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Fleet
Aug 20, 2018 17:27:29 GMT
Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 20, 2018 17:27:29 GMT
It was foretold to happen, TC, and that's one of my gripes with the Catholic Church. They're interpreting the Four Horsemen all wrong. Could it be deliberate? In artwork you often see them riding side by side but in the book they ride in succession. 1) First Horseman is the age of conquest and colonization. 2) Second Horseman is the age of imperialism and wars. 3) Third Horseman is the worldwide economy. 4) Fourth Horseman is the death of the contemporary world system. There. Now you can scoff and bleat more of your New Age "wisdom" if you like, assuming anyone wants to buy it. What makes my wisdom New Age? What would you call it instead? Appy-polly-logies if I used the wrong term. |
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Post by Rodney Farber on Aug 20, 2018 18:33:37 GMT
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Let him have his own board. Why not as he routinely occupies 75% to 50% of every page.
? What do you think of that idea? As I write this, there are 4801 threads in this forum, 1454 started by by thefleetsin - 30% People rarely post comments about his posts, so I know that others must ignore him as well as I. Of his 2420 posts, 1454 are thread starters, so 60% of his posts are his poor-grammar and no-punctuation drivel. He loves to hear himself talk. In The Shining, Jack Nicholson typed pages and pages of drivel. Thank God he didn't post it in this forum. Yes, I can skip his posts, but he clutters up the main page. It would be a great benefit to me to give him his own board so that I don't have to look at all his clutter. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. GIVE HIM HIS OWN BOARD. |
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Post by phludowin on Aug 20, 2018 21:53:00 GMT
There was a time when he wasn't allowed to start new threads. Good times these were.
Maybe it's time to bring back this rule; or a more general rule.
If you start so many threads that they occupy more than half a page, and if more than half of these threads get zero replies from other posters, the you lose your right to start threads for a week.
In fact, by applying this rule, there's a chance fleet might not be the only spammer who would be contained.
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Fleet
Aug 20, 2018 22:48:49 GMT
Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 20, 2018 22:48:49 GMT
Garbage. They believed as long as they made human sacrifices the sun would shine and the crops would grow and the empire would remain strong. Real logical scientific stuff there, Jack. Yes scientific stuff. They knew where the sun rose and set on every day of the solar year. They understood the mechanics of the lunar/solar calendar. They were accomplished astronomers. They were also accomplished agriculturalists. Too successful in fact. Their society grew too big and fast, and it ate up their available local resources faster than it could be replenished. The same with the Mayan collapse. Too successful for their own good. Growth too big, too fast... It's been a problem the world over since the neolithic. Local environmental/ecological conditions in mesoamerica exacerbated the problem, leading to widespread cannibalism. This was most likely the reason for the ritual killings. For cannibalism, food... Necessity, not religion. I'm an archaeologist/evolutionary biologist. Where are you coming at this from? Yes and knowing that the world was round like a sphere, way before the more 'civilized' Europeans  raped and pillaged their lands and people. The jack ass thinks that without the Christian God in their lives, they were just heathens. |
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Fleet
Aug 20, 2018 22:55:22 GMT
Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 20, 2018 22:55:22 GMT
What makes my wisdom New Age? What would you call it instead? Appy-polly-logies if I used the wrong term. Yoga. This has been around for eons and traditional yoga, which is about being connected and unified with the whole, which is everything, and not the quick fix s<>t about doing aerobics in hot rooms to lose some flab. |
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Fleet
Aug 20, 2018 23:28:12 GMT
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Post by islandmur on Aug 20, 2018 23:28:12 GMT
No I don't think we should relegate Fleet to a different board, his poems are in reply to stuff that happens here or in the world, yes he is not a conventional poster and yes he clutters the board, I would however suggest that when it comes to poetry maybe he could limit his threads to a certain number per day like 5 or 6 that way the front page is not cluttered and if his inspiration gets the best of him he can post on the threads he has already made.
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Post by drystyx on Aug 20, 2018 23:42:28 GMT
Fleet's poem's suck, but that doesn't matter. Talent and inspiration and strategy all mean nothing to Western culture. As proof there is the huge fan base of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in politics, and of Clint Eastwood and Adam Sandler in movies, of Leone and Coppola in directing, of Phil Collins, pearl Jam, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bill Cocker, Steely Dan, every rap artist around, and Santana in music, and of Hunter Thompson in whatever you want to call his crap.
The worse you are, the more applause you get. I more than suspect it's because everyone wants to be a star, and so they want to applaud only for the least talented competition to face them in the next round.
