--- ilr <ilr_at_riflenet.net> wrote:
>
> > > You could substitute "Leader" for Any
> centralizing
> > > force, whether it
> > > be an Archive, Mailing List, Con, or what have
> you.
> > >
> >
> > Well then, let us make an absolutely base appeal
> to
> > the one thing that seems to "unite" unapologetiche
> > core of it all.
> >
> > Blatant, unappologetic self-interest.
> >
> > Someone out there in "bogey land" is going to try
> > (sooner or later) to take "all this"away from you.
> > No more skunk girls, no more watermellons :) They
> are
> > going to try to ram something else up your
> backside
> > (without lube)
> >
> Lol, I like how you think. Almsot Machiavelion, and
> unfortunately true too.
>
It's one of the sadest truths of the last and this new
century of ours. People who are hell bent on taking
freedoms from other people think like this. To fight
back, you have to know and understand how they think.
One of the oldest maxims of war dictates that one
should put oneself in the mind of the enemy. No matter
how small that pea might be, you have to know how this
group thinks, as scarry as it might be.
>
> >
> > But there is!
> >
> >
> > So
> > > lay low, and just hang in there.
> >
> > Lay low isn't very far from "lay down" as far as I
> can
> > see, and as I said before, hobnailed jackboot
> prints
> > don't go well with black and white fur.
> > No.
> > Stand up.
> > Think.
> > and then
> > Act.
> >
>
> Well, I bash people when they try to mess around in
> my life so you
> may be wondering why I said that above... It's
> because I've watched
> too many of my friends who are nerds get jerked
> around and the only
> time they start to thrive is after the bully is out
> of the picture.
> But what are you supposed to do when that bully
> is the people they
> live, work, and sometimes worse, are blood relatives
> with too?
>
Change is no more easy nor simple than self-acceptance
and realization. they are the hardest and most
defining tests in life. But they are also the acid
test for what we are, and what we believe.
It's easy to stick to what you believe when the sun is
shining.
But, as someone said once "Principals can be damned
inconvieniet things."
Principles cost.
Beliefs cost.
But they cost the most when we suddenly tell ourselves
that we can't afford them. Because in that same
instant, you are not only poor, you become a target.
> People see clean furry, they think Little Kid's
> Caharacters.
> People see furry pr0n, they automatically think
> "fucking real animals"
> for some reason. ...Especially Jim's very unique
> Art style. Of course they
> are not just wrong but completely lame brain fuct
> wrong, but unfortunately...
All of the above are (mis)perceptions. Common, simple,
and easy because they require no investment in
understanding nor insight. Part of Standing up and
Thinking is what we can and must do to change
misconceptions into hard facts, and hard facts into
subtle understanding.
But (Horrors!!) this requires work (There's that word
again) on *our* parts, and 99.44% of us want to do
less work than the "people" out there who make it
their affair to see that other people don't like us.
and that, in summary, is how the people that don't
like us win. It's because *we* choose to do nothing an
appauling majority of the time.
> We won't be able to really move forward until
> there is general acceptance
> and that won't happen until hummanity pulls the
> giant stick out of it's ass and
> accepts that there's better things in the universe
> than only the Human Form.
Ah, this requires that an understanding is built up,
and that understanding must gradually replace the
ignorance that rules now in its stead.
But how do we so this? Do we trust understanding to
move forward via entropy? Or do we give it a shove or
two in the right direction where we can?
You mention Human Form. Case in point here. Right now
as I sit here tapping keys, there is a very, very
small minority of very loud "people" doing anything
that it takes to choke off the science of stem cell
research and cloning, while these fledgling sciences
live only in lab cultures and sheep pens.
Now I may be wrong, but I would think that an
intelligent and insightful group like Furries, who
have seen the best of recombination as a science and
as a hope, would be a counterbalance to those shrill
voices who would kill the science which might make
some form of reality out of our best hopes and dreams
one of these days.
The "people" who are "burning books" over the science
of cloning and genetic research are the same ilk that
had Galileo locked away for daring to say that the
Earth went around the Sun, for corn sake.
It's no different now, but it may be different for the
worse in the future if someone doesn't give voice to
the other point of view now.
Furries and such are seen as self indulgent and the
like, using their beliefs as a justification for all
manner of what some of these same "people" label as
"corrupt" and far worse than that. It's partly because
Furries are seldom seen to stand for anything beyond
sexual self interest.
Ok, the way we fight this misrepresentation is to
Stand Up and state in clear, concise language what we
believe about things that effect the world that we
life in. From the sciences to the arts, we ourselves
must alter the "face" that we show to the world, and
become more involved in the larger issues of that same
world.
And what do we spend out time doing instead? We cower
when some big mean old computer company threatens our
"groups".
Isn't it rich and ironic how a group of thinking,
sensitive individuals can be made so free by
something, and at the same time be made into such
willing captives by those who would naysay all that we
say we believe.
Roci
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Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 13:57:03 CST