“We don’t witness a compelling argument when we read your diatribes,…”
It’s on the claimant to prove, not on others to disprove, that’s why you probably feel that my comments don’t bring something new to the table, because in most of my comments (maybe nearly all of those you read) I’m just telling people how their “reasonings” are flawed and cannot possibly support their conclusions.

“your juxtaposed position is so outlandish it borders on cult-like
obsession, with many of my fellow colleges suggesting you and your companions are, indeed, in a cult quite like Scientology or Jonestown.”
My position? What position exactly?
My companions? Who?

“…your not going to convince anyone on Buttcoin.org that they are wrong…”
Ironically enough you’ve accused me of having a cult-like obsession but you’re now attributing one of the most important properties of what makes a cult, a cult, to all people here in Buttcoin.org because if it’s scientific, it’s falsifiable and if it’s cult-like it’s usually (or always, never saw one that wasn’t but I’m giving the appropriate “latitude” here) unfalsifiable.

“…and you are right, especially by saying “YOU GUYS ARE STUPID AND I OWN A THESAURUS!””
I cannot identify myself with that sentence, maybe you’re quoting or making a hyperbole of a different person, my views tend to be based in reasoning and evidence alone, not on the amount of words one knows or dictionaries one owns.

“Try again, with me, right here. I’ve owned .5 BTC for a few months now via CoinBase, and I’ve actually lost money due to depreciation. Tell me how to use these things, cause I am seriously at a loss other than on something like Silk Road. Or socks. Or one of 15 restaurants that accepts BTC in all of Massachussets (Including Amherst, where Gavin Andressen, the chief scientist on Bitcoin, lives and works on the main source code.)”
I don’t know what to tell you seriously, if you don’t want to use Bitcoin, if you see no value whatsoever in holding on to it, if you do not recognize the value that a decentralized currency has in the world, if you do recognize some of these things but want no part in them, don’t use it, trade it with someone for something else, and be done with it, like you would do with anything else, a guitar or even Fiat currencies or Silver or whatever…

I’m for freedom of choice, I choose cryptocurrency over FIAT when I can, for myself, because I want to, because I see benefits for the future of mankind in cryptocurrencies gaining, at least, mainstream merchant adoption and mainstream social acceptance, particularly in the field of civil liberties.

Being against it is usually a ridiculous stance because having people using it won’t hurt those that don’t want to use it in the slightest of ways, that’s why, those that are against it, even if their argument makes sense and is unable to be defeated (never found one though as there are some legitimate benefits) will ultimately boil down to a “it’s their choice to use Bitcoin”, something they cannot argue about, so it’s pointless, much like anti-gay movements only achievement was making gay people feel bad.

I’ll tell you my reasons of why I use it, be aware that it’s going to be different for everyone and that maybe none of them is important to you:
-I expect usage will drive adoption up and that hopefully that makes governments open up a bit more and stop forcing people to use whatever they want them to use for their daily lives against their will by adopting less restrictive laws for exchange driving us closer to a free-market economy.

-I do not trust 3rd parties to hold most of my wealth but I do not want to spend it in illiquid and cumbersome/immovable objects either.
-I like transparency as it reduces the possibilities of corruption which is something that’s rampant and very concerning as it favors too much big business interests instead of the people’s interests.
-The underbanked and unbaked of the world can benefit from the ease to buy/sell/transfer internationally that it provides combined with the low fees (some services charge them up to 10% and maybe more), which has the possibility of empowering many places in developing nations, places in which national currencies even as it stands now are more volatile than Bitcoin is and depreciate very rapidly.

You lost money in the depreciation of Bitcoin? Have you sold it/used it with the lower exchange rate yet? Maybe you didn’t. If you did, well, that sucks, I hope that the money you lost wasn’t very important for you.

Unfortunately a lot of the Bitcoiners you see around think they’re going to get to be millionaires because of it, maybe they’re right, maybe they’re wrong, I don’t care anyway, greed doesn’t impress me, and unfortunately, it seems like a great percentage of them are in it for the greed alone, that’s why with the notice of a 30k Bitcoin sale (those from the Silkroad) combined with the low volume now managed to produce so much crazyness in the price.

P.S. I’m banned here so I post as guest.

Now, to put my fancy speaker hat aside and speak to you plainly: your not going to convince anyone on Buttcoin.org that they are wrong and you are right, especially by saying “YOU GUYS ARE STUPID AND I OWN A THESAURUS!” Try again, with me, right here. I’ve owned .5 BTC for a few months now via CoinBase, and I’ve actually lost money due to depreciation. Tell me how to use these things, cause I am seriously at a loss other than on something like Silk Road. Or socks. Or one of 15 restaurants that accepts BTC in all of Massachussets (Including Amherst, where Gavin Andressen, the chief scientist on Bitcoin, lives and works on the main source code.)

But then when I got to posting I found out that I was blocked, it’s interesting when the mods of a website don’t have the courage and/or the intelligence to either make a valid point or admit they’re wrong and have to resort to petty tactics like this.

That phrase makes no sense, what you probably mean is:
“I was pointing out that your intellectual posturing does not make equate to real intelligence or rationality.”

Because:
“pseudo” is a prefix that means roughly “something that appears to be but isn’t”, so if you claim that I “appear intellectual but I’m not” then my posture is obviously that of an intellectual to you even though you express your disagreement that I’m really one.

My response:
Because you cannot judge someone’s intellect by it’s “posture” alone I suggest that you find whatever I said that you think might be wrong and point out the flaws accordingly as that’s the only way you have of proving the pseudointellectuality that you claim I have.