Then why are you wit... ah, wait, nevermind. Answered my own question.

Man, I love reading Jodo's posts and all, but I cannot fathom the kind of girl that would appeal to him enough to wanna be with her.

Fixed.

OH I'M SUCH A RASCAL.

So then we shall agree to disagree!!

Have at you.

I'm pretty disappointed with your motivations.  Getting your intellectual hard-ons from mind-f---ing with people purely for the social excitement of it is a pretty despicable lifestyle choice, dude.

Word. I remember when my friend was constantly fighting with his ex-girlfriend and he told me "it's fun pissing people off in an attempt to get them arrested." I wanted to tell him to *&^% off when he said that, and in hindsight I should have. Thankfully he came around and realized that was a pretty despicable thing to do. Additionally, I really doubt any police force is arrest someone for deleting a World of Warcraft account. I think she was actually doing the guy a favor by doing that.

I'm just emulating her. And I still don't know what's going on, whether she's playing with me, playing with her ex, or playing us both and watching what we do. I knew what I was getting into before I started. I purposely subjected myself to this woman, because I knew I would be forced into situations I normally avoid. It's good for these annoying things to happen. I'm self destructive; I like to hurt myself. But I also like to improve myself. I'm irrational and rational at the same time. I don't make any damned sense, especially to myself. I always just end up laughing.

I adapt to situations. I didn't know her ex-boyfriend would disturb me. Since it happened, that means I have to act accordingly and disturb him. It would be easier for me to run, as some have suggested both online and offline. The problem with running is that I won't suffer (learn anything, or make any progress), so I can't run. Think about it in terms of lifting weights. It's easier to run out of the gym and avoid the weights, but you won't make any progress.

You know what started it? She liked my dreams. Those same crazy things I used to post here. I was just talking to her one night, and let some slip out. That got her attention and we continued talking, and then...well, you know.

Well, I am. I suppose I could say I'm a formation held together by bosons and ignore the fermions. But I don't think of the bosons as a 'collection'. The problem with the fermions is that they don't hold me together; they are merely collected together. I understand the bosons mediate the forces. A 'collection of bosons' just doesn't sound right to me. But it can be appropriate, for something like light.

This is true... however, I've never heard of weights stabbing or shooting anyone.

I wouldn't call it progress to be emulating her.  So what you're trying to "learn" here is to better manipulate others based on how she's succeeding in manipulating you ...well isn't that just fantastic. 

What if you decide to emulate a cocaine dealer or a serial killer just to learn their skill-set too?  Those are such great traits to follow and learn, so why not copy them too, eh?

Improving yourself would be distinguishing a good choice from a bad choice. Clearly your risk tolerance has become exceedingly high enough to not care about putting yourself in loosing situations.

if I ever start a text file of sociopathic comments I find on the internet, this is definitely going in there

Why in the world does this remind me of Final Fantasy Tactics? What classes would you'd need to level up to unlock the cocaine dealer?

Seriously, someone get started making a demented hack of the PSX game!

Jodo, do whatever you want to do, don't let anyone dictate to you how you're "supposed to act" or whatever.

Trust in your own instinct and just follow it. A lot of people in this world are unnecessarily selfish, and the only way to keep up with them sometimes is to be selfish yourself as well.

I've gotten f*cked over plenty of times by people who I thought had my best interests in mind, but at the end it turned out to be the exact opposite, and it was me who ended up getting hurt.

...So yeah, don't try to build all of your morals and values around what people tell you you're supposed to do.

Make your own choices and make your own pathway in life, not somebody else's.

Mary had a little lamb BUT I ATE IT!!!

I'm going to go with Shoe on this one. I'm sick of people telling me what my values and morals should be. This psychological warfare as you described it is not only fascinating, but applicable as well. You yourself said she didn't seem totally invested in a relationship with you, and I'd say it's been long enough that it should've gone further.

And that's when *normal* people would wash their hands of the situation and move on.  But instead of that, we have full-on sociopathic behavior brought on by a woman that Jodo was initially willing to give up the internet for.  Deeply disturbing.

This sums up every non-market place Jodo post for as many years as I've seen him post on here.  I do, however, sympathize with the fact that my man has a sex drive, and that's what this all boils down to.  If we were somehow able to turn off our need for the opposite sex (or same sex for some) at will then imagine how productive we could be as humans.  Of course, if you think about it life would be pretty boring too. So Jodo really isn't much different from you or I, he just has really sociopathic ways of expressing normal, human experiences.

I dunno, man. You could almost classify it as a defense mechanism.

I am as deeply disturbed by it as you are. I don't particularly enjoy being a human or having a sex drive, or even existing at all. I wasn't given a choice before I was born. As my female friend would say, that is simply due to the fact I'm a Gemini and have two sides. (She believes in astrology, so I'm having a zinger of a time trying to explain that it means nothing.) My other 'side' (whatever that is) very much enjoys being alive and spends all sorts of time exercising, reading, etc. All I really have to say about this is what Philip Jose Farmer revealed about his own personality, that is, a desire to fail and a desire to succeed.

I have suspected that I'm a sociopath and the consequences for others are minimal indeed. Of course, I'm also a human, and again, the consequences for others are minimal indeed. Of course, there is a big difference between my actions and my thoughts. I haven't told you about some of the bad things I did as a teenager (and I won't ever post them online, anywhere, for any reason) but my female friend did the exact same things, at about my same age. We are both regarded as 'nice' people by others, but that's not entirely true.

I really shouldn't be allowed to have a girlfriend, because the emotions make me crazy. I'd be better off as a scorpion, with a low metabolic rate, leaving the burrow occasionally to suck the hemolymph from crickets.

I don't think you're necessarily a sociopath for the reasons stated in this thread. Common definitions of the term are that sociopathic tendencies are characterized as behaviour antisocial in nature and formed on the lack of conscience. I think you do have a conscience and don't act outside of it, even if you do rationalize your radical beliefs in a scientific manner.

okay I'm downgrading you from "sociopathic" to "really dumb and silly and needs to chill out"

I think it can be better assessed by Freud's concept of the id, ego, and super-ego.  Essentially the way you feel isn't that much different from anyone else but you tend to articulate it in really disturbing ways, I don't know if it's on purpose for attention or you have some emotional baggage that causes a lending to a greater propensity to behave antisocially.  Sometimes you make me laugh, you've never made me cry, sometimes I just want to give you s*** because I'm like that's Jodo being Jodo, and I often just pray I don't hear about you perpetuating a mass killing.

I consider the incident to be a momentary glitch, a deluge of animal instincts from my cellular, eukaryotic, ancestors. The advantage of having a human brain is that rationality can take over. Not always. But in my case it does.

How it ended:

She wanted to know how I felt about her. So I told her, "I don't trust you."

Bear in mind that she got back together with her ex-boyfriend and still let me hang around (physically) and still wanted to know my feelings. I could not think of one reason to further associate with her, and that is something my personality does. INTPs don't look back when something they consider irreconcilable occurs.

i think we're overdue for a new list of recommended Korean movies for '08/'09
can you give us some thrillers?

It's rare for you to actually try and steer the topic at something SENSIBLE for a change.

im sorry,,
what practical defense use do apples have in role playing games? they make an Orc hard.

I can't say anything about '09 releases yet, because I typically don't start buying new releases until September (I have to wait for the DVDs, since I don't live in SK). But from '08, you must watch The Chaser and Truck.