TPEOwner -> RE: Slave Registers? (12/4/2006 10:08:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: crouchingtigress TPE owner: you started a thread about how 'silly' something was, something that others find enjoyable and fun, that is true you are 'not preventing them from doing it', but you are, in essence being a bully for no discernible reason other then to get folks to join in and say 'hear hear'...to create a Lynch mob mentality. First, the fact that some people find it enjoyable and fun has no relevance to whether or not it's silly. People have found lot's of things enjoyable and fun, like burning witches for instance. That doesn't give it validity. I said it was silly because it IS silly. The "authority" granting legitimacy has no standing, and being registered with them is as meaningless as sending money to those star registry scams so you can name a star after yourself. As I said before, it is not the silliness I find objectionable, it is the mindset that uses it as the first line in their profile. It is the same mindset that makes claims to old guard in an attempt to convey legitimasy on themselves. If pointing that out makes me a bully, then I've been called worse. As for my motivation, if you wish to know what it was, feel free to ask me. Your asigning a motivation to me based on your opinion is a waste of pixels. quote:
ORIGINAL: crouchingtigress Why would you start a thread maligning folks you dont approve of?...Besides filling all sorts of personal psychological needs (which we wont go into) this thread serves no purpose other to incite a feel-good war of us and them.....unless i am missing something..... What else can I do to people I don't approve of? I can't kill them and eat them. quote:
ORIGINAL: crouchingtigress LOD: what are your opinions as to why TPE is 'bullshit'? I am just curious, i have no investment in any particular POV, i have lived tpe, and have my own feelings about it, which i dont hide... But when you say bullshit, do you mean that it does not exist? or that it cant work? or that any one that does make it work does not exist? or that it has no personal value for you and there fore no one else should find value in it? Though you didn't address this question to me, I hope you will forgive me for answering it anyway. While I don't find the term to be bullshit, I do object to those who seek to elivate it to some sort of sacred one true way. I do believe that it can not exist, at least not literally. Chattel slavery is illegal in this country. Therefore, any slave has the right to leave, and that is significant power. If there is an emotional connection between owner and owned, that also conveys power in both directions. If treated as state of mind to be worked toward, then it can certainly be a valid way to structure a relationship.
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