Grex Agora46 Conference

Item 123: The Theater of the Absurd

Entered by spectrum on Sat Jul 26 12:07:51 2003:

I have posted threads under the "sabre" persona
I am posting as spectrum now because so many of you humorless bastards have
filtered that username. I posted ABSURD shit...just to stir up controversy
and get some exitement going. It seems that some people just don't get it.
I posted shit like"other looks like a serial killer" "is scott still in the
closet" "cross is a crossdresser" I wanted to see if they could take a joke.
cross has a sense of humor...I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. he
came back with some sterotypical cliches that I heard a thousand times..yet
combined in that one post.. let's just say I laughed so hard I couldn't even
think of a comeback. other laughed his ass off at my thread about him. scott
handled it pretty well when I dissed him. Then that cocksucker turns th tables
on ME! Exposed my other persona! He exposed the fact that I logon here all
the time..so there wasn't any use in pretending I hated grex. My real mission
is to gain an understanding of virtual socities. In the future we probally
all be plugged into some cyber society. My research is akin to the prison
study. The where they make some students prison guards and some prisoners.
It exposed an interesting fact about power structures. Cyber-communities are
a unique social development. They fascinate me. Humanity needs to gain a
better understanding of them. They expose certain facets of human nature..just
like the prison study did. remmers is someone who I think may understand where
I'm coming from. He has played the troll to control boredom also.
Who can make a judgement in this theater of the absurd?
28 responses total.

#1 of 28 by mary on Sat Jul 26 12:28:41 2003:

Been here.  Done this.  Better.

Much better.


#2 of 28 by spectrum on Sat Jul 26 12:35:29 2003:

Ah....I am only an egg ;)


#3 of 28 by scott on Sat Jul 26 12:36:07 2003:

You might look back a few Agoras for when twinkie & willard came over from
MNet to "destroy Grex".  Now those guys were TWITS, and a lot tougher to
handle than sabre.  But we got them, eventually.


#4 of 28 by spectrum on Sat Jul 26 12:50:35 2003:

How do I get to any other agora? Do I type "j winter" or something
I want to read up on them. Despite showing my ass I have never done anything
to hurt the system. I have to admit I like this old dinosaur.
This sun 4/670mp was the bomb when I got I first got into computers.


#5 of 28 by scott on Sat Jul 26 13:09:05 2003:

"j agora20" to get Agora #20, etc.  Four Agoras a year...


#6 of 28 by other on Sat Jul 26 14:34:17 2003:

You may have amused yourself, but the few of your postings I actually 
read before filtering you completely were so relentlessly idiotic that I 
think the only thing you did besides entertain yourself was show the rest 
of us what an ass you are.

You've just announced that you threw your shit all over a place I like to 
hang out in just see how people would react, and that it's ok because 
it's in the interest of research.  Well, that's the kind of stupid 
bullshit only a worthless self-serving punk with too much time on his 
hands would do, and there is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.  If 
you tried something like that in a real world situation you would very 
deservingly get the crap kicked out of you.  And don't even try to 
legitimize it by comparing it to the social structure study you 
mentioned, because you obviously haven't the first clue what it was even 
about, much less how to carry out such a study in a scientific manner.

You must be very pleased with yourself.  Now be a good little shit and go 
clean up your room.


#7 of 28 by spectrum on Sat Jul 26 15:14:16 2003:

 You never filtered me completely you lying sack of shit.
As far as the study I mentioned you are an errant asshole when you assume I
don't know anything about it. I DOUBT if YOU could kick the crap outta me.
Fuck your sacred cow. You have your uses for grex and I have mine.
This is a public access system dumbass. If this is the only life you have and
it's the only place you hand out I pity you. I could care less what you think.
So get the g-string outta your ass and lighten up you uptight son of a bitch.
If you can't take a joke...read my lips. FUCK YOU.
 Don't get your panties in a bunch. I think your political agenda is fucking
stupid. I think your position on certain social issues is idiotic.
It's YOU that doesn't have the slightest clue about the extent of my
knowledge..on any given subject. This place is a fucking sewer of ideas.
The few turds I throw around hardly make a diffrence. Your shit stinks just
as bad you self-righteous sack of sperm. If you feel so strongly about it then
BAN me other. I'm not going to lay down and be your verbal whipping boy.
How many accounts do YOU have here numbnuts? Don't play Polly fucking
Purebread with me. relax...have a beer or a smoke and learn to take a joke.
After all this isn't the "real world". Why do you think these kind of
communities exist? Tell you what take a vote...staff and board only.
If your view is the consensous then I will leave..never to return.
With sincere apoligies.
That wouldn't take a change in policy. One thing hold the vote in garage or
coop. Anyone can vote but only the staff and board votes can count.
If it goes against me I vow to leave and never return.
Put up...or shut up.


