r/interestingasfuck 17d ago

We are called the Water World but we really should be called the Fire World. As far as we know, earth is the only place in the universe with fire. It has yet to be observed anywhere else.

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u/OuthouseRedback 17d ago

So this is the sequel to the 1st novel? Even more pretentious bullshit pouring out of your mouth in a futile attempt to look like an intellectual. I didn't think it was possible for you to be an even bigger tool, but look at you go. You are here mindlessly arguing semantics with wall after wall of head-up-your-arse text. You sound like a second year arts student. Just enough knowledge to make it seem like you know something but not enough to actually make you an intellectual. Just enough to make you think you are when you just throw clever sentences at people. I can write purple as well, it doesn't mean I am smart, if anything writing that way shows you are not confident in your intellect and need to show it off in your writing rather than just making a point. Clearly this is what you do. No one naturally speaks or argues verbally the way you write so it is pretentious and should be treated as such. You are having an argument, not writing classic literature. Wake the fuck up! And for the love of fucking God stop being a pedantic and semantic douchebag. Anyone who read my original comment can understand te meaning in it and even after tha t I corrected it to call the balls of plasma but you just couldn't deal with that, you have to be a fuckhead about it and dump novels of you bullshit over the definition of a sentence THAT i ALREADY CONCEDED AND CORRECTED YOU FUCKING DUMB CUNT, ARE YOU READING THIS OR NOT? FUCKING PAY ATTENTION IDIOT! YOU ARE ARGUING AGAINST SOMETHING i HAVE ALREADY SAID (YEAH, OK) TO. Wow you are fucking dumb. You are arguing a point I have already given to you. What the actual fuck is your major defect buddy? You keep delivering walls of text to claim I was wrong about something that I have already said I was wrong about.

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u/sagerap 17d ago edited 17d ago

Again, if clear, articulate speech is so completely opaque and foreign to you that all you're able to see when you look at it is a vague, undecipherable mass of "pretentiousness", all that means is that you lack the reading comprehension and/or basic thinking skills to understand it, not that I am pretentious. The fact that you read my very simple, straightforward writing and think I'm trying to "sound smart" indicates that you're intimidated by something which should sound simple to you, since simple and straightforward is what it is. And the fact that you can't respond to a single specific thing I've said- and instead reply with literally nothing but insults- indicates that you didn't actually read/comprehend any of it, just saw a "wall of text" and started typing angrily again.

If you feel the need to call someone who made a simple, harmless comment "cunt" and "FUCKING RETARDED" and to RAGE over and over again, all that means is that you are insecure, defensive, and extremely easily-angered, not that I or anyone else in your crosshairs deserves your extremely emotional overreactions. I've been nothing but patient and respectful to you, and you know that.

You acknowledged that stars are made of plasma. Good for you. All I ever said was that that's not the same thing as acknowledging that "ball of X" implies "made of X". And I never asked you to acknowledge that either, I was simply trying to help your apparently easily-overwhelmed mind understand the fact that I was never attacking you in the first place, just pointing out that something you said was logically incorrect- so there was never a reason for you to get yourself so wound up to begin with.

I hope that wasn't too much "intellectual" text for you.

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u/OuthouseRedback 17d ago

Jesus fucking Christ you can't stop doing it. It is a compulsion for you or something. And dude, I have a BA in communications with majors in journalism and creative writing and I am a published author. I understand every word you have written and know it to be shitty writing. It is full of intellectual ego, overly stuffy discourse that is pretentiousness personified, and repetition of the of the most imbecilic and mindless semantic point about something ultimately unimportant, and you just can't get past the fact that someone does not find you smart, just pretentious. The inevitable follow on from this is that you dump wall after wall of dick-headed, verbose nonsense to make you appear smart only to completely fail to recognise the simpleton who wrote the first smart arse comment. That would be you sir. I still cannot believe you are arguing the point that I have already said you were correct on. Why the actual fuck are you still arguing? If you were wondering why I am calling you a fucking retard, it is because of that. Dumb arse cunt arguing a point over and over that he has already won. Fucking moron.

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u/sagerap 17d ago

Jesus fucking Christ you can't stop doing it. It is a compulsion for you or something.

What was that about "hypocrisy" that you were accusing that other guy of? That's not meant as a personal attack bro, just pointing it out.

And dude, I have a BA in communications with majors in journalism and creative writing and I am a published author.

Ok. Neither journalism, creative writing, nor being an author require particularly strong knowledge of formal logic, so I don't blame you for misperceiving my writing style as being pretentious or egotistical. That's also not meant as a dig at you.

I understand every word you have written and know it to be shitty writing.

Please listen: my goal hasn't been "good writing", it's been logical writing.

Try to imagine, just for a second, try to entertain the hypothetical existence of a person who doesn't "argue" emotionally. Who genuinely, fundamentally thinks and communicates, to the best of their ability, according to the rules of formal conceptual logic. That person would speak precisely, to minimize definitional misunderstandings. They would formulate thoughts according to a logical progression. They would not resort to name-calling or personal attacks, but would do their best to remain as objective as possible in all their communications. They may as a result write more like a robot than the majority of emotionally-informed people allow themselves to.

If you will allow yourself to let your guard down and go back and read what I've written again- without the presumption of malicious intent on my part- you will see that THAT is what I've been doing. And that is why I sincerely invited you, from the very beginning, to explain what precisely you disagreed with in my reasoning. Because that's how sound, logic-based discourse works: establish well-defined premises, and deduce them to valid conclusions; then if another party disagrees, they point to the specific premise(s) they disagree with, and explain why. Though I unfortunately doubt you're capable of interpreting my words that way, since you've already seemingly gotten so emotionally invested in your anger at me.

But again, I don't care if you or anyone else thinks I'm smart. No one's perception of my intelligence is relevant, what is relevant is the truth or falsehood of the specific points I've made. In an effort to efficiently and respectfully make those points, it's been necessary for me to talk like an expert in logic, which I am; not like a creative writer, which I'm not (or at least don't profess to be).

If your first comment had been "oh, wait you're right, those don't mean different things" (instead of personal insults), then I literally would not have left you another single reply. This comment I'm replying to now was the first one in which you explicitly acknowledged that my original point was correct. I sincerely appreciate you acknowledging that. Although, to be clear, as I said in my last two replies, the primary reason I continued to respond was not to continue arguing my original point, but to defend myself against your mean-spirited personal attacks, by justifying that my original comment was 1-logically correct and 2-not meant to offend you. If you acknowledge that my original point was sound, then all I can do is hope that you'll accept that my original comment was not meant to offend you. Because I'm not angry at you, and never was.

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u/Radagastroenterology 15d ago

Wow. What an amazing lack of self-awareness coupled with a massive, yet undeserved ego.

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