BS: Are you an Anarchist

Subject: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: number 6
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:51 PM

In it's general semantic meaning an anarchist is one who beleives that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished .... imposed authority is undesirable and unnecessary.

Sounds ok to me ... but the idea of a society without leaders would never work.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:52 PM

Sometimes I feel like an anarchistic child.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: number 6
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM

I do know I'm a parent of one.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 11:49 PM

I believe in Anarchy!

Well, for me, anyway!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Bert
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:07 AM

Only while Bush is in power.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Peace
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:55 AM

No. I don't mind spiders.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:07 AM

I am an anarchist, of sorts, not through choice--it seems to be a an aspect of my personality that I always to try to knock the king of the hill back down where he belongs--

the opressive tendencies of "leaders" and "authorities"have always seemed to me to be one of the primary causes of misery--one might argue that leadership is necessary, but leaders always seem to try to grab hold of more and bigger things than they are needed for--and they are disinclined to let go, even when it is clear that they should--

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: John O'L
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:15 AM

I thought it said 'Are you an Antichrist'.

I thought 'Oh-oh, here we go again, the interrogation, the trial by ordeal, the rack, the blade, the flame, man, sometimes I wonder why I even bother...'

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 03:32 AM

I'm the hereditary leader of the anarchists(*), as well as vice- chairman of The Solipsist Society.

(*) A sept of Clan Gordon, whose most famous scions include Anarchy Gordon, Gordon Bennett, Gordon Bleugh the famous chef, and Gay Gordon.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:01 AM

Are you an antichrist?

I work among a lot of bible-belters, hence I got some puzzled frowns when I was expressing my opposition to one of the local political leaders-

"He's the antichrist, and I mean that in the bad way!"

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:58 AM

Once groups of human beings exceed approx 30 in number, you need a leader, and that's where all of humanity's problems start...

There's a shortage of good leaders....

you can't get the wood you know!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM

Yes and no. I created all of you and if I don't think about you you won't exist. So I am the both your creator and the Supreme Leader of anarchists, fascists, Republicans, Whigs, Democrats, Libertines, Tories, and everybody.

And if you don't like it, remember that I made you say that.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 10:13 AM

You didn't make me say anything, I didn't say anything. How could you make me say something if I didn't say anything? You don't make sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 10:34 AM

He made you say that too. Ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 10:50 AM

I think the ideal form of government IS anarchy. (There's an oxymoron for ya!) We're humans, we're social, so that means SOME sort of structure/pecking order within the groups we're part of, but each group takes care of its own and no overall government tells these groups how to operate.

Anarchy, however, requires a level of maturity people aren't usually capable of. It requires self discipline, and respect for people, and the ability to not try to eliminate other viewpoints. In short, it requires people to first govern themselves. I don't see that happening anytime this century.

For the record, I think labeling myself would be idiotic. Sometimes I'm a liberal, sometimes a conservative. Sometimes I'm a capitalist and sometimes a communist. I have anarchist ideals, but a democratic practicality. I don't have a label and I don't have to behave according to the 'rules' for that label. Makes it kind of hard to predict what I think or stereotype me. About the only think I'll call myself consistently is an idealistic realist.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 11:09 AM

Anarchy is more complicated than most people think. I once had a friend who spent 7 years in Italy, studying anarchist political thought. It's similar to communism but uncentralized.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:54 PM

Everything related to politics in Italy is complicated--and if it isn't, they complicate it.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Bert
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:59 PM

...you can't get the wood you know! ...

Giving away your age there mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:04 PM

I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Dont know what I want but I know how to get it...

Anarchy is a great principle but, as pointed out oft times before, human nature being what it is is pretty untenable.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:19 PM

"Socialism is a great theory, the only problem with it is it can be realized!" a witty person once said, and how right I was.

- Ephraim Kishon

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 06:45 PM

I just wanna destroy passers-by.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 09:06 PM

And they want to destroy you, 282A, that's called "Free Enterprise"--

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 09:18 PM

I thought it was the U.K. or just another country.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Mark Ross
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 11:06 PM

The government governs best which governs least

Thomas Jefferson

The government governs best which governs not at all


Henry David Thoreau

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Gedpipes
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 07:14 AM

Why do anarchists drink herbal tea?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 08:14 AM

There must be 2 kinds of Anarchist then... most of the 'self-proclaimed Anarchists' I've met wouldnt be seen DEAD with herbal tea...

Oddly enough, most have got really narked when I've asked them what kind of gun they own (or when I have explained to them the meaning of the question)...

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Gedpipes
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:02 AM

....because proper tea is theft

Blue skies

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM

I own guns. Does that make me an anarchist? (Of course, I already know your answer.)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:10 AM

*G* Rapaire...& the sky is blue, therefore all blue things are sky...

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:12 AM

The U.S. Military own lots of guns, & they arent...oh, er...

...just forget I said anything!

*G*

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:10 AM

I called the Anarchist Society today and asked to speak to the person in charge and they hung up.
I called the Council for Hedonism and no one answered the phone.
I called the Altruistic Club and they answered the phone "how may we help you"

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 01:27 PM

Just another council tenancy.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 01:56 PM

My brother used to tend bar. One evening a mutual friend was in hovering over his beer. This fellow was rambling on about society and he decided that anarchy was the answer. My brother asked what he would do if it actually came to that. The fellow said he would just sit there drinking beer. My brother asked "Who will get you the beer?"

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 04:33 PM

That isn't really what anarchy is about. Anarchy as touted by idealists holds that you don't need laws to govern your own behavior. You're a either a decent person or you're not. Laws have no effect on indecent people and therefore serve only to hamper the decent ones. So who will get the guy's beer? Your brother, if he wants to stay in business.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM

I called Dial-a-Prayer and they put me on hold. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: robomatic
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 07:44 PM

someone earlier wrote:

"The U.S. Military own lots of guns, & they arent...oh, er..."

The U.S. Military is owned by the people of the United States, so they are our guns, er, weapons.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:31 AM

Guest, 282RA:
I'll grant you that, but I still thought it was funny. You would too if you knew the guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:45 PM

how many anarchists does it take to change a light bulb?





ALL OF THEM...........

Subject: RE: BS: Are you an Anarchist
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:46 PM

Good posts everyone ... very good !

thanks,
Six