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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2017.05.24 23:42:06 -
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Yes, yes, you flapped your gums like a good little lapdog. Consider it noted. You can stop now. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3902
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Posted - 2017.05.25 00:11:07 -
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Yup. Truly a paragon of Amarr wisdom: he can't tell the difference between Blooders and Puritans. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3902
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Posted - 2017.05.25 00:33:47 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Now now, don't be disingenuous. She doesn't charge.
Now who's getting petty? |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3902
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Posted - 2017.05.25 00:41:26 -
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Yeah, I probably shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did there. Alas, I still don't put out. I think my last relationship's just too hard for people to follow. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3935
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Posted - 2017.05.25 22:27:24 -
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Luna Hanaya wrote:CVA are still fighting for the Empire, aren't they?
No. They're fighting for CVA.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3965
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Posted - 2017.05.26 18:16:37 -
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ValentinaDLM wrote:CVA fight in the milita, and defend Providence setting people like me red and shooting us.
Defending space they currently control does not mean they're defending it for the Empire. It means they're defending it for themselves.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3969
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Posted - 2017.05.26 20:43:52 -
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Vaari wrote: Your KOS admin, the Xhjfx the Abomination pretty much played his strongest card in existence against me by making me permanent kos to Providence, I see little ways to resolve the issue.
What he failed to see was overwhelming support of my cause as a loyalist who struggles against disloyalty.
See, now that reads like a whole heap of 'CVA can't be loyal to Amarr because they don't like meeeeeee!!' And that's just a load of crap. I don't believe for a moment that they are loyal in more than just a nominal 'uh-huh, sure, whatever' way, but it's pretty clear your case against CVA being loyal is entirely based on the legal principle of 'ow! my butt!' |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3970
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Posted - 2017.05.26 21:00:20 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote:Yes, many CVA actively fight on the front lines for the money.
FTFY.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3970
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Posted - 2017.05.26 21:02:36 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Sheeeit, we're at war? Why didn't someone tell me?
Cuz it's just the same old gladiatorial arenas? |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3971
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Posted - 2017.05.26 21:07:03 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Disclaimer: The above message was totally not a paid promotion and the credstick is most certainly not taped under the leftmost table upon entering the Deck.
I know, I looked, dammit! |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3972
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Posted - 2017.05.26 22:14:36 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:... it should be a concern that I apparently have higher standards for Imperial loyalists than you do.
To be fair, you have generally high standards. It's not a bad thing, mind, but it does set you up to be disappointed in people. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3972
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Posted - 2017.05.26 22:30:40 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Now now, if I start holding people to lesser standards than I hold myself, I'd have to start acknowledging just how vastly superior I am to other people. We can't have that kind of narcissism and megalomania, now can we?
I dunno, it's kinda hot. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3972
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Posted - 2017.05.26 22:36:03 -
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I should dig that stuff outta my comms logs and publish it. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3972
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Posted - 2017.05.26 23:43:13 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote:Things are not binary. Some loyalists are more loyal than others.
Now, that's just patently ridiculous. Just because someone's price is high doesn't mean they're not just as mercenary and faithless as the lower-priced traitors. It just means they're more conceited.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3987
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Posted - 2017.05.27 00:01:00 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote: So you are saying that CVA has been bought? By whom, exactly?
Now you're putting words in my mouth. I haven't said they've been bought. I'm saying that if they can be bought, then it doesn't matter how much it takes. Can they be bought? Who knows. But setting up a double-standard based on the price involved in getting someone to abandon everything they say they hold dear... that's just silly. Either they'll do it, or they won't. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3991
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Posted - 2017.05.27 00:09:20 -
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'Some are more loyal than others'.
Asserting one person can be more loyal than another person but both are loyal, can only mean 'the less loyal person will turn their coat more easily'. That's price, no matter what form the payoff takes. If there's any price at all that would work, that's not a loyalist, that's just a merc whose price hasn't been met yet.
Loyalty is 'will you or won't you betray the thing you claim to be loyal to?'
It's very much a binary proposition.
Now, if you want to say that some loyalists adhere more rigorously to the nuances and minutiae of Amarr culture and beliefs, sure, that's legit. But they're not more loyal or less loyal. Either they're loyal... or they ain't.
Edit to add, as we crossposted...
Gaven Lok'ri wrote: I may have been using it more loosely than you are. I would say that the line between loyalist and not is this very question of "can they be enticed to betray the Empire by any means." If the answer is yes, then they are not loyalists. If the answer is no, they are loyalists, even if they might be imperfect ones.
