Post by Revenant on Sept 1, 2010 11:44:51 GMT
You presume monoculture where, I assure you, one does not exist. I suppose that is consequent of our adoption of the robes and mask and the general mystique we seek to cultivate, but rest assured that we have a wide variety of memberships with sometimes violently differing views and opinions. To presume otherwise about any true philosophers' club betrays a vast ignorance on the part of the observer; this is, however, merely a natural part of human nature, to stereotype and hence easily judge an entire group based on flimsy understanding. More nuanced perceptions will come with more exposure, assuming a willingness to look past initial views and inbuilt biases and prejudices.
My signature on the Knights forum contains a quote from Aristophanes: “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
A current Student followed that up with this quote from Primo: “To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.”
I hope that from this you can glean something of our philosophy. More can be learned from our publications if one is inclined to learning as opposed to making judgements based on rumour and hearsay.
And people wonder why we use the methods we do.
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"Enemy"? That seems a remarkably short-sighted view to take. Are you saying that were the Knights to come hunting some faction guilty of mass crimes – say, zergers, or that Combat18 group – that you would then treat us the same way as any random murderer who crossed your path? Does not your warrant system have provisions for review, so as to prevent its misuse?
And have you never heard the aphorism, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."?
My signature on the Knights forum contains a quote from Aristophanes: “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
A current Student followed that up with this quote from Primo: “To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.”
I hope that from this you can glean something of our philosophy. More can be learned from our publications if one is inclined to learning as opposed to making judgements based on rumour and hearsay.
And people wonder why we use the methods we do.
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"Enemy"? That seems a remarkably short-sighted view to take. Are you saying that were the Knights to come hunting some faction guilty of mass crimes – say, zergers, or that Combat18 group – that you would then treat us the same way as any random murderer who crossed your path? Does not your warrant system have provisions for review, so as to prevent its misuse?
And have you never heard the aphorism, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."?
