Metalrules also suffers from an obvious inferiority complex which is projected by his elitism. Carl Jung would refer to this as the Shadow. What is his inferiority complex? Well Rob, you may have very well stumbled upon it. Also, by gathering general empirical evidience, we can make a hypothesis from his 75 posts (95% of them being longer than a damn doctoral dissertation) that Metalrules also suffers from "Having no life" syndrome. He seeks validation from members of a message board, while still remaining annoyomous. On one hand, he enjoys ruffling peoples' feathers because he gets excitement from emotional sadism, but on the other hand, he's hoping that at least one person will validate his trite dissertations by agreeing with him. Either way, at least people are talking about him, which is much more than he can say about people in the "Real World".
Since we are all analyzing from objectional points, let's analyze an insult hurled at me from early this morning.
And one other thing, STOP FIGHTING ME ON ISSUES YOU NO NOTHING ABOUT.
Your like a STREET BUM trying to argue medical procedures with a Doctor
First let's take a look at the grammatical errors of this post. The first mistake that is obvious to any monkey who can equate a concept as simple as 2+2=5 is that he begins a sentence with a conjunction. While, more languid grammar teaches that this can be used for effect in more liberal situations, by classical definition, it is considered incorrect to begin a sentence with a conjuction. The second problem is the first sentence has no noun. Of course, we could let this slip because a command can be given in second person perspective and have no reference to the person reading it. The third problem is the word "No" is used when the correct word should be "know". Then we are brought to the second sentence. It's pretty much pefect (abeit, not very eloquent) with the exception of the first word. "Your" is used in the possessive sense, when it really should be used as a contraction. (ie You are or
You're) Of course, any person who can argue worth a damn knows that picking on minor grammatical errors invalidates the argument, but Metalrules has been critical of semantics since the get go. I think it's only fair we use his own tactic to point out his stupidity.
Next, let's anaylze his analogy. First it's very cliche. He is attempting to draw a powerful contrast between two preexisting stereotypes. That being: Bums are stupid and doctors are smart. He doesn't take different variables into account. (Hey variables, just like not taking different variables into account when discussing 2+2=5!) He forgets that while a doctor may have a nice upper-middle class in comparison to the street bum's cardboard box, this in no way is an indicating factor of the bum's actual intelligence. IT IS AN ANALOGY THAT COMPARES SOCIAL STATUS, NOT INTELLIGENCE. Case in point; the bum may very well have an IQ of 178 but he may also suffer from alcoholism, which is what put him in his current state. He may very well have attended medical school and graduated at the top of his class. He may in fact be a more brillant physician than the practicing doctor. The fact being, the poster didn't cleary illustrate the bum's history. He did not take into account what brought the bum to his current state in life. Any logical person could make assumption that the bum is in fact, brilliant. On the bright side, I didn't find any TIMEFRAME problems with the post. That's one good thing I can say about.
Okay, I'm starting to waste to much time with this. This is becoming another "Reason" and I have more important things to talk about that some idiot on a forum. Besides, I don't have 23 free hours a day to write meaningless drivel on a board in which no one gives a shit about.
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