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The fluted shaft of the Corinthian column is just a
lightweight
skin over
a scissors lift. When two compassionate ascetics meet in
a
narrow
lane, they each crank away at a big lever until one is two
metres
below
the other.
Teething problems where each saint humbly insisted on
being
lower
than the other were ironed out by the institution of some
arbitrary but
picturesque rules.
Style over substance
https://en.m.wikipe...iki/Simeon_Stylites
[pertinax, Apr 10 2020]
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After reading about Simeon, apparently saintliness strongly
resembles insanity, or vice-versa. |
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Could this be used for jousting ? Jousting on mopeds and mobility scooters is Baked, so why not this ? |
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You're not getting into the spirit of this, are you? |
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How so ? These ultra-religious types are highly predisposed to disagreement and schism; we're just suggesting a practical way of letting them work out their differences, and entertaining onlookers at the same time. |
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"In contrast to the extreme austerity that he practised, his
preaching conveyed temperance and compassion, and was
marked with common sense and freedom from fanaticism." |
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So, in this case, the data doesn't fit the stereotype. There were,
of course, other individuals who *were* quarrelsome fanatics,
but they tended not to be hermits. |
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Your device requires a minimum of two stylites. It only needs one of them to be quarrelsome. |
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Not at all. The use case in the description involves two, but one
can use the device perfectly well. If two *do* meet, and if one is
quarrelsome, and if the quarrelsome one just happens to be
lugging around a jousting lance, and if the quarrelsome one, with
the jousting lance, should somehow contrive to knock over the
other one despite the very low speeds involved - if, I say, all
these unlikely conditions were met - that wouldn't be jousting. It
would just be weird, like the punchline to a joke when someone
has forgotten to tell the rest of the joke first. |
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// that wouldn't be jousting. // |
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Knights used to practice in a "tilting yard" against fixed targets. They also used to spear boars ("pig-sticking"). It would just be part of the same culture of vicious, aggressive entertainment. |
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It's one thing to hate someone else because of race, colour, age, nation or politics, but if you want real drop-down drag-out hostility and vengeful, implacable hatred, look for someone who believes in something just very, very slightly different from what you do ... because that's utterly unforgivable. |
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... and yet, however much gaffer tape you apply, your
generalisations don't stick to the facts of this case. |
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