Posted by Dr. Bob on January 19, 2014, at 23:34:11
In reply to Re: Nice things to say about other people. » Willful, posted by SLS on January 12, 2014, at 11:52:11
Hi, everyone,
I'm OK with this thread remaining here. I'm seeing it as administrative because it's about Administration. (And it's fine for there to be an analogous thread, for different purposes, on Social at the same time.)
I didn't see Scott as absurd, but as being the change he wanted to see. Bravo!
Maybe more people aren't posting because they're not in the mood for a battle of wits.
Some people may experience God as absent, or silent, or as making eerie and garbled pronouncements. What do they do then? But that's for another thread, if not another board.
Bob
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> PLEASE MOVE THESE POSTS TO SOCIAL. THEY ARE DESTROYING THE ADMIN BOARD!!!!
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> HomelyCygnet> I haven't decided whether or not to continue posting nice things about other people. I really don't want to turn this into a battle of wits with those people who would have me desist.
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> - Scott> Does anyone have an idea as to why there aren't more people posting nice things about others?
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> - Scott> Posting nice things about people == is only absurd in an already absurd situation of despair and impotence, of an unbearably barren landscape in which no hope of meaning or the completion of an action other than talking to oneself or flagellating oneself or others is possible.
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> The admin board of this place has turned into such a landscape where sadism and impotent pleas are all met with absence, emptiness, the silence or the eerie and garbled pronouncements of God, I mean Bob.
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> This was a grand endeavor-- in its way.
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> Willful> I like that my posts along this thread are visible in Administration.
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> I hadn't thought to make a series out of it, but the vitriol was turning my stomach. I thought that if one person could inject negativism into an otherwise neutral environment, perhaps another person could offset it with an injection of positivism.
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> - Scotta brilliant and reticent Web mastermind -- The New York Times
backpedals well -- PartlyCloudy
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