Fail Quotes

[Lord T Hawkeye]

They say it as though what they think actually matters here.  It's like a rape victim saying after the fact "Oh no, I totally wanted it" just to cope.

Tragic

[tnu]

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Absolutely ANY comment by AgentNolies who has resorted tooutright denial of facts.

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

pardon while I wash my eyes with bleach...

[AnCap Dave]

[Travis Retriever]

/groan!

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I have a soft spot in my heart for libraries but damn this article is just staist propaganda

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-jul-jacksonvilles-libraries-should-not-be-closed

[Ibrahim90]

some jackass named BrutusAlbion--specifically the reply to LTH, where he said that the Chinese in effect ruled using a confucian system:

assertion?

Describe the family unit to me.

Or even better, describe the ''traditional family unit''...

You do realise the chinese had an empire structured around the idea that government should be the equivelant to that of the family unit right?

What would you call family other than something which includes a form of government?

Are tribes with chieftains not a form a government too? Those are basicly enfranchised elderly people leading a family unit...

Still government in all its purpose

I ignored the rest, seeing that Shane addressed it, but the stuff about China is...wrong. and uninformed. and stupid. I did reply to him: let me post it here:

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no dynasty ruled that way (the essence of Confucian government)--not even close: and that was never the intent of actual government ministers, let alone the emperors. In practice, all imperial dynasties were either Legalist (e.g. Qin, maybe the Sui), or a mix between legalism and Confucianism (e.g. Han, Ming, Qi'ing), in which case the Legalist elements predominated, not the Confucian ones.

I would recommend works by Wang Bao Ding, or Matthew August leFande, for a review.

[MrBogosity]

Well, TheSkepticalHeretic's going off the deep end:

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[MrBogosity]

I ignored the rest, seeing that Shane addressed it, but the stuff about China is...wrong. and uninformed. and stupid. I did reply to him: let me post it here:

When I first got into Taoism I researched other Chinese philosophies, including Confucianism and Legalism. I have to say, I hated Legalism from the very start and that feeling never softened.

[Ibrahim90]

I can understand: it's easily the most depraved philosophy I can think of. The works by [wiki]Li Si[/wiki] in particular still disturb me to this day, the way he compared people to rats in a palace.

basically, it's statism at its most logical conclusion.

[MrBogosity]

I can understand: it's easily the most depraved philosophy I can think of. The works by [wiki]Li Si[/wiki] in particular still disturb me to this day, the way he compared people to rats in a palace.

basically, it's statism at its most logical conclusion.

And scarily similar to the statism of today.

[BlameThe1st]

Encountered this bumper sticker in a parking lot:

[Travis Retriever]

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I'm surprised we got this far into a fail quotes thread and DIDN'T post stuff from this idiot.

[MrBogosity]

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I'm surprised we got this far into a fail quotes thread and DIDN'T post stuff from this idiot.

I always wondered why he looks like a Centauri from Babylon 5.