Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

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  2. Posted

    So many things I could say.

     

    But then, I recall a saying that I try to hold to as often as possible:

     

    If you can't say anything nice, keep your mouth shut.

     

    Innit why deci got kicked? :lol:

     

     

    :huh: wait...  that's the same reason i'd gotten kicked <_<

     

    :unsure:  so why not let her back, especially what with wei wu wei going on n_n

  5. Posted · Edited by Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

     Human life is rather curious, as even as it is controlled by its momentum, it has achieved such inner balance that it has the ability to choose. Often it chooses to increase its momentum, but it has potential to unwind its momentum, and to return. Often it chooses to blaze it's own trail through time, but it has the choice to rest upon time as though falling back toward dao. This is the distinction between using and allowing use.

     

    Controlling power and creating with power is all abuse of power, if we choose to do so while hiding from our connection to dao.

     

    This was especially touching and i wanted to point it our very exactly, that this encompases much of what my own perceptives have revealed and which i have struggled to comprehend over the past near-20 years.

     

    Learning to flow with the power of the universe is a far greater virtue than any intent or intended manipulation of our momentum, inertia, friction, and etc. within this universe.

     

    So i present two seemingly opposite statements one after the other, yet both have their validity.  perhaps i need to better evaluate what i'm trying to say here ;)

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    Power is the successful attainment of an intent or intended result.

    Measurement of power would be a varying flux contrast between desire, effort, and attainments/failures and the ratios between the desire/effort contrasts to attainments/failures.

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    I intend to set an example of respect and integrity with hopes of improving both within the community, as a means of maintaining humanity and the freedoms that come along with these 'permissions'.

    While i will reserve the critical edge of my statements, this is similar to maintaining sharp tools so that they continue to do their job well.  If i come off as too intense, overbearing, or outright wrong, i expect the same respect that others call me out to re-examine my post(s) and figure any misunderstandings and assess them appropriately.

    Setting the example.

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    Apologizing in advance for any turn to politics this may take.  I don't intend a political argument.  I only intend to voice something that I've been seeing.  I keep hoping I'll run into another Bum that sees it too.  I'm just hoping in this new WWW setting that we will be respectful of each other.

     

     

    There is a component to wei wu wei that is active at the very beginning.  It's the point where someone sets their intent on a particular outcome, and takes a very small action to grow into a larger outcome.  And then the 'intender' takes his hands off of it and waits for the dynamic to return to him; when it returns, the highest action is always taken until the intended outcome is finally achieved.

     

     

     

    Repeatedly.

    This isnt the first time i've left the bums and come back to see good results ;)   :lol:

     

    Wei Wu Wei is, as though, a glimmer of the utmost "intended outcome" :D

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    I'm not so sure i am really in a situation to play the 100 day challenges for a while...  i am trying to get a lot of stuff arranged, organized, and worked out so i can secure an income and other things.   and... well... frankly i am just not into doing any of that, so i procrastinate a lot and wish i was doing more bagua :lol:


    I'm a lazy SOB, i know, but what i DONT know is how to manage my time so that im NOT intrinsically lazy :P

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    That's different.  Actually, it cycles around to point Two:  Do what you can do.  (Willing participants.)

     

     

    Battles are done only at-will.

    doing battle with non-participants who have not previously granted their explicite consent will result in confinement for the remainder of said battle.

     

    ALSO, battles for political purposes should be done in video games.  :lol:

     

     

     

    But that doesnt mean we cant hold contests of strength, endurance, speed, and skill... n_n

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  22. Posted · Edited by Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

    as an anarch community we will elect who will be tasked with what job in maintaining a peaceful-but-openly-free environment.

    It might be by terms, it might be by rotation, it might be by sovereignty.  we'll vote on it.

    And no electoral college bullshit - every individual vote counts equally.


    As for post deletion, there ought be a process to involve the community and decide how the post should be addressed; deletion yea or nay.

    We need an archiver of moderation activities to keep track of the un-announced deletions and edits.
    We need a "chieftian" or "sage" for guidance in our anarchy-related practices (not as an authority figure per say, but as an authority on the subject none-the-less; experience and seniority and such).
    We need entertainers and storytellers.
    We need teachers.
    we need a few billion dollars to establish a physical equivelant, but that's over time and not an immediate need.  :lol:

  23. Posted

    That sounds like Lord of the Flies on TDB.   :ph34r:

     

    Create a subforum where everyone is MOD and there is a free-for-all where you could end up deleting anyone else's posts in the end  :glare:

     

    There is a board-wide 'mod' log... but that creates more work to monitor it... but yes, we can see what is going on.

     

    I've been a part of something similar at two sites:

    Failed:  An anything-goes section.  Any member could go in.  We said there were 'no rules'... it was shut down in one week...  I guess we opened the doors to Armageddon  :o

     

    Worked:  A password entry is needed.  You also have to stand on one foot and touch your nose and recite as many sins you have committed in your life and predict how many more you will do...  The password doesn't seem to work until this is done  :D

     

    So it can work.

     

    In my mind, here would be the conditions:

    1. It has to get approved by Sean 

    2. Maybe need a Grand Puba assigned to oversee things... I really don't want staff taxed with it

    3. Define rules and reporting and how it is handled.

     

    I didn't really understand the concept at first and was at about 99% 'fuhgeddaboudit'...  I can now see the point of it... and maybe am at the mid-point...   which means if members want to continue then I'd need to do Step 1 above.  

     

     

    It's all work, and every (signed up) member has to participate in the workload.

     

    Everyone who uses or abuses their mod power has to own up to it as well and/or make amends.

     

    We need someone to maintain mod-log monitering to ensure that every instance of mod-ly power be recorded and acknowledged.

     

    Every instance of mod-power will have to be scrutinized (like a court room affair) by all (signed up) members of the alpha-anarchy test. members can, of course, opt out, but they are assumed to be opted in as their anarch responsibility.

     

     

    Anarchy is about responsibility, not about abusing power, or even having power what so ever.  It is above all else, a matter of Equity.

     

    Global/universal equality means no hierarchy or mods and admins.  it also means if you fuck up, you must appeal to your peers or accept whatever punishment fits your abuse of your power.