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Form of Government

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:35 pm
by Knight of Orient
I like the form of government the Spartans had. Totalitarian. i like my freedoms now but the Spartans were sumthin else until they allowed themselves to become worldly.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:40 pm
by Guiscard
Been watching too much 300 have we?

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:41 pm
by Snorri1234
Well... I think there is something to be said for giving away your children at teh age of 7 to the government.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:57 pm
by Nephilim
worldly?

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:02 pm
by Guiscard
Nephilim wrote:worldly?
He means when they got McDonalds and Starbucks.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:10 pm
by Norse
A new age of ignorance has shadowed these forums.
A dark, dark day. I blame myself really, for getting myself banned, and allowing the feeble minded time to group together, into this malignant collective of dull, bland, no-marked wasters.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:34 pm
by dcowboys055

hahaha

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:39 pm
by OnlyAmbrose
Guiscard wrote:Been watching too much 300 have we?

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:45 pm
by Balsiefen
Hmmm, I could do with a slave. knight, if you want to experience a totalitarian lifestyle, contact me. I would be happy to train you in battle and send you out to kill all the people i dont like
And of course, alll your possesions would belong to me which is also a bonus

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:50 pm
by Norse
Balls-Fan, you were probably after a "spartan" type slave, for the homosexual orgies with young boys.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:51 pm
by Balsiefen
now now were not all as single minded as you norse


Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:52 pm
by Norse
Balsiefen wrote:now now were not all as single minded as you norse

This. makes. no. sense.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:54 pm
by Balsiefen
Norse wrote:Balsiefen wrote:now now were not all as single minded as you norse

This. makes. no. sense.
naturally


Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:07 pm
by neoni
only a christian or a nazi (

) could think the spartans had it right

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:09 pm
by Harijan
neoni wrote:only a christian or a nazi (

) could think the spartans had it right
Not even the spartans thought the spartans had it right.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:23 pm
by Frigidus
The majority of us would die in infancy in Spartan society. That's why they fell (ridiculous death rate) not their use of "worldly" goods.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:32 pm
by Napoleon Ier
Guiscard wrote:Been watching too much 300 have we?

oh dear, oh dear *wipes tear from eye* that fim was
funny

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:37 pm
by Napoleon Ier
Sparta was really wrong on a number of levels though. Whilst the concept of the individual as a warrior designed like a simple machine for the state is chilling, their government system did have its appeal as one that was able to breed strong and capable individuals. The question for a real Utopic state, is how to acheive a system in which the state serves the individual who himself is able to reject weakness and acheive his own reconstruction into a better organism, driven by love of the nation, dissociated from state, merely designed to give structure to the latter, but not something owed allegiance to.

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:26 pm
by Nobunaga
... What's the form of government in SpongeBob SquarePants's world? I wanna' live there.
...

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:27 pm
by ignotus
Nobunaga wrote:... What's the form of government in SpongeBob SquarePants's world? I wanna' live there.
...
Bikinicracy?


Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:43 pm
by mybike_yourface
there's no government like no government.
Re: Form of Government

Posted:
Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:45 pm
by mybike_yourface
Knight of Orient wrote:I like the form of government the Spartans had. Totalitarian. i like my freedoms now but the Spartans were sumthin else until they allowed themselves to become worldly.
they self destructed. they were like robots. their own slave based system collapsed in on itself. live a self imposed life of martial discipline if you want freedom and to be cool.