Gun Control thread (merged many)

[yubba]

Well I guess I win, all you got is name calling, and ridicual,., may be you tell yubba, when we get to this utopia, and what it will be like, so yubba don't just drives by it.. yubba may just be simple pawn in great scheme of the life but at least yubba knows how to open a can of food with out electricity. Have a nice time in the FEMA camps, you know what's funny about that statement, it's not if I believe in it, it's that, millions that are more screwed up in the head than I, do , now that's funny.

[Oberon]

Where would we be without Yubbas philisophical insights on the state of modern America? When he's put in the FEMA death camp, his intellect shall be lost to these pages. A sad day that shall be.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by yubba

Well I guess I win, all you got is name calling, and ridicual,.,

You don't win, because you don't get it any more than Bubblehead does. You ridicule everyone who doesn't think like you in every post you make.

I'll try to explain it. People don't make fun of you for what you say, but for how you say it. If you believe these things, then fine. Talk about them. Discuss them; but don't just spout them as if you're some kind of prophet. You're not. People give you grief because you don't discuss these things. You preach them, and you don't do it particularly well.

I'm seriously trying to help. As long as you continue to play the clown people will continue to treat you that way.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You don't win, because you don't get it any more than Bubblehead does. You ridicule everyone who doesn't think like you in every post you make.

I'll try to explain it. People don't make fun of you for what you say, but for how you say it. If you believe these things, then fine. Talk about them. Discuss them; but don't just spout them as if you're some kind of prophet. You're not. People give you grief because you don't discuss these things. You preach them, and you don't do it particularly well.

I'm seriously trying to help. As long as you continue to play the clown people will continue to treat you that way.

The thing is, Steve, I suspect that he's so entrenched in his beliefs, so blinkered and full of hatred towards the current American government, that he truly believes everything he says, and nothing we say or do will sway him from that. Even more, he can dismiss us all as 'stamping on Jesus' or 'liberals' when we try to prove that what he's saying is actually mostly either political spin, scaremongering or just outright lies. For some people, even though they are alone in their beliefs, or near enough so, they still cannot accept the possibility that they may be wrong, it's a sort of martyrdom-esque stance. They believe that they are the only one who can see the 'coming storm' and it's their duty, perhaps their god-given duty, to 'sound the alarm' and try to warn people before it's too late.
You can swap out Obama and put in any number of doomsday prophecies, and it's the same sort of stubborn self-delusion that people like Harold Camping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping) have, that lead them to announce to all and sundry that the end of the world will happen on X date. They honestly believe in it, and they believe that what they are doing is right and just.
At least with people that call the end of the world though they usually start to change their tune when the world doesn't end. The trouble with the FEMA death camp lot is that they'll keep believing it so long as it doesn't happen.

In short, as much as you want to help him, he is quite beyond help and will in fact likely view your attempts to reason with him as some sort of attack.

[Buddahaid]

Yubba, you're the only person I ever put on my ignore list, but I took you off after a week because you're just Yubba, and harmless. I'm not convinced you are for real and are just role playing, but you don't get mad and indignant. You sprout anew with the same songs.

[Hottentot]

Are we there yet?

[Buddahaid]

Gettin' there!

Well I guess I win, all you got is name calling, and ridicual

Your posts lack any substance for any other type of reply.

For example

yubba may just be simple pawn in great scheme of the life but at least yubba knows how to open a can of food with out electricity

wow give yourself a gold star, you can be top pupil at infant school today

[Feuer Frei!]

Btw Tribesman, could you, when quoting people actually include their names please? Makes for much easier reading. Thanks in advance.