I seem to be the only one who understands Myrmidon's topics

Comments

• Nova

  2013-03-28 03:47:22

  If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

  Yes.

  
  

  Without any context, many of his threads have complaints, but they can't be understood because the people reading them don't understand what he's complaining about.
• Schitzo

  2013-03-28 03:50:24

  They're somethin' else.

  I normally don't mind them.
• Fuschlatz

  2013-03-28 03:51:22

  A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

  myrmidon_ebooks really ought to be a thing by now...
• Nova

  2013-03-28 03:52:10

  If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

  I don't mind them, but I would prefer it if Myrmidon explained his complaints so I could understand them.
• glennmagusharvey

  2013-03-28 04:14:00 edited 2013-03-28 04:14:24

  Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

  Yes, this.

  
  

  I mean, Myrm, it's really not that hard to include a brief description of what you're talking about.  If you're talking about a certain line of philosophy or a certain subculture that I don't know about, yes, I could go look it up myself, but most likely, I'm going to be unfamiliar with it, will have no interest in it, and will just gloss over the thread.  If you want a discussion on it you should at least provide some leads for people to get interested in a topic they're not familiar with.
• Myrmidon

  2013-03-28 08:14:03

  When I do that, nobody responds.
• Octo

  2013-03-28 08:16:32

  I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

  Heh, I'd rather say nobody answers to philosophy threads, period...
• Nova

  2013-03-28 08:18:47

  If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

  
  

  When I do that, nobody responds.

  
  

  
  

  That may simply be because nobody has anything to reply to that. I mean, what could I say to that thread? "Yeah, he sure did contradict himself"?

  
  

  That's not the case with other threads of yours, though. It might be with some, but probably not all.
• Kraken

  2013-03-28 09:18:47

  I quite like Myrmidon's threads.

  
  

  I just wish people would post more.
• Formaldehyde

  2013-03-28 09:19:57 edited 2013-03-28 09:20:48

  I didn't respond because I thought you were reading the passage a bit too superficially, and that there was no way everyone else on IJBM would let you get away with that.
  
  
  
  Also, I couldn't think of a way to say "The contradiction in that work is supposed to highlight/"solve" the problem by way of juxtaposition/contradiction." without being overly insulting at the time.
  
  
  
  I mean, the guy outright says so in 'The Indestructability of Our True Beings by Death' in the first few lines.
• Ironweaver

  2013-03-28 15:42:30

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  Honestly, I like Myrm's threads too.