be what u want to be

[Ameroth]

Re: be what u want to be

this ceased to be constructive a while ago, maybe a lock is in order.

I kinda agree this should maybe get locked, or people (myself included) will continue to be tempted to post to this thread about how much gil buyers piss us off.

[BurningPanther]

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Fine, i see i will never be able to end in a good side of any one unless i do this.
Im sorry , im sorry for saying that buying gil its ok, im sorry for miss understanding alot of things, and im sorry for making u guys feel insulted, didnt mean to make any harm and all i wanted to do is just post a opinion and not offend any one.

Don't say you apologize, you have already rendered your words meaningless. JUST STOP BUYING GIL.

[neokaril]

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I know this has been beaten to death, so I shouldn't be posting, but couldn't help myself. After 14+ years in the USMC I can say that I find it mind boggleing that someone who has been trained on and lived by a code of ethics would think that violating that code of ethics, or any code of ethics for personal gain is acceptable. If this game has caused you to stray from or loose sight of right and wrong, my advice would be to quit playing, find someone senior to you in your chain of command and remediate training on just what it means to be a member of your respective service.

[Taskmage]

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I just wanted to respond to the "he among you who has downloaded no mp3s, cast the first stone" arguement with something I read last night.

A great rabbi stands teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. (There is a familiar version of this story, but a friend of mine, a speaker for the dead, has told me of two other rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I'm going to tell you.)

The rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears, and waits with the stones heavy in their hands. “Is there anyone here” he says to them, “who has not desired another man's wife, another woman's husband?”

They murmur and say, “We all know the desire. But, Rabbi, none of us has acted on it.”

The rabbi says, “Then kneel down and give thanks that God made you strong.” He takes the woman by the hand and leads her out of the market. Just before he lets her go, he whispers to her, “Tell the lord magistrate who saved his mistress. Then he'll know I am his loyal servant.”

So the woman lives, because the community is too corrupt to protect itself from disorder.

Another rabbi, another city. He goes to her and stops the mob, as in the other story, and says “Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone.”

The people are abashed, and they forget their unity of purpose in the memory of their individual sins. Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance. I should treat her the way I wish to be treated.

As they open their hands and let the stones fall to the ground, the rabbi picks up one of the fallen stones, lifts it high over the woman's head, and throws it straight down with all his might. It crushes her skull and dashes her brains onto the cobblestones.

“Nor am I without sin,” he says to the people. “But if we allow only perfect people to enforce the law, the law will soon be dead, and our city with it.”

So the woman died because her community was too rigid to endure her deviance.

The famous version of this story is noteworthy because it is so startlingly rare in our experience. Most communities lurch between decay and rigor mortis, and when they veer too far, they die. Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him.

—San Angelo, Letters to an Incipient Heretic, trans. Amai a Tudomunda Para Que Deus Vos Ame Cristão, 103:72:52:2

[Spiritbear]

Re: be what u want to be

Please Lock this post it is getting ridiculous. He isn't getting what everyone is trying to tell him, and probably won't. So all it is going to do is piss more people off.