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Re: the Titanic

Posted by Dr. Bob on September 21, 2013, at 3:54:39

In reply to Re: autocracy, posted by Phillipa on September 20, 2013, at 20:02:57

> I suppose you can say this is an autocracy-- but maybe we haven't tested the limits of our potential participation--
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> Willful

Thanks for keeping this from being The Hsiung-Twinleaf debate. :-)

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> this site is truly moribund, and has been for several years. It is certainly not anything even remotely resembling a robust online community.
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> While it might be unfortunate that it isn't of much help to many people, the deadness is a fact, and I don't think it'll ever be lively again.
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> Moishe Pipik

> For me it's been rather repetitive and boring for along time now. I remember all the joking around that used to take place. Now seems to me to be disagreements?
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> Phillipa

Maybe one reason Babble hasn't sunk is that it's not considered unsinkable. I'm thankful for passengers on the lookout for problems.

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> some of us have an interest in [the site], and to us, it has not only life, but value.
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> Willful

> Well, the Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes from impact.
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> Babble seems to have weathered multiple impacts, over more than a decade, without sinking.
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> 10derheart

Now, how are we to recognize Nature's most excellent vessels? Whatever does not sink them makes them stronger.

I think Babble has been a most excellent vessel.

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> Blocks should be for hurt maliciously delivered.

Maybe malice should be sufficient, but I don't know if it should be necessary. Have you seen the thread Alex started on the tragedy of the commons?

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20130914/msgs/1050922.html

> The trouble here is that our history has involved quite a lot of hurt and we have to live with that. I mean the way sometimes we have hurt each other, sometimes based on misunderstandings and other times out of (what one suspects might be) clear eyed dislike for another's way of thinking. Which makes things difficult.
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> sigismund

How do you see past hurt as making things difficult here? It does of course in lots of other contexts.

Bob

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