What if you found out that God was the only one besides you?
Note to others:
Maybe we should have God as our moderator.
What do you think about that?
What if you found out that God was the only one besides you?
Note to others:
Maybe we should have God as our moderator.
What do you think about that?
Here’s an example of two pretty bad threads that in my opinion no forum should tolerate:
A New Ontological Argument
ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=197044Several questions for the Trump cult followers
ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=197023The first has a confusing opening post (I don’t think it’s just me) but that’s not the main problem. The main problem is the shit-posting of Ecmandu. He’s the author of 7 out of 14 posts in that thread and each one of his posts has little to nothing to do with the subject.
The second one is your standard Peter Kropotkin “Let’s berate conservatives” thread mixed with prom’s memes and Sculptor’s sneers. He asks a bunch of questions that noone answers because noone believes that Peter is interested in listening to what other people have to say something he proves later on in the thread when he declares that the lack of response from Trump supporters is a proof that Trumpism is an indefensible ideology.
Why would anyone want characters like these on an Internet forum (or anywhere else, for that matter)?
=D>
Meanwhile, the subforum “Religion and Spirituality” is more philosophical than the subforum “Philosophy”, and the subforum “SGE” seems to be a terror subforum. That makes one think, doesn’t it?
And why should anyone be interested in convincing someone who insanely believes to be a “progressive”, but is also conservative (because: everyone is conservative). There are no “progressives” - those who call themselves so are exclusively anti-conservatives, although conservatives too, but just dissatisfied with their own situation.
The real Kropotkin (1842-1921), was at least a soldier before he became a “revolutionary”, i.e., an atheist and an anarchist/communist. So he made at least a little change.
According to his own statements, the ILP-Kropotkin was always an atheist and always an anarchist/communist. He never made a change. How boring! How conservative! He is actually so conservative that it is impossible to be more conservative! He has always been left, always, always … How boring and without any change. He has probably experienced as good as nothing and transfers his being conservative, to which he must not stand, to others who know that everybody is conservative anyway and it depends only on the measure of being conservative. It is not possible to convince someone like the ILP Kropotkin, because he is too conservative, hiding this behind a trial of being anti-conservative. He is like the conservative dinosaurs, the reactionary bullheads in the former Soviet Union and today’s China.
Hey encode,
Yes, the title of the thread is misleading (the thread should have been called “Book: Decline and Fall of all Evil”) and the original post presents no thesis (since it’s a thread dedicated to exploring a book.) And yes, as you note, that’s against the rules (the written ones, at least.)
Personally, if you ask me, I’d have a rule that says that the opening post of every thread must be an argument.
Or a question! A good philosopher should be a good questioner.
One could proceed in such a way that opening posts that do not contain arguments or questions are moved to the non-philosophical chat subforum. In case of repetition, a warning or ban will be issued.
Or a question! A good philosopher should be a good questioner.
One could proceed in such a way that opening posts that do not contain arguments or questions are moved to the non-philosophical chat subforum. In case of repetition, a warning or ban will be issued.
Yes, I agree with: good questioner - actually a good question can encourage a fruitful conversation much like a good argument.
Maybe we should have God as our moderator.
What do you think about that?
I think you have a sense of humor - I think a sense of humor is a good thing. It can help us stay sane.
That is what I think.
Kathrina:Or a question! A good philosopher should be a good questioner.
One could proceed in such a way that opening posts that do not contain arguments or questions are moved to the non-philosophical chat subforum. In case of repetition, a warning or ban will be issued.
Yes, I agree with: good questioner - actually a good question can encourage a fruitful conversation much like a good argument.
To be able to ask means to be able to wait, even for a lifetime.
“For the pensive God hates untimely growth.” - J. C. F. Hölderlin.
Otto:Maybe we should have God as our moderator.
What do you think about that?
I think you have a sense of humor - I think a sense of humor is a good thing. It can help us stay sane.
That is what I think.
Thanks. Thanks to God as well.
encode_decode: Kathrina:Or a question! A good philosopher should be a good questioner.
One could proceed in such a way that opening posts that do not contain arguments or questions are moved to the non-philosophical chat subforum. In case of repetition, a warning or ban will be issued.
Yes, I agree with: good questioner - actually a good question can encourage a fruitful conversation much like a good argument.
To be able to ask means to be able to wait, even for a lifetime.
“For the pensive God hates untimely growth.” - J. C. F. Hölderlin.
A good quote.
On the importance of questions I wrote in another thread:
If it is true that the affectivity state of mood - the moodiness - is the basic event of our existence, something like a basic existential way of the equally original comprehension of world (cf. Heidegger), depending on its way it uncovers the being in the whole (cf. Heidegger), then it is extraordinarily important for the epistemology, because it predetermines the knowledge. It decides for or against knowledge in certain ways.
This also explains the question that you, Obsvr, asked once, namely: whether it is not better to orient oneself not according to truth and reality, but according to the prohibitions and commandments of power. Back then, I thought that was the most important question I have read here on ILP so far.
