Intergalactic Summit

You aren't going to hear me say this often, Boma, but keep going. Do what you do.

War always has unintended consequences, Boma.
See already by Mr. Thessalonia's response how you have begun to enter the mainstream? True slave foundations is now patting the Seekers on the back and saying "keep it up" and "Good boy." Your apology to the culture is an overture of acceptance. Boma, you have lost your uniqueness.

Congratulations Boma, you have safely arrived in the mainstream. Everyone says "welcome."

Don't you dare apologize.

Ston, stop being an ignorant fool.

Most of us would prefer peace and a lack of violence whenever possible.

However, you have continuously tested our patience over the last few months, and despite multiple statements to this fact by a number of parties, you have persisted in this behavior. You do not seem inclined to change after nonviolent options have been attempted, which doesn't leave many alternatives; now people are resorting to something that they know works.

From what I can tell, all you had to do was stop shitting up the IGS with multiple threads when just the one would have sufficed. That's what annoyed people so much; it's what they asked you to stop doing, over and over.

But did you stop?

No. And now they're going to use your little "sit-in" tactic against you.



And by the way, you're just as "mainstream" as anyone else here, given the constant attention-grabbing attempts.

Real humanitarians and altruists do what they do simply because they enjoy helping others - they neither have nor need any further motivation. If that was why you and your ilk do what you do, you wouldn't need to jump up and down and crow about it on the IGS.

You know, I can respect what the Stonites do in principle. Pacifism can be an admirable thing to maintain, and there certainly is some merit to protest by way of awareness and annoyance.

However Ston, you've said so yourself that the "culture" here is not exactly the sort to tolerate annoyance. It's a odd situation honestly where we, as capsuleers, will take greater offense to minor annoyance than we will to actually being shot. In this situation I also feel it is akin to screaming at the tide for washing away your sand castle. Yes, you can be irate about it, frustrated, you can scream at the top of your lungs until you are blue in the face...but the tide does not, will not, and simply cannot respond to your protests in any amicable fashion.

Further there are some extremely old sayings that have parallels across multiple cultures in some ways.

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

I also feel this one is fitting as well.

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone.

Of course you can take what you wish from those two phrases, but I'll be blunt. You are a capsuleer Ston, you accepted this life with the knowledge there would undoubtedly be violence involved. Rail and rant all you wish, but you knew this to be the case from before you started training, and yes, you can despise it. But at some point some things are better left without attempts to change them, like certain forces of nature. And yes, I'm aware our existence as capsuleers might seem contrary to that whole notion of preserving a natural order, but in truth, we're still doing our part for that order, even if we evade death longer than usual.

At times like this, I am so glad I am no longer a Disciples of Ston so I can say that Boma ought to change the title of this thread from "Boma apologizes to Boma kisses ass."

What a total compromise of integrity. In spite of being a pompous windbag at least you used to stand out. Not anymore. Now you have joined all the other butt kissers. What a disappointment.

Edaine Numenor raises his middle finger in Boma's direction "faster than light."

So the Seekers are killing DSTON because there annoying? Is that an accurate interpretation of what is going on?

I think I've finally begun to understand why they're at war.