Welcome to the thread. As I'm sure you are all aware, on SI politics can often lead to unpleasantness. On this thread there are people from all over the political spectrum, and I'd like to make sure we can all remain here, and all remain calm...friendly, even. So, let's leave the political maifestos at the door. I know we're all attached to our politics, I know I am to mine- but it isn't the only thing I want to talk about. That doesn't mean we can't post an article about the politics of a director, or post a link to a political film- but it does mean there will be no arguing of politics on this thread, and especially, ESPECIALLY, no pejorative adjectives hurled at the left or the right, or people who are presumed to be left or right- in other words absolutely no name calling. It just doesn't make for a pleasant world. On this thread, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Trolls coming here just to stir up trouble, or those who come here to entertain their compatriots on other threads, will be banned. There are threads for fighting- this will not be one of them.
VERY Important- please read
Freedom of association- it's important. It gives us the right to associate with folks we find congenial. If you are nasty to me, here or elsewhere on SI, you won't be talking to me here. Let it go boys (and girls)- and leave me alone. So for those of you who are COMPLETELY clueless and keep wondering about why you get banned here- think about it like this- Does this moderator like me? Have I been friendly and nice to her? If the answer to either of those questions is no, then you will be banned here. If you are incapable of figuring either of those questions out don't take a chance- don't post here.
READ the ABOVE. If you have insulted me (or even in your opinion "told the truth about me" to a gaggle of folks who were being nasty) DON'T post here. Unless you want to get banned. I prefer you just stayed away and I didn't have to ban you, but this is my thread, and if people I don't like show up I will ban you.
"Nothing is worth more than this day. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field; I'll meet you there."
Rumi
"to be alive becomes the fundamental luck each ordinary, compromising day manages to bury"
"At certain moments, always unforseen, I become happy... I look at the strangers near as if I had known them all my life... everything fills me with affection... It may be an hour before the mood passes, but lately I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate. "
- William Butler Yeats
I love this quote:
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Author: Judge Hall
moderation is arbitrary and capricious- as it is on all moderated threads
only on this one
I say it up front :-)
so you know
Happy People versus Angry People:
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