FAIRY STORIES

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I am new to ILP. This should be changed to ILFS. I have never read so many fairy stories in one place. And the sophistry is appalling. Please help me understand. Are we in such need of knowing about reality that all kinds of beliefs come out to fill the big void. Help me please.

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Can you provide an example or two? TIA

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Turtle,
Are you talking about absolutes or perspectives? Anything we post here is a belief. It is debatable which beliefs could be considered universal. Isn’t that good news?
And, if nobody else said it–Welcome to the fray.

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What you have done is expressed an general unaimed predjudice without adding any substance whatsoever. This is the philosophy forum. Not the ‘lets all air vaguely stated and completely unsupported opinions’ forum.

If you think a point of view posed on a thread is problematic, you should post on that thread with some sort of argument as to why this is so.

This thread belongs in the rant house.

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Unless you have some form of philosophical thesis to discuss, I’m moving this to the Rant House.

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I don’t think it belongs in the rant house. I think you just want to hide it away. Of course I am not going to name examples of what I am talking about. I am polite. If you want a thesis here it is-----
Philosophy is NOT religion. Religion should NOT be included in ILP. Too many persons are confusing theory with reality.
Go ahead and put it in the rant house and you will be showing others that you don’t like honest opinions about philosophy on this forum. In fact the whole problem with philosophy today is the threat of rant house. Definition of RANT----To speak in a violent, loud, or vehement manner.
You and Brevel have already decided so do your thing.

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Could that not be said to describe philosophy as well?

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STAT-------watch out we could be put in that rant(rat) house. Religion has many definitions. How about—the expression of man’s belief in and reverence
for a superhuman power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe.

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Don’t sulk, now. Your OP simply isn’t a philosophical thesis. The forum rules specify that that is the point of this forum.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=171806
“Posts on the Philosophy board should contain a thesis, however brief.”

There is a religion board on ILP.
viewforum.php?f=5

There are currently two active threads on Philosophy that deal with religion, as far as I can see - “God - the evidence” which deals with the philosopher’s approach to theology, and “How Dawkins’ belief scale shows atheism to be faith position” which is a borderline case, but since it is an apologist’s take on the atheism/theism divide from the point of epistemology I let it stay, having explicitly asked if it shouldn’t be moved.

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ONLY------------you did not address my thesis. I stated that philosophy has a problem with criticism and you have proven it. I am not a sulker. I like straight forward shit.

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You like straightforward shit because you are straightforward-- shit.

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“If you want a thesis here it is-----
Philosophy is NOT religion. Religion should NOT be included in ILP. Too many persons are confusing theory with reality.”
This is what I addressed. If you’d like me address other points, you’ll need to write more clearly, my reading comprehension is obviously not up to par.

If you want to criticise philosophy, this is the forum to do it. If you want to criticise ILP or the mods, then either “Help and Suggestions”, “Mundane Babble” or “The Rant House” are the fora to choose.

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Stinky.

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User warning issued.

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I’ll be sure not to let it happen again, boss.

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science follows patterns.
philosophy, to me atleast, seeks consolation for ephemerality. is it too much to seek consolation for ephemerality? is that as vain and horrid as sophistry?

generalizations are useless, inability to form ideas into words is useless for others. also, people have this tendency of coming to the silliest conclusions when they don’t share their ideas with others. although social marginality may be golden, i like to think that this is the type of community henry david thoreau would have chilled with. lol

;D

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yawn . my suggestion that it belonged in the rant house was nothing to do with it being anti-philosophy or anti-board. It was because (as I stated) it contained no argument and no substance.

People post things in the philosophy forums so that they can be criticised. It is not rude to argue against people - thats what we do in philosophy. Claiming that you ‘don’t want to offend anyone’ sounds like a hell of an excuse not to post any arguments. People are more likely to be offended if you post vague referneces to them in a new thread that appear to be insulting their beliefs in some way but are similtaneously unsubstatiated.

Philosophy and religion have been intertwined since philosophy’s conception. If you want to unravel a several thousand year connection, you should at least have an argument at hand.

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BREVEL----I am suggesting that religion and philosophy should be separated now.
Also whatever happened to the Socratic Method. Why do we need to argue and fight?
I also would propose the thesis that philosophy is stagnant and needs revitalization.
What do you think BREVEL?

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Argument is what separates philosophy from simple opinion.

And I will have no more to say about anything on this thread until one is presented.

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Ugh! ](*,) Bye!