Antithesis

[Never]

I've picked Black_Bird as my personal antithesis. Every thread I read by him is so wrong it could only be produced by a worldview wholly opposed to my own. I'm not complaining, I find it rather novel and he seems like a swell guy.

I picture him as Johnny Dep playing Lord Byron typing at the keyboard, drinking his absinthe, and finding things so frightenly meaningful. He actually thinks the human race is going to evolve into some higher spiritual being. I'm waiting for the mass cannibalism myself.

Anyways, it's wonderful to have an intelligent person to argue with. I feel compelled to return to the nihilistic rantings of yesteryear. (Anyone remember those?)

So – who is your antithesis?

The only couple that springs to mind is Todd and DCL. I remember their arguments fondly but that's back in the day as well.

 

[sexy-girl]

the meaningless never vs the transcendent black bird


umm im trying to think of someone for me ... maybe marxist i disagree with so many of his threads and his jokes ... but they often make me laugh and i cant help but like the guy even though he doesn't think im real and i've missed him since he hasnt been posting

 

[Never]

PC and bratcat?
Sexy-girl and Marxist

This isn't about disliking someone as much as it is about disagreeing with them.

 

[supperlittleboyUK]

supperlittlegirlUS

 

[kotori]

i don't have one, or wouldn't recognise one. i'm too mediocre. if this is a teeter-totter, with never's nihilism at one end, and blackie's zen/tarot whatever thing at the other, i'd be so close to the fulcrum that my opposite number would be only a couple of shades different.

 

[CarolineOh]

Shouldn't your antithesis be Always?

 

[RawHumor]

Hmmmm... Probably Lavender. I just don't understand how someone so intelligent could be so wrong about so many things. It's even worse that I can't out-debate her. Shameful for me, even.

 

[lavender]

 

[Problem Child]

ppman, obviously.

I think he's completely full of shit, but I'd drink a beer with him if he could keep his big mouth shut about the U.S. or politics for an hour.

Considering that, it looks like we'll never be having a beer together. Bloody shame.

 

[Sandia]

This is about folks you disagree with, but like anyway, right?

Hmm. Then I guess I'll go with REDWAVE.

 

[RawHumor]

This is about folks you disagree with, but like anyway, right?

Hmm. Then I guess I'll go with REDWAVE.

You're a sick, sick man.

 

[Sandia]

Thank you, sir. May I have another?

 

[Calamity Jane]

I think I'm too mediocre to have an antithesis

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

I think I'm too mediocre to have an antithesis

What she said.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Black_Bird... I picture him as Johnny Dep playing Lord Byron typing at the keyboard, drinking his absinthe, and finding things so frightenly meaningful.

LOL Dead on.

Yeah, I suppose you could say Todd was my Antithetical Lit Buddy, and not just because he thinks human beings walked with Dinsoaurs and that Evolution and Creationism should be afforded equal status in school, and that I think both those positions are respectively moronic in the extreme and ignorant, but mostly because of the opposing nature of how we each approach inquiry. It's the Critical Thinker versus the Empathetic Thinker. One uses a scientific method to guide his common sense, the other uses his common sense to define science. It's the difference between how Newton examined the world, and how Aristotle examined the world.

I don't understand why people think I hate Todd. Aristotle was a decent guy, wasn't he?

 

[BigDawg69]

What she said.

I think you greatly underestimate yourself.

 

[sunstruck]

I'm not really sure but probably JazzManJim. He's a decent man, sweet even, but we have never once agreed on any topic ever. Every belief he holds true is the polar opposite of mine. It's weird that we actually get along.

When we aren't trying to verbally destroy one another.

 

[Black_Bird]

I picture him as Johnny Dep playing Lord Byron typing at the keyboard, drinking his absinthe, and finding things so frightenly meaningful. He actually thinks the human race is going to evolve into some higher spiritual being. I'm waiting for the mass cannibalism myself.

Heh. Then you must be a female version of Hannibal.

Honestly, this thread was a welcomed surprise... thank you. It isn't often that you find your exact opposite, is it?

 

[alexandraaah]

I'm not really sure but probably JazzManJim. He's a decent man, sweet even, but we have never once agreed on any topic ever. Every belief he holds true is the polar opposite of mine. It's weird that we actually get along.

When we aren't trying to verbally destroy one another.

This is one of the things I like so much about JMJ; when he argues, he also listens intently and thoughtfully. He isn't debating to make you change your mind, rather, he wants to hear opposing viewpoints and doesn't get all pissy about them.

He has respect for other's convictions no matter how staunchly he disagrees with them. When someone brings respect like that into a debate, it's hard not to follow suit.

 

[tortoise]

This is one of the things I like so much about JMJ; when he argues, he also listens intently and thoughtfully. He isn't debating to make you change your mind, rather, he wants to hear opposing viewpoints and doesn't get all pissy about them.

He has respect for other's convictions no matter how staunchly he disagrees with them. When someone brings respect like that into a debate, it's hard not to follow suit.

Sing it, sister.

JMJ is all that and a side of onion rings.

 

[april-wine]

Antithesis.........sexy-girl.....she is my total polar opposite......Why I just wannaaaaaaa..........

 

[sexy-girl]

me *pout*


but but your my role model

 

[Never]

Re: Re: Antithesis

Black_Bird:
"Heh. Then you must be a female version of Hannibal.

Honestly, this thread was a welcomed surprise... thank you. It isn't often that you find your exact opposite, is it?"

The female version of Hannibal?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You mentioned something about waiting for canibalism. Hannibal was a canibal in "Silence of the Lambs". He's saying that because you think humanity is heading for canibalism that you must be the female Hannibal.

Yeah. It's still not funny.

 

[sunstruck]

This is one of the things I like so much about JMJ; when he argues, he also listens intently and thoughtfully. He isn't debating to make you change your mind, rather, he wants to hear opposing viewpoints and doesn't get all pissy about them.

He has respect for other's convictions no matter how staunchly he disagrees with them. When someone brings respect like that into a debate, it's hard not to follow suit.

Well aren't I a genius for choosing him as my antithesis? Oh well.