Post by Revenant on Sept 5, 2010 7:52:44 GMT
They've really relaxed the entry standards. You don't even need a criminal record to get in any more!
Good to see your face, at any rate.
@ Purple Cat: Apologies for not quoting your entire posts, but I would prefer to reply to the gestalt rather than dissect your posts line by line. Besides, "Brevity is… wit."
Question: Are you reading merely the front page, or did you delve into the Policies and Philosophies sections? Those are where you will find most of the meat.
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Aye. I consider the "Scientific Method" to be an essentially refined and more practical version of the original philosophic attitude. Ideas must be tested, examined, and refined by praxis.
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I was curious, so I dug through my records and found the records of the incident. It was Miss Giedi who dispatched you, not myself, although it was a combined effort. To be honest, I was somewhat disappointed not to see records of the incident from your people, but I assumed this to be part of a campaign of discouragement and thought no more of it.
I'm afraid you're giving me no more reason to kill you, here; as you say, you've seen your fair share of death, and my attentions can be better directed towards those who have not as yet. 'Tis no simple task I have before me, you know.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. -Kurt Vonnegut
Do the Philosophe Knights resent the ignorant of Malton because their higher educations they worked for don't necessarily allow them to lead better lives here?
You assume much. We require no evidence of high education, or even overmuch learning; we only require that the candidate be willing to learn. A good attitude goes a long way, and we would be poor teachers indeed if we rejected students for being unlearned.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what time it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. -Earl of Chesterfield
"Advice unasked is advice ignored." To address the hypothetical situation literally: personally, I find that people tend to ask me if I have the time, to which I tend to reply, "Yes," and proceed on my way.
I suppose you could say that my purpose is to make people question. "The only cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." —Dorothy Parker
@ Gabby: I'm afraid I've yet to read Candide, either. Shameful, I know. As I said, my background is not in the arts – it's more that I am endlessly fascinated by any amount of things, ideas being paramount. "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." —Myrlie Evers
I would like to close with a quotation currently being sported by one of out most recently graduated Knights…
Educatio Est Omnium Efficacissima Forma Rebellionis.
Post Script: Missed these before…
Finally, something we can wholeheartedly agree on!
On the contrary, I find it tends to get their attention most efficaciously. ;D
Besides, as Brad said earlier, it's hardly permanent— in this city, at this time. Were the situation otherwise, well…
