The Flat Earth Society
The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: EduardoVS-BR on January 06, 2013, 02:54:49 PM
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It is possible to note the the symbols representing the Flat Earth Society: its logo and its motto. This all looks very beautiful... But, do not you think the society needs an anthem too? All nations and large organizations in the world have an emblem, a motto and an anthem. It would be very interesting to express what the society stands for and our unity and battle for the truth. What do you think about it?
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Do you mean like Oh Canada?
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Do you mean like Oh Canada?
Not exactly like Oh Canada, but I think we should work on a song that express musically our sense of unity and justice (battle for truth), or something like that.
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I am a lyricist and poet.
I can work on the words if someone can come up with the music.
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I am a lyricist and poet.
I can work on the words if someone can come up with the music.
Great! Let's ask Wilmore or another mod, we will be pleased to see your art.
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FES isn't a country. We don't need an anthem or a theme song. Perhaps an official Limerick.
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FES isn't a country. We don't need an anthem or a theme song. Perhaps an official Limerick.
Excellent idea. You can start a limerick thread.
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FES isn't a country. We don't need an anthem or a theme song. Perhaps an official Limerick.
Excellent idea. You can start a limerick thread.
Agreed.
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Flat Earth Society - Bad Religion (w/ lyrics) (http://#)
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From Official Member #1:
Thomas Dolby "The Flat Earth" (http://#)
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The original:
THOMAS DOLBY (THE FLAT EARTH) (http://#)
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This is something very personal, but I would like to say it here.
Conquest of Paradise - Vangelis (http://#)
During my early days on this forum, I've watched many videos about space-travel frauds in the wiki. One of them played this music in the background, and I really liked it. From this point on, this song was frequently associated with the Flat Earth Society in my mind. At the time, I said:
I really liked the music "Conquest of Paradise - Vangelis" and I think that could be adopted as the anthem of the Flat Earth Society.
Of course another song must be chosen. This has nothing to do with Flat Earth and this is entirely personal.
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maybe it would be cool to have a snippet of the song open on the main page?
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maybe it would be cool to have a snippet of the song open on the main page?
Sounds very MySpace.
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
The secret societies already have them, it would.be diappointing. I guess it would be good for getting your discount admission to The Flat Earth Museum.
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
You know what we need? An active administrator.
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
You know what we need? An active administrator.
Maybe he should step up and ban you. Who are you to tell him what to do? How do you know what he does or doesn't do. Shame on you.
How dare you demand his deosition, he's never even heard of you.
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I have always been partial to the FE freindly band.
kansas Point of know return (http://#)
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
I thought that the secret handshake was a fist bump, then unroll your globular hand into a plain as you smoothly back your hands away.
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Rush - Anthem 1975 (http://#)
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
You know what we need? An active administrator.
There does come a point where this is kind of a dumb reply. What exactly desperately needs doing right now? The forum has a new skin, and there are changes in the works in the background. I'm reasonably active, and although John hasn't been around in a while, he did plenty in the earlier part of the year. The only 'Daniel-level' problem we have right now relates to the server, and that is being sorted.
I think it may be time to drop this as a running joke. It just isn't constructive.
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I think it may be time to drop this as a running joke. It just isn't constructive.
They may not be constructive, but running jokes are a lot less work than thinking up new jokes.
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
You know what we need? An active administrator.
There does come a point where this is kind of a dumb reply. What exactly desperately needs doing right now? The forum has a new skin, and there are changes in the works in the background. I'm reasonably active, and although John hasn't been around in a while, he did plenty in the earlier part of the year. The only 'Daniel-level' problem we have right now relates to the server, and that is being sorted.
I think it may be time to drop this as a running joke. It just isn't constructive.
Joke?
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You know what we need? A secret handshake.
You know what we need? An active administrator.
There does come a point where this is kind of a dumb reply. What exactly desperately needs doing right now? The forum has a new skin, and there are changes in the works in the background. I'm reasonably active, and although John hasn't been around in a while, he did plenty in the earlier part of the year. The only 'Daniel-level' problem we have right now relates to the server, and that is being sorted.
I think it may be time to drop this as a running joke. It just isn't constructive.
I think the point people are making is more that the President-for-Life should have more than 1000 posts and be around for when things actually do need fixing. Personally I'm ambivalent, and I rather suspect Daniel does more than he gets credit for, but they do have a point.
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He does have more than 1,000 posts. And he clearly is doing things around here.
I've been vocally critical of Daniel's inactivity in the past. But he's clearly not inactive, so what's the problem? The FES has a new podcast. The forum has a new skin. Server issues are being addressed as we speak. The forum and society continues to be funded out of his pocket.
Bearing that in mind, precisely who here is more active than Daniel?
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He does have more than 1,000 posts. And he clearly is doing things around here.
I've been vocally critical of Daniel's inactivity in the past. But he's clearly not inactive, so what's the problem? The FES has a new podcast. The forum has a new skin. Server issues are being addressed as we speak. The forum and society continues to be funded out of his pocket.
Bearing that in mind, precisely who here is more active than Daniel?
As I said, I'm rather ambivalent to the whole situation. I personally think he's doing a fine job. But again, the problem people have with him, I believe, is that regardless of how active he is, he's never around. I exaggerated when I said he didn't have more than 1000 posts, but just barely.
