Meta-site commentary is slightly better fit to the Mundane Babble forum than the Philosophy forum, so this has thread been moved here. (Although Rant House might be an even better choice.
Who is this vile trespasser who speaks these things!?
I agree with my fellow ILPers, intruder. I think you suck, even golf balls through garden-hoses when your parents aren’t home.
We could take down any philosophy site. ILP has a planetary hegemony on internet philosophy. I could arrange a team of five gladiator-philosophers from ILP that would be an unstopable force. There would be reality shows about us on TV, clothing lines and household appliances, interactive games, vacation packages, even a space station built for ILP’s research of space.
And just why can’t we be philosophers? I think we are doing a fine job give or take few members. Sure, nobody here has won the Nobel Prize, yet, but I’d put Patterson, Dunamis, James No.2, Satyr, Pragmatist, Zenofeller, Kennethamy, or Arendt on anybody you could find. [wink] You even get home field advantage.
And no tricks. If you gotta gang of guys hiding to ambush them, I’ll get involved…and you do not want that, my friend. Everybody ends up dying and the whole thing is called off. If you saw the size of my thesaurus you’d be offering a peace treaty as we speak.
PersistantMemory is exploiting the imperative rule by acting hipocritically and not providing for Impenitant what ILP provided for him, open arms and a welcoming hand.
The contradiction Arendt pointed out, I believe.
Alright, I take it back. Maybe you don’t suck golf balls through garden hoses.
But for Christ’s sake, change your screen name!
You should not be impenitent. You should have the capacity to feel sorry and remorse. Without which you could make no resolutions. That’s the good stuff. But you can’t have the same name, goof ball.
You might as well get on Imp’s back and ride him to the land of Humean empiricism, where you’re probably headed anyway, as it is the fashionable retro-nihilism produced in lazy and apathetic capitalistic mentalities. Hell, I don’t blame 'ya for thinking philosophy is dead. Even that statement is an induction. Drat.
Nevermind. You are rude though. Don’t make me make Gamer spank you.
You are making yourself so hard to ignore. Allright, I’ll change the bandage around your toe, provided you’re freshly showered and will cook dinner for me.
That is something pending on Arendt’s approval. You can’t just steal me away from her like that! What the hell were you thinking?
No, you cannot just cut in, unless you are willing to dance with her as well.
If you want to get involved, she is included in any diplomatic decisions regarding dinner company and/or…[cough]…uh, other things we might have in mind.
Something about that first post made me think Imp wouldn’t have written it. He never complains that philosophy is dead, he just gets on with using it as another excuse to make jokes and defend his nuke fetishism…