#Games for Brutes
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Life's a beach John. That's how life was back then. and the damsels being
rescued were _ladies_, not peasants, therefore they were put on a pedestal.
Amounting to anything didn't even enter it. There are many, many, many,
many ridiculous things about our modern 'egalitarian ' society… but
that's _our_ society. If it works, no member of another society should
sneer at it. Wife beating in this country is considered a crime… I once
read of a tribe of 'primitives' (Yanomamo?) who think that if you don't
beat your wife, it means you don't love her. 'Take over peoples' land. D*mn
straight. That's how life worked. The Saxons wanted the same land that the
Normans wanted. Would we handle it any differently today?? If so, howso?
Defender of the Crown may not be the ultimate in games, but it's a large
advance over Space Invaders. –Eet–
I'm waiting for King Arthur and the Holy Grail ala Monty Python "And with
this God gave unto his flock the Holy Hand Grenade, with which they might
smite their enemies to tiny bits . . ."
John
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa… as soon as I stop laughing I'll finish this… HaHaHa!
Marcus
Wurra, laddie…. that's a might mean rabbit!
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
And the number of the count shall be three. Not two, and not one, but
three. :^)
oh, and nor shall ye count to four, for the number of the counting is to be
three.
:^)))
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
ARTHUR: Have we got bows? KNIGHT: No. LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand
Grenade. ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! 'Tis
one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother
Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade! [angels singing] How does it,
uh… how does it work? BEDIVERE: I know not, my liege. ARTHUR: Consult
the Book of Armaments! MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to
Twenty-One. BROTHER: "And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high,
saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest
blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and
the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies,
and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large –"
MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother. BROTHER: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First
shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more,
no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the
counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou
two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the
number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my
sight, shall snuff it.'" MAYNARD: Amen. ALL: Amen. ARTHUR: Right! One…
two… five! LAUNCELOT: Three, sir! ARTHUR: Three! [boom]
(Just one of the most useful files I've got sitting on my hard disk… 🙂
WOuld you email me that? Please? <grin>
Assuming there's more, of course… I can just come back here and capture
this later. :*))))
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
That 's all I've got, sorry. Someone on a local BBS violated copyright and
typed it in… I've also got the "Brag of the SubGenius" on disk, if you
know what that is. It's got a few four-letter words in it, so it should go
e-mail instead. I'll send you both, because I (purposely) destroyed the
formatting on the Grenade script for posting…
Got em… _great stuff_
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
Thanks, now it's on my hard disk too.
Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
Could you upload it?!
Marcus
I'm not denying history, of course, I'm talking about what I want to teach
people is a good way to play, or a good way to treat other people. And I
disagree, I feel perfectly justified in sneering – and more – at societies
who think violence is a way of life. And you're right, Defender of the
Crown is just as bad as Space Invaders. When was the last time that
unprovoked violence advanced *your* position in society? Did you steal toys
as a kid, too?
Since when is theft equivalent to violence? are pickpockets and burglars
violent? Not necessarily. Violence has always been, and always shall be
part of the existance of sentient life. The last time I recall it
specifically advancing my position was about 4 years ago. The details are
NOYDB :). Nontheless, my original point concedes that _this_ society
presumes to discourage violence, while others presume to, if not promote,
then at least accept violence.
–Eet–
Sounds like you've got a bad case of "relativitis". As long as you can
find some other society that permits some behavior, you're content to say
it must be OK, or worse still, that you refrain from judging the situation,
using your powers of logic.
Nope. _In _context_ (ie, in _that_ society) it is 'OK'… but not
necessarily in mine or in my view. You bet I'll refrain from judging the
situation… _out_of_context_. Evolution doesn't judge the 'rightness' or
'wrongness' of behaviour beyond whether it is pro survival or
anti-survival. We don't know the mechanisms of evolution well enough to
judge behaviour outside of our own soceity. (Which _doesn't_ mean that you
can't make judgements within your _own_ society, since here it funtions as
part of the evolutionary process). Maybe one day we will know the
mechanisms well enough, but this pathetic know-it-all soceiety doesn't. I
don't like the idea of 11 chimpanzees mounting 1 female, and none claiming
her nor the child she bears… but time will tell whether this is 'right'
or 'wrong'… (that image is one that's stuck with me since an intro anthro
class years ago)
–Eet–