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Status Updates posted by JonasDarkmane
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Third Yule lad has arrived in town
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Snrk, Christmas goat? Now that is intriguing.
Here in Iceland, the Yule Lads are basically our representation of Santa Clause.... at least today. They did not use to be, they were basically just figments of legends, people who would prank and then harass folks of poor old Iceland. But today they have taken the role of leaving gifts in the shoes of children by the window if they behave well, each night from the 12th to the 24th.
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I'm gonna repost this since the first Yule Lad, Sheep-Cote Clod, has arrived in town
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Now that is spicy
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Important!
Today, on the first of December 100 years ago, the agreement confirming Iceland as a sovereign state/nation was signed between the Kingdom of Denmark and (the Danish colony of) Iceland. For the first time, we finally had our own national flag that was hoisted up.Unfortunately, many did not attend the ceremonies that day as Iceland had gone through many tragedies that year. There was the Great Frost (Frostaveturinn mikli), a volcano had erupted and then finally, what was currently plaguing Iceland was the Spanish Flu which was wreaking massive havoc and death. But we pulled through, despite all of that and those who showed up refused to let all that hold them down. And still to this day, we cherish our sovereignty and I hope that we will continue doing so for the next hundreds if not thousands of years~
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Do you get a green ruby for posting in the commission section or is @Buffy just stalking me?
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I look through the Debate Pit of old, at old topics. At a golden age of enlightenment, meaningful values and an undying devotion to a stance of non-violence, and a want to reach compromise.
After reading my old posts, I feel as if my language has regressed, my focus dumbed down and become more simplified.
Have I really changed for the worse? Has being buried in the muck of things and seeing all this negativity happening everywhere, all the tribalism taking place and the big important issues radicalized me?
I am not sure. I know that I am still going in the right direction, but I have lost the true path. That I have taken a different path towards the same direction, different from the path I once was on. From seeing people as equals whom I could deradicalize yet disagree with, over to seeing people as detrimental opponents whose arguments need to be crushed.
Perhaps time just does this. Perhaps time just hardens you a bit. Perhaps hard laborious work does this. Perhaps passing up arguments as just 'negative-inducing' degrades your senses and your own ability to hold up a cohesive argument. Perhaps it is the result of actually taking a side rather than just knowing which choice is worse or is being focused on. Perhaps one's own personal life just affects you too much. Perhaps lack of dialogue does. Perhaps relying too much on the words of others rather than on your own principles and beliefs does this. Perhaps dialogue itself has changed so much that people have dumbed down their own arguments and are now more out there for blood rather than for reaching a meaningful solution.
In any case, things certainly have changed.
But one thing I don't want to change. I will always consider myself to be a principled person. And having non-violence as a core of my principles sounds good enough for me. Not chanting for anyone's head to be removed, for anyone's job to be taken away or for anyone's public being to be shamed, sounds good enough to me.
I really did go from seeking something meaningful over to seeking something expedient (thank you for that wake-up, Peterson)
I guess just reading my past arguments, my past posts, my past dialogues was really a wake-up call.
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people change,its inevitable the fact that you check your previous path to see if you changed for the better is enough to reassure me that you really try,and whoever searches, finds as the saying goes, arguments tend to get out of hand easier these days in general, its not just you. most just don't care enough to invest and go to an argument with their mind set, not in search for answers, but i still believe that these arguments have a point, even if the one you answer has made up their mind, the rest who just read from the sidelines may benefit, so i'll encourage you to keep on trying to be reasonable and principled, it IS still worth it
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Happy birthday PP. Hope you have a good one
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Hug award? Since when did I hug someone?
Humbug!
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Somehow I cared enough to write about something that I don't really care much about at 6 AM. Does that mean I care?
SpoilerOr does that mean that I have a bad sleep schedule?