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Anyone willing to dig up and resurrect the original?
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“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Here you go:
https://apolyton.net/forum/miscellan...f-poly-posters
It's closed, however.
This was the last list:
KrazyHorse
loinburger
Asher
Ramo
Dauphin
Drogue
Lazarus and the Gimp
Imran Siddiqui
Oncle Boris
DanS
Guynemer
Ari Rahikkala
Rah
notyoueither
GePap
Brachy-Pride
Mercator
cronos_qc
Berzerker
Ben Kenobi
BlackCat
Ninot
Lorizael
Last Conformist
Richelieu
joncha
BeBro
Provost Harrison
DinoDoc
Maquiladora
b etor
padillah
Krill
Proteus_MST
Wiglaf
Tuberski
Spec
AAHZ
SlowwHand
Those who I'm a little unsure of:
Ari Rahikkala
Mercator
BeBro
Maquiladora
padillah
AAHZ
Those who I'm very unsure of:
Krill
Proteus_MSTComment
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I remember those futile attempts to maintain site performance. Apparently, the new software/DB structure runs into limitations somewhere else first now.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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I forget why he never did Ming.
Of course we all know where the Kidiot would fall on a current list.
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Shouldn't you and Ming rank equivalently on that list?Originally posted by rah View PostI forget why he never did Ming.
Of course we all know where the Kidiot would fall on a current list. “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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You would think, but he was considered a bigger A-hole back then due to his moderation style. And the list wasn't completely lacking in popularity bias.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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he wouldn't make it on the list. He is a special kind lol.Originally posted by rah View PostOf course we all know where the Kidiot would fall on a current list.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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In my time (he says oldly) I always thought Pekka was the smartest one here. Oh, there were people more experienced and wiser, of course, but as a teenaged Finn, Pekka was so capable in the English tongue he was able to do humor... and do it well. Remember his "Old Time Apolyton" graphic he created? A classic.Comment
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If popularity was an important factor, one would think a teenage nymphomaniac (b etor) would rank much higher......“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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That's assuming it wasn't some old pervert DL pretending to be a teenage nymphomaniac. Let's calculate out the probability on that one......................
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Didn't you just in another thread claim there was only one ?Originally posted by rah View Post
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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Try reading it again thinking the number in the other direction. Think nine heads of Ming. 
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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If anything, the posters on this site have shown that perception > reality.Originally posted by rah View PostThat's assuming it wasn't some old pervert DL pretending to be a teenage nymphomaniac. Let's calculate out the probability on that one......................“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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Well, in all the time that has passed since the last update of the list, some Apolytoners also have died.
Last one seems to have been Loinburger, roughly a year ago, who fell and got a head trauma that caused his deathTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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Loinburger was the only death on that list I was aware of. Are you telling me I missed others?“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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