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Yes, enough talk about big bricks and bulging blocks. Not that I'm not a fan of the ladies (not that there's anything with not being one... not going to get into detail), but hey, there are more important things to talk about, such as "where the heck did Peril in Peru go?!".

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Yes, enough talk about big bricks and bulging blocks. Not that I'm not a fan of the ladies (not that there's anything with not being one... not going to get into detail), but hey, there are more important things to talk about, such as "where the heck did Peril in Peru go?!".

Don't post in this thread unless you have a reason. Thank you.

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Im not sure this is 100% on topic but it is at least a start back onto the right road :sceptic:

In peoples area are some special tags, like a country flag or a customizer logo, is there a place i can go to find out what all of them mean.

For example i cant work out the country flag one... the best guess i can hazard is you get one when awarded the group of fellow.

Regards, Cpt. PB

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In peoples area are some special tags, like a country flag or a customizer logo, is there a place i can go to find out what all of them mean.

Flags are given to Fellows and above. Most other tags are awards for being seen as a good customizer/MOCer/Whateverer. Any in particular that you find confusing?

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the Jar Jar binks-im guessing the winner of kill jar jar, the VOC - ship building contest?, your bucket- ??you found a bucket?? :grin:

i am guessing there is no one stop shop (index) of the awards, a shame, i would like to know what people where awarded with... perhaps when someone has too much time on thier hands they could make one. I am sure im not the only member who would like to give credit where credit is due!

Regrds

Cpt. PB

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the Jar Jar binks-im guessing the winner of kill jar jar, the VOC - ship building contest?, your bucket- ??you found a bucket?? :grin:

Jar Jar binks - Kill Jar Jar

VOC - That is because CGH is a talented shipbuilder

Bucket - Not sure; could be a smackdown reward, but it could just be admin privilege :wink:

No, there is no one-stop place to check what they all mean; often they mean nothing beyond the obvious. :tongue:

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I was going to add a humorous remark but was afraid of taking us off topic...

Because eventually there will be someone with a legitimate question?

Like how Chuck gets that really cool (and self inflating) double post effect. I want it.

God Bless,

Nathan

Because eventually there will be someone with a legitimate question?

Like how Chuck gets that really cool (and self inflating) double post effect. I want it.

God Bless,

Nathan

Note how many divergences were squeezed into one post... retro EB...

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I'm okay with humor, but naked bunnies and calling people tards was getting on my nerves. Sounds a little like an overly subjective rule to throw in and randomly enforce, I know...Apologies. I don't want to be like that. :blush: But that doesn't mean it's okay to come back with the booby bunnies! :wacko:

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I'm okay with humor, but naked bunnies and calling people tards was getting on my nerves. Sounds a little like an overly subjective rule to throw in and randomly enforce, I know...Apologies. I don't want to be like that. :blush: But that doesn't mean it's okay to come back with the booby bunnies! :wacko:

I was actually just trying to post a fresh start (not judge your judging...) :grin:

God Bless,

Nathan

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Bucket - Not sure; could be a smackdown reward, but it could just be admin privilege :wink:

You mean you've never been on ihasabucket.com??! :tongue:

:skull:

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You mean you've never been on ihasabucket.com??! :tongue:

:skull:

Probably not, prior to the contest (the bucket originally came from the picture that someone posted.).

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Flags are given to Fellows and above. Most other tags are awards for being seen as a good customizer/MOCer/Whateverer. Any in particular that you find confusing?

Not wanting to kick up dust here so don't take my post as an example of trying to gain something, but is there something special one has to do to recieve a flag? I'm just curious as there seems to be a little open endness to it :classic:

Batbrick Away! :devil:

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Not wanting to kick up dust here so don't take my post as an example of trying to gain something, but is there something special one has to do to recieve a flag? I'm just curious as there seems to be a little open endness to it :classic:

Batbrick Away! :devil:

Sometimes we just need to be reminded... :blush:

I was actually just trying to post a fresh start (not judge your judging...) :grin:

God Bless,

Nathan

Oh wow, I missed this response. I'm so sorry! I actually didn't mean that towards you at all. I like your post. :blush:

A double blushing post... :sceptic:

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're assigned by the staff when they deem you worthy of deserving one . I wish you could change what it said though...

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It can help you build a better moc actually. It will make you have more self respect and the ability to moc to a greater extent is a power that it receives. Also, it will make you have the ability to put on decals. It is explained in this by Thoreau.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet

we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of

sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden

of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the

ordinary and mean. We think that we can change our clothes only.

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable,

and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not

believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float

the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his

mind. Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come

out of the ground? The government of the world I live in was not

framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the

wine.

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this

year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched

uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out

all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see

far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before

science began to record its freshets. Every one has heard the story

which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful

bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree

wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first

in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts -- from an egg

deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared

by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out

for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who

does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality

strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and

winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many

concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society,

deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree,

which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its

well-seasoned tomb -- heard perchance gnawing out now for years by

the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board --

may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and

handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!

I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but

such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can

never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness

to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more

day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

I heartily accept the motto, -- "That government is best which

governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly

and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which

also I believe, -- "That government is best which governs not at

all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of

government which they will have. Government is at best but an

expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are

sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought

against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve

to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing

government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing

government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the

people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be

abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness

the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals

using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the

people would not have consented to this measure.

This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a

recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity,

but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the

vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend

it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people

themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the

people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its

din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even

impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we

must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any

enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It

does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has

done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat

more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For

government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in

letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most

expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and

commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never manage

to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually

putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by

the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions,

they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous

persons who put obstructions on the railroads.

But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who

call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no

government, but at once a better government. Let every man make

known what kind of government would command his respect, and that

will be one step toward obtaining it.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in

the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long

period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be

in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but

because they are physically the strongest. But a government in

which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice,

even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in

which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but

conscience? -- in which majorities decide only those questions to

which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever

for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the

legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we

should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to

cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only

obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what

I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no

conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation

with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by

means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made

the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue

respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel,

captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in

admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills,

ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very

steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are

concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they?

Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of

some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a

marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it

can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence

of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one

may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it

may be

"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,

As his corse to the rampart we hurried;

Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot

O'er the grave where our hero we buried."

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as

machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the

militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases

there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral

sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and

stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve

the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw

or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses

and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good

citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers,

ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their

heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as

likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very

few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and

men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily

resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as

enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will

not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away,"

but leave that office to his dust at least:--

"I am too high-born to be propertied,

To be a secondary at control,

Or useful serving-man and instrument

To any sovereign state throughout the world."

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them

useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is

pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

How does it become a man to behave toward this American

government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be

associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that

political organization as my government which is the slave's

government also.

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mhmh.. ok.. that helps me a lot to understand how can title makes you build better mocs^^

I never understood some philosopher who speaks French (and I'm a native French speaker)... so an English philosophy text.. I think I'll try to understand it .. tomorrow..because now it's time to go to bed, and when I'll wake up tomorrow, I'll forgot to read it, so everything will be fine^^

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