More fun with Shaman Girl

  Now... I do have moments of compassion, though they are rare. But I read a post by ShamanGirl and felt inclined to respond with a comment that was slightly less of a flame. Maybe I'm going soft? Anyways, she has her comments screened so I don't know if it will actually make it to her journal or not so I'm posting it here. Normally I don't go into a person's livejournal and leave comments, but I saw this one and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, felt inclinated to respond. Now this is merely my opinion, and the intent of it is to clear up a few things that I found to be seen in very different lights. It's not my intent to stir up shit, but if I did, well then that is an additional point for me, as I could use a good chuckle. I, for one, don't see how one could see it as seceding from a fight merely because they don't respond to a comment that is a pitiful attempt to enrage them, especially when that was the original purpose for even mentioning Nebris. And basing intellect on how large one's database of quotes is hardly what I would call an accurate depiction. Now I understand that in this particular case Nebris didn't regurgitate any tired quotes but it would appear that he took some (albeit minor) offense to the fact that a seperate Phreak2000 user stated his opinion that Machiavelli was an existentialist, then to go as far as to laugh at using Van instead of Von for Goethe. I'll even include the quote <i>"It's von, hoseboy; 'van' is Dutch and nobody who knows anything uses the 'von' for him anyway."</i> Such a statement, in my personal opinion, is a clear sign of psuedo-intellect if I've ever seen one. Has it ever crossed Nebris' mind that the use of Van was intentional to show just how little GoAT cares about your philosophers? As for the comments about "Fat/Stupid/Lazy" being repeatedly used, I'll have to refer to my previous point that the sole intent of mentio [...]