Mr_J
November 22, 2020, 8:17pm
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iambiguous:
Okay, the Kids and “yak yak yak” crowd and the declamatory “liberals are scumbags” reactionaries basically are ILP today. And nothing is really being done to change it.
Hell, I’d settle for the philosophy board alone being a place where actual intelligence could shine.
But it’s all now “beyond my control”. The Kids and the yak yak yakkers and sub-mental ideologues basically rule the boards.
Yeah, you really do sound like an old man right now yelling at kids to get off your pristine front lawn.
iambiguous
November 22, 2020, 8:20pm
57
See, I told you! Pure unadulterated crap.
You know, if I do say so myself.
Meno2
November 22, 2020, 11:25pm
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He is a big boy, he can take it!
iambiguous
November 22, 2020, 11:30pm
60
Quite the contrary. I still have any number activities in my life that bring me enormous fulfillment and satisfaction. And though I have health problems, none of them are even remotely life threatening.
Instead, for the few hours a day I come in here. And I can’t help but recall how much more fulfilling the experience was when the posters by and large actually did seem to love philosophy.
Most of them are gone. Perhaps because of me in regard to this…
1] I argue that while philosophers may go in search of wisdom, this wisdom is always truncated by the gap between what philosophers think they know [about anything] and all that there is to be known in order to grasp the human condition in the context of existence itself. That bothers some. When it really begins to sink in that this quest is ultimately futile, some abandon philosophy altogether. Instead, they stick to the part where they concentrate fully on living their lives “for all practical purposes” from day to day.
2] I suggest in turn it appears reasonable that, in a world sans God, the human brain is but more matter wholly in sync [as a part of nature] with the laws of matter. And, thus, anything we think, feel, say or do is always only that which we were ever able to think, feel, say and do. And that includes philosophers. Some will inevitably find that disturbing. If they can’t know for certain that they possess autonomy, they can’t know for certain that their philosophical excursions are in fact of their own volition.
3] And then the part where, assuming some measure of autonomy, I suggest that “I” in the is/ought world is basically an existential contraption interacting with other existential contraptions in a world teeming with conflicting goods — and in contexts in which wealth and power prevails in the political arena. The part where “I” becomes fractured and fragmented.
But mostly I suspect because the Kids and “yak yak yak” social media clowns and the pinhead objectivists have overrun the place with endless “chit chat” exchanges and scathing declamatory attacks on [mostly] liberals.
Though of course: If I do say so myself.
Meno2
November 22, 2020, 11:40pm
61
iambiguous:
Quite the contrary. I still have any number activities in my life that bring me enormous fulfillment and satisfaction. And though I have health problems, none of them are even remotely life threatening.
Instead, for the few hours a day I come in here. And I can’t help but recall how much more fulfilling the experience was when the posters by and large actually did seem to love philosophy.
Most of them are gone. Perhaps because of me in regard to this…
1] I argue that while philosophers may go in search of wisdom, this wisdom is always truncated by the gap between what philosophers think they know [about anything] and all that there is to be known in order to grasp the human condition in the context of existence itself. That bothers some. When it really begins to sink in that this quest is ultimately futile, some abandon philosophy altogether. Instead, they stick to the part where they concentrate fully on living their lives “for all practical purposes” from day to day.
2] I suggest in turn it appears reasonable that, in a world sans God, the human brain is but more matter wholly in sync [as a part of nature] with the laws of matter. And, thus, anything we think, feel, say or do is always only that which we were ever able to think, feel, say and do. And that includes philosophers. Some will inevitably find that disturbing. If they can’t know for certain that they possess autonomy, they can’t know for certain that their philosophical excursions are in fact of their own volition.
3] And then the part where, assuming some measure of autonomy, I suggest that “I” in the is/ought world is basically an existential contraption interacting with other existential contraptions in a world teeming with conflicting goods — and in contexts in which wealth and power prevails in the political arena. The part where “I” becomes fractured and fragmented.
But mostly I suspect because the Kids and “yak yak yak” social media clowns and the pinhead objectivists have overrun the place with endless “chit chat” exchanges and scathing declamatory attacks on [mostly] liberals.
Though of course: If I do say so myself.
I wish you were here biggy!
iambiguous
November 22, 2020, 11:45pm
63
New posts today at ILP? Nearly 40 threads. A lot of activity of late. But the first 25 [at 6:30 PM] are not on the philosophy board. In fact only 2 threads are on the philosophy board. One from me and one from zinnat
iambiguous
November 23, 2020, 1:52am
65
No bot here though, right:
I’m sitting on my couch, watching a video of the alabama/lsu game while smoking a bong and waiting for chinese food to be delivered. I was thinking of getting someone over here to clean the place. This is usually what I’m doing, I’ve seen this game about 130-140 times now. Or I’m in the bathroom someplace, bored and using my phone to post on message boards while I poop.
iambiguous:
No bot here though, right:
I’m sitting on my couch, watching a video of the alabama/lsu game while smoking a bong and waiting for chinese food to be delivered. I was thinking of getting someone over here to clean the place. This is usually what I’m doing, I’ve seen this game about 130-140 times now. Or I’m in the bathroom someplace, bored and using my phone to post on message boards while I poop.
No only here
ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop … 8#p2785038
i think my thread broke him lol
iambiguous
November 23, 2020, 4:17am
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iambiguous
November 23, 2020, 4:55am
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Quite the contrary. I still have any number activities in my life that bring me enormous fulfillment and satisfaction. And though I have health problems, none of them are even remotely life threatening.
Instead, for the few hours a day I come in here. And I can’t help but recall how much more fulfilling the experience was when the posters by and large actually did seem to love philosophy.
Didn’t I already explain this to you?
Or are you the bot?
I don’t know I wasn’t really listening.
iambiguous
November 23, 2020, 6:47pm
72
More importantly, though, you are wanted here: ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop … 1&t=196136
promethean75:
“dumping dozens of two or three line “posts” in dozens of different threads that reconfigure ILP into just another social media wasteland.”
Hey that’s what I do. You leave zero sum and the rest of the fine people at ILP out if this goddamit.
i would rather read a post about someone taking a shit than go back over the whole dasein thing with the human bot of ilp
bruh u r the more triggered than anyone has ever been triggered in all of history do you think abt me all the time?
