Shangia
16-08-2004, 05:30
Interesting observation I had about the ignore concept.
If you ignore someone, then nothing he does affects you but by the same reasoning, nothing you do affects him.
Take the Whittier/Northwest Liang dispute over Magdha. Very interesting.
NL has said he is ignoring WHittier (solely based on fact that Whittier was deletedJ) and that WHittier never existed in Magdha and that Magdha was taken over by NL a while ago. Note that there was no rp of attempting to take over.
Never mind the fact of the other WP nations he would have had to go through even if WHittier wasn't there.
Now I never said I was ignoring him, but he stated repeatedly that he was ignoring me. OK. I'm down with that. Freedom of association.
That means his conquest of Magdha took place only in his own little universe since his nation does not exist in the WP universe. Therefore in the WP universe he never took Magdha cause he does not exist.
So in any rp involving Magdha and the WP (of which Magdha is a member I would point out), NL cannot get involved cause he is ignoring us. So in the WP universe, Magdha is perfectly free to build as big an army as he wants as long as his nation can support it. Also, in the WP universe this means that he owns both Bombay, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Cause NL never took those places.
We'll call this place earth 3.
Now this would of course apply to all other nations that ignoring other nations for some reason or other. The constant being that it doesn't matter why you are ignoring them, the effect is the same. Once you have ignored them, nothing you do affects them and nothing they do affects you.
BTW, NL, I really liked the TG you sent me with all the abusive language in it.
This should be called like, the first law of ignore or something like that.
The Second Law of Ignore, I imagine would be something like, once you ignore someone, you don't post in their rp threads. (Threads in general don't count cause then you would be stifling legitimate debate.) And you don't harrass them either (to include trolling or flaming them.)
Maybe it needs a third law. Nah.
If you ignore someone, then nothing he does affects you but by the same reasoning, nothing you do affects him.
Take the Whittier/Northwest Liang dispute over Magdha. Very interesting.
NL has said he is ignoring WHittier (solely based on fact that Whittier was deletedJ) and that WHittier never existed in Magdha and that Magdha was taken over by NL a while ago. Note that there was no rp of attempting to take over.
Never mind the fact of the other WP nations he would have had to go through even if WHittier wasn't there.
Now I never said I was ignoring him, but he stated repeatedly that he was ignoring me. OK. I'm down with that. Freedom of association.
That means his conquest of Magdha took place only in his own little universe since his nation does not exist in the WP universe. Therefore in the WP universe he never took Magdha cause he does not exist.
So in any rp involving Magdha and the WP (of which Magdha is a member I would point out), NL cannot get involved cause he is ignoring us. So in the WP universe, Magdha is perfectly free to build as big an army as he wants as long as his nation can support it. Also, in the WP universe this means that he owns both Bombay, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Cause NL never took those places.
We'll call this place earth 3.
Now this would of course apply to all other nations that ignoring other nations for some reason or other. The constant being that it doesn't matter why you are ignoring them, the effect is the same. Once you have ignored them, nothing you do affects them and nothing they do affects you.
BTW, NL, I really liked the TG you sent me with all the abusive language in it.
This should be called like, the first law of ignore or something like that.
The Second Law of Ignore, I imagine would be something like, once you ignore someone, you don't post in their rp threads. (Threads in general don't count cause then you would be stifling legitimate debate.) And you don't harrass them either (to include trolling or flaming them.)
Maybe it needs a third law. Nah.