deletionating stork daddy it would seem to me advocating deletion of blather to protect blather is like advocating the patriot act to protect our fundamental freedoms. there is a contradiction. if someone is able to delete blather, they can delete what they feel like. this is quite different than the current state of being able to express what you feel like. the argument has been made time and time again in blather is blather, but i think it's pretty sound. any changes you want to make to blather, you should do so through what the format allows. any tinkering with the format itself, changes what attracted us here in the firstplace. there are plenty of websites already in existence which meet varying requirements some of the more actively outraged amongst you seem to require. so if you want to be a blather expat, that's one way of getting what you want. but if you want more logical expositions and beautiful words, the best way to accomplish that is to sit down yourself and make it so. you'll never be able to outpace someone cutting and pasting, but it doesn't really matter. most of the real world is like that anyways, more noise than signal, and it is a battle those who would create meaning must face. the specific and communicable will always be outnumbered by those things ambigous or dead ended or both. perhaps this is a philisophical point kx21 or whoever it is is ennumerating through its persistance and your responses. it doesn't really matter to me though, half of the people complaining about blather never offered one iota of the alternative they're lamenting no longer exists. they merely did what they thought was pretty or right or whatever. no one ever said blather had to be self expression, and this argument merely strikes me as of the same sort that lyrics shouldn't be posted. personally when i think of what blather is, i pretend that the apocalypse is happening, and we're rebuilding what we remember or can recover from society as a method of rebuilding culture. or a timecapsule to preserve our individual and cultural impressions for when the apocalypse does happen. well not really, i just know that i like having blather here to see what others are thinking or even not thinking. 040609 ... puredream .yes. 040609 ... reality Absolutely_NOT? 040609 ... The Crapture Stork, on the political end of the spectrum, I've raised that argument a few times to piss off the wing-nuts in my office building. no better way to make a republican freak out than to say - in re: The "PATRIOT" Act "So, in order to protect our freedoms from deranged hordes of religious fanatics who think America's biggest problem is that we are a decadent, permissive society that should be made to kneel before their interpretation of God, we must surrender our fredoms to an analogous horde of deranged religious fanatics who believe that America's biggest problem is that we are a decadent, permissive society who should kneel before there interpretation of God" 040609 ... The Crapture there=their 040609 ... trial separation the crapture: i would love to debate. care to? i cant let that statement just sit there... stork daddy: you have such a way with words that it just gave me a hernia. please go away now. my medical bills are high enough as is. 040609 ... The Crapture *** "Christian Nation" rhetoric (in clear contradiction of the line "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of Religion...") || "Islamic Republic" *** John Ashcroft covering the bare breasts of the statues in the USDOJ building || Burqas *** FCC's whole "decency" kick (or the Meese Commission on Pornography/Obscenity) || "Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" *** "we should bomb their cities, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" - A. Coulter || "to kill Americans and their allies, civilians and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able." - al Qaeda *** "dry" counties in the "Bible-Belt" / "dry" countries in the Middle East *** Certain politically outspoken (and Republican leaning) fundamentalist Christian denominations believe that dancing is a sin / The Taliban and other fundamentalist Muslim denominations/sects believe dancing is a sin *** "I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be! " - Jerry Falwell || Fundamentalist Madrassas throughout the Middle East i can go on, as there are a few more, after al, why else do you think it was so easy for our good church-going Republican leaders in the 80's to align themselves with the same people who are so hell-bent on destroying us now BECAUSE OTHER THAN THE NAME THEY CHOOSE TO GIVE TO "GOD" AND A FEW MINOR DIETARY POINTS OF ORDER, BY AND LARGE, THEY TEND TO AGREE ON A LOT OF THINGS 040609 ... GOD = "Finger" or "Moon"? 040609 ... trial separation oops sorry, i must have misunderstood you. i dont debate people of my own party. are you in my party? *is relle confused* yea, um im gonna go crawl under a rock now. it seems im confusin up the world today. maybe i'll go get on a treadmill. or something. 040609 ... dosquatch Why tie your hands by declaring a party affiliation? 040609 ... GOD = god in the Blather Space? 040609 ... on behalf of god i have pants like those, i do nice duck. 040609 ... neither god nor not god platypus conspiring against the forest, three kinds of hamster and a panda on their way back to the mall 040609 ... somebody had to fill in mainly to pick up the moose 040609 ... dosquatch A moose once bit my sister... 040609 ... wax tadpole it is dangerous when moose are loose 040609 ... bouncy bouncy my_hovercraft_is_full_of_eels 040609 ... dosquatch ALRIGHT! Fish or cut bait? 040609 ... "skippy" gunpowder lesotho VIII grandpa fell off the roof again, he had the tackle box with him. i had a cat named stryper, he didn't like the cactus he got for his birthday 040609 what's it to you? who go blather from