Gbaji, clinnically insane?Follow

Nah, he's just long-winded.

Need anything else pointed out? Color of the sky, maybe?

Just wanted to confirm my suspicion that if presented with a long enough post that seems vaguely plausible, people will assume it's founded on rational thoguht.

I should have known better.

Shame, really.

Does that mean you don't really think Gbaji is insane? Damn.

For the record, I disagree heartily with Gbaji about nearly anything political but I've got no truck with him beyond that. He usually has something intelligent to say on the EQ front and, even in places where we disagree like the value of LDoN, we've always stayed civil. While I've given him raised eyebrows about some of his facts and cites, he's obviously smarter than the average bear.

Really, I think he needs to lighten up a little and stop focusing solely on PoliSci threads. When 98% of your posts are about Bush and Iraq and all that and are fifteen paragraphs long, you come across as a bit unbearable regardless of your stances. On the other hand, Gbaji wasn't soliciting advice on how to make friends and influence people so who cares what I think?

I can't believe you are still hung up on that thread. Odd that it seems to stick in your mind so firmly, yet the details keep slipping away.

I made a statement about +HP items. Thundra corrected me. I said I thought it worked the other way, but I'd test it to be sure. I went hom that night, tested it, verified it worked the way Thundra had said, and in my first post the next day admitted I had been wrong and verified the correct method. I'd gotten the +HP item behavior mixed up with the +sta behavior. Hardly earthshattering.

I did what any sane and rational pereson would do. I tested it and discovered the correct way it worked. You, on the other hand, somehow have elevated that to epic status. What I really don't understand is that you claim I didn't admit my mistake, when I most certainly did. Selective memory I guess.

See Smash. I don't form my sense of self worth based on the perception people have of me on an internet forum board. For me, it's not about "being right", it's about having discussions and from that maybe coming away with more information and understanding then when you arrived. If that means that I come off a bit tough, that's fine. I do it to spark conversation. You don't learn anything new, or discover different points of view if everyone in the room just nods their head and agrees to anything that's said.


If it seems as though I don't "admit to being wrong" often, it's not because I'm an arrogrant prick (save that definition if you want). It's because I want people to argue their points compellingly. I want someone to prove me wrong. And guess what? you having a different opinion does not equal proof. It's very rare that someone actually makes a good argument. We've replaced that too often in our culture with strong words and yelling, with the idea that he who seems most clever, or makes the most noise must be right.

I simply don't agree.

Ya know, just because you think you have a perfectly justified excuse for acting like an arrogant prick, you still come off as an arrogant prick. Giving some High School English Teacher-esque excuse of "I act like this because your answers aren't good enough until I say so -- it's all your fault I have to be this way" doesn't make you any less of an arrogant prick in anyone's eyes.

Just sayin'

what happened when i was gone? i always thought gbaji was a fairly cool poster. when did it get to the point where jophiel is calling him an arrogant prick?

I'm not a newbie but definetely not an old-timer. During my time here, I haven't seen enough out of him to have an opinion on anything having to do with his character or behavior outside of a political stance. For all I know he's a program someone set up because I never read any jokes or personal anecdotes, no references to RL, an SO, parents, dog, cat, etc.
Gbaji is like the news. I don't mean to imply he is a source for facts but rather that I read him when I feel like informing myself on a particular topic (even if I don't agree), but most days I'm too busy or it's too boring or depressing to get into.

gbaji came out of the closet to say:


That's the only post that you've ever made that I've laughed at.

Four years (has it been that long? Since the days of Delgard?). One laugh.

I'm going to cry now.

Grady

That's the only post that you've ever made that I've laughed at.


Really? He posts all kinds of stuff that makes me laugh. Then I show it to my wife and she has a good laugh, then we show it to freinds and we all laugh together.

In fact one of my freinds refers to him as "Horatio Alger" and will occasionally ask me "if Horatio Alger has posted any more of his deep throughts on US monetary policy"

I've rarely agreed with gbaji, but I've usually seen him present his viewpoint and arguments in a measured and reasoned way that varus could never understand. (i.e. English)
Someone I agree to disagree with a lot of the time I suppose.


It's amazing how often good grammar will pass for logic.

I guess that's how we ended up with Creationism being taught in some schools. Rename it "Inteligent Source Theory" and people say "Oh, that sounds like a measured reasoned scientific theory, that's ok then."

You missed the story about him getting jiggy in a swimming pool with some young lady

Granted the story was to argue how there was no logical reason for the girl to have been coyly rejecting his advances other than social programming, or something along those lines.

Maybe the reason why they had to be a in pool was because she was a Thalidomide baby.

;)

Only a FEW flipper babbies.