So, we’ve had some issues with folks who want to post great big long-ass things that don’t really seem to invite discussion, but take up a lot of space. What if we had a pair of sticky threads (one of the ‘The East’, and one for 'The West) specifically for people to put that stuff into? Am I just trying to make an allowance for an act that shouldn’t be permitted? Would this feature be used? Would it hinder the creation of certain types of good threads?
I say no. It will basically be a designated spam dumping ground. There are millions of these on the internet, and ILP doesn’t need to have yet another one. I support the complete ILP banning of self-promoting twits who are not interested in discussion.
BTW, did you go to that dattaswami guy’s site? Wasn’t it creepy how he pasted his face onto the bodies of several major religious figures?
There’s little difference between a biased argument and self-promotion.
I see no difference between the spam and the sophisticated arguments which arise from time-to-time.
As someone who thinks the “East” and the “West” have more philosophically in common than either would like to admit, why not just create an ‘essays’ section?
I mean, let’s face it, an essay on how Nagarjuna was totally right appeals to a limited audience in the same way that an essay on how Luther was totally right. And frankly, given Luther’s hardcore predestinarian views, is every bit as divorced from normal discussion even in a forum as tilted towards the ‘west’ as this.
I mean, honestly, how many modern day Protestants reject the idea of personal salvation in favour of a totally predestinarian perspective?
Honestly, I don’t give much of a rat’s ass about either. If I wanted to read a whole bunch I’d, uhhh, read from people who know something about something. Not random people on the 'net. The 'net is for honing my understanding not cultivating a new one. Books /= internet.
Yes.
Although it’s really the repetition of the act that makes it tiresome to me. It’s more an inconvenience, because it takes more effort to skip over…
Yeah, I guess that’s true, although one of them really was totally right. (You’d know that if you’d read the book. 
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OK, good! No new stickies.
You truly amaze me, Uccisore. I don’t know how you do it, but I guess your elevator doesn’t go to the top.
To be terribly wrong about everything you believe, and still possess this gaiety about you. Hopping and skipping through the forums like you were on the yellow-brick road. Strange, perhaps tragic, but entertaining nonetheless.
Now then, I would wish that heaven might exist for only a moment after you die, so that you might, in that brief moment, look down upon the earth and notice how everything you thought you contributed was an absolute waste of time, as the filthy gray rock continues to turn on its axis, laden with fools smoking religion like an opiate, and masters yielding their whips.
In that moment I would wish that God would give you the opportunity to live again…and get it right. But alas, as the lights begin to dim around you and as you fade into the final nothingess, you think to yourself with wide eyes and a slight taste of nausea “my god, I never thought I could be so wrong. What did I do?”
Indeed, skipping about with gaiety. You’ve got me in a nutshell! Not wonder we don’t talk more, being laid so bare is unnerving for me. You know, I can’t remember you ever addressing me directly before. Why now, why this?