JasonN said:

Funny enough, I had intended my post to be in jest and not to be taken seriously. But as is the case with everything online, someone with way too much time on their hands went and took what I said seriously and, in an attempt to belittle my ego as being without worth while trying to build themselves up to be an intellectual demigod on the subject, wrote a banal post scrutinizing my previous post word-for-freaking-word.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Well actually, as is the case with everything online, acting stupid "in jest" can often be indistinguishable from actual genuine stupidity - and while I had thought you might be kidding, because it was just so stupid, there wasn't any "wink wink" in the text to convince me of that.

So um yea, quit whining and complaining about people not getting your clever satire, and welcome to intratubes.

And no, a :P doesn't = "this was a joke". More so an ;), but even then it can still mean "lol see how dumb you are /what you didn't realize?". Welcome to intratube once more

Hmm, You know what? I think I'll give that a try as well. :P

twooffour said:

On the audio commentary to the Matrix films, the "critics" at one point, point out the seeming contradiction between "don't think you are, KNOW you are", and "your mind makes it real".

Then some dumb twerp kid says "it's not the spoon bending, it's yourself", and then seconds after "there is no spoon". What??!

It's just your typical vague pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-mystical mumbo jumbo, that falls apart under the slightest application of scrutiny, but can certainly be reconciled within itself using some kind of apologetic mental gymnastics.

For future reference, if you're going to post a quote that you intend to lambaste and then run a tangent on with your pseudo-jargon BS, please get the quote right:

Child: "Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth."
Neo: "The truth?"
Child: "There is no spoon."
Neo: "There is no spoon?"
Child: "Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."

So there we have it, if you bend "only yourself", as opposed to "yourself and the universe minus the spoon", how can anyone else see the spoon bend, and nothing else? ;)