Re: ship-of-fools

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Mal <yeah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Isla <thistle123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Every place needs 'commandments' - without any at all we are well and
truly lost.
That's a point of view that every anarchist ever disputes. Anarchists
point out that you don't need imposed rules of the `commandment' type -
especially not the typical lists of commandments.

Rowland.
It's a charter, I think. At least, on the website 'Ship-of-Fools' Somewhat
like the upsd charter, except it is enforcable (moderated)

When this newsgroup was set up, non-moderated was considered the best
idea - if only because no-one was in a position to arrange for
moderation. That takes `people connected to the newsgroup having the
ability and equipment to set up always-on networked server-type
computers to do the things needful'.

Perhaps it is to stop the website sinking to the depths of this news group.

That's the basic idea. If I were in a position to do so, I'd get a
moderated version of this newsgroup running - but it's the lack of
available servers that's the big problem.

The sheer horror of it, a moderated newsgroup where your uncontrollably rampant ego would no doubt have you seeking moderator status.
' I am Rowland the anarchist do as i day scum' . No doubt we would see posts by intelligent independent thinking women especially curtailed.


But if we had a moderated version, we'd have no trolls - and trolls
never used to be a problem.

There's trolls and then there's you(the über troll)



I would like to know where my fan club has come from, though - all these
fine people who are clearly utterly obsessed with me and cannot help but
hang upon my every word and try to join in whenever I make an utterance
here.




I wonder what they find so attractive about me?[1]

Nothing.




The title 'Ship-of-Fools' put me in mind of this newsgroup, and of Alexander
Shaumyan's (he posted here a couple of times) poem.
a bit of his stuff (that seemed to hit home for me) follows....

Don't need your rabbis, mullahs, priests
To teach me how to live,
Your Talmud, Bible or Qur'an
To love or to forgive.

I do not want your jealous God,
Your Paradise and Hell--
I am a man and I'm fine
Just being an infidel.

And if you ask me what I've learned
From listening to you,
I've learned it's best not to believe
And to myself be true .

So you can spin your fairytales
Of Paradise and Hell--
I am a man and I'm fine
Just being an infidel.

I've learned to stand for who I am
And speak my own mind,
For if there really were some God,
He'd liberate mankind.

But there is only us and them,
And every path is right,
So if you join our ship of fools,
You too might see the light.

But I don't want to join your club
Of tolerance and love,
For I'd rather trust myself
Without some God above.

So Hare Krishna, Al-Salaam,
Shalom, and Blessed be!
Good luck with all of your beliefs,
But I'll just be me.

For those, who know how to laugh,
Are those who are free
Because they've learned to recognize
Their own humanity.

Ah!

Yes.

Rowland.

[1] Although I think it was about 22 years ago that I last recall
having a bloke wanting to get into my knickers in real life. Poor chap
was most disappointed to find out he was barking up entirely the wrong
sort of tree. Damned if I ever worked out why he thought I was gay,
mind.

Could it be you mentioned your hatred of women? ;) I picture you as a 'leather boy' the Northwest's very own 'Reggie' .


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