How can I gain special access to post a topic on the pro’s board? Can I pay money? I have many questions, and need to go as close to the top as I can to get them. I have some money saved up too. Let me know…
PM Pax Vitae who is responsible for the heavily moderated forum, he will advise you.
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Can I pay money?
Dunamis
There are no such things as ‘pros.’
There are only specimens with a greater degree of silvian fissure development, allowing for larger vocabularies. A ‘professional word sayer’ is one who’s mouth and cortex have coresponded in such a way as to render one’s pocket full of money, by selling syllables.
Just send a check payable to “Mindless Revolutionaries: How to Sophize About How Much you Hate Philosophy” in c/o
Detrop
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All checks should be payable to the amount worth the opinions to be rendered in answer. Approximently $.02 (note: due to the runaway inflation rate of Detropian currency, it’s hard to predict exactly how much $.02 Detropian will be worth in real money at the time of exchange. Just round up to the nearest penny.)
Dunamis
You got me all wrong, bud. I live and breathe the shit. I can’t even order a chicken-sandwich at the drive-through without saying something philosophical.
People hate me, I’m that guy who “over analyzes” everything and who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. Guys are intimidated by me and girls just want to fuck me. I can’t get no love.
I know too much. And I blame philosophy for everything.
That is my tragedy, Dunamis. To perish, as Nietzsche put it, under a burden that one can neither bear nor throw off.
[thumb and forefinger rubbing together] World’s Smallest Violin
Dunamis
Hell - I know some bloody long words, and I’m for rent - bung us a pony, and I’ll philosophize you a monkey.
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Tab.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson
I just want answers. I don’t care what I have to do to get them. I am NOT going to stop until I find out what is going on around here, and who is responsible for our suffering. I have been banned from other philosophy sites, without explanation, and without reason. Sooner or later I will find the truth. I will never surrender, unless the truth is I have to. If it is true I must, I will. no problem.
I have been banned from other philosophy sites, without explanation, and without reason.
Usually someone confesses this much, much later than their 8th post. It does sound though that detrop and you will be bonding very soon. 
The truth is nobody really posts in the “high mod” section anymore. Just post in the Philosophy section and see what’s up.
Dunamis
Sounds as though your questions are of a religious color. Are you hoping to discover what this world is “about”, what’s the meaning of it all? Do you wonder why we suffer?
Philosophy can help you clarify what you mean when you ask those questions. Once it’s clear what you mean, you may see a way by which you can seek the answers. But that way, I expect, will not be purely “philosophical” in nature.
Don’t come here just wanting answers. No one has them, and if they did you wouldn’t believe them. Seek first to ask the right questions and you may find yourself more able to look for answers.
I am not a religous nut. I am a mechanic. I manage a small service center. I hate the very thought of religon. I do like fixing cars. I enjoy fixing things. To me, that book is a workshop manual on a 2050 mustang I have in the shop right now, and it is hard to understand. But before I can even think about trying to fix the car, I have to understand how it works, I have to be able to understand the manual. Who made the two pieces of dirt that we came from? That workshop manual is our only hope right now. the owner is on the way to pick the car up shortly. Tell you what… If Anyone wants to point me in the right direction call me at 502-744-5580 cell or 502-955-4011 work. All this foolish arguing and killing is going nowhere. You cannot argue with the truth. It is common sense. COMMON COMMON COMMON …like “to have in common”, tell you what, Answer this, What is common sense?
“common” sense is not common at all… in fact, “sense” is a totally subjective experience…
caveat emptor…
-Imp
This, Dunamis, is not true for me, so don’t make hasty comparisons.
I accept full responsibility for any of my bannings and in becomming a member by choice I open up those possibilites and am therefore subject to them all, good and bad.
I would be in bad-faith to think otherwise, and I shant stray from my Sartrean principles of freedom or ethical obligations. I am responsible for everything.
Thank you.
Good day.
detrop,
This, Dunamis, is not true for me, so don’t make hasty comparisons.
I had no intent to demean any banning you may have worked to achieve. Rather, I sensed in this individual some of the rambling, incoherent diatribe potential you gravitate to and make alliances with…naturally.
Dunamis
You’re busted.
That statement is philosophical, due to the complex meanings of each description, and therefore you have broken your vow to never speak philosophically to me again.
Now empty your pockets and reach for the sky.
“That statement is philosophical, due to the complex meanings of each description, and therefore you have broken your vow to never speak philosophically to me again.”
I made no such vow. Everything I say is philosophical. I only promised to hold you to your promise to not address philosophical posts to me. Something I will continue to attempt to enforce.
Dunamis
Here’s how that works.
An event can be escaped. For example, the hurricane that is happening right now does not effect me directly. So it can’t be my situation insofar as the empirical events are not local to me. However, the event “hurricane” is by itself meaningless, and in knowing about the hurricane, it only becomes important if and when I decide upon a value for it, or about it, and that step is ethical.
Following this, my reaction to the hurricane upon becomming aware of it is judgemental in an ethical way- I might say “damn, that sucks for those people,” or even the converse “cool, destruction duuuude!!”, but in either event I am assigning a sort of responsibility to each possibility of action taken with that in mind. Now, with knowledge of the hurricane, if I choose to not donate any money, it must be because of ethical reasons, and in doing so, by deciding and more importantly, choosing those intentions, I become responsible for any following evaluation- that being, the measure of a situation as adverse or coefficient; in favor of, or against ends and intentions. I cannot escape these conditions.
By the very fact that I find myself in this world having opinions I am obligated to, and cannot break myself from…for even a single moment, every action I decide to make and the consequences thereof. I cannot not judge an event without some intention and some end in mind. The degree to which we shuffle priorities of value, so that I might spend that donation money on a lawn mower instead because I have rationalized myself through a belief system that judges it to be more important than giving donations, do not cease the total web of judgements and valuations. Another way to put it is this: once you believe one thing, everything else you ever think of is related somehow to it on a scale of meaningfulness and priority, and in every notice of every event, there is an experience of efficiency or adversity. This means that I have pre-established ends and intentions which either corespond or conflict with a situation. A rock on the ground is either for or against me. Nothing is ethically neutral if it can be conceptualized and therefore I decide how to act with that in mind. One tiny piece of a web, a seemingly unimportant piece of rock with no effect on me, is an intentional concept- a combination of its phenomenological meanings and its ethical meanings.
Those intentions and ends are my making, and my choice. There is nothing else, no other alternative for the cogito.
The world is my project, as Sartre might put it.
Would it be fair to say “don’t touch the stove, it is hot and will burn you.”
What is that called? Is this common sense, or truth? Everyone who touched a hot stove, will agree with you, will they not?