Everyone was talking about you Pat. I couldn't really post that level of ranker on the web without fear of repercussion so you'll just have keep wondering. Really joking of course, but knowing your keen sense of humour and punmanship, I'm sure you knew that already. Do you really think that libel law really has any jurisdiction here in Minds Eye? Most people don't even use their real names, so where is the libel? Should someone salaciously slander Slip, what are the options?
On Mar 6, 6:44 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 Mar, 03:38, Kierkecraig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Apparently you're a neonazi Chris. > > LOL!! Crikey, I wonder what they say about me? Not that it > particularly matters, to be fair. We don't glean our estimations of > self-worth from their opinions (any more than they do from us). And, > whatever they think of me, they're entitled to think it. If, however, > they think that libel laws don't apply because they're on a public > forum and have the 'right' to free speech, they're wrong. > > > On Mar 1, 2:23 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes indeed, Molly. :) Somehow, I knew I could count on you for a > > > little happy sunshine. > > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > I think we can express ourselves without belittling or diminishing any > > > > other. > > > > > On Feb 28, 12:30 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The goings on are hardly going on to be honest Slip. I'm generally a > > > >> supporter of a kind of ruthless honesty - perhaps a rather naive > > > >> approach that more or less accepts that status quo opinion is > > > >> embroiled with the Undead. In some ways we can never really tell the > > > >> truth to power and are broadly treated as mad by it if we stray from > > > >> supplication. Films from New World to Changeling show just how cruel > > > >> establishments can be, but there is a sense in which we can only watch > > > >> this as film, not confront it directly. The Soviets used to send > > > >> their dissidents to the madhouse, and actually our history is not that > > > >> much better (though it is better). > > > >> There is a sense in which we dare not look at ourselves and that we > > > >> need to dare. Yet this needs a spirit of mutual understanding as an > > > >> aim and a practical recognition that much character assassination and > > > >> barbarism is waiting once we are prepared to breach taboo. The simple > > > >> spirit of this is in the notion that one might not share an opinion > > > >> but does support the right of others to hold it and articulate it. > > > >> Just as we begin to open up, we forget this is a very dirty world. > > > >> The balancing acts are difficult. > > > > >> On 28 Feb, 04:01, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > What are you saying, Slip ? I just couldn't fathom. > > > > >> > On 28 Feb, 06:15, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > > Where is everyone? > > > >> > > I visited the e pissedofftomogly group to see the vehemence > > > >> > > directed > > > >> > > at this house. There is not a shred of censorship that is being > > > >> > > purported by some. Rules are rules that are understood when one > > > >> > > joins > > > >> > > any group discussion and not to be discarded when one has reached a > > > >> > > level of I've been here long enough to disregard. I find it vile > > > >> > > and > > > >> > > putrescent that some think they can manipulate a group by > > > >> > > alienation. > > > >> > > To start a hall of shame thread which actually calls for surnames > > > >> > > is > > > >> > > totally absurd and self motivated. Kudos to you my friend arch > > > >> > > for > > > >> > > not taking part in such an apparent act of childishness! This is > > > >> > > not > > > >> > > to say the epistemology group is without merit and of intellectual > > > >> > > stature but to point out that in that group as well, tolerance > > > >> > > towards > > > >> > > that behavior should be nil. It makes the group look bad and it > > > >> > > should be nipped at the bud.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
