I Hate Politics

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Era Might' date='26 November 2009 - 11:10 PM' timestamp='1259291451' post='2009979']
The philosophy of politics is more likeable than politics itself. To paraphrase Plato, either politicians need to become philosophers or philosophers need to become politicians.
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Tolkien points out why this can never be: "The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."

Augustine says the same thing: "[God] did not intend that his rational creature, who was made in his image, should have dominion over anything but the irrational creature—not man over man, but man over the beasts."

Human nature was not built for ruling other men. Human nature was built for adhering to God's law, thereby precluding the emergence of men with a monopoly of physical power over their fellow men.

~Sternhauser

Edited November 27, 2009 by Sternhauser

[ardillacid]

See, my problem with politics is they promise stuff, and don't deliver.

Does this sound familiar Aloysius?

[Hassan]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='26 November 2009 - 07:31 PM' timestamp='1259281867' post='2009913']
The handful are all that are needed to prove that it is possible. The ideal should always be strived for, and the decadence of the masses is no excuse not to try.[/QUOTE]

That's about the logic of every man who spent his last paycheck on lottery tickets. That in the overwhelming majority of instances such tactics for attaining wealth are futile means no difference. Those infinitesimally rare exceptions prove that this ideal means of gaining your fortune is possible and should be strove towards.



[QUOTE]Your logic is not logic at all. Gandhi used the same reasoning to deny the Truth held in Christianity; "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

You cannot fight philosophic truths with the excuse that people do not heed said truths. In fact, people very rarely admit Truth.

Edit: I obviously don't agree with everything Plato says, only much of what he says about the ideal ruler.
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What philosophic truths? is there some deductive argument proving the philosopher king to be the best form of governance?

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='26 November 2009 - 08:47 PM' timestamp='1259282841' post='2009923']
Politics hates you, too. And me.
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Politics killed my dog.

~Sternhauser

[Era Might]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='27 November 2009 - 12:11 AM' timestamp='1259298670' post='2010070']
Politics killed my dog.

~Sternhauser
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Politics turned me into a newt!

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Era Might' date='27 November 2009 - 01:22 AM' timestamp='1259299347' post='2010081']
Politics turned me into a newt!
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A [i]newt[/i]?

~Sternhauser

[Lounge Daddy]

Gingrich?

[Aloysius]

there are far too many people for me to tell the shut up. SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! politics r stupid!

lol this was an awesome old school (2004) phatmass thread that got ruined by anarchists. but at least I have the right to tell people to shut up in it.

shut up, stern.

shut up, notardillacid (and if you'd just accept my credit card through paypal i'd have been able to pay you a long time ago)

shut up, all! mwahahaha

-King Aloysius I of Athanasia

[Didacus]

...and politics stole my bible!

[Lounge Daddy]

[img]http://anti-politics.ws/votefornobody.jpg[/img]

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Luthien' date='06 June 2004 - 03:41 PM' timestamp='1086554511' post='211378']
LOL

Hilarious...

Yeah, Im just going to live in a hole somewheres in the wilderness....forget goverment...
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A tipi wouldn't be too bad.