From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 5:32 PM
From the comments about Magdalen's case on FARK.com:
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The problem with gatherings, communities, and social
groups such as this is
the same problem that plagues any gathering/community/group/organization
of
any significant size, that being that eventually word
gets out that there's
a "party."
So, while there may be a terrific "free-thinking"
origin... it's typically
subverted by the masses and converted to just another
cliquish doctrinnaire
group of idealogues.
So, just as the 'judgemental but not really pious' often
seize the reigns
of religious groups and use them to simply outgroup
others... The same
thing happens... non-"free/creative-thinkers"
and all-around unremarkable
choads simply see an opportunity to maybe get laid and
sit around playing
what amounts to nothing but a flipped version of "us
vs. them."
It doesn't matter how unusual they are... a uniform
is still a uniform,
dogma is still dogma, judgement is still judgement...and
thus "free-
thinking" often isn't.
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Well, damned if this guy didn't peg it square.
--
Legume
"Better to light a fuse than curse the darkness"
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Subject: Re: X-Day in a nutshell
From: The Bishop <Convery.Kevin@gmail.com>
I take your point, but what has that got to do the Magdalen
child-
stealing case?
Is someone from X-Day accused of "denouncing" Mags?
And does this mean I'm still NOT going to get laid?
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Subject: Re: X-Day in a nutshell
From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>
The Bishop wrote:
> I take your point, but what has that got to do
the Magdalen child-
> stealing case?
Nothing really, it's just an excerpt from the comments
that I felt captured
the spirit of Brushwood XDay. That's why I titled the
thread "XDAY in a
nutshell" instead of "One more post about
Mag's kid".
--
Legume
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"Never tell your nightmares to people who have
the power or motive to make
them come true."
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Subject: Re: X-Day in a nutshell
From: scalpod <scalpod@gmail.com>
Thanks for not being "judgemental but not really
pious" and proving
them right.
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Subject: Re: X-Day in a nutshell
From: Sister Decadence <decadence@spamstop.subgenius.com>
It doesn't even prove them right because he wasn't there!