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Daniel is the gracious host of this site. In my opinion we should not complain, we are his guests.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
-Lao Tzu
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Hi. A couple things:
Yes, I'm not the most active person on the forums, but I do keep an eye on things and when there's a major problem, I'm pretty good about responding. I imagine that anyone who's ever contacted me on Twitter about a serious technical problem on the site saw action pretty quickly. Just because you don't see me posting a lot doesn't necessarily mean I'm not around. And I do sometimes participate in threads as well, so it's not as if I'm a complete ghost on the forums.
Also, the Flat Earth Society is more than just the forums. Adding materials to the library, email correspondence, memberships, the podcast, occasional batches of t-shirts, etc are also part of the job and you'd be surprised how much time a lot of that stuff takes. And then there's background maintenance stuff that generally doesn't get noticed but would get noticed if it wasn't happening.
I know there was a period where, as Wilmore correctly pointed out, I wasn't very involved with the Society and it suffered a bit because of that. But that was quite a while ago and certainly isn't the case now.
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Hi. A couple things:
Yes, I'm not the most active person on the forums, but I do keep an eye on things and when there's a major problem, I'm pretty good about responding. I imagine that anyone who's ever contacted me on Twitter about a serious technical problem on the site saw action pretty quickly. Just because you don't see me posting a lot doesn't necessarily mean I'm not around. And I do sometimes participate in threads as well, so it's not as if I'm a complete ghost on the forums.
Also, the Flat Earth Society is more than just the forums. Adding materials to the library, email correspondence, memberships, the podcast, occasional batches of t-shirts, etc are also part of the job and you'd be surprised how much time a lot of that stuff takes. And then there's background maintenance stuff that generally doesn't get noticed but would get noticed if it wasn't happening.
I know there was a period where, as Wilmore correctly pointed out, I wasn't very involved with the Society and it suffered a bit because of that. But that was quite a while ago and certainly isn't the case now.
Daniel, I would like to thank you for the time and money that you invest in this website. It is a fun place to be, and I am thankful for TFES.
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Hi. A couple things:
Yes, I'm not the most active person on the forums, but I do keep an eye on things and when there's a major problem, I'm pretty good about responding. I imagine that anyone who's ever contacted me on Twitter about a serious technical problem on the site saw action pretty quickly. Just because you don't see me posting a lot doesn't necessarily mean I'm not around. And I do sometimes participate in threads as well, so it's not as if I'm a complete ghost on the forums.
Also, the Flat Earth Society is more than just the forums. Adding materials to the library, email correspondence, memberships, the podcast, occasional batches of t-shirts, etc are also part of the job and you'd be surprised how much time a lot of that stuff takes. And then there's background maintenance stuff that generally doesn't get noticed but would get noticed if it wasn't happening.
I know there was a period where, as Wilmore correctly pointed out, I wasn't very involved with the Society and it suffered a bit because of that. But that was quite a while ago and certainly isn't the case now.
Daniel, I would like to thank you for the time and money that you invest in this website. It is a fun place to be, and I am thankful for TFES.
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I only occasionally do stuff on Twitter, respond to emails, and arrange/do interviews and the podcast. Yet I find I spend almost as much time on that as I do on the forum. And it has to fit in somewhere alongside work I get paid for, and frankly, non-monetary stuff that is more important (family, relationships etc). I think it's important that people recognise that this stuff gets done, and acknowledge that it is being done all the time. Daniel doesn't need to be here explaining the UA to some noob in order to be considered 'active'. He's actively paying for the site. He's actively promoting and running the society. He's actively retrieving a treasure-trove of previously inaccessible FE material and making it available online.
I know you guys don't feel it as immediately or interact with it as personally, but all this stuff is a lot more important for the Flat Earth Society than anything I or any other mod does here. We need mods, and we need members. But the society has to be more than an efficiently administrated forum, and right now that 'more' is Daniel and everything he does.
When Daniel was inactive, it was a problem, as he has acknowledged on several occasions. But he wasn't really any less active on the forum at that time. He's always been hands-off when it comes to the forum, and I have always seen that as a good thing. This has never been "Daniel's Flat Earth Society", and we have never seen him loom as a personality in an unhealthy way. It's a really good thing, and I wish people would stop equating posting frugally with inactivity.
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Hi. A couple things:
Yes, I'm not the most active person on the forums, but I do keep an eye on things and when there's a major problem, I'm pretty good about responding. I imagine that anyone who's ever contacted me on Twitter about a serious technical problem on the site saw action pretty quickly. Just because you don't see me posting a lot doesn't necessarily mean I'm not around. And I do sometimes participate in threads as well, so it's not as if I'm a complete ghost on the forums.
Also, the Flat Earth Society is more than just the forums. Adding materials to the library, email correspondence, memberships, the podcast, occasional batches of t-shirts, etc are also part of the job and you'd be surprised how much time a lot of that stuff takes. And then there's background maintenance stuff that generally doesn't get noticed but would get noticed if it wasn't happening.
I know there was a period where, as Wilmore correctly pointed out, I wasn't very involved with the Society and it suffered a bit because of that. But that was quite a while ago and certainly isn't the case now.
Daniel, I would like to thank you for the time and money that you invest in this website. It is a fun place to be, and I am thankful for TFES.
And sorry for repeating a running joke :-*
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Daniel is almost active enough. He will be active enough when I receive my membership certificate.
And FES already has an anthem - Onward Planar Soldiers