Phikokalia's Virtue Oriented World

Originally posted by @romans1009
Kiddo deletes all PMs without reading them. Oddly enough, the two PMs I sent him months ago remain in my sent folder, indicating he did not delete them.

When I mentioned this to Kiddo about a month ago, he claimed something was wrong with my account.

He has apparently informed the honorable Ghost about these messages. Possibly in a 'therapy' session.

Originally posted by @philokalia
From like the fifth or sixth post, this has had nothing to do with discussing any of the points that I made.

And FMF didn't read anything that I had posted. If he had, he would not have asked questions that were answered in the OP.

This forum is nutty as hell.

"This forum is nutty as hell."

'Pardner, 'round these parts, loose talk of hell can be dangerous. It can lead to an attack using these puffballs called words.

Originally posted by @philokalia
[b]NOTE: I do not acknowledge the phrasing of FMF's thread, and thus I do not participate in it, and I will never participate in a thread that puts my screen name in the title of it that is not meant in good spirit.

Preface
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I do not provide a specific answer for how a previous military dictatorship should function. This may have been t ...[text shortened]... r thread.

Postface

I'll write another part someday, perhaps, concerning autocracy.[/b]

Ben Franklin would agree.

“I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”

Democracy and freedom only work for a virtuous people.

If people are unable to self govern themselves, then the state must be forced to do it for them.

Originally posted by @whodey
Ben Franklin would agree.

“I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Des ...[text shortened]... If people are unable to self govern themselves, then the state must be forced to do it for them.

FMF has high hopes for the government he's now under.

Originally posted by @secondson
FMF has high hopes for the government he's now under.

I am more hopeful now than I was under the Soeharto military dictatorship. Wouldn't you be? The human landscape in terms of rights and freedoms and civil society, albeit not without its serious problems, has been transformed over the last 20 years.

Originally posted by @secondson
Like some kind of an internet asylum.

The universe you say?

Originally posted by @secondson
Originally posted by @divegeester
Is masturbation a sin?

Rajk says, [b]"No, would be my answer", as he watches porn videos between forum postings about sex perverts.[/b]

Wtf is wrong with you?

Originally posted by @philokalia
I believe in what Plato said -- good laws do not make bad men good, and bad laws do not make good men bad.

In a very real sense, the most political thing in the world is the society as a whole. The real values of the people and the way that they engage one another is the most important aspect of the poltiical.

Tell me this, FMF:

[b]If a count ...[text shortened]... erally contribute greatly to the form of the government -- btoh through their vices and virtues.

You're cherry picking Plato and you come off as a manipulator.

I believe manipulators are to be shunned and thwarted.

Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
You're cherry picking Plato and you come off as a manipulator.

I believe manipulators are to be shunned and thwarted.

<<I believe manipulators are to be shunned and thwarted.>>

I believe spammers should be ignored.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
He has apparently informed the honorable Ghost about these messages. Possibly in a 'therapy' session.

I think Kiddo, divegeester and Ghost may all be the same person. Kiddo is the pretentious bore, dive is the mixed-up nutbag and Ghost plays the role of psychiatrist to the other two when he’s not seeing a psychiatrist in real life.

Originally posted by @fmf
I am more hopeful now than I was under the Soeharto military dictatorship. Wouldn't you be? The human landscape in terms of rights and freedoms and civil society, albeit not without its serious problems, has been transformed over the last 20 years.

Kiddo, you’re boring everyone to death with this musty, dusty essay-like pontificating.

I never thought I’d welcome a post from Karoly but even he’s steering clear of this 20-car pileup of a thread.

Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
The universe you say?

And right on cue, the spamming begins...

Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
Wtf is wrong with you?

And the spamming continues...

Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
You're cherry picking Plato and you come off as a manipulator.

I believe manipulators are to be shunned and thwarted.

Whoa, ease up on the spam. Every thread can only take so much.

But notice how Karoly stopped the discussion dead in its tracks? He’s the real thread killer.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Whoa, ease up on the spam. Every thread can only take so much.

But notice how Karoly stopped the discussion dead in its tracks? He’s the real thread killer.

F--k off