I'm sick of the politics!!

[A-1 (imported)]

Can they ban you from just one part of the E.A. message boards. I have noticed that some members still post elsewhere on the board but not in the politics threads.

If they can maybe a voluntary ban would be good for you...

However, I do not think that they can stop you from looking at it, just from posting in it. So maybe that is not such a good idea after all. It may just end up more frustrating.

A lot of the political discussion here started in the aftermath of 9-11-2001. The Deep Dark Cellar was opened and then a time after that a politics board wad created because the people in the cellar were wanting the politics out.

It has been, in the words of Jerry Garcia, "A LONG, STRANGE, TRIP..." much like some of moi's designer weed produces...

[janekane (imported)]

In 1986, when I got my orchiectomy and my colectomy (had I died from cancer at age 50, as did my older brother, my testicles and colon would not be any less dead now), reality-as-defined-by-consensus had it that my getting my orchiectomy was wrong, because I did not yet have cancer.

Alas, no one in my close family who had developed cancer (my dad was surgically treated for almost-prostate-cancer at age 50 (the "almost-prostate-cancer" had taken him to the brink of death narrowly averted during an extensive hospitalization) had ever been treated successfully for cancer (unless dying is a successful cancer treatment?); so, recognizing the risk, I set to attain the most effective cancer-prevention I found then available. Testicles gone. Colon gone. The rest of me quite alive more than 25 years later.

The availability of castration for those, such as myself, who genuinely experience XY chromosome life as much better with very low testosterone is a matter of public policy, and is therefore inherently political, as I can fathom the body politic.

One reason, in my mind, for having political threads here is in their presence helping to build a more fully authentic community of real people working toward pragmatic ways to live more decent individual lives within the evolving nature of human society.

[Paolo]

I try not to read the political boards.

That is your only solution.

Don't look at it.

[Prudence (imported)]

I also don't like the politics very much. Generally stay out of that area.

What drew me here in the first place was #1 the discussion of eunuch/penectomy/tg related topics and #2 the story feedback. Never cared much for Politics it only leads to pointless shouting matches (ie: unlimited force meeting unmovable object).

I wonder if it is possible to make the Politics Post appear in italics, or a different color, or something like that in the "New Posts" list on the main page? Or have two separate "New Posts" lists, one for Politics and one for everything else? That would be nice because sometimes there are so many Political Posts that it pushes out all the other posts.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

You wouldn't be sick of politics if we had the correct politicians and the right political offices.

For example:

Paolo for Lord High Executioner

Kristoff for Secretary of Moral Virtue

IEunuch for Secretary of the Treasury

Talula for everything else

[gedanken (imported)]

I became unemployed in 2000 and had a lot of time on my hands and I was also a major anglophile I started hanging around the message boards for the UK newspaper "The Guardian". Being a Yank and not knowing much about politics I received a serious drubbing. This, along with 9/11, motivated me to begin a long odyssey of learning about politics. I started watching Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now!" which was broadcast on the local cable access channel. On this show I heard about david korten's "when corporations rule the world". 11 years later and I think that politics is all part of a grand plot to program and herd people and that concentrating on one's own (and one's friends' and family's) personal health & happiness is all that matters. Tuning out politics and mass culture means you run the risk of being treated like a loser and a bum. It's unavoidable. It's the price you pay. As the preacher in Ecclesiastes said, "All is vanity". And as a graffiti I saw on a small campus said, "GOD FEARS MAN". And as Harry Enfield said to Neil Armstrong: "YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR LUNAR MODULE NOW!!!" That brought him down to Earth, I can tell you.

[janekane (imported)]

I also don't like the politics very much. Generally stay out of that area.

What drew me here in the first place was #1 the discussion of eunuch/penectomy/tg related topics and #2 the story feedback. Never cared much for Politics it only leads to pointless shouting matches (ie: unlimited force meeting unmovable object).

I wonder if it is possible to make the Politics Post appear in italics, or a different color, or something like that in the "New Posts" list on the main page? Or have two separate "New Posts" lists, one for Politics and one for everything else? That would be nice because sometimes there are so many Political Posts that it pushes out all the other posts.

Instead of looking for "New Posts" on the main Archive page, when I want to know on which forum a post is located, I sign in so I can use the "What's New?" button, as doing that gets me to all the new posts, not only the (most recent?) ten, and I find the last column of "What's New?" lists the particular forum in which a post is located. Were I to want to elude all of the "political posts" on any and all of the political forums, the Archive Administrators have provided an elegantly simple way to achieve that; the way is not, however, to be found on the Archive main web page.

Perhaps I suffer from insufferable curiosity, if so, I do not find that I suffer from such suffering.

Whether others suffer from exposure to my curiosity and where it leads me is not within my locus of control.

There is "politics," and there is "political science." Whether they have anything in common is a question I dare ask only at the possible peril of my existence?

I wonder, and please do not tell anyone this, whether "politics" is as destructively divisive as "political science" is constructively integrative?

Perchance, is "political science" the best antonym extant for "politics"?

I favor science over its exclusive alternative. In this, I protest my innocence, for my formal education condemns me to understanding existence from a scientific vantage.

I started out in college, working on a Bachelor of Arts degree, and dropped out of that to get a Bachelor of Science (which, as everyone well knows, is a BS degree), and later, was working on an Associate of Arts degree at a community college, and dropped out of that to finish my Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering degree. As an artist, I am a dropout. As a scientist, I have some recorded successes.

Alas, the pity of it all!

Mea summa culpa?

Ich wünsche, vielleicht gar nicht?

Lo siento!

If any viable truth be told, I am not competent in Latin, German, or Spanish. I did, rather disastrously, encounter all three of those languages during my formal schooling. Not, though, as disastrously as I find I have, so far, encountered "American English."

If the words I am able to find make no useful sense to me, why would I expect such words to make any useful sense to anyone else?

So, I wonder if the agglomeration of the ills of divisive politics is not about public policy; and is, instead, only about language as a way of establishing erroneous communication?

[xeshan180 (imported)]

Actually we are not sick of the politics we are sick of the people behind the game...