What happened to deep conversations?

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Dr.Grass said:

"Take yourself, even. Aren't you here, discussing something on a video game forum? I can take this your mere registration here mean that you care/cared quite a bit about video games. Unless video games are on a completely different plane from and more intellectual than TV shows, this should impede upon your ability to meditate quite a bit. And has it?"

I never claimed to be the VGC Jesus that I was accused of. I've smoked more pot in my life than everyone on this thread combined (most probably), and I've had personal issues in this life - definitely. But now, just because I'm being very assertive in my speech and the  points I make, you have to go and attack my character? Do you want to know how long I lived in a monastary or how long I was celibate and didn't take stimulants? Or maybe how many hours a day I meditate What are you doing here?

Actually, you're inherently stating that there isn't scope for real progressive discussion about anything higher than the mundane sphere of videogames. Bravo- you're probably right. So should I just leave VGC again because it looks like I'm trying to be a Messiah on here or what?

Okay, wow, you're taking this far too personally. I'm sorry if it came off as anything else, but there was nothing at all offensive about what I said. I neither know nor care about whether or not you smoked and/or had personal issues at some point if it's not relevant. You seem to have brought it up completely out of the blue.

I made a cumulative total of three points in that part you quoted: 1) I think you like video games, which are similar to TV shows and 2) I think you're good at meditation, from which I concluded that 3) It's possible to be good at meditation while liking something similar to TV shows.

Where on earth did you find something that attacked your character there? I'm sure you've spent lots of time in self-improvement, which is awesome, but why are you defending yourself here? Unless of course it's unacceptable to like video games. I didn't - or at least I didn't mean to - criticize your assertiveness or arguments at all, really. If you thought I did, please point out which part of what I was saying implied something similar and I'll be sure to avoid accidentally making similar comments in the future.

For the rest of the post, we seem to have moved from the original points to more precise points about history and philosophy. To be honest, there's no argument to be made here; I'm completely aware that you know better about this stuff. If you say I'm wrong about anything, I probably am. I rather have to concede anything you say from the beginning so any discussion is pointless except for the purpose of enlightening me. It's definitely helping with that, but I'm not sure how much you can be bothered.

...oh, and yes, I did lose a bet. But it happened like two years ago now. I just love the avatar so much, I've kept it.