Do you feel any responsibility on IC? (or similar) (44)

If I posted that bungee jumping was the greatest thrill I ever had would you do it?

We all have a responsibility to consider different angles, different viewpoints. We all have the responsibility to be tolerant, but intolerant of intolerance.

Only if its a fee range vegetarian pigeon feed on baked beans.

That is very good advice I hope you all take notice of it.

Ah,, now just to make sure i get this right i,ll have to eat hundred's of the buggers because one must have ben reared on baked bean's,,

all this talk remind's me of a very fast cab drive to get a minor celeb to a breakfast show,,,

i ran into a crowd of about 500 hundred pidgeon's ( ok it was two lot's ) anyhow's up i wiped out a great many of them much to the horror and dismay of my passenger who utterly freaked ( i mean really freaked ),

as loads and loads of these little bodie's bounced up over and into the front of the car and winscreen,,

by the time we arrived at LTV this chap had to be helped deshelleved and trembling broken man out the car who was repeating and repeaing 'you hit the pidgeons you hit the pidgeon's ',

now it was'nt my fault he got up late and demanded i hit the gas and stop for nothing,, nor was it my fault that some ( presumably ) dotty old lady put have a ton of grain in the middle of the road for the flying rat's to eat,, and both time's were on the curves ( other side of curve ) in the road,,

and it was my fault i was driving bloody fast,, but then that was the joy of cab driving in London,

any way i hope his early morning interview went well as we arrive about 10 min's before airing

Please excuse crap spelling cause i,m rubbish

Edited 27 Jan 12, 10:40 PM by MisstressvsSolicedog

I try to post relevantly and interestingly. Although I dislike and try not to interact with the offensive and bigoted (some of whom write in an elegant style but are offensive none the less), if someone seems genuinely uninformed or has a skewed perspective then that person should be enlightened by his or her fellows without base scoffing or ridicule (“an ignoramus is someone who doesn't know something you learned yesterday.” Ambrose Bierce). If a poster has different preferences than my own, then I am grateful for the guided tour around their world and may question for said enlightenment.

This minded me of the origin of the phrase (Crowley's interpretation acknowledged) and its relevance to this and similar online fora.

It is in his first book, Pantagruel (1532), that Rabelais writes of the Abbey of Thélème, built by the giant Gargantua. He pokes fun at the monastic institutions; his abbey has a swimming pool, maid service and no clocks in sight. Below the humour was a very real concept of utopia and the ideal society. Rabelais gives us a description of how the Thélèmites of the Abbey lived and the rules they lived by:

“All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their order there was but this one clause to be observed, Do What Thou Wilt, because men that are free, well-born, well-bred and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”

So, yes, deny yourselves nothing, however, cultivate the company in which we find ourselves and harvest the pleasures that issue forth.

ETA:

I found this forum completely by chance, not really being one for the clubbing scene, so remain completely open, please, so that enquiring minds may browse and be reassured and even dip their toes in these oh-so-hot-in-a-good-way waters.

"He took a single sip of her pain and found it exquisite"

Edited 28 Jan 12, 1:23 PM by Mad_Monk