The main page is full of cross-talk and some eye-thumbing and a lot of people who don’t have a history of misreading each other doing a lot of it, in spades.
Did somebody put something in the water?
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The main page is full of cross-talk and some eye-thumbing and a lot of people who don’t have a history of misreading each other doing a lot of it, in spades.
Did somebody put something in the water?
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Weird week at my place of employment too. We can’t all be drinking the same water, can we?
I suffer from an excess of phlegm and black bile.
Too much water and too much earth, I believe are the causes of this. The cure is that I need to increase my intake of pneuma.
That’s what tomorrow night is devoted to, I daresay.
You are saying that people that disagree with you are vile and subhuman, aren’t you. Let me tell you why *you* are vile and subhuman…
Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him, that of a Sloar!
+1
My sprained ankle went to gout before developing into tendinitis which is outrageously painful. My job is weird, I don’t care if I do get fired and I just want to sit somewhere with my foot propped up.
I could be one of those people–I’ve been waking up at 3 a.m. almost every night for the past week and a half. And it’s all because of those damned liberals who want to force the Catholic church to do abortions in the sacristy.
But not during Mass….that would be to much.
No religion either.
Well…maybe Wednesday Mass.
The general theory, silly as it may sound, is that people should feel like they could come here without being poked in the eye over something important.
Sure, we can get into DC vs. Marvel.
Sure, we can get into Star Trek vs. Star Wars.
Sure, we can get into PS3 vs. XBox vs. Wii.
Sure, we can scream, poke, bend, fold, or mutilate in comments. That is perfectly welcome.
When it comes to stuff like religious or political beliefs, I’d like all of those to be off-limits… not because I have a preference (I’m a pretty hardcore atheist who is recovering from his superatheist excesses) but because I think it’d be awesome for the people who were comparing each other to hitler fifteen seconds before to have a place where they don’t have to worry about seeing something that matters being mocked.
Maybe they can share awesome songs, or awesome video games, or awesome books, or awesome movie clips, or awesome board games.
And if we make fun of someone for being different, it’s because they like Marvel instead of DC. Or because they like the mulldrifter more than the thieving magpie.
Not because they believe in something related to religion or politics.
I make jokes about “no religion” or “no politics” but, seriously, there’s something I want to protect with that.
This was supposed to be meta. Maybe it was a bad idea.
Did the League ever resemble this, at some point in time before I got here? I only know the League as it is, so I’m having a hard time imagining it without either religion or politics.
Honestly, I didn’t see that this was your sub-blog or the two posts you’d made before hand. And obviously, I wasn’t serious about this post. It was a compromise joke.
Jay- That would take a significant change in the way the LOOG is structured, wouldn’t it? Not saying its a bad idea though.
I should have added; more then just the sub-blog thing, which i like.
Oh, I didn’t notice that it was the sub-blog, either. My apologies, JB. Your house and all that, and I’ll try to respect the rules.
Did the League ever resemble this, at some point in time before I got here? I only know the League as it is, so Iām having a hard time imagining it without either religion or politics.
Not really. What the League was, however, was a place where people talked as if they had known each other for a long while.
Instead of someone saying “I think this!” and the response coming “only someone stupid or wicked would think that!”, people hammered out stuff and, at the end, realized that there was more reason to hold a particular viewpoint other than the expected one than stupidity or wickedness.
As for my sub-blog here, I aspire to it to be a mini-group blog (submit a guest post!) where people can talk about their favorite things and make themselves more than just “the person with this particular set of political/religious views”.
What the League was, however, was a place where people talked as if they had known each other for a long while.
You never heard the old saying, “familiarity breeds contempt?” š But seriously, I get that, and think it’s a great goal.
As for my sub-blog here, I aspire to it to be a mini-group blog (submit a guest post!)
Oh, I will. You should be more careful what you ask for.
On the other hand, I’m not interested in anything but religion and politics (and what you’re doing on the weekend!); I’m really just that shallow.
Believe it or not, I tend to only care about religion and politics too. I stopped reading fiction there for a while (and I still find reading fiction to be quite painful… I COULD BE READING BIBLICAL CRITICISM!!!).
This blog is an attempt to get me to lighten up and be kinder.
That’s right: this blog is self-help. Thank you for participating in my therapy.
Biblical criticism is less painful than fiction? You may need more help than a bi-polar political scientist can provide!
And I’m sure you can now see why this blog was somewhat necessary for more reasons than just the reasons seen at first glance.
No politics.
Just imagine
Yes everyone is going crazy and I know why. It is the new testing they are doing at HAARP.
I believe my humours are out of joint…I’m ordinarily of a more sanguine temperament, but I feel as if the gross humours have been allowed to accumulate. I should allow my particular friend, the surgeon, to bleed and purge me…that should set me up.
I should very much like to examine your excrement.
I tell you what it is, James. I’m damnably hipped today, quite done up. What do you say to a bit of music? Our Corelli in C Minor?
When you’re done with my rosin, sir, I say my rosin, that you are putting into your pocket.
It’s February, which I think, by definition, causes serum black bile levels to elevate
Dylan’s Positively fourth street is perfect for this thread.
I had noticed the same thing, even with myself to a certain extent. Mostly though, I have been struck by the bizarre stuff posted by people I don’t recognize. The guy from the “conservative gay” blog was down right creepy in his dealings with Kimmie.
I always just assume those sorts are gimmicks, it helps me sleep at night.
Oops. Just saw JBs comments. My bad, and feel free to delete the above comment.
I saw neither religion nor politics in your post.