Why and how did a chess site become a spiritual-improvement site?

@Suzianne said
Why not?

Are you yet another member of the Minuteman Brigade?

I was thinking of a counseling setting.

I wonder if it might benefit you to spend some time on a site with more watercolor paintings or views of snow falling here and there in Japan,

@Suzianne said
Said the one who is actually not interested in improving himself spiritually.

What's to improve? I'm already here.

@Suzianne said
Stop misrepresenting me. You know nothing of my alliances and you probably don't have any real allies because you've driven them all away. You seem a bit peeved at this, and I have to remind you that it's your own damned fault.

Nice way to make friends with an outcast.

@Suzianne said
You also have zero idea of my relationship with my savior.

BTW, that wasn't me who gave that a downvote -- probably just some cowardly anonymous stirrer.

@Suzianne said

You put on your spirituality like an ill-fitting overcoat.

That was somewhat complicated by my exposure to Stapledon's timelines in my teen years.

(Also, I was a wayward student in college, and have never read Gogol's "Overcoat" although I was probably supposed to.)

@Martin said
Why does nearly every forum have to turn into a garbage excrement fight?

Nothing personal - but PLEASE - can't we have a civilised discussion on this site - we are, after all, intelligent, smart, respectful, sophisticated, and of course, respectful chess opponents.

No one is forcing you to read this thread! 😉

@Arkturos said
Nice way to make friends with an outcast.

I'm not interested in labels you place on yourself. Self-labeling is almost never true, especially in this kind of public forum where there are many people the labeler doesn't know.

@shavixmir said
Spirituality, schmirtuality.

What boggles my mind is how a chess site draws so many right-wing morons.

So much this.

@Arkturos said
Nice way to make friends with an outcast.

You have to get over the hurt to see the help.

@shavixmir said
Spirituality, schmirtuality.

What boggles my mind is how a chess site draws so many right-wing morons.

Actually not many conservatives here…mostly queers and other freaks

After seeing the people on TV at these riots, it makes me envision you freaks look the same 😂

That’s why you b hatin

@shavixmir said
Spirituality, schmirtuality.

What boggles my mind is how a chess site draws so many right-wing morons.

They are actually countable on one hand. Just vociferous and obdurate, that's all.

@Arkturos said
Suzianne is my junior. It's only natural for her to engage in "sibling" battle with me before I croak -- because if not me, who else would take my place in this kind of sparring?

I said NOTHING PERSONAL

I rest my case.

@moonbus said
They are actually countable on one hand. Just vociferous and obdurate, that's all.

Hi Moon

There are a few left-wing morons too.

However, I do agree with you.