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re: Tonight, Texas A&M's campus will darken for Silver Taps
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:10 am to EKG
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:10 am to EKG
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ve read this multiple times, and I'm still struggling with what you're saying. My apologies … but could you help me out?
If we're only continuing to do everything we've always done, as you say, how is that creating new traditions, "just because?"
Seems self-explanatory to me. You can disagree, but I don't know why it is confusing. For example, at Auburn, we may have picked 10 things over the course of 150 years to do regularly, and hence they've become traditions. At TAMU, it seems you've selected 150 things to do over the past 125 years to become traditions. My belief is that TAMU has done this with posterity in mind.
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Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:12 am to Pettifogger
But you've already stated you base that belief on nothing. If you "don't know enough about TAMU" to pick something in particular, then you clearly are just talking out of your arse. You may be best just letting it go, especially in a thread about Taps.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:15 am to Pettifogger
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At TAMU, it seems you've selected 150 things to do over the past 125 years to become traditions. My belief is that TAMU has done this with posterity in mind.
All you're really saying is you think many of our traditions are vapid because there's a lot of them.
If you want to be taken seriously on this topic, it would help if you gave us some examples of traditions you think are empty.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:16 am to Pettifogger
So you're suggesting that A&M entirely, as an institution, decided to honor it's fallen students in order to add another tradition to the list?
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:17 am to Pettifogger
I'm not disagreeing with you; I just didn't understand what you were saying. What was "self-explanatory" to you wasn't clear to me. Anyway, I wasn't criticizing you; I was just asking for clarification (which you provided--thank you).
With the exception of a few meaningless, modern shenanigans (e.g., christening/dunking the Aggie Ring, Maroon Out, Big Event, etc.), we didn't select our traditions; they emerged over time. And they were never abandoned.
Never was there an intentional, group vote of hundreds of thousands of Ags to continue a tradition, simply to continue it.
It's different. I get it. To each his own.
With the exception of a few meaningless, modern shenanigans (e.g., christening/dunking the Aggie Ring, Maroon Out, Big Event, etc.), we didn't select our traditions; they emerged over time. And they were never abandoned.
Never was there an intentional, group vote of hundreds of thousands of Ags to continue a tradition, simply to continue it.
It's different. I get it. To each his own.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:22 am to Pettifogger
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Seems self-explanatory to me. You can disagree, but I don't know why it is confusing. For example, at Auburn, we may have picked 10 things over the course of 150 years to do regularly, and hence they've become traditions. At TAMU, it seems you've selected 150 things to do over the past 125 years to become traditions. My belief is that TAMU has done this with posterity in mind.
This is just grasping at straws. You are trying to justify your opinion for not liking something just by saying, "I think it is this way, so it must be this way."
You'd serve yourself better from an integrity perspective by just saying, "look, I don't like it." No need to try to blindly justify it. Be who you are man.
That's what aTm graduates do -- they are proud of who they are and don't try to blindly justify it.
I appreciate the Aggie culture. I've visited 6 SEC stadiums now and 2 Pac10/12 stadiums. And truthfully, outside of the hospitality of LSU tailgating, the friendliest fan base I have experienced has been at College Station. It is very genuine.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 10:52 am to Pettifogger
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For example, at Auburn, we may have picked 10 things over the course of 150 years to do regularly, and hence they've become traditions. At TAMU, it seems you've selected 150 things to do over the past 125 years to become traditions.
We like our traditions bro. None are mandatory, I always took a buffet approach to traditions: I embraced the ones I liked (Silver Taps, Elephant Walk, ring dunk, Muster, Howdy, etc.) and ignored the ones I didn't like (Midnight yell, Fish camp, etc.)
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