, maybe a little over a year now, so that part of it isn't hurtful, but the obvious malicious intent is a bit breathtaking.

A bit ironic that I chastised you for engaging with him... should have followed my own advice.

You were all upset the other day trying to make people feel sorry for you, that you think you have no friends and I was supportive. And you thanked me for it. Today you have been aggressive and unpleasant. Quite deliberately so. The aggression was obvious and intended. You have a problem and all I did was make it clear that I know it but you invite your trollish friends to gang up with the attempted bullying. It's your choice whom you side with and if it's with people who can't help themselves then that speaks about you: everything others need to know. At one time I would have contacted you too but I'm fed up with your manipulative behaviour, which is constant. It explains why you constantly renew your profile. You'll probably never learn and so you congregate with similar people but you shouldn't invade people's threads to make your personal attacks on others. You are responsible for what you cause and it's far from the first time you've deliberately created bad feeling. Remember that.

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That's quite a long post directed at me.

I guess I should make #826 more explicit:  I'm going to ignore your posts from now on.

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llama36 wrote:

That's quite a long post directed at me.

I guess I should make #826 more explicit:  I'm going to ignore your posts from now on.

Just a friendly piece of advice. Don't troll. Don't make criticisms of the posts of others where you ramp up the aggressive content for whatever reasons, unless it's clear that the other person started the aggression, when it may be more justifiable. It's pretty clear that you have friends that do the same. Who, basically, try to bully other people. Two of them were here just now. You're a bully or you try to be. You have friends who do the same and you side with each other. Conspiracy to intimidate others, quite possibly. If you ignore my posts as you promise then hopefully you won't drag your friends in either. Other people (people other than you) will be able to enjoy this site as it was intended to be enjoyed.

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Optimissed wrote:

Don't pretend there's any real and justifiable reason for your trolling. You've had a month or two off several times before and then continued it, making a fake excuse. If you continue you WILL be reported for trolling.

I'm sure that will work out for you, as it has so many times in the past.