Gaven Lok'ri wrote:Things are not binary. Some loyalists are more loyal than others.
So, yeah. Both statements can't be true. 'If yes, then they are not loyalists' pretty much means 'Things are binary' in this regard. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3992
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Posted - 2017.05.27 00:24:26 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote:I have no idea how you survive in the messy universe of the nullsec Barbarians with an approach to language that allows no room for nuance.
Pretty easily. I work with people who've earned my loyalty.
Quote: The word has a somewhat wider range of meaning than you allow. Take the phrase "He loyally attended every religious celebration," for example.
It's amazing, isn't it? The way adverbs aren't the noun they're based on? |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3996
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Posted - 2017.05.27 00:59:31 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote:a "loyal churchgoer" or, if you want something secular, a "loyal sports fan." The phrase isn't implying that the person is less likely to outright betray their religion or team than a normal churchgoer or sports fan, but that they go above and beyond to show their loyalty to that religion or team.
Actually, the phrase is pretty strongly indicating that no, you're not likely to abandon your devotion to that church or that team. If you were, you wouldn't be loyal, now would you?
Quote: It's also notable that you cannot reduce Amarr to a single proposition that they are loyal to. We aren't that simple, so they can be loyal to some aspects of Amarr without being loyal to all of them. A perfect loyalist is loyal to all of those ideals, while a less than perfect loyalist might be important to the most important ideals, but disloyal to some of the less important ideals, and I would still call them a loyalist.
"Reduce"? I think Amarr is a singular proposition. I mean, the culture is built around the faith. The government itself is built around the faith. If someone's personally devoted to Her Catieness, but they're a Blooder, then they're still a Heretic, right? And since Catydid and the Empire are the instruments and expressions of God's Will, as interpreted by the Theology Council, then to be a Heretic is to be in open defiance of the Empress' and the Empire's position. Which means it's not loyal. It's expressly in opposition and contradiction of what loyalty would be. And that percolates through every aspect of the Empire. Either you're doing things the Imperial way, or you're not.
I mean, taken with this statement, this gets downright weird:
Quote:I have no idea how you survive in the messy universe of the nullsec
See, if I disagree with Mittens, that's fine. I can disagree with Mittens. When I do, I say so, directly to him, too. Mittens doesn't claim to be infallible. He doesn't claim to be speaking for God. Sure, there's more open bloodshed between factions, but this whole idea of 'messier'... we're a messy species. I'd rather be out here, where I know who and what I'm dealing with, than in the fundamentally deceitful, shallow, and treacherous gilded cesspit that is Amarr.
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Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3997
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Posted - 2017.05.27 01:24:13 -
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Graelyn wrote:You must be a blast at Soires. 
The PIE Ball last year wasn't bad. The meadeiswine was nice. A little weak, but nice. But generally, no, I don't do parties. Not a lot of free time, really. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4003
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Posted - 2017.05.27 03:31:55 -
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Gaven Lok'ri wrote:Your literalism and willingness to reduce entire religions or cultures to singular propositions goes a long way towards explaining your belief in absurdly hardline atheism.
Really? And how would you define 'absurdly hardline atheism'? Because my position is: there is no evidence for God. There is nothing we observe that requires the existence of God. Therefore, there is no reason to introduce 'God'. There's also no proof there isn't a god. So there's no reason to belief there is no god. There's no reason to believe one way or another.
Belief, keep in mind, is an active position. Disbelief is also an active position.
And before you object with 'that's not atheism, that's agnosticism', the prefix a- means 'non'.. A-gnosticism is 'I do not claim knowledge'. a-theism is 'I do not believe in gods'. Thus, agnosticism is atheistic, and much of atheism is agnostic in nature. |

Arrendis
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4078
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Posted - 2017.05.29 11:02:42 -
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Jin'taan wrote:I do quite enjoy you all deciding to simply debate on the forums over how loyal we are or are not, on the whims of a man who attempted to instigate a coup within a loyalist organisation against it's rightful leader (as imposed by Aralis) as he was unable to follow basic courtesies on our communication channels and was actively hindering our ability to work against our enemies, and as such was temporarily muted which he took as a grave offence to his honour.
But, never let the facts get in the way of an old grudge, I suppose.
Pffft. It's less a debate and more a kind of detached discussion while we all agree ol' gasbag here is a self-inflicted gut-shot. |
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