From: James Thompson (thompsonj@higgslaw.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 11:10:00 MDT
After reluctantly wading through the vast amount of nonesense being
currently "debated" for the past month or so, I find myself wondering
what is the true aim of this organization. Was the sole purpose for
forming this church really just to provide a forum for the propogation
of individual opinions in a degenerating manner in attempt to acquire
some useless consensus. I have watched as many obviously intelligent
individuals fall to childlike behavior in their debates and as often the
case it seems to be becomming contagious. Why is Joedees so desparately
flooding us with his articles when the vast majority of the members have
expressed their disapproval? What is he trying to accomplish? What is
anyone here trying to accomplish? I highly respect all forms of
rational discourse and believe they hold inherent value for all
involved, but I really must question where any of this is going. How
many people on this list are simply lost, lonely people with a lot to
say and no one to listen? Shouldn't we have a purpose greater than
this? Its truly sad that so many people with so much insight, so much
intelligence, so much ability to affect the course of history, simply
fall to complacency, empty complaints, infantile name-calling, or over
intellectualized diversions. Doesn't anyone here want to propogate the
ideals that are the foundations of this church, or do we all just want
to incessantly debate hollow issues, post cute articles, complain about
how fucked up the world is, and show each other pictures of our babies.
To be sure, I have appreciated many of the posts and the breadth of my
vision has surely benefited from much of the discussion here, but
really, I must inquire does anyone even care about any of the issues
argued over often with so much passion? Does anyone really want to
bring about change or do we just want to prove our pointless points. Go
to war with Iraq, don't go to war with Iraq. Government is good,
government is evil. lets talk. Joes right, kalkor's right, drsebby
tries to mediate, Hermit steps in as the authority, oh, lets take a
poll, bla, bla, bla. Its a never-ending circle, the wheels are turning,
but we're standing in the same place. Now, someone can step in and
refer me to some article in the archives, Hermit can intervene and
attack my sentence structure and decorate his response with some smart
quotes, or everyone can dismiss this post as a nice, but naive idea.
Or, maybe, just maybe someone might take another look and reassess what
we are really doing here. There is so much discussion, never any
action, so much wasted potential. None of you know me, but I have love
and respect for all of you. Are we all destined to die blind, with
bleeding eyes wide open, throwing empty punches in the air...what is the
purpose?
James <veridicus>
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