starkvegasdawg
09-08-2016, 10:27 AM
I'm not one of the original members of the site, and certainly not a moderator. But I am someone that came here from another site back in 2013 and have never looked back. In fact, I don't even remember what my login info was on that other site. I just finally got enough of that message board up north (or wherever it is based) and left it and now here I am making my 10,000th post Whether that means I need to put my phone down more is subject to debate and who you ask. I?m not one with a lot of inside information that people clamor to read, but hopefully some of my posts have at least brought an occasional smile to your face or offered up a new perspective on a topic.
After last Saturday I, as were most of you, was basically left speechless at what happened and was left trying to find something or someone to point the finger at. I believe every possible conspiracy theory has been well hashed out in many threads. Some offered up by yours truly. But I'm trying to back up and get a different look at things and being someone that likes history the words penned by Thomas Payne in the opening paragraph of "The Crisis" came to mind. So I pulled up the text and read it again and immediately started drawing parallels to what MSU fans are now looking at. So I have adapted that opening paragraph to fit MSU and have included it below.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer fan and the sunshine season ticket holder will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their university; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Ole Miss, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. TSUN, with a willing media to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to cheat) but "to cheat in all cases whatsoever" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God which Hugh Freeze thinks he is.
After last Saturday I, as were most of you, was basically left speechless at what happened and was left trying to find something or someone to point the finger at. I believe every possible conspiracy theory has been well hashed out in many threads. Some offered up by yours truly. But I'm trying to back up and get a different look at things and being someone that likes history the words penned by Thomas Payne in the opening paragraph of "The Crisis" came to mind. So I pulled up the text and read it again and immediately started drawing parallels to what MSU fans are now looking at. So I have adapted that opening paragraph to fit MSU and have included it below.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer fan and the sunshine season ticket holder will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their university; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Ole Miss, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. TSUN, with a willing media to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to cheat) but "to cheat in all cases whatsoever" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God which Hugh Freeze thinks he is.