Understanding the Edition Wars (and other heated arguments)

[Celebrim]

Yeah- a lot of skills learned by the Cistercians, too. I don't know any who knows fewer than 3 languages, and I know a lot with 7+. Then there are the sculptors, musicians, and so forth among them.

But besides the teachin' and the prayin', you gotta do SOMETHING with your day to feel productive.

The medieval Cistercians were just amazing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The medieval Cistercians were just amazing.

IMHO, they haven't changed all that much! Come to D/FW and I'll show you where a 70+ year old Cistercian goes for his daily run...shirtless & furry!

 

[Umbran]

I could be wrong but I think I heard it said by Robert A. Heinlein that "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."

If Heinlein did say it (or had a character say it), I think he got it from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

By the by, folks, could we take a pass on commentary about real world religious orders, please? You haven't been insulting or anything, but that doesn't make it appropriate.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

Three questions, the answers to which may undermine the argument of the original article:

1. Does trollish behavior ever happen on the internet?

2. Does trollish behavior sometimes happen by deliberate intent of the one engaging in it?

3. Given the possible miscommunications of a purely written, ad hoc medium, it is reasonably possible to mistake trollish behavior for something else, and something else for trollish behavior?

And kind of the ultimate question out of one set of answers: If several people, none of who wish to be trolls, think that trollish behavior does exists in some form, how does the way they change (or not change) their posting habits to compensate, contribute to further misunderstanding?

 

[Umbran]

And kind of the ultimate question out of one set of answers: If several people, none of who wish to be trolls, think that trollish behavior does exists in some form, how does the way they change (or not change) their posting habits to compensate, contribute to further misunderstanding?

The words, "I'm sorry...," can go a long way, when properly applied.

 

[Henry]

Pretty much what I thought!

I had to deal with a lot of Nuns & Monks growing up. No Jesuits that I can remember, but lots of Dominicans & hordes of Cistercians.

Is it just me, or does "The Cistercian Hordes" sound like a great name for a D&D monster?

 

[Roland55]

Pretty much what I thought!

I had to deal with a lot of Nuns & Monks growing up. No Jesuits that I can remember, but lots of Dominicans & hordes of Cistercians.



Ha ha ha!

For me, it's the smell of education: all 4 of my grandparents- and my Mom- were educators, so as a child, I got to smell a LOT of mimeographs being made.

Good times.

And I made a lot of those mimeographs.

Good times ... good memories.

 

[Gentlegamer]

In fact, legally, the first Korean War has never ended and people continue to die in it decade after decade, which is more the normal case of war in history.

For war consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is peace.​