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Fleet
Aug 21, 2018 2:19:53 GMT
Post by gameboy on Aug 21, 2018 2:19:53 GMT
How many native peoples did the Aztecs wipe out? As I said, human history is one of conquest. But no, the Catholic Church did not put pagans on altars and rip out their hearts. Sorry, your Aztecs were barbaric savages who were going nowhere without Christian ethics and later, Western technology and medicine, No, they didn't put pagans on altars and rip their hearts out... The Christians of medieval Europe were more in to torturing people who they thought had offended their make believe god. Then they burned them alive, drowned, or beheaded them. Then they took their brand of religious human sacrifice to the 'new' world, and inflicted it upon the indigenous peoples, whose land they stole by force, all in the name of their christian god. The indigenous peoples of the Americas weren't thankful for western 'medicine'. White Europeans caused genocide in the 'new' world simply with all the diseases they brought with them. Their technology and medicine was far in advance of the European invaders in many respects. The christian ethics they brought caused nothing but theft, rape, and death, on an industrial scale. It's as if you want us both to get in separate corners and go to bat for our favorite savages. I've never said the Catholic Church was all noble and good. They burned homosexuals at the stake as witches for crying out loud. I'm saying tribes conquer other tribes. The Aztecs conquered and enslaved other indigenous peoples and the Spanish in turn conquered them. And no, the Aztecs did not discover modern medicine. They used spells and herbs to heal. The bottom line is that the people of Mexico are better off now with European technology and medicine than they would be if the Aztecs were still down there performing human sacrifice. |
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Post by gameboy on Aug 21, 2018 2:41:21 GMT
Human history is one of conquest. The Aztecs also conquered and subjugated neighboring tribes. The difference is that Spanish Catholics did not rip out the heart of their Aztec subjects and sacrifice them to some pagan god as the Aztecs did to those they conquered. No, they just burnt heretics at the stake. If they confessed and repented to the ways of Catholicism, they got garroted first, otherwise they were burnt alive as sacrifices and all in the name of God. Catholicism DOES NOT get a free pass. No, no one gives Catholicism a free pass. I'm just saying all human religion is characterized by good and evil. It's silly and naive to think Aztec religion was any better on the issue of human rights than Catholicism. And Catholicism evolved to where today the Vatican condemns its own past mistakes. I doubt Aztec religion if it survived to this day would have stopped its barbarism if not for the influence of the Catholic Church. The indigenous people of Mexico are better off to day than they were under the Aztecs. |
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Fleet
Aug 21, 2018 3:06:34 GMT
Post by koskiewicz on Aug 21, 2018 3:06:34 GMT
...and drystyx, you are at the bottom of the barrel...!!!
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Fleet
Aug 21, 2018 8:39:32 GMT
Post by Aj_June on Aug 21, 2018 8:39:32 GMT
No I don't think we should relegate Fleet to a different board, his poems are in reply to stuff that happens here or in the world, yes he is not a conventional poster and yes he clutters the board, I would however suggest that when it comes to poetry maybe he could limit his threads to a certain number per day Fleet suffers from autism which is often characterised by repetitive behaviour. While repetitive behaviour may not be a feature of everyone who suffers from Autism, it seems to be the case with Fleet. So I guess we will have to go along as it is. The point is that it is not in his choice not to clutter the board. He doesn't feel like he does that. |
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Fleet
Aug 21, 2018 8:46:47 GMT
Post by FilmFlaneur on Aug 21, 2018 8:46:47 GMT
the Catholic Church did not put pagans on altars and rip out their hearts There is no logical reason why the actions you described, and the old South American gods to which they pertain, are not to be respected as valid any more than the purported deities and their rituals elsewhere in the world, your distaste notwithstanding. Some South American civilisations didn't go anywhere much after their encounter with the west either, since they collapsed in the years after first contact. |
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Fleet
Aug 21, 2018 8:58:16 GMT
Post by Aj_June on Aug 21, 2018 8:58:16 GMT
Aztecs were barbaric savages who were going nowhere without Christian ethics and later, Western technology and medicine, Some South American civilisations didn't go anywhere much after their encounter with the west either, since they collapsed in the years after first contact. Actually, the relative level of prosperity in America for that time period is unknown and may have been significantly better than what native Americans had to face in years after contact with Europeans. Also, medicine and modern technology could always be acquired from trade. Christians often use human sacrifice in America as if it was something practised on daily basis or as if murder or killing didn't go on in Europe.
It is much like British Colonialist propaganda that apparently Britishers made their colonies better off. When in fact British Empire's inhuman and extremely unfair taxation stratified the colonies into various groups and promoted internal corruption in the colonies. Take India for example. India's economy was 25% of the world economy around 1700 CE but it was just 2.5% in 1947. That's a terrible decline for a country that had experienced relative prosperity for nearly 5000 years of their history. The fact is that Brits did nothing than suck resources out of India. If they led railway lines then it was with purpose of promoting their own interests. At end of the day relative prosperity of Indian subcontinent fell remarkably because of the draining of resources out of the country. Further the society became more stratified into groups and castes because now the society was competing for very limited resources since the British Empire looted or drained the country's resources to a great extent.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 21, 2018 9:28:04 GMT
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Let him have his own board. Why not as he routinely occupies 75% to 50% of every page.
