Communisto
Condottiere
You've improved a bit.
I think you're still a libertarian though
Anyway, *golf clap*
No need for name calling
Wow... Just wow. Its shocking how much things change.
- Thread starter GhostWriter16
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No need for name calling
azzaman333
meh
The two biggest differences between my early posts and my posts now are the fact that I now bother to capitalize things, and I don't use as many smilies.
GhostWriter16
Deity
You've improved a bit.
I think you're still a libertarian though
Anyway, *golf clap*
I'm still a Libertarian since reality has a Libertarian bias
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
Dammit. You can't grab a *golf clap* back when you've already done it 
I have regressed significantly. I used to post long posts full of links and quotes and such but now I am lazy, impatient and boorish. However it is more fun that way.
Phrossack
Armored Fish and Armored Men
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Hwæt? You're a god of history! I admire and slightly resent you for that.
Huayna Capac357
Deity
When I first joined here, all I made were stupid posts. In fact, most of my posts are still probably stupid. But improvement's improvement.
I might be okay at history, but that doesn't mean my posting style has gotten much better than it used to be
Ajidica
High Quality Person
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If you can up the amount of Dachs-powning and drop the "lol that's wrong" posts life would become alot better. At the least we wouldn't have to coax the historical narrative out of you.I might be okay at history, but that doesn't mean my posting style has gotten much better than it used to be
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Ditto hereSame, in fact, I still have some haunting memories of my first debates here
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ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
Avoid haunting memories (indeed, any memories) by drinking heavily while posting.
Mango Elephant
Deity
I'm not about to look at my old posts because they'd be really embarrasing. I remember I used to post the most effeminate things here to see if that was any fun, and it was fun, but it was really annoying what people said about me, so I've tried to not be like that much anymore.
I noticed Dommy improved himself a lot since I started reading a lot of his posts last. That was pretty cool, I was thinking about complimenting him on his wall the other day, but I forgot and never got around to it. Oh well, it's the thought that counts, right?
I noticed Dommy improved himself a lot since I started reading a lot of his posts last. That was pretty cool, I was thinking about complimenting him on his wall the other day, but I forgot and never got around to it. Oh well, it's the thought that counts, right?
It's important to note that there is a cognitive bias in humans which warms people to things merely due to prolonged exposure to these things, as opposed to any increase in quality. This is why, for example, people like music and TV shows which they are exposed to as they grow up, and not later ones. It's not that later shows and music are any lesser quality - they are low quality to begin with as they are childrens' shows and simpleminded, unaesthetic, popular music - but because they haven't fooled themselves to like it. This is an important cognitive bias and enables the construction of friendship and love, (entirely irrational things) but it doesn't mean that one has become a higher quality person because of it.
danjuno
Cole Phelps, Badge 1247
It has been somewhat improving in the past year. It didn't help that the only forum I'd been on before here was a fan site for Toontown Online. 
Friendship isn't irrational
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
Hey man, we were growing up and going through middle school. I think we can be forgiven.
aimeeandbeatles
watermelon
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I still think my concussion posts are painful. Anyone remember those? Last year sometime around May. When I could barely spell for crap. I don't remember posting any of those. It was a fog.
When I registered here in 2003, I was..a fundamentalist Pentecostal who believed in youth-earth creationism. My politics, with a couple of exceptions, were generated by places like American Family Radio. (The exceptions: I've been an internationalist most of my life, meaning I value humanity as a whole over nations, and even as someone who voted for Bush in 2004 [I was young and foolish and will reincarnate as a roach for that if the Hindus are right] , and I believed in universal healthcare.)
In 2005 I left religion, in 2006 I found freethought and humanism. Without my religion, my politics lost their fundamentalist load (no more homophobia) and I was something like a social democrat. I've grown more left over the years. I'd still vote social democrat if I could, but at heart I'm increasingly out near anarcho-communism.
As a poster? In 2004 I never really responded to ideas...I either accepted them or ignored them. At best, I threw someone else's responses (Kent Hovind's, say) to my defense when my own beliefs were attacked. In 2006 I learned to engage opposing ideas and enjoy it, to use argument to find the weak points in my own beliefs and improve or toss ideas out as need be. I enjoyed getting into arguments then (around 2006 - 2007), but now it tires me because I frequently don't see the point. Just over the weekend I post-argued-discussed with a guy over at the TrekBBS over a point of biblical literacy, and instead of responding to points he'd find something ELSE and argue about that. Eventually I let the people who LIKED arguing take over. Life's too short to waste beating dead horses.
In 2005 I left religion, in 2006 I found freethought and humanism. Without my religion, my politics lost their fundamentalist load (no more homophobia) and I was something like a social democrat. I've grown more left over the years. I'd still vote social democrat if I could, but at heart I'm increasingly out near anarcho-communism.
As a poster? In 2004 I never really responded to ideas...I either accepted them or ignored them. At best, I threw someone else's responses (Kent Hovind's, say) to my defense when my own beliefs were attacked. In 2006 I learned to engage opposing ideas and enjoy it, to use argument to find the weak points in my own beliefs and improve or toss ideas out as need be. I enjoyed getting into arguments then (around 2006 - 2007), but now it tires me because I frequently don't see the point. Just over the weekend I post-argued-discussed with a guy over at the TrekBBS over a point of biblical literacy, and instead of responding to points he'd find something ELSE and argue about that. Eventually I let the people who LIKED arguing take over. Life's too short to waste beating dead horses.
