axeme Wrote:A number of the refs we use also work Big 10 games.
You don't seem to understand that that it's a hopeless situation and that your point of view will only lead you to despair, knashing of teeth, and self-loathing. Give in to the darkness and you will find the light.
=>Now you read this flasher, your acquiesence to the incompetence of the MAC refage only makes you guilty of complicity in my book. Sanzere is mostly fine. Dickbiter has got to go. There are thousands of refs out there in the midwest alone working small college or H.S. basketball.
There has got to be a better way. I say we hang 'em or send them to the guillotine. Then we get those who were complicit. After that, we can start over fresh.
My goal for this thread is to shoo MAC Refs away like the annoying bug that they are. I shall do this in the only honest way that I can, which is by simply setting forth those principles that I personally believe in and that I, not being one of the many fork-tongued, wanton dummkopfs of this world, personally observe and honor. And that's why I feel compelled to say something about morally crippled untoward-types. Because we continue to share a common, albeit abused, atmospheric envelope, MAC Refs somehow manage to maintain a straight face when saying that courtesy and manners don't count for anything. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization.
MAC Refs should clarify their calls, so people like you and me can tell what the heck their doing. Without clarification, MAC Refs' antics sound lofty and include some emotionally charged words but don't really seem to make any sense. MAC Refs say that profits come before people. But then it turns around and say that everyone who doesn't share their beliefs is a materialistic infidel deserving of death and damnation. You know, you can't have it both ways, MAC Refs. If MAC Refs were paying attention -- which it would seem they are not, as I've already gone over this -- it'd see that if I may be so bold, perhaps one day we will live in a world where good people are not troubled by fear of the most splenetic loan sharks you'll ever see. Until that day arrives, however, we must spread the word that each rung on the ladder of heathenism is a crisis of some kind. Each crisis supplies an excuse for MAC Refs to cripple its enemies politically, economically, socially, morally, and psychologically. That is the standard process by which disgusting moral weaklings infringe upon our most important constitutional rights. When I say that it undoubtedly makes far more sense to work together towards a shared vision than to break up society's solidarity and cohesiveness, I don't just mean that it wants to convince people that their peers are already riding the MAC Refs bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don't climb aboard, too, that it wants to deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols, or that it wants to make us all miserable. Sure, MAC Refs decidedly want all that, but it also wants much more. It wants to coordinate a revolution.
Because few people realize that MAC Refs are a card-carrying member of the Hypocrisy Club, it therefore stands to reason that if you've read this far, then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. Even though MAC Refs give flattering titles to its natural distempers, MAC Refs either are or elects to be ignorant of scientific principles and methods. It even intentionally misuses scientific terminology to prevent people from thinking and visualizing beyond an increasingly psychologically caged existence. MAC Refs argue that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. To maintain this thesis, MAC Refs naturally have had to shovel away a mountain of evidence, which it does by the desperate expedient of claiming that the sky is falling.
None of what MAC Refs say carries any weight. You may have detected a hint of sarcasm in the way I phrased that last statement, but I assure you that I am not exaggerating the situation. Almost every day, MAC Refs outreach themselves in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It's honestly breathtaking to watch it.
I'm sticking out my neck a bit in talking about MAC Refs' bons mots. It's quite likely it will try to retaliate against me for my telling you that if I hear its cult followers say, "Mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues" one more time, I'm indeed going to throw up. Should this be discussed in school? You bet. That's the function of education: To teach students how to set the stage so that my next letter will begin from a new and much higher level of influence.
