To all you BLEEPING ATSers BLEEP YOU !!!

Excellent! I was very shocked when I read the opening title on the board, not many threads have raised such emotion in me just from an opening line, I though WHAT! HOW can this be allowed, I was actually outraged...ATS did not deserve this treatment.... then I scrolled down and smiled.

Certainly makes you think...thanks.

Thank you for your reply AshleyD very well said.

It is a shame that we so often rely on our perception to judge others without giving them a fair chance to show us who they really are.

Got me

Thanks for the post. I share in the guilt you have pointed out. This should be required reading for new members. Thanks again.

From emotionally outraged to smilling in what I would bet was less than twenty seconds.

Thanks for the reply

lol... you made me look!

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I believe him. If that thread had been an actual insult, it wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes before it was deleted.

I knew it was a joke or a kissup as soon as I saw the title. Believe me or not.

You are absolutely right.

Its like this if Iran readys their naval forces or Air forces because of something that Russia has done and we don't know of this incident which has caused these increased military actions then we(the united states and other country's participating in this current war) are gonna do the same because we are not on good terms with Iran. Now because we have increased our military alertness they are gonna look toward us and say well they must know of the incident that has happened between us and Russia so they are gonna try and attack us when we are weak and are preoccupied with Russia. This could cause them to get agitated and try to attack us before we can attack them. This would concrete our (USA and such) thinking that they were preparing to attack us. All this because of mis-perception. Perception has a great impact on the way we see everything. Not meaning to state the obvious lol.

all this was hypothetical by the way

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We can only hope that TPTB take a few deep breaths before they react to what they perceive.

I admit that I really don't hit this area, just generally not my thing.

I only read it because it was on top of the main page.

I read it (not see what area it was from).

I fell for it hook line and sinker, I bet 95% or more were also, even if they won't admit it.

I did read and continued to the bottom, where i was relieved ( there was a rash of ATS bashing threads for a bit).

Star and a flag for you.

All I can say is...

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

or...

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

reply to post by JohnnyCanuck

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lol, :p

Great thead

reply to post by deepred

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Beautiful lesson on our tunnel vision!! Though we be open minded we tend to slip. Thanks for the reminder. Perception is everything!

The main thing that gave away this thread for me before reading it was the amount of posts it already had by the time I saw it. I figured if it was as it seemed, the mods would have seen it and killed or closed it by the time I was able to see it.

I'm glad I read the whole thing. It definitely makes a good point about perception.

[edit on 1/4/2009 by AshleyD]

Excellent post by the OP!

Well done, good form!

I'm still smiling!

Originally posted by Elijio





I would calm down but I wasnt upset in the first place.




Yes I seriously thought that untill I read the rest of the thread. I have seen people do that before and I will no doubt see it again. So its not like my first reaction was groundless.



Very impressive. You do seem to be the only one who caught on. :uo:




Well, while I am not sure just what your level of perception is, I usually do percieve things correctly. Not this time though, atleast not at first.




Right on, my dear friend. Let me just say again, I have been wrong before and I no doubt will be wrong again. As I did earlier I do apologise for doubting you. I truly didnt mean to call you a liar or anything like that. Thanks for bearing with me buddy.

Peace.

[edit on 4-1-2009 by gimme_some_truth]

[edit on 4-1-2009 by gimme_some_truth]

Good thread

I like that it showed just how fast people will click that "Reply" button before reading the entire post. Then when they're called out on it, they come back trying to say they did read the entire thing when it's very clear that they didn't.

The amount of people who did that isn't really surprising to me

The way "BLEEP" was used should have told these people that the post might not be what they thought it was about or else it would have said *SNIP*. How often do you see people post "BLEEP" on the internet to replace a cuss word? They'll usually just straight out type it or use numbers instead of letters to get around it.

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I wrote this exact same post awhile ago, except I filled in the blanks with some other words. Yea and well I now have a bunch of negative points.

I just BLEEEPED, your BLEEPING mother in the BLEEP and she loved it. She said it was the biggest BLEEP she ever had.

Nice Job!

Puts things in a different light.

They say you learn something new every day...and this was it for me.

I just (fed) your (sweet) mother in the kitchen and she loved it. She said it was the biggest (breakfast) she ever had.