The Writing Competition is now officially open, full details here:
Who is qualified to be the judge? and what credentials does the judge have to have?
This whole exercise is really pointless because as I have said before, written knowledge is dead knowledge, it is like reading boring essays where you detect obvious errors bout you have not the opportunity to grill the author.
so what if someone wins first prize, can someone display that article on the regular forum so others can take it apart?
The panel
They are picked by me
If this were true then what you’ve written would be ‘dead knowledge’
The winning 3 pieces will be displayed on Symposia
your previous avatar looked so much better.
well, that beget the most obvious question of them all, what credential do you have? apart from blinding arrogance?
Not exactly, since now I have come back to life. so people can question what I wrote.
yes, yes yes, I am sure your perfect taste will guide you the three perfect pieces.
May God save us from your arrogance.
Can we re-name this thread “Pot and Kettle”…?
I can change my avatar back. You can’t change your whole personality…
I would have thought that blinding arrogance would be sufficient credentials but since you’ve asked: I’ve been a top grade literature student all my life and read every day from a wide range of texts (literary being only one type of text). I’m familiar with every major school of literary criticism and I formally study Literature and Criticism (20th century). I’m also a writer by hobby, soon to be by trade and I have very diverse tastes in writing. Plus I can read, accurately, faster than anyone I know. My record here speaks for itself: nearly 5000 posts and not a single mistake or incorrect assertion.
Obviously I’m playing up to your view of me by saying all this, which I assure you is wholly deliberate.
If everything written is dead then writing that ‘everything that is written is dead’ is itself dead.
Not even God could save you from my arrogance
“Hey you ! - you’re black !!!”
“So are you !”
“No I’m not, I’m a Christian !”
“Are too !”
“Are not !”.
“Are too !”
“Black is the colour of the race traitor… I am white.”
“White’s the new black.”
“Is not.”
“Is so.”
“Er… Hey you ! you’re white !!!”
Terrific…
someoneisatthedoor
Then another contingient and neccesary question pops up, if you are so good at literature, what on earth are you doing on an internet forum pretending to be a geek? With your qualification, can’t you at least get a job as an academic? if you like assessing writings so much why don’t you become a teacher? you sound so qualified, cant you get those jobs?
I don’t know how you can be a literature critic when you don’t even seem to be able to criticise your obvious errors. You are once again twisting an obvious concept to your arrogant satisfaction.
I wrote :it is like reading boring essays where you detect obvious errors bout you have not the opportunity to grill the author.
Meaning that dead knowledge in my context is boring essays that does not mean anything and it can not come alive because you can not understand what it means because the author is dead so you can’t clarify. Dead knowledge is knowledge that has died with the death of the author.
In simple words
Alive knowledge = knowledge you can interact with
Dead knowledge = knowledge you can not interact with
Writing without an audience is writing for a dead end. writings that you can interact with is alive, those can not is dead. so all my writings are alive because you can always speak with the creative genius, and if I die, then my knowledge dies with me.
all who study my text have say. ‘I think PoR said this or that’
while I would say. ‘I think this or that’
get it?
All knowledge in whatever format, interactive or not, is ‘alive’ if it is read and remembered. Ancient dead things are resurrected upon the lips of each new generation. Only speak and your words echo down the ages yet to come.
Do you by any chance write, Tab? That was well said. =D>
PoR,
Laughing my ass off, getting cheap thrills, occupying a certain satirical part of my mind, satisfying curiosity, entertaining some online friends, being entertained by online friends
You need a PhD to do that and I can’t afford it at present unless I get funding…
With another year doing a PGCE (teaching qual.) in English, yes, of course I could. But why would I want to spend yet another year studying?
No, I’m doing it to wind you up, there’s a whole heap of difference
All writing ‘transcends’ the author’s life, that’s just the nature of writing.
One dabbles… SiS, one dabbles… Thanks.
Does everyone know what this site need right now? A war between the left wing and the right. Nothing beats a good left/right clash.
but before anything happens, I want to be Pinnacle of Reason again. in common memory whether you are left or right, urge Ben to give me my body back which he promised to do so a month ago!
I can not become the old Pinnacle of Reason without being IT, PoR as minor version of Pinnacle of Reason is only capable of mild insanity. So as the Oberstcontroversyfuhrer SS I promise to take ILP back to days of glory.
There was a guy who became hooked onto ILP because he was compelled to understand my race principles. When I was last here, about two month ago, at least we had controversy, at least we had heated arguments, at least we had insanity that so characterise philosophy.
Everyone do your bit in pushing for my resurrection, which was promised, and now it is time for it to be delievered.
How come I can’t edit my post anymore?
another thing, I was banned in contrary to popular opinion, so Ben the Bolshevic tyrant brutally sent into excil. It reminds me of how Stalin got rid of his rivals, not by his intellect but by brute force.
Once I get my old selfback, I would invincible once more. No one could and no one has ever penetrated the armor of the Pinnacle of Reason, I’ve never lost a debate, whether you call my genius insanity, but I attract extra-ordinary thinkers. Where did Dr.Satanist go? and the others, they’ve all left.
ILP reminds me of a camp where all the generals have left, this is all because the President decided to get rid of the Field Marshall PoR, and look what he has done. When I was here, everyone was at least united in their hatred for my racial sensitivity. and now, the band of brothers have disbanded themselves.
if you read 1984 again, you would know that Big Brother need Smith to function. That is why I said, I am ILP and ILP is me.
If you really want ILP to be the way it used to be, i.e turn back the clock for one last hell of a ride, get Ben the Bolshevic tyrant to unban me!