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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Mar 17, 2016 9:45 pm

Surely membership of this fine establishment is among the greatest of privileges?
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Post by JimC » Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:06 pm

Tell that to Exi...
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Freethought Blogs is a top-down hierarchy where the commenters all end up being an appreciation society for the site owner. There is no genuine debate there because nobody but the few people with their fingers on the buttons is allowed to influence the body politic. Ultimately it is a very depressing place.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:26 am

Every community is a top-down hierarchy where the particioents all end up being an appreciation society for the leader. There is no genuine debate there because nobody but the few people with their fingers on the buttons is allowed to influence the body politic. Ultimately it is a very depressing place.
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Post by Exi5tentialist » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:47 am

Brian Peacock wrote:Every community is a top-down hierarchy where the particioents all end up being an appreciation society for the leader. There is no genuine debate there because nobody but the few people with their fingers on the buttons is allowed to influence the body politic. Ultimately it is a very depressing place.
Every single community that ever existed? That is a very bleak world view.

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We have a leader?
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:50 am

Exi5tentialist wrote:Freethought Blogs is a top-down hierarchy where the commenters all end up being an appreciation society for the site owner. There is no genuine debate there because nobody but the few people with their fingers on the buttons is allowed to influence the body politic. Ultimately it is a very depressing place.
Sound like your kind of place. You like places you don't like.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:53 am

rainbow wrote:We have a leader?
:ask:
I thought we were souls lost in the desert of the internet, wondering aimlessly.
Yeah, we voted you in. Didn't you get the memo, your highness?
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:02 pm

He ate the messanger before the message could be delivered. :?
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Post by Exi5tentialist » Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:10 pm

rEvolutionist wrote:You like places you don't like.
Actually, I don't. Nor do I pretend to.

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Post by JimC » Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:40 pm

No, he likes being in places where the people don't like him. Somewhat perverse, but there's no accounting for taste...
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:48 pm

Exi5tentialist wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:You like places you don't like.
Actually, I don't. Nor do I pretend to.
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Post by Exi5tentialist » Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:05 pm

JimC wrote:No, he likes being in places where the people don't like him. Somewhat perverse, but there's no accounting for taste...
Oh Jim! You're back - to lead the bitching.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:37 pm

Freethought has become the epithet of a dogma. Ironic really.
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