Actually, Maia confided to me in an e-mail about a member here who really was stalking her. She had to get PavlovianModel to deal with it. But he just kept popping up.
I won’t mention the name though. And I’ll leave it up to you to figure out why.
Dan~, if you really don’t like any of this, considering it’s a thread started in the first place as a personal attack, I suggest to move it to the rant house. He insults people on a daily basis, myself included, and I don’t see why actions taken shouldn’t affect him too.
Don’t say he doesn’t ad-hom. Read closer and be honest. Your self-discipline is unrivaled, I believe you will see it even if you don’t want to.
So you’re saying that you are satisfied with the threads in which you participate. You feel that you are achieving what you want. And you are entertaining yourself.
It doesn’t seem that way from my observations but I guess I’m not reading it right.
He elaborated repeatedly.
Your virtual friends read your posts and think this is all good stuff? Including the dogfights?
Philosophers don’t have to do that.
They can look one person … his statements, this actions, his reactions … and come to a conclusion about whether he is having fun or not. And whether he could have more fun by doing something differently.
Then it’s the old … You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Given that there is no philosophical content whatsoever in his endless taunts, and given that the taunts themselves are so preposterous and witless, I can only be willing now to continue our “discussion” when one and/or both of these sorry-ass components of his change.
Otherwise, how can I ever hope that our exchange will, well, blossom.
I can’t believe this. I was hoping you killed like seventy three gooks in the midnight jungle with only a knife while blitzed out of ur mind on heroin laced with PCP, and now I find out your only weapon was a typewriter?
You just shattered my dreams dude. You were my Rambo once upon a time. I want u to know that.
In other words, as I have noted with you over and again, given the manner in which I construe my “self” here as the existential embodiment of dasein, there is only so much that even “I” can understand about my own motivation and intentions. It’s like my reaction to Maia on the thread that precipitated this one: I said what I “honestly and introspectively” thought and felt about it.
After all, whatever other option is there for me?
My best guess: that’s because you’re not me and don’t really have a clue as to what does motivate me to post as I do. But, again, given the subjects being discussed here that’s entirely normal for me. Besides, the “entertainment” part revolves almost entirely around the My Six Stooges here. Including you from time to time.
Then back to dasein. His elaborations were sufficient for him. And for you? But not for “me”. Now how do we go about pinning down – philosophically or otherwise – whether his posts were in fact sufficient?
No, by and large they are only interested in the threads I create that revolve around actual philosophical themes. They go back to exchanges we had ourselves in Yahoo Groups, e-philosophy and the Ponderer’s Guild. Including one ILP member who no longer posts here now but engages in the occasional email exchange with me.
Also, even though there is not much in the way of feedback from ILP as it exist now, I still note that the “view count” keeps going up and up. So, it’s nice to know that many different folks are interested enough in what I argue here to read my posts. That’s not nothing to me.
… and I’m just teasing u Biggs, for the record. I have a great amount of respect for both those who didn’t dodge the draft and those who did, because in either case a working class american is being put into an impossible situation where he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
Vietnam was one of those failed Marxist states that lingered on after the genuine revolution was ended at lenin’s death.
On the other hand, working class or not, for some it was one thing to be a grunt fighting to gut the Nazis and another thing altogether being a grunt sent overseas to sustain the profits of the military industrial complex, the war economy and Wall Street.
Although, sure, there are also those who more or less equate Fascism and Communism as totalitarian dogmas. Even though Marxism is predicated far more on an actual “scientific” examination of political economy unfolding down through the ages.
Ironically YOU are not Satyr, Obsrvr, KT, Maia or me. And yet you have no problem with attributing motivations to us. And that goes for all the others that you label objectivists, stooges and chickenshits.