The state of feeling is important; but so is the knowledge. I am assuming that feeling is something irrational (which is not the same as anti-rational) and knowledge is something rational. If now the affectivity determines whether it wants to participate in knowledge at all and, if so, decides in favor of certain knowledge, then the power and lobby of knowledge can not resist against it at first, but later it can make the affectivity its subject in order to be able to influence it then, so that the affectivity would be tricked and only “believed” to determine, although in reality it got into dependence on the power and lobby of knowledge.
It is similar with the rational and irrational numbers in mathematics. At first, mathematics faces the irrational numbers powerlessly, but then it makes them its subject and integrates them, so that it - mathematics, which sees itself as something rational - gets power over the irrational. Mathematics still understands itself as something rational and has integrated much irrational, i.e. has learned to control it.
My vote for moderator is for Phyllo.
My vote for moderator is for Phyllo.
Karpel Tunnel and felix dakat concur.
encode_decode: MagsJ:Magnus A is a sock-puppet… I can tell.
No way! I would never have guessed. He seems legit.
Seriously though, really?
But who’s sock-puppet?
If I may guess:
Magnus Anderson and Obsvr could be sock-puppets of James S. Saint.
Magnus functions as a provocative questioner and moralizer, Obsvr functions as an admirer and deputy (“on earth”) of James S. Saint (“in heaven”).
But please note that this is not an assertion, but a guess.
I would mod but would have to get on here more, like I used to.
when you find a dude on the internet who talks about meta demons and how they can sometimes be cool you just kinda stand back with your popcorn and watch him wind himself up and go
If I may guess:
Magnus Anderson and Obsvr could be sock-puppets of James S. Saint.
Magnus functions as a provocative questioner and moralizer, Obsvr functions as an admirer and deputy (“on earth”) of James S. Saint (“in heaven”).
But please note that this is not an assertion, but a guess.
Uh, no. Not even close.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD2XZHnDKvo[/youtube]
Otto:If I may guess:
Magnus Anderson and Obsvr could be sock-puppets of James S. Saint.
Magnus functions as a provocative questioner and moralizer, Obsvr functions as an admirer and deputy (“on earth”) of James S. Saint (“in heaven”).
But please note that this is not an assertion, but a guess.
Uh, no. Not even close.
That was not even close a guess?
I can guarantee you, that was a guess.
You wouldn’t happen to be, after the above two, the third sock puppet, would you?
[tab]Just joking … Sorry.[/tab]
Otto, Otto, Otto…whatever shall we do with you?
That was not even close a guess?
I can guarantee you, that was a guess.
You wouldn’t happen to be, after the above two, the third sock puppet, would you?
Just joking … Sorry
There is no need to be sorry, I found it rather, hilarious. What purpose would James have for even one sock puppet? There are plenty of puppets already!
Yes, you made a guess. In terms of estimation, however, there is an error in the judgment of the value regarding James having the motivation behind using a sock puppet, to begin with.
Kathrina:Or a question! A good philosopher should be a good questioner.
One could proceed in such a way that opening posts that do not contain arguments or questions are moved to the non-philosophical chat subforum. In case of repetition, a warning or ban will be issued.
Yes, I agree with: good questioner - actually a good question can encourage a fruitful conversation much like a good argument.
I agree too, Kathrina.
One can’t really do much wrong with a question in an opening post. Well, it has to be appropriate to the forum and the subforum where the thread with the question is to be opened, and it has to be serious, understandable and not offensive.
I would mod but would have to get on here more, like I used to.
Would you “invest” more time in ILP if you were a moderator?
The standard should stay liberal, all points of view have some merit, some more then others, for the sake of preserving freedom of speech.
All else are twisted and hidden prejudicial cover-ups.
But maybe a ILP voting should commence, although it may become a microcosm of what’s ‘out there’ and mimic the hurrendous political atmosphere of senseless confusion.
But even confusion has a meaningful correlate to some reason for allowence.
Moderators should be a cut above!
The standard should stay liberal, all points of view have some merit, some more then others, for the sake of preserving freedom of speech.
All else are twisted and hidden prejudicial cover-ups.
But maybe a ILP voting should commence, although it may become a microcosm of what’s ‘out there’ and mimic the hurrendous political atmosphere of senseless confusion.
But even confusion has a meaningful correlate to some reason for allowence.
Moderators should be a cut above!
Do you mean that moderators should be a class of their own?
Do you want class warfare?
Are you still a Hungarian communist?
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Come on, comrade, have a drink first.
Meno_:The standard should stay liberal, all points of view have some merit, some more then others, for the sake of preserving freedom of speech.
All else are twisted and hidden prejudicial cover-ups.
But maybe a ILP voting should commence, although it may become a microcosm of what’s ‘out there’ and mimic the hurrendous political atmosphere of senseless confusion.
But even confusion has a meaningful correlate to some reason for allowence.
Moderators should be a cut above!
Do you mean that moderators should be a class of their own?
Do you want class warfare?
Are you still a Hungarian communist?
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Come on, comrade, have a drink first.
Actually, maybe. But as being Hungarian, i’m hangin’.
But maybe merely a hun-g-Aryan.