Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[piscator]

I can get paid for this?

[Galaxian]

I can get paid for this?

You could be, but they don't pay the 'useful idiots'... those are volunteers who propagandize for free

[pErvinalia]

I'm up for getting paid!

[rainbow]

You weren't talking about getting us to agree on something.

Yes, I was.

You were denigrating our rationality.

One cannot denigrate that which does not exist.

Please apply your mind here. (Assuming same exists)

[pErvinalia]

trollololol

[rainbow]

trollololol

[JimC]

Galaxian wrote:

...Whereas Exi5tentialist thinks that organizations such as forums can, theoretically, have good & fair governance, forgetting that maybe some have been set up by ruling powers for a purpose, a sinister agenda, as honeypots, as distractions, as relief valves & to keep tabs on potential troublemakers, as propaganda disseminators using paid or 'useful idiot' members, & so forth....

Now we need a massive and heated debate as to which category Rationalia belongs!

Personally, I suspect that Pappa is an alien lizard overlord...

[Exi5tentialist]

Exi's post exist on the same level of reality as Exi itself, so, attacking one is functionally identical to attacking the other.

Did I get this right, Exi?

Yes, that's right. Everything exists on the same "level" of reality. This idea of different "levels" of reality is most interesting - like heaven, earth and hell. Profoundly religious.

I don't mind you attacking me personally by the way, nor anyone. Not as such. It's the severity of attack that matters. And the severity of attack allowed determines whether a Forum provides a reasonably interesting exploration of a series of subjects, or a is just a pathetic, infantile, bickering rehash of a really bad junior school playground. Obviously Rationalia fits one of those two models extremely well.

The pretence that the attacks on this message board aren't "personal" just because you've carefully structured your insults to fit the illusion of an abstraction is amusing, but only for so long. I just find it amazing that some people find it sufficiently entertaining to keep them interested over a period of years. But obviously it depends on how much fun people are having at other people's expense. I see poor Seth has copped some more arbitrary moderation. I only hope he can stand up the onslaught.

Oh well, like everything else, it's got nothing to do with what the membership wants. On this kind of forum the culture comes from the top. I recognise that much.

[Svartalf]

Galaxian wrote:

...Whereas Exi5tentialist thinks that organizations such as forums can, theoretically, have good & fair governance, forgetting that maybe some have been set up by ruling powers for a purpose, a sinister agenda, as honeypots, as distractions, as relief valves & to keep tabs on potential troublemakers, as propaganda disseminators using paid or 'useful idiot' members, & so forth....

Now we need a massive and heated debate as to which category Rationalia belongs!

Personally, I suspect that Pappa is an alien lizard overlord...

In which case I must go to Wales to save Rachel from him, and it won't be easy as she is under his reptilian charms

[Exi5tentialist]

Whereas Exi5tentialist thinks that organizations such as forums can, theoretically, have good & fair governance, forgetting that maybe some have been set up by ruling powers for a purpose, a sinister agenda, as honeypots, as distractions, as relief valves & to keep tabs on potential troublemakers, as propaganda disseminators using paid or 'useful idiot' members, & so forth. 'Nuf said.

Oh, yes. I SOOOO "forgot" that. How very forgetful of me. If it weren't for you I'd probably forget my head.

Ha ... Ha ... Ha ....

[Forty Two]

I'm up for getting paid!

Rationalia is a bourgeois oppressor organization, paying less than minimum wage and even slave wages of 0, to moderators.

[Exi5tentialist]

Rationalia is a bourgeois oppressor organization, paying less than minimum wage and even slave wages of 0, to moderators.

No, Rationalia is just a boring, tedious, bickering club for people who are into that kind of thing. It's too unimportant to be anything else.

[JimC]

I'm up for getting paid!

Rationalia is a bourgeois oppressor organization, paying less than minimum wage and even slave wages of 0, to moderators.

I demand the wages of sin!

Or better still, the wages of gin!

[JimC]

Rationalia is a bourgeois oppressor organization, paying less than minimum wage and even slave wages of 0, to moderators.

No, Rationalia is just a boring, tedious, bickering club for people who are into that kind of thing. It's too unimportant to be anything else.

This is so, so true.

A bright, go-ahead young chap like you should leave immediately, and find an exciting alternative forum!

[pErvinalia]

I'm up for getting paid!

Rationalia is a bourgeois oppressor organization, paying less than minimum wage and even slave wages of 0, to moderators.

The Illuminati pay well. Or so I'm told..