Why Are Padlocks on Some Threads?

[chicagolass]

Who among us has been born with a sweet-smelling "rosebud"

in place of a common "belly button?"

 

One reason why padlocks appear on threads regularly.

It would seem that some cruisers believe that they have been deemed

by the gods or whomever as gifted and therefore that their opinions are

better than any other ones expressed on these boards.

But where is the mark that distinguishes such ones among us?

 

In ancient Greece Socrates (470?-399 B.C.) or was it his pupil Aristotle

put forth in The Republic, the philosophy that only the gifted, the

Philosopher King should be at the top of the Hierarchy. His law and

opinions ruled because he could think and reason for himself.

The trouble is that we can't

recognize such ones because they don't

come into the world with a mark that distinguishes them.

Of course it wasn't a democracy.

 

In 1885 in Rider Haggard's famous novel King Solomon's Mines,our

attention is drawn to this issue when we travel to Africa and go on a

safari where we meet the deposed, good King Ignosi, rightful ruler

of the Kakuana people. He reclaims his throne from the bad King Twal based on "...the picture of a great snake tatooed in blue over his middle,

it's tail disappearing into its open mouth." Ignosi triumphs.

Of course it wasn't a democaracy either.

 

The point here is that we are a democracy. Thus we need to uphold and

defend the right of all to freely voice differing opinions about cruises,

cruise ships and cruise lines. We should be able to differ and not be at

risk of being put down by anyone for those opinions. No one person's opinion is better or worse than any other person's.

There shouldn't be a need for padlocks to be placed on any threads, yet they regularly appear.

 

That is, of course, until one among us can show proof of having better opinions than all the rest and of having been born with a mark that distinguishes such as a sweet-smelling rosebud in place of a common

belly button. LOL

 

Thanks for permitting me to give my opinion (I do digress) right or wrong.

Chris.

[Seabee]

Been drinking again Chicago????:D

[excitedofharpenden]

Been drinking again Chicago????:D

:D:D:D

 

I always thought the padlocks were there to deter trespassers.;)

 

Phil

[chicagolass]

Seabee,

Naughty, naughty, be nice like Phil. I can't find any

smiley faces to add here. Where are they? Boo! Hoo!