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Eh, nobody who makes a post breaking up with the forum like it's their girlfriend ever stays away. These are always a bad idea for precisely that reason, it's lame to make such declarations but even lamer to go back on them. But regardless, seems he did need a break. I will say though, dude made some very bold claims putting a lot of spotlight on himself, and then seemed to not want to engage with any criticism of the ideas or of how they were presented. It led to a really interesting thread though with ideas and thoughts put forth by others that wouldn't have otherwise been posted, so I still see it as an overall positive thing. But there's a lot of people here with a love of a good debate and some pretty deep knowledge of ancient history, I would guess that it was realizing he couldn't sidestep those things and then change the subject without continuing to draw some ire for it that made it "not fun anymore." If I can sort of paraphrase some of Malk's comments to me, he was pretty rankled I know because he saw Flutter's whole stance as a smugly dismissive and simplified depiction of ancient humans not based in any real fact, coupled by a refusal to engage with any debate and other mental gymnastics that all seemed disrespectful. And I'm guessing others making genuine effort to discuss these various ideas in the thread felt similarly. I'm not saying Flutter did any of this intentionally but I do think he's REALLY bad at debating lol. Like claims that everyone else's points only "made him righter" regardless of how he had to contradict his own prior statements to arrive at that, and that it was weird or wrong somehow to focus on debunking his supporting arguments. So I can understand his last few posts in the thread leaving others with some ill feeling after they put a lot of thought into their own responses. I don't think he was prepared to deal with that, so here we are. (Not that there was THAT dramatic of a response even from Malk, but I figured he knew he was going to be the target of some memes and little jabs for awhile at that point.) I will add though that however anyone thinks of how that all went down or Flutter's interpretation of life, the universe, and everything, the material from Marshall McLuhan that he got all the acoustic/literary stuff from is a lot more complex than that and looks to be some pretty interesting stuff dealing with right brain/left brain thinking. McLuhan was a pretty influential thinker who coined terms like "the global village" and "the medium is the message" that you might ha/ve heard referenced here or there, and he predicted some of the psychological impact of the internet decades before it existed. Notably he saw cars, trains, planes, all these things suddenly on the scene as being primarily vectors not just for fast travel but for control and spread of information, and talked about how the world around humanity being made into an increasingly artificial environment meant it could be programmed by man to emphasize certain ideas and create the framework of the ways we have to interact with them. So if the end result of all this is piquing interest enough that some of you going to the source material, I think Flutter would be happy with that. (Some of his other arguments, Jesus and the moneychangers et al, I traced back to making the rounds among Redditoid vegans, and can't advise going to them for wisdom, sorry.) Malk was also so annoyed he started talking about reviving the CYS book club soon with a slow walk through the Iliad, so that would be awesome too.

You had a 300+ post thread and a 35k linear infodump worth of material to draw from, and that's what you went with? Do better.

Sorry, I meant to say, "you weird cartoon pony loving faggot" is the most insane, weird, controversial, risky, potentially deeply offensive, spiritually serious, scientifically upending, philosophically inspired, personal, politically charged and mind-melting insult I have ever seen.

And now I see fluttershy is back to posting. I'm still catching up on the last couple days of posts and messages but, really wondering what the point of this one was.