Oh you mean it would have been better to actually say what you mean? Yeah. Probably.
Translation: I have no rebuttal to what you said because you’re right, I was in fact the one who became snappy and defensive (because you bruised my ego by not realizing I’ve spent the last 15 years perfecting my experty expertise), and I was in fact projecting my own wrong onto you. So I’m just going to try to change the subject and again attempt to flip focus back on you while again still trying as best I can to come off as more of an experty expert, because I probably won’t be able to forget about your mistaking me for a newbie for a long time.
There’s that irony again.
I’m not entirely sure what this is supposed to mean, but it sounds gross.
…and I need to get over myself? You’re like a walking case of irony.
It means you have an issue in which you cannot seem to avoid projecting your own ills onto others and accusing them of doing what it is that in fact you were doing.
None of this makes any sense. Where did my ego come into this? I replied to your post, directly addressed your points and offered you some links that I thought would help you. You got offended because I offered you those links and came back with a very snappy post, part of which was used to get your digs in, and the majority of which was evidently supposed to redeem your good name (among whom, I have no idea) and wow the forum with your amazing display of mental masturbation, which you keep seeming to think was actually a presentation of not only some profound insight that no one else has ever possibly come up with, but also some kind of argument that requires a response.
Once again, I broke down your post (regardless of its relevance or usefulness) and responded to it, addressing each piece accordingly.
I’m sorry if you don’t feel like you got what you were looking for, but I simply responded to the things you said.
You say that, but the way all these posts of yours are going, I’m finding it really hard to believe.
No I think you just have nothing else to say because all of your pedantic rambling — which was written out for no other reason than to serve your bruised ego — didn’t really warrant any response, so you didn’t get one, and were left with no satisfaction and no real way to win some intellectual sparring match you so desperately want so that you might by chance redeem yourself.
So now you’re left in the hapless position of having to continue issuing responses to things that aren’t even an argument (because an argument wasn’t warranted)…for if you don’t, you’ll be left even more bruised than when you started. …which is why the best you can come up with is this faux-challenge kind of language in which you attempt to make it seem as though there is some burden on me to make some case here, mixed in with some school yard “I can do X, can you?” nonsense (e.g. “I sure as hell wouldn’t be ashamed to bring my own curiousity and intellect and ideas to the table. Would you?”, “have you spent time in Mises?”, “I read and listened to your links. Have you?”) And of course all the meanwhile you make sure to call me juvenile. (Can’t forget to include the projection, can we now.)
Here we go again. What is the relevance of any of this? What is with this incessant focus on me? The only thing I can figure is that you’ve devolved this simple case of mistaken experience into some kind of personal contest, in which everything you’re posting is either a brag on yourself or a direct/indirect challenge on me. You’re like some sensitive guy who takes things extremely personally, so when someone insults your mother and walks away, you have a need to chase after them and insult their mother back. And when they don’t care and just keep on walking, you sprint to catch up so you can get in their face and challenge them to a duel.
I’m sorry bro. I don’t know what to say. I don’t have anything to prove, certainly not to you, and I honestly just don’t have any interest in any contests.
As for link spam though, you might talk to some other forum members and see how they feel about it. I provide links that I think people might find useful, and based on the all the responses I’ve gotten over the past year and a half (this one notwithstanding) they’ve been found to be helpful. If you don’t have any use for them, don’t click them.
Since the rest of your post is simply you agreeing with me and then rambling on again with more of the same I describe above, I’ll just leave it at that.
Look dude, I’m sorry that you were so hurt by my post. Really I am. Normally I wouldn’t care, but you’re obviously just so affected by it that I kinda do actually feel bad. Not a lot, but kinda. I wish there was some way to make you feel better about yourself, but I’m not entirely sure how to accomplish that.
The best I can say is probably the phrase posted when you were projecting earlier in this post, and tell you to “get over yourself.” But I realize that may not help and in fact may only hurt your feelings more, so feel free to call me some names if it would help. I’ll make sure you don’t get reprimanded. I’ll even agree to not respond, so you can post whatever you want and feel vindicated.
I’m not sure what else I can do.