Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

You're more likely to get a decent ruler through divine-right inheritance than by choosing
from those who actively seek the role.

The random selection could be done decades in advance (say at birth) and start training
the ruling class to properly understand their function.

I totally agree. Selection at birth, though, would allow greater scope for corruption of the individual.

I would prefer to select people at random and then assess their suitability through a set of objective criteria. Easier said than done of course.

[Queen Victoria]

persnickety

[odeon]

You're more likely to get a decent ruler through divine-right inheritance than by choosing
from those who actively seek the role.

The random selection could be done decades in advance (say at birth) and start training
the ruling class to properly understand their function.

I totally agree. Selection at birth, though, would allow greater scope for corruption of the individual.

I would prefer to select people at random and then assess their suitability through a set of objective criteria. Easier said than done of course.

A nice idea, but it would fail miserably. People who don't know the greater scheme of things will be pissed off, and for a very good reason, when they're finally told. People who are told, on the other hand, will be corrupted.

Again, we're fucked either way. People will be people, and that's just about the only thing you can trust them to be.

[Calandale]

You're more likely to get a decent ruler through divine-right inheritance than by choosing
from those who actively seek the role.

The random selection could be done decades in advance (say at birth) and start training
the ruling class to properly understand their function.

I totally agree. Selection at birth, though, would allow greater scope for corruption of the individual.

There is NO possibility of corrupting the chosen of God.

They're will be the word.

[Calandale]

Again, we're fucked either way. People will be people, and that's just about the only thing you can trust them to be.

Not if you kill the little shits.


And yeah. I'd make a great ruler.

[Jack]

There is NO possibility of corrupting the chosen of God.

They're will be the word.

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.  Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. 
~Romans 13:1-2

[Calandale]

'course, it don't work so well when the 'incorruptible' is a heathen atheist like Robespierre.

[Jack]

'course, it don't work so well when the 'incorruptible' is a heathen atheist like Robespierre.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say he helped destroy a god appointed ruling, than to consider him among them?

[odeon]

Again, we're fucked either way. People will be people, and that's just about the only thing you can trust them to be.

Not if you kill the little shits.


And yeah. I'd make a great ruler.

You'd make an interesting ruler.

[Gopher Gary]

Again, we're fucked either way. People will be people, and that's just about the only thing you can trust them to be.

Not if you kill the little shits.


And yeah. I'd make a great ruler.

You'd make an interesting ruler.

I wouldn't even want him randomly selected as my juror. 

[Calandale]

Again, we're fucked either way. People will be people, and that's just about the only thing you can trust them to be.

Not if you kill the little shits.


And yeah. I'd make a great ruler.

You'd make an interesting ruler.

I wouldn't even want him randomly selected as my juror. 

Don't worry. I told the truth dury my one chance to be a juror on a murder case.

I was dismissed right quick.

[Gopher Gary]

 

[rock hound]

Cyclopean

[renaeden]

Opine.

[Queen Victoria]

Machatunim - yiddish for this:

My parents and my wife’s parents have a good relationship. It’s nice. It’s rare. And they use a word to describe each other: machatunim. We hear it a lot. My wife’s dad, at home: “I spoke to the machatunim today.” My wife’s mom, in an email to my dad: “I’m so glad we’re machatunim.” My wife and I roll our eyes at this. Here we have a classic case of secular American Jews deploying a Yiddish word as a little secret handshake, sharing their delight that both their kids married Jewish. Machatunim: The word even contains that satisfying, throat-clearing chhh—machhhh-ah-tun-um.

But there’s another, more pragmatic reason they use this word: It’s super convenient. The word means “the parents of my child’s spouse.” There’s no English equivalent, which makes describing this relationship otherwise kind of challenging. What else would they say? Co-in-laws? That barely makes sense. My parents would have to say something clunky like, “our son’s wife’s parents.” Machatunim is way better.