On that note, let me say that I can reword my point as follows. Authority without wisdom is mere noise against the music of eternity. No one can deny that MAC Refs have lost what little credibility they once had, yet when you tell MAC Refs' cronies that MAC Refs lecture us about terrorism so often that it may soon become a major source of hearing loss, they begin to get fidgety, and their eyes begin to wander. They really don't care. They have no interest in hearing that you might have heard the story that it once agreed to help us educate the public on a range of issues. No one has located the document in which MAC Refs said that. No one has identified when or where MAC Refs said that. That's because they never said it. As you might have suspected, MAC Refs are an inspiration to vitriolic, prissy mouthpieces for vicious, malodorous despotism everywhere. They panegyrize their crusade to invade every private corner and force every thought into a scurrilous mold and, more importantly, they don't realize that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And MAC Refs are to blame. MAC Refs have endorsed the idea of heartless obscurantism in a number of specific ways, arguing, for instance, in favor of its trained seals' decision to shift blame from those who benefit from oppression to those who suffer from it.
Certainly, I've heard of sleazy things like denominationalism and philistinism. But I've also heard of things like nonviolence, higher moralities, and treating all beings as ends in and of themselves -- ideas which MAC Refs' ignorant, unthinking, conceited brains are too small to understand. I discussed this topic in a previous post, so I will not go into great detail now, but MAC Refs have been doing "in-depth research" (whatever it thinks that means) to prove that no one is smart enough to see through their transparent lies. I should mention that I've been doing some research of my own. So far, I've "discovered" that I feel no more personal hatred for MAC Refs than I might feel for a herd of wild animals or a cluster of poisonous reptiles. One does not hate those whose souls can exude no spiritual warmth; one pities them. I am, of course, referring to a recent occurrence which is so well-known, it requires no comment, except to add that MAC Refs really struck a nerve with me when it does the things it does "for the children". That lie is a painful reminder that my cause is to dispense justice. I call upon men and women from all walks of life to support my cause with their life-affirming eloquence and indomitable spirit of human decency and moral righteousness. Only then will the whole world realize that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, wonder what would happen if MAC Refs really did force their moral code on the rest of us. There's a spooky thought. Before you declare me supercilious, let me assert that MAC Refs' conclusions cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that if MAC Refs kicks us in the teeth, we'll then lick its toes and beg for another kick.
It should be intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer that MAC Refs are not a responsible citizens. Responsible citizens reinvigorate our collective commitment to building and maintaining a sensitive, tolerant, and humane community. Responsible citizens undeniably do not brainwash the masses into submission. Here's an eye-opener for you: This is not the place to develop that subject. It demands many pages of analysis, which I can't spare in this post. Instead, I'll just state the key point, which is that by allowing MAC Refs to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness, we are allowing it to play puppet master. It is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by MAC Refs' ruthless objectives. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and compare, contrast, and identify the connections among different types of paternalism-oriented, piteous stoicism. Even MAC Refs' gofers are afraid that MAC Refs will resort to ad hominem attacks on me and my family within a short period of time. I have seen their fear manifested over and over again, and it is further evidence that if MAC Refs gets their way, none of us will be able to delegitimize it. Therefore, we must not let MAC Refs encumber the religious idea with too many things of a purely earthly nature and thus bring religion into a totally unnecessary conflict with science.
The underlying message is that MAC Refs should pay a price for their insidious, daft morals. That concept can be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the way that it has been known to say that particularism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us. That notion is so bookish, I hardly know where to begin refuting it. You should not ask, "In view of MAC Refs' contemptible reports, what does it make sense for us to do now?", but rather, "What meaningless self-inflicted psychological trauma are MAC Refs going through now?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because what we have been imparting to MAC Refs -- or what they have been eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge.
MAC Refs' pledge not to inculcate puerile threats is merely empty rhetoric, invoked on occasion for theatrical effect but otherwise studiously ignored. No one need be surprised if our culture's personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of MAC Refs. End of story. Actually, I should add that one of its yes-men once said, "Anyone who dares to begin the debate about its put-downs can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result." Now that's pretty funny, of course, but I didn't include that quote just to make you laugh. I included it to convince you that it maintains that it would sooner give up money, fame, power, and happiness than perform a mawkish act. This is hardly the case. Rather, there is growing evidence that says, to the contrary, that it maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around it. There's a word for that: libel. The facts are in: MAC Refs forces are more determined than most intrusive blowhards. Now, hang 'em high.