Why this board is fucking awesome and literally priceless

[FourthBase]

Philosophy, as I have so far understood and lived it, means living voluntarily among ice and high mountains -- seeking out everything strange and questionable in existence, everything so far placed under a ban by morality. Long experience, acquired in the course of such wanderings in what is forbidden, taught me to regard the causes that so far have prompted moralizing and idealizing in a very different light from what may seem desirable: the hidden history of the philosophers, the psychology of the great names, came to light for me.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? More and more that became for me the real measure of value. Error (faith in the ideal) is not blindness, error is cowardice.

- Nietzsche, preface to Ecce Homo

If Nietzsche were alive today, where do you think he might wind up spending way too much of his "leisure" time? Wouldn't a message board be a nearly perfect vehicle for Nietzsche's paragraphical/aphoristic thoughts? If Socrates were alive today, where do you think he might wind up debating? Wouldn't a message board, this message board, be the ultimate agora today to encounter a representative sampling of the world's most supposedly open-minded people? Isn't it hilarious to imagine Nietzsche posting "STFU n00b" and Socrates posting "LOL!" and such?

[FourthBase]

True or false: This internet message board is the most important internet message board in the world. I say: True. I say: The people who congregate here are among the most important minds in the world. Why do you think I was so desperate to make sure this forum was backed up?

[Seamus OBlimey]

And there's me thinking it's because you're here.

[overcoming hope]

True or false: This internet message board is the most important internet message board in the world. I say: True. I say: The people who congregate here are among the most important minds in the world. Why do you think I was so desperate to make sure this forum was backed up?

In my opinion this is true. That is why it scares me when I realize what a bunch of knuckle heads we can be.

[Hammer of Los]

I bloody hope it isn't true.

I wouldn't like to be thought of as in any way remotely significant.

Ugh. No thanks.

[barracuda]

I bloody hope it isn't true.

I wouldn't like to be thought of as in any way remotely significant.

Ugh. No thanks.

Well spoken. I should hope there are passels of more vital, integrated and relevantly perspicacious individuals currently using the web for problem solving of a more pertinent, immediate nature, or we're all fucked.

WAKE. THE. FORNICATE. UP.

Nonetheless, I do happen to love ya'll.

[lightningBugout]

The people who congregate here are among the most important minds in the world. Why do you think I was so desperate to make sure this forum was backed up?

In my opinion this is true. That is why it scares me when I realize what a bunch of knuckle heads we can be.

You know, I am tremendously skeptical of damn near every word I've ever heard, but I sometimes get chills at the conglomeration of incisive knowledge and wisdom that occurs at RI. IOW I'm not a joiner, but I am literally stunned by this cast of characters. (geogeo's recent posts come to mind here....)