tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post6710363863696806594..comments2023-10-07T00:39:05.331-07:00Comments on Lee, Here in a Virtual World: Truth or ConsequencesLeeHere Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15424485934331177232noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-74938675713545783452011-06-18T21:53:43.972-07:002011-06-18T21:53:43.972-07:00@Lee: Which Pep would THAT be?@Lee: Which Pep would THAT be?Pephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509212537895941373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-45612403471785227132011-06-18T21:52:33.291-07:002011-06-18T21:52:33.291-07:00@Lee: Rasputin comes closest. My kids call me Gibb...@Lee: Rasputin comes closest. My kids call me Gibbs (qv NCIS) and my son wants to be Patrick Jane (qv The Mentalist) because he thinks that is what I was like when I was younger and could wear a waistcoat without looking ridiculous.Pephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509212537895941373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-71451321106341815312011-06-18T21:49:45.754-07:002011-06-18T21:49:45.754-07:00My audience is universal,Orfeu. That some understa...My audience is universal,Orfeu. That some understand and some do not, and - even better - that some misunderstand, is precisely my aim. <br /><br />What is the point of posting and everybody agreeing with you? What is the point of posting and everybody taking exception. Both are intensely boring and would close a forum down if that was all there was to it.<br /><br />And, of course, encouraging others to make public fools of themselves is a great spectator sport.<br /><br />I know it is a great internet meme that "unpopular" posters claim to have hordes of lurking admirers who refuse to publicly out themselves and confine their golf claps to private messages, but my experience has been that non-public feedback from the intelligentsia (I don't count mis-spelled death threats with expletives outnumbing semi-identifiable words) is generally appreciative.<br /><br />Oh, and the only place I am banned from is SL Offworld, but I don't think anyone posts there anymore. As a recent post of mine on SLConfidential (discussed here by Lee and reposted, subsequently regretfully, in the official SL Forum by Scylla, has pointed out, you can have a considerable effect upon forums without actually posting!<br /><br />As to your last offer, I couldn't do justice to a formal exposition on Identity and Authority without boring readers senseless. Instead I shall continue to offer the out-takes in my usual digestible format.Pephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509212537895941373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-37167403746882275022011-06-18T17:33:33.196-07:002011-06-18T17:33:33.196-07:00Pep...I have always found to be an entertaining po...Pep...I have always found to be an entertaining poster. <br />He has a lively wit, a good enough vocabulary to weigh his words, alive to the nuances contained therein.<br />I have often wondered who he imagines his audience to be...as many of his witticisms seem to fly over the heads of his targets.<br /><br />When he speaks of delusion...and then continues with...<br />" even though it is glaringly obvious to those not-so-innocent bystanders whose silent approbation is noticeable by its public absence."<br /><br />Well...it begs the question how does he know the silence equals approbation...perhaps it signifies nothing more than supreme indifference.<br /><br />Perhaps being banned everywhere, and this silent approbation is his ultimate endgame...I confess I have no idea what motivates Pep.<br /><br />But Identity and Authority are familiar Pep themes. I have wondered about the genesis of these pre-occupations....would Pep Like to share...in this shady corner of the internet.??orfeuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05240050445596377080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-47655130801262427572011-06-16T18:06:30.614-07:002011-06-16T18:06:30.614-07:00It occurs to me that I have not yet afforded you t...It occurs to me that I have not yet afforded you the opportunity to make your usual speech about assumptions that you are *that* Pep.LeeHere Absenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15424485934331177232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-30924377061940991212011-06-16T17:50:41.106-07:002011-06-16T17:50:41.106-07:00Who, then would be a better historical figure to t...Who, then would be a better historical figure to turn into an adjective to describe you? <br /><br />Rasputin?<br />Quisling?<br />Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia?<br />Stalin?<br />Ivan?<br />Moriarty?<br /><br />I'm not going to Godwin you in my own blog in these early days.<br /><br />I'm going with Svengali. Yes, that fits. So let me rephrase my earlier greeting...<br /><br />Hello, my little Svengalian friend.LeeHere Absenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15424485934331177232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-91028676509239037722011-06-16T16:19:16.435-07:002011-06-16T16:19:16.435-07:00Machiavelli was a wuss. He believed there had to b...Machiavelli was a wuss. He believed there had to be a point to being evil, rather than the means simply being the end in themselves.Pephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509212537895941373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-46740170947039885402011-06-13T11:19:05.826-07:002011-06-13T11:19:05.826-07:00Hello my little Machiavellian friend.Hello my little Machiavellian friend.LeeHere Absenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15424485934331177232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354122565905163766.post-50547003650629347792011-06-13T08:03:27.229-07:002011-06-13T08:03:27.229-07:00Punishment? Over the internet? You have to be delu...Punishment? Over the internet? You have to be delusional if you take pleasure in moderating (in the correct sense of the word) someone's behaviour because you have the administrative power to do so. You also have to be an idiot to be annoyed at little Hitlers attempting to impose their personal version of morality on you.<br /><br />It's MUCH more fun to modify the behaviour of others remotely when you DON'T have any actual power over them; much more satisfying when they say publicly that they feel hurt - which of course is entirely their choice; much more pleasurable when they publicly claim some failed attempt at retaliation, but lack the imagination or vocabulary to do so; much more of a triumph when they make it quite clear, publicly yet again - it's great entertainment for the lurkers, isn't it - that they don't really understand how they have been pwned, even though it is glaringly obvious to those not-so-innocent bystanders whose silent approbation is noticeable by its public absence.<br /><br />Pep (enjoys this sort of thing.)Pephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10509212537895941373noreply@blogger.com