Next time you come to America, Mizar, I’d like to meet you to get some tips on logical debating since I mistook as an adhominom attack this brilliant exploration of ideas in post #125:

“Friends, be assured that not all Koreans are like this abject loser who has no doubt invited ridicule from others all his life through such insecurity and arrogance and now erroneously credits his own shortcoming to anyone who is not born Korean.

But he does have one thing going for him - he is indeed fortunate not to have been born English, Italian, Polish, Chinese or any other non-Korean ationality, in which case he would not be able to pull the racist card.”

I’m already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth, Mizar5!

As long as it’s green, man…

Sounds almost nonduplicitous - the mendacity is barely perceptible. You’re starting to win me over, I tell you.

Shakuhachi:”The only utility of claiming to be Korean in being critical about Korea is to avoid being labeled racist by hyper-sensitive and kettle-calling-pot-black Koreans and clueless foreigners.”

Admittedly, I preclude the factor of race/nationality to argue from a strictly empirical/intellectual standpoint, remaining aloof from flame wars swirling around nothing more substantial than emotionalism and logical fallacies such as race. So sue me.

Kushibo: “Huh? It’s not about Mizar’s identity. The largest piece of evidence against Mizar5 is what The Marmot said…

That’s a relief. Evidence sounds so… threatening…but when you put it that way, it sounds so much more like…well, unsubstantiated hearsay.

Kushibo: “How does Coffee Bean near the Kyobo sound?”

Sounds too close to where I work - never shit where you eat, and never drink what gives you the shits. And never venture into shitstorms without a paddle.

If you need a better rationalization for evasiveness, let me say that as an Intellectual Independent and a devout agnostioc, I simply will not be seduced by kindness. I prefer to be reviled as
an object of swirling rumor and solipsistic projectionism.

I leave you with the concluding lines of the Diamond Sutra:

“Thus should you look on all this fleeting world -

A flickering lamp. a phantom and a dream.”

The largest piece of evidence against Mizar5 is what The Marmot said, and after having a few beers with the guy, I have to tell ya, the dude is full of shit.

Nice Freudian slip there, 95. Go and meet Mizar5 if the offer is still on the table. Personally, I always thought his claims of Korean ethnicity worked against his arguments, some of which were good. The only utility of claiming to be Korean in being critical about Korea is to avoid being labeled racist by hyper-sensitive and kettle-calling-pot-black Koreans and clueless foreigners.

Mine, too. However, on Firefox for Macintosh, the numbers do not reset.

The weird thing is, though, that the bold-face problem started with Sonagi’s #49 post.

Frankly, I think that Mizar5 and I should meet up over a beer and/or coffee to discuss how to fix the bold face problem and the numbers being reset.

How does Coffee Bean near the Kyobo sound?

The largest piece of evidence against Mizar5 is what The Marmot said, and after having a few beers with the guy, I have to tell ya, the dude is full of shit.

Eh?  What the hell’s that supposed to mean?