#8 of 28 by other on Sat Jul 26 16:09:51 2003:

Another one flunks Life 101.  <filter>


#9 of 28 by cross on Sat Jul 26 17:01:53 2003:

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#10 of 28 by sabre on Sat Jul 26 17:14:41 2003:

Exactly...I would leave of my own accord. I wouldn't be bitter in the least.
I would send a formal request to staff@cyberspace.org for both accounts to
be deleted.


#11 of 28 by rcurl on Sat Jul 26 19:08:21 2003:

There is nothing so boring as when someone starts to "explain" 
themselves. I fall into that trap myself, when under attack. Now "sabre" 
has done it, and turned from a jerk into a bore.

"Never complain, never explain" (attributed to Katharine Hepburn, Vincent
Lasky, and others).



#12 of 28 by sabre on Sat Jul 26 19:16:08 2003:

You've are always boring girly man


#13 of 28 by krj on Sat Jul 26 19:19:21 2003:

I think sabre should walk into a nearby Florida bar, pick out some 
specific patrons he's just met, and announce loudly they are 
crossdressers, or gay.

He should do this loudly and repeatedly, until he gets the crap 
beaten out of him.


#14 of 28 by sj2 on Sat Jul 26 19:41:56 2003:

LOL


#15 of 28 by sj2 on Sat Jul 26 19:44:23 2003:

I vote for #13.


#16 of 28 by sabre on Sat Jul 26 19:51:37 2003:

lol@krj

You act as if this was comparable to real life.
You MIGHT have a point if grex was a Ann Arbor bbs only.
It isn't however. The whole world is free to post here.


#17 of 28 by twenex on Sat Jul 26 20:23:06 2003:

Re thirteen: lol *with* krj. I think announcing said victims were both gay
*and* crossdressed would be _much_ more effective though. or maybe he could
try variations on all three...


#18 of 28 by sabre on Sat Jul 26 20:28:20 2003:

See what I mean..even a little faggot from england can post here


#19 of 28 by scott on Sat Jul 26 20:36:32 2003:

Nah, sabre wouldn't do #13.  It's much safer to hassle people on a mostly
anonymous system like Grex, versus that big scary outside world where people
can actually *touch* you.


#20 of 28 by jaklumen on Sat Jul 26 23:32:29 2003:

Exactly.  The sociological comparisons of cyberspace compared to 
society offline are precisely like that.  A lot of people will do 
things in the former that they wouldn't dare do in the latter.  
Inhibitions seem to lessen, people may misrepresent themselves, etc.  
I have seen repeated examples of it.

I'm inclined to agree with Eric here because the explanation in #0 
sounds more like some experiment in amusement than any carefully 
thought out, scientifically backed experiment.  It reeks of ethical 
misjudgment if it ever were to be considered a legitimate social study.

Sorry-- I don't believe this was for real (legitimacy).  But yanking 
the chain and battling other trollies had its occasional quirks.


#21 of 28 by russ on Sun Jul 27 01:09:21 2003:

Another twit exposes himself as someone with too much free time
and not enough sense.

Somehow this really doesn't surprise me.


#22 of 28 by krj on Sun Jul 27 02:01:44 2003:

Sabre in resp:16 ::  Ah, the old "cyberspace isn't real life" ploy again.
*shrug*.   I had lunch with about 10 people from Grex and dinner 
with a few more.  They all looked like people with real lives to me.


#23 of 28 by dcat on Sun Jul 27 02:15:39 2003:

I have a real life?  That's news to me. . . .


#24 of 28 by gelinas on Sun Jul 27 04:37:48 2003:

Well, it may not be a 'life,' but it is real. :)


#25 of 28 by sj2 on Sun Jul 27 06:02:46 2003:

Define real?


#26 of 28 by sholmes on Sun Jul 27 06:45:34 2003:

'Life' too while you are at it.
anyway you all should not be insulting a .. err .. a researcher ..


#27 of 28 by pvn on Sun Jul 27 07:08:27 2003:

Tian gao huang di uan.  On the surface it is an excuse and justification
for immoral behavior which is why the current regime in the middle
kingdom hates it and somewhat discourages that school of philosophical
thought.  The meta message is that one is ultimately responsible for
one's own character which is what that state truely fears.


#28 of 28 by tod on Sun Jul 27 18:59:03 2003:

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