User blog:DioscuriX3/The Pledge

I'm posting this on behalf of Aravis, since she's determined to go inactive for the holidays... -Dio

"Now if the Amerikans raise heck about this, remind them it's not mocking their beloved founding fathers, just the wiki. I don't think much of their beloved founding fathers anyway, but please don't tell them that." -Aravis

" I pledge half a teaspoonful of allegiance to the logo of the LEGO Message Board Wiki, and to the wallow of drama for which it usually stands, one website under Drew, very divisible when pertaining to Brickimedia, with no liberty from chat and justice for the admins only and sometimes for the CMs." -Pledge of Allegiance

"We the Users of the LEGO Message Boards Wiki, in Order to form a less terrible Union, attempt to establish a dubious system of Justice, insure the absence of Tranquility, provide for nothing at all but our own fun, promote the general Welfare by banning all trolls, and secure the Blessings of Insanity to ourselves and no one else, might possibly ordain and establish this Constitution for the LEGO Message Boards Wiki." -Preamble to the Constitution

"Four years, which is a fifth of a score ago, our founder, Legoguy1866, brought forth on this website a new wiki, conceived in ignorance, and dedicated to the certainty that all men can waste their lives online.

In the spring of 2013, we were engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that wiki, or any wiki so haphazardly conceived and dedicated, could long endure. (That would be the Brickimedia Bifurcation.) We are met on a pretty small battlefield (page) of that kind-of inconsequential war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that page, as a temporary resting place for those who here gave their accounts that that wiki might live. (That would be Agent Swipe, ToaMeiko, and any other accounts abandoned in the painful process.) It is not really fitting and proper that we should do this, but we do it anyway.

 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The sort-of brave users, active and inactive, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add, detract, multiply, or divide. (They had better math skills, you see.) The wiki will maybe remember what we write here, but it will surely forget what they did there. It is for us the active, rather, to be semi-dedicated here to the finished and aready rather forgotten work which they who fought there haven’t really nobly advanced in. It is rather for us to try to be one tiny little bit dedicated to the miniscule task remaining before us, even though we’ll forget really soon, seeing as I don’t even know what task we’re talking about—that from those honoured inactive we take decreased devotion (unlike them, we only know how to subtract) to that cause for which we think they might have they given the last full measure of apathy—that we here probably won’t resolve that those inactive shall not have retired/ragequit in vain—that this wiki, under Drew, shall have a new birth of wasting our time—and that government of the bureaucrats, by the admins, and not really at all for the people, shall not perish from Wikia within the next week." -Brickimedia Address