Iambiguous’s assertions in the above…
I didn’t go further with it. ------ But I did, in the same thread as what he keeps paraphrasing.
I am leaving to get away from his arguments. ------ Apart from the psychic claim, there are much scarier arguments - Buddhism considers him to be a religious believer in a persistant self, for example - than those out there. I’ve gone into this with him.
KT has this deep seated “sense of reality”, and he really doesn’t tolerate others critiquing it. I’ve seen him get pissed off over and again when others don’t [eventually] “get what he means”. ------- I never said the first part. The rest is his interpretation, and he puts things in quotes that I did not say in the context he presents. IOW an implicit lie.
Notice that when other people present ideas to Iamb he asks for an argument that would convince all rational people.
But he just gets to state things about my internal life - my motivations for example - based on unstated arguments that would not even convince a couple of people here. IOW hypocrisy. But it’s great someone finally solved the problem of other minds.
Ever notice how Iamb’s assertions about other people’s minds miraculously make him look better, others he’s angry at worse?
Who else does this? Who else tells people what they are thinking as part of a dominance (attempt) pattern?
Satyr.
HIs behavior bothered me. Then he made the mistake of waxing nostaligically about those great forums back then with real philosophers and I saw that he posted the same things and they reacted to his BEHAVIOR the same way. Sure, his arguments bothered some of them, but people got pissed at his behavior. And he had to know this, so he was lying, theatrically, in an attempt to put down people here, I would guess. Before I was never sure before that he knew he was lying. I always wondered what was really going on in him. There was an asterisk.
So, yeah, it’s his behavior, not his arguments, though I am sure his arguments bother some people.
I know he’ll keep presenting his psychic claims about what is really going on in me, with the conviction that it could not possibly be his behavior that I hated. And he’s never explained why that isn’t the case.
Good luck to him convincing all rational people that he knows what I really was bothered by. The popularity of his thread on me is likely a hint of their interest in his unsupported theories about what my real motivations are. His psychic work.
Hypocrite or narcissist? Maybe Wendy will make another poll about which is the more characteristic Iamb trait. I love how he plays to the gallery, but he has no gallery, except PK and PK doesn’t even understand Iamb’s arguments, the ones I am supposed to be so afraid of.
Anyway, got a new job starting Monday, and I find I am getting pissed off at too many people. With a few exceptions it’s just team posting and team attacking, and yeah, binary thinking is the zeitgeist. I am finding I avoid discussions in my private life also. There are no gray areas any more.
Like old Bush to said, you are either with us or against us.
You can’t even breathe a serious question or possible nuance on an issue. Then you are in league with the devil.
It used to be only fundamentalists I’d encounter like that and a few vegans and NRA members.
Now it’s everybody.
Philosophy goes on, but philosophy forums are like McCarthy hearings.
So, I am really glad that Phyllo is happily focused elsewhere.
Von River seemed to just dip in for a taste.
Gloominary has his work cut out not being clearly on any team overall.
And it’s nearly all politics. Politics politics. Other areas of inquiry are drained. And the discussions remaining there are often so vague I can’t even decide what the position is.
Similar patterns in other philosophy forums. Perhaps not so immediatly diving into insults, but exploration is fading away. Team identification is prioritized. So few are unsure of anything. Everyone one knows exactly how countries of 100s of millions should be organized.
Anyway, I would guess the coming economic crises will make philosphical assertions a less prioritized activity for all of us.
I wish us luck in the coming period. I hope I have been overly pessimistic.
Take care all.