? What do you think of that idea? No. Why is it such a big deal when all they have to do is put him on ignore? |
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Post by gameboy on Aug 22, 2018 3:16:34 GMT
the Catholic Church did not put pagans on altars and rip out their hearts There is no logical reason why the actions you described, and the old South American gods to which they pertain, are not to be respected as valid any more than the purported deities and their rituals elsewhere in the world, your distaste notwithstanding. Some South American civilisations didn't go anywhere much after their encounter with the west either, since they collapsed in the years after first contact. I am not saying the Aztec or any indigenous American culture was without merit. I just want to temper those who portray the Europeans and the Catholic Church as nothing but brutes who unjustly trampled on others. Aztecs oppressed their neighbors. This is more a problem of humanity, all humanity, not just Aztecs, not just Europeans. We can look now in hindsight though and see that it was the West who cured polio, and invented the computer with which we are now communicating, and the jet plane, and artificial limbs, and on and on. The Aztecs would never have reached this degree of success by the 21st century. We should put things in perspective before we paint the indigenous peoples as all good and the Europeans as all evil. |
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Fleet
Aug 22, 2018 10:15:52 GMT
Post by Morgana on Aug 22, 2018 10:15:52 GMT
Pace yourself, man! Holy smokes.  I would just like to reiterate: yes he posts a lot, and I won't lie and say I read all of his poems, I don't. But of those I have read, they are on subjects that are important and events happening in the world now. Because of that, I feel they have more relevance than some of the rubbish posted on the board. Again, those that are upset about it, can ignore him. |
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Fleet
Aug 22, 2018 10:38:14 GMT
Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 22, 2018 10:38:14 GMT
What would you call it instead? Appy-polly-logies if I used the wrong term. Yoga. This has been around for eons and traditional yoga, which is about being connected and unified with the whole, which is everything, and not the quick fix s<>t about doing aerobics in hot rooms to lose some flab. What a load. You go around broadcasting that there is no savior, and you call it yoga? Do you have a link that shows were yoga has been teaching for eons that there is no savior? Stop making an embarrassing spectacle of yourself, please. How about if I go around broadcasting that there is a savior, and I call it egg salad? Yeah, nothing New Age about that. |
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Post by phludowin on Aug 22, 2018 10:40:26 GMT
Pace yourself, man! Holy smokes. I would just like to reiterate: yes he posts a lot, and I won't lie and say I read all of his poems, I don't. But of those I have read, they are on subjects that are important and events happening in the world now. Because of that, I feel they have more relevance than some of the rubbish posted on the board. Again, those that are upset about it, can ignore him. He could post the poems in the threads that discuss the subject. If he doesn't, and starts new threads, he is guilty of spamming. And just ignoring him doesn't work too well. If you activate the option "ignore this poster's threads", you get a reduced number of threads on page 1. The threads from page 2 don't move to page 1. So you don't gain much. |
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Post by phludowin on Aug 22, 2018 10:44:25 GMT
No I don't think we should relegate Fleet to a different board, his poems are in reply to stuff that happens here or in the world, yes he is not a conventional poster and yes he clutters the board, I would however suggest that when it comes to poetry maybe he could limit his threads to a certain number per day Fleet suffers from autism which is often characterised by repetitive behaviour. While repetitive behaviour may not be a feature of everyone who suffers from Autism, it seems to be the case with Fleet. So I guess we will have to go along as it is. The point is that it is not in his choice not to clutter the board. He doesn't feel like he does that. That's not an excuse for letting him get away with it (assuming it's true). If someone with Tourette syndrome and ADHS goes to a classical concert and starts shouting insults during a quiet movement: Would you just let him do it and say that it's not his fault? I'd be ok with removing this person from the concert hall. Same with kleptomaniacs in a mall. |
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Post by clusium on Aug 22, 2018 14:16:54 GMT
Fleet suffers from autism which is often characterised by repetitive behaviour. While repetitive behaviour may not be a feature of everyone who suffers from Autism, it seems to be the case with Fleet. So I guess we will have to go along as it is. The point is that it is not in his choice not to clutter the board. He doesn't feel like he does that. That's not an excuse for letting him get away with it (assuming it's true). If someone with Tourette syndrome and ADHS goes to a classical concert and starts shouting insults during a quiet movement: Would you just let him do it and say that it's not his fault? I'd be ok with removing this person from the concert hall. Same with kleptomaniacs in a mall. Exactly. It's no excuse. I happen to have Asperger's Syndrome (which is a mild form of Autism), & nobody here sees me spamming poem threads, do they? |
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