You can't kill philosophy here. Back on your broomstick and go home.
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This site hasn't even been open a month, filled with people your forum has banned, and everyone is behaving and getting along, because nobody is dicking around with their posts or ability to state their position or argue. It's been making descent advances compared to the early days of ILP. Don't ruin it for everyone by demanding others conform to your fascist world vision of propriety. If you want to torment people with crazy rules, you can go into the protected forum area, set up your own little meanie universe, and everyone posting in that thread will respect it. We don't enforce the world view of Magsj on everyone here everywhere, just in a small area. Everywhere else is ruled by rhetoric and dialectic, to each their own. We are doing just fine without moderators. Notice Satyr isn't murdering anyone, Trixie isn't lashing out at the control, I'm not nearly as pissed at the faux displays of the malformed auctoritas on ILP anymore, cause I don't gotta look at it anymore, defend people being scared away or being banned, etc. People have peace here, and it is the very people you treat as the most twisted and dangerous. They are a reaction, not the cause. Don't spread your rash here, it will inflame them.
There is no moderation over at Philosophy Now only two robot mods who do no moderating at all. Despite
this the forum manages to function relatively well. There is hardly anyone there from ILP. The two forums
have virtually different members. You may think the magazine dull however the forum is entirely separate
There is no moderation over at Philosophy Now only two robot mods who do no moderating at all. Despite
this the forum manages to function relatively well. There is hardly anyone there from ILP. The two forums
have virtually different members. You may think the magazine dull however the forum is entirely separate
I have heard mention of moderation over there, but I think it is more stealth than visible.. swoop in, swoop out.. job done.
There are plenty of names and posting styles I recognise, but what I do like is the large contingency of Brits.. and therefore relevant topics.. over there, but time restraints prohibits me from engaging more than I already have been.
So many people I know submit article after article to PN.. until one of them gets published. It seems to be the pinnacle of achievement for the hard-working and driven educated man or woman.
A philosophy forum is the last place one should expect censorship. As the only way to determine the validity of ideas
is by taking them to pieces and with extreme prejudice too. For none should be deemed exempt from brutal analysis
because they are deemed too sacred or popular or dangerous or controversial to be tampered with. Because the only
way to enlightenment is through open debate not the false comfort of ignorance however tempting it may actually be
I subscribe to Philosophy Now magazine and have bought as many consecutive back issues as I can. I would like to have the complete
set but some are no longer in print. Philosophy is like history in that there is so much of it. A life time is not long enough for true study
Most of the magazines I have yet to read. I have a biography of Nietzsche half read because the prose was incredibly dull. One entitled
The Great Philosophers which if memory serves omits Kant but includes Turing. Odd that for he was a mathematician not a philosopher
Also Platos Republic and that is about it. I am just a novice but hope to learn more over time as knowledge acquisition is my goal in life
I cannot think of a specific issue that interests me more than any other at the moment. Maybe when I have a greater understanding of philosophy
in general I might acquire one. The other subjects I am especially interested in are physics and maths and history. I become interested in physics
and philosophy after becoming atheist six years ago. There is a logical connection between the three. I do not want to narrow my range but keep
my interests as broad as possible. I also read politics and psychology and crime. And classic fiction and science fiction on the fiction side. I have a
rule that my fiction must not exceed my non fiction. For I wish to be educated rather than entertained. Although it is of course possible to be both