Is Free Republic a Fraud? Is it time for Free Republic to go away?

Free Republic | 11/28/01 | Jim Robinson

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

Yes, I highly suspect you're being delusional as well. :-)

[Torie]

I have many arrows in my quiver. But then you already knew that. :)

[Arator]

I'm more of a Jefferson or Rand type old leftist.

Hmmm. Jefferson and Rand. Do those two really go together?

I'm a Jeffersonian myself. I dream of an Agrarian society ruled by yeomen farmers living about a starry constellation of vibrant and thriving small towns -- like the Old Republic (pre-1861).

It's sort of capitalism (capitalism is a word like conservative, n'est pas? it really means anything and nothing) applied to politics, if you catch my meaning.

Capitalism is the servant, not the master, and should not be made the sole end of society. It is but a means to society's true ends, and that is all.

[nunya bidness]

But I highly suspect I'm being delusional. :)

More the latter but I'm sure you are cuter than a bug's ear. Alan is around just not here.

[Arator]

More the latter but I'm sure you are cuter than a bug's ear. Alan is around just not here.

Those of us still on the outs anxiously await the day when the rest of us will be welcome in that mysterious place where Alan is. ;^)

[Roscoe]

If you want dope, you'll have to pay for it like everyone else...

Prison.

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

"Capitalism is the servant, not the master, and should not be made the sole end of society."

Well, in a sense. Capitalism is the only social system based upon individual rights.

I said Jefferson and Rand because of Jefferson's quest for learning, and Rand's adoration of reason. Religiously, of course, they don't coincide. Though, contary to popular belief, most of the founding fathers (including Jefferson) were not Christian, but deist.

[Torie]

Do you know where the River Styx is? Probably not, since I suspect you are not a fellow pagan in good standing.

[Arator]

Do you know where the River Styx is? Probably not, since I suspect you are not a fellow pagan in good standing.

I believe that is in Hades. Have you bought a voyage down it's confluence lately? I believe it only costs the coins which are placed over your eyes just prior to your journey.

Being a highly placed official in the Pentagram, er, Pentagon, perhaps you've attended Bohemian Grove. I hear that is a pagan's delight.

Say, you wouldn't happen to know the identity of the anti-Christ, would you? LOL.

[nunya bidness]

Those of us still on the outs anxiously await the day when the rest of us will be welcome in that mysterious place where Alan is. ;^)

Don't we all. I think it's called Xanadu. And permit me to paraphrase:

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Xanadu

"To seek the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
To break my fast on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise..."

I had heard the whispered tales
Of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book. I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops
Of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost ‹ Xanadu

Xanadu ‹ To stand within The Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milks of Paradise

A thousand years have come and gone
But time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end
Weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost ‹ Xanadu

Xanadu ‹ Held within The Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honey dew
And drunk the milk of Paradise

[Torie]

perhaps you've attended Bohemian Grove

No, I don't favor primitive accommodations, and attending a spectacle of a bunch of men my age acting out like we were still frat boy stallions. But it is really more a matter of aesthetics. Nothing more I assure you, except of course I haven't been invited anyway.

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

You're saying he died?

[nunya bidness]

Nope. He just crossed over. Infinitely more refreshing.

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

What? OK, you're getting cryptic on me...

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

OK, let me try and see what you are saying:
Either

1. He died (OK, he went into the afterlife)
or
2.He went underground.

[Arator]

No, I don't favor primitive accommodations, and attending a spectacle of a bunch of men my age acting out like we were still frat boy stallions. But it is really more a matter of aesthetics. Nothing more I assure you, except of course I haven't been invited anyway.

Too bad. I hear they bellow praises to the pagan god Molloch, dance wildly around owl statues and big bonfires, engage in orgies with CIA mind-controlled sex slaves, and other similar eccentric elite proclivities. Of course, if you had attended and broke your blood oath of secrecy about it, you might be taking that trip down the river Styx sooner than you wish. So, by all means. keep it to yourself. LOL.

[Arator]

Nope. He just crossed over. Infinitely more refreshing.

LOL. You slay me.

[Freeman Patrick Henry]

Arator, what is the significance of your handle? The only possibility I can think of is an obscure man called St. Arator.

[Arator]

Arator, what is the significance of your handle? The only possibility I can think of is an obscure man called St. Arator.

Nope, I borrowed it from John Taylor of Caroline, a Virginia planter and Jeffersonian who, in the early 1800's, wrote some prescent political commentary warning his countrymen of the dangers posed by the combination of federal power and northern commercial interests to agriculture and his native region, the South. He wrote these essays under the pseudonym, Arator. As I am an Agrarian Jeffersonian and Confederate sympathizer at heart, I adopted his pseudonym as my FReeper name.

[Scuttlebutt]

The moderators made a judgement call IMHO partially based upon a misinterpretation of Jim's intent

We have been assured, over and over and over again, that the moderators do not ever misinterpret Jim's intent to suit their own whims or agenda, so you have to be mistaken. A thing like that is impossible…so we've been told.