Who were the greatest Trolls in history?
You could argue Socrates, but Diogenes probably trumps him, and then we have fellows like Luther and potentially you could even argue Jesus himself if you really wanted to take the religious route.
Kierkegaard
>>396392
Al Sharpton.
Cicero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
>People jokingly told him to "ship coal to Newcastle". He did so during a miners' strike at the time, and his cargo was sold at a premium. At another time, practical jokers told him he could make money shipping gloves to the South Sea Islands. His ships arrived there in time to sell the gloves to Portuguese boats on their way to China.
>He exported Bibles to the East Indies and stray cats to Caribbean islands and again made a profit; eastern missionaries were in need of the Bibles and the Caribbean welcomed a solution to rat infestation. He also hoarded whalebone by mistake, but ended up selling them profitably as a support material for corsets.
>His relationships with his wife, daughter, and son also suffered. This became evident when he started telling visitors that his wife had died (despite the fact that she was still alive) and that the woman who frequented the building was simply her ghost. In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.
>Aged 50, Dexter wrote a book about himself – A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress – in which he also complained about politicians, the clergy and his wife. The book contained 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but no punctuation and its capitalization seemed random. At first, he handed his book out for free, but it became popular and was reprinted for sale eight times. In the second edition, Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with the instructions that readers could distribute them as they pleased.
>>396392
How was anything Diogenes did trolling?
>>396392
Did you call?
>>396477
>To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind father Jorge washeton is in the senter king Addoms is at the Rite hand the present king at the Left hand father gorge with his hat on the other hats of the middel king with his sword king Addoms with his Cane in a grand poster Adtetoude turning his fass towards the first king as if they was on sum politicks king our present king he is stands hearing being younger and very deafe in short being one grat felosfer Looks well East & west and North & south deafe & very deafe the god of Natur has dun very much for our present king and all our former ones they are all good I want them to Live for Ever and I beleave thay will it is hard work to be A king—I say it is hardar than tilling the ground I know it is for I find it is hard work to be A Lord I dont desier the sound but to pleas the peopel at Large Let it gou to brak the way it dus for Asort ment to help a good Lafe to Cour the sick spleney goutey dul frames Lik my selfe with the goute and so on make merry a Chealy Christen is for me only be onnest No matter what they worshep son moune or stars or there wife or miss if onnest Live forever [8] money wont gitt thous figers so fast as I wish I have sent to Leg horn for many mr bourr is one Amonks others I sent in the grand Crecham thous 3 kings Are plane white colow at present the Royal Arch & figers cost 39 pound wate silver the hiest Councaton order in the world so it is sade by the knowing one I have only 4 Lions & 1 Lam up the spred Eagel has bin up 3 years
Alright. I'm amused.
>>396479
By asserting that he is a troll, you have never read Walden.
>>396503
>Retire to a friend's cabin
>Depend on the charity of neighbors for a whole year
>Party erry day
>Hardly lift a finger for work
>Write a book about the merits of hard living in nature
About as good as his Civil Disobedience.
>Refuse to pay taxes, because Spanish-American War
>Get jailed
>Embarrassed aunt pays your taxes for you
>Write a book about disobeying the government
>>396528
That's what you think Walden is about.
Pity, I think you missed the point of transcendentalism.
>>396535
>Dislike Thoreau
>You just don't get transcendentalism maaaan...
I'd rather read Emerson or James, frankly. Don't really have a problem with transcendentalism, but reading Thoreau feels like some NEET is lecturing me about life.
>>396477
>In the second edition, Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with the instructions that readers could distribute them as they pleased.
Holy fuck, this is masterful trolling.
This takes
>back in my day, trolling meant something
To new heights. He printed an entire god damn book like that just to fuck with people.
>>396603
Good. Emerson is great.
I don't really see what is so bad about Walden. One of my favorite books.
>>396528
>Spanish-American War
>Spanish
Kill yourself europoor. Funding death can arguably make one responsible for said death. Taxation forces the innocents to take part in a morally wrong act.
>>396478
"I've found a man!"
>>396614
>>396628
He proved a point which isnt trolling?
>>396615
I just don't like the cut of Thoreau's jib is all. Nothing else to it really.
>>396627
>Mix up one war with another while shooting the shit on a Cambodian Cartoon Image Database
>Must be a Europoor
It happens, chill yer tits.
And offsetting that responsibility to your Aunt doesn't really mean much.
>>396643
He proved a point with a featherless chicken? I don't know, man. He also jacked off in the street. I suppose he stood for something, but that doesn't make him any less of a wild thing.
>>396392
Donald Trump
![karl_marx[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eyRxht7.jpg "karl_marx[1].jpg")
>the world is split into classes who are all enemies!
*hides*
>>396650
I dunno, I see what you mean but I feel the word Troll is being misused here.
>>396643
It's hilarious. Come on man.
>Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea’ of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups. “I can see the cups on the table,” said Diogenes, “but I can’t see the `cupness'”. “That’s because you have the eyes to see the cup,” said Plato, “but”, tapping his head with his forefinger, “you don’t have the intellect with which to comprehend `cupness’.” Diogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup and, looking inside, asked, “Is it empty?” Plato nodded. “Where is the `emptiness’ which precedes this empty cup?” asked Diogenes. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato’s head with his finger, said “I think you will find here is the `emptiness’.
>>396659
Possibly. Socrates was a definite troll, but Diogenes may have simply been a real nutter.
>>396659
I'd say treating the Emperor with disdain and shitting in a theater are kind of trollish.
>Influences: Antisthenes, Socrates, Dogs
>>396657
It's not like Marx invented socialism. Would you prefer something as shit as Saint-Simonism?
>>396657
Machiavelli came up with it first.
>>396528
Also
>live less than a mile away from town and the railroad
>have your mom take care of your laundry
Diogenes is a funny fellow.
>>396759
Diogenes likened himself to a dog being as a dog is always truthful.
>>396478
>BEHOLD, A MAN!
>publicly masturbated.
>Get the fuck out of my sunlight.
Really?
lads lads remember that time Diogenes had a big rousing speech to the envy of the demagogues of Athens and then just shit right in the middle of the agora ajajajajaja the absolute madman
