After having read this particular disagree mail postings, I feel dumber, as if those particular mail messages has a magic spell of IQ Sucking attached to them. Must get...brain...out of here...
So what you're saying is that the first guy, ranting about predictions, can actually predict stuff? Seeing as how his email, written in 2003, was written well before Idle was a section...
It's not stupidity, it's psychosis. Slashdot is a big site that would seemingly appeal to a lot of schizophrenic people. I don't think we should make fun of them; I think there should be more of an effort to get these guys medical attention. This is just distressing. I don't think these emails should be posted.
There's a few of these posts up right now and I think they're all taking this stuff way too seriously. While I am sitting here failing to put into words my rationalization, I keep coming back to a small subset of my friends who work professionally with the mentally disabled. They all make cracks about the oddities (in some cases very extreme oddities) of their clients when they're off the job. On the other hand, however, they take their work very seriously and having seen them at their job I have no doubt
Yeah, I have a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist in my family and it's the same way. I think it's a different situation, though. For the mental health worker, it's a way of getting through the stress of the day so that you can go out and do it again tomorrow. For Slashdot, though, it's just mean-spirited.
On the other hand, I do get a kick out of Ron Paul.
Having spent years as a psychiatric social worker I agree that these all sound like the work of the mentally ill.
Knowing that makes a lot of the comments seem pretty mean spirited. But this section is for idiot submissions. It just turns out that those are coming from the commenters this week.
really? Cuz it mostly just makes me want to slap these people. That and I gotta mention that in The Matrix, almost every person was an actual human, they just weren't really there. But it was a human "driving" their virtual counterpart so they weren't fake. That and I wanna slap that freaktard. Did I mention that yet?
Huh-whuh? (Score:5, Insightful)
After having read this particular disagree mail postings, I feel dumber, as if those particular mail messages has a magic spell of IQ Sucking attached to them. Must get...brain...out of here...
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Must get... idle...out of here...
Re:Huh-whuh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Call me optimistic but I just don't believe that people are this stupid. Close to it, but this is over the deep end stuff.
Re:Huh-whuh? (Score:5, Insightful)
So what you're saying is that the first guy, ranting about predictions, can actually predict stuff? Seeing as how his email, written in 2003, was written well before Idle was a section...
Re:Huh-whuh? (Score:5, Funny)
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Score +5 Insightful?
Genius moderating! I'm laughing too much to say more.
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"Ever get the impression that maybe people are submitting this mail so they might see it appear here on Friday?"
If they are they're extraordinarily foresighted to submit to a section that's six years in their future.
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We -- I -- those others -- do.
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I have to agree. All three sound like they're mentally ill. Posts from the merely misguided are amusing, but these aren't. They're sad.
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There's a few of these posts up right now and I think they're all taking this stuff way too seriously. While I am sitting here failing to put into words my rationalization, I keep coming back to a small subset of my friends who work professionally with the mentally disabled. They all make cracks about the oddities (in some cases very extreme oddities) of their clients when they're off the job. On the other hand, however, they take their work very seriously and having seen them at their job I have no doubt
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On the other hand, I do get a kick out of Ron Paul.
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I don't know. As long as said person isn't in the room, what's the harm in laughing at them?
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Having spent years as a psychiatric social worker I agree that these all sound like the work of the mentally ill.
Knowing that makes a lot of the comments seem pretty mean spirited. But this section is for idiot submissions. It just turns out that those are coming from the commenters this week.
Compassion if not empathy? (Score:1)
To them these fears are real, and permeate their interactions with everyone, not just /.
They get ridiculed and ostracized, which only justifies their fears and makes it that much harder for them to seek (or get) help.
Posting their rantings is akin to laughing at the one-legged guy struggling with his prosthesis at the supermarket.
J
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Just mod me +1, evil!
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m ... not sure. Maybe the first two.
The last one is clearly very very high on real good cocaine. Probably smoked (Crack or Freebase)
The way he talks and the subject are common in certain states of delirium tremens ...
(I Know this because ...)
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I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
So did anyone find them?! (Score:2)
So did anyone find the non-fakes? ROFL, post link please if you did.
Re:So did anyone find them?! (Score:5, Informative)
Ooh, so If I found his real email address, does that mean I get to be in the cult?
http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/ryanandjacob.txt [kottke.org]