>>49
Yeah, I suppose it could be that I just don't understand this "image macro" language that you people speak.
I DO find it odd that you managed to move so quickly from (30) to (35). I've seen the "You're trying too hard" thing with the little black kid and the pencil used a hundred times, and I always interpreted it to represent the same kind of cowardly, facile "cheap shot" as "tl;dr" or "you don't belong here".
That is to say, I interpreted it as... sorry, yes, an expression of contemptuouus condescension - the equivalent of saying "oh you really are straining to say something amusing and interestng aren't you, but you're not as cool and clever as the rest of us, so you really aren't managing to pull it off" - which, I think you'll have to agree, DOES deserve nothing else but a contemptuous response.
Did it NOT mean that? If it didn't, perhaps you'll explain what it DID mean.
I suppose I AM inclined to be very quick, these days, in putting the most negative construction on comments made on my posts. But the train of "reasoning" that I assumed to be behind post no 35 is one I HAVE encountered on the Cracky boards year after year after year. Something like: "Kafka? Who the fuck is Kafka? Some guy people talk about at university? Why is this guy dragging him into a discussion on a Cracky board? He can't possibly have any reason for doing it except trying to impress people with big, difficult names. I'll call this guy out on his bullshit and tell him 'he's trying too hard'".
Now, if you're as intelligent as you seem to be, you'll have recognized already how far off the mark that "reasoning" is in this case. The Kafka quotation is actually EXTREMELY and DIRECTLY relevant to the whole discussion about "temples" and so on that recurs here on a regular basis (as, incidentally, is the remark later in the thread about Wagner's way of dealing with the "divine" and the "mortal" spheres). It's not "showing off" at all, and it's "trying" just exactly as hard as people ought to be "trying" on a board like this.
I can certainly understand the anger toward me that is felt by the doubtless numerous users of this board who have no fucking idea who Kafka was, or who Wagner was, and have absolutely no aptitude for or interest in the discussion of religious questions. But if you are not one among such users - and mean by having been "nice to me" having held views, for example, similar to those expressed by the poster of no. 46 in this thread - then I would suggest that you stop using this clumsy crude language of image macros altogether.
But frankly, you seem to me very confused about WHAT views you hold.