What do you assign to Mordor?

[Morthoron]

Fundamentalism is selective blindness, selective deafness and selective dumbness. It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

I assign the whole ilk to Sauron's commode.

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

"Is that clever?"

"It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be."

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Fundamentalism is selective blindness, selective deafness and selective dumbness. It is a sincere yearning for the good ol' days when the world was still flat and everything revolved around Man, when witches were burned alongside scholars, and wars were fought by fundamentalists fundamentally opposed to other fundamentalists whose doctrines were, obviously, fundamentally unsound.

That's moving it into a kind of different and specific perspective; agreed, but why I formulated it the way I formulated it was that I intended it to say it as globally as possible. You can apply it on all various kinds of the "selective blindness and deafness", as you formulated it, anything which makes people dig in their heels and scorn anything that does not go together with their belief: be it the fact that the world is flat, or be it the fact that the world is round. The fundamentalism is still fundamentalism - whether one is right or not does not give him the right to force the other one to just "believe it, or else...!" - That's the main point of it.
And people being led into wars by their fundamentalism to possibly fight other people being led by their fundamentalism are here still to this day. (And often it's not the other fundamentalists whom they meet, but people who have hardly anything to do with it.) Enough said. That's all I assigned already.

[Brinniel]

I previously assigned the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) to Orthanc, but I now think it deserves to be downgraded to Mordor. Sure the system is easy to use, but there are so many problems with it.

First off, I get so annoyed about having to sometimes wait up to 20 minutes for a train to arrive. The Green Line is notoriously horrible, being so slow. On Wednesday I went to the Museum of Fine Arts, and only a block from my stop the trains jerked to a stop and the power turned off. Luckily, there was really any delay...just a couple of minutes. I was more frustrated with getting back on the train later. There were a lot of people waiting at the stop and the first train flew right past us and never stopped. The second one arrived 10 minutes later and people were trying to get on, but the train was really crowded. Instead of telling people to scoot in, the conductor actually yelled at the passengers who weren't behind the white line to get off the train. Other passenger weren't so nice either...they wouldn't move or scoot in even though there was an empty seat. I finally managed to shove my way through and get to the seat since I had somewhere to be and there was no way I would wait another 10-15 minutes for another train. In the end it wasn't that bad...because the conductor was so busy trying to kick people off, she never noticed I hadn't tapped my card to pay. I usually feel guilty for that sort of thing, but not that time...

But that's not actually the main reason I'm assigning the MBTA. The real reason is because of what happened today....and thank god I did not have to use the subway today. This morning there was a train collision at the subway station next to my campus. The media's calling it a bump, but according to victims it was much worse than that. Seven people were taken to the hospital and several others were injured as well. I heard that a man was actually bleeding from the head. And the MBTA handled it horribly. People were stuck underground for about an hour. I had classmates who arrived to class an hour and a half late because they were stuck then had to walk rest of the way. And I heard no announcements were given about what happened, so people didn't know why they were delayed. It's said that things like this rarely happen, but apparently someone was killed in a derailment only months ago and there was a similar collision to this last December. The Boston Globe has an article on the event, but the user comments afterwards give a more honest account of what happened.

I apologise for my really long rant, but this whole event makes me quite disgusted about Boston's public transportation system and I have to get it off my chest. And the thing is, I love using public transportation, but not when I'm constantly waiting for trains and then don't feel safe riding them. The city really needs to get their act together and make the public transportation function better. Because there are enough people using it and paying for it that we deserve to have good service.

[Lindale]

...and here I am, about to assign standing inside a bus like a sardine in a can or getting only half my butt on a seat on the jeepney... makes me a bit happy that trains in my country, though overpriced (every public work here is overpriced,damned politicians!) hasn't had an accident since it was made about seven or eight years ago.

[Mithalwen]

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

*hugs*

*adores*

Really.

[Mithalwen]

Oh I didn't mean you sweetie... I mean my family ..especially my sister who seems to think I have nothing better to do in the time when I am not working or minding ancient parent to ready the shabby ancestral pad as a venue for her birthday party ..indeed I should apparently be grateful for this incentive to get on with the planned redecorations. and it isn't a tea party it involves her grungy friends in "the band" playing a set ..and you know how I feel about guitars.

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[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

being taken completely and utterly for granted.

Although I have no personal experience in that, I have a friend whose parents treat her almost as a housekeeper. Having seen that for quite a long time, I can second your assignation.

*hugs, too*