Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
Indeed. Lenny Murphy was Protestant and rather infamous, but with a name that could easily pass for Catholic.
It's not conscious, it's just a thing women do. They then look at the man's shoes, apparently due to an inner conviction that smart shoes are an important status indicator.Lou Reed said that a quite weird number of women pestered him for an introduction to his friend Ernie after the Transformer album came out, because of Ernie's photo on the back of the sleeve. He had to tell t
My head just exploded at the thought of you listening to Transformer.
Most people don’t want it (spirituality or philosophy), but they need it.
People who are 100% politics are puppets to their bio-social bias and primarily engage in tribalistic mudslinging. There is no progress happening under these conditions.
Plato’s solution to this problem was the “philosopher king”, but this can only be a temporary solution.
The only lasting solution is for everyone to become a philosopher king. This is the path the West has taken through more democratic governance.
The law / socialization is a means and not an end.
Yes, Jesus wanted his followers to socialize themselves in the law, but he also wanted them to transcend the social self.
The faith path is a growth path, not simple rule following.
Growth is to the body as expansion is to the mind. The path is a narrow alley that allows passage only to the slender man. The man who eats not just his own fatted calf, but the fatted calf of his neighbor, and his neighbor's neighbor, surely will outgrow the path. But he cannot be said to have expanded beyond the path, for he can still see the path, even as he is unable to walk it.
I'm trying to be nice and didn't want to personalise it so I'd rather leave it as a general comment that if mods are going to clamp down on abusive remarks they might be advised to look at their own posting history first.
King Spew banned Karl. Now if you’re done with this same sad song, you can crawl back into your hole for the day. Thanks. ♥
I don't know about everyone else, but I am excited about craig's new foray into Platonism.
Growth is to the body as expansion is to the mind. The path is a narrow alley that allows passage only to the slender man. The man who eats not just his own fatted calf, but the fatted calf of his neighbor, and his neighbor's neighbor, surely will outgrow the path. But he cannot be said to have expanded beyond the path, for he can still see the path, even as he is unable to
Where have you been getting these words of wisdom?
So do I. Call me mad but I think Berlin is quite a (depressive) masterpiece and of course the VU were fantastic.
Wait then how do they count "unaffiliated", basically only the chinese + vietnamites and not even all of them? i thought that was western atheists as well.
And why is religious switching to "unaffiliated" a thing if there is no estimate for how many people just drop their original religion and disregard religion the rest of their life (which is *very common* at least in europe)?
I don't know how it worked historically with Christianity, as Taleb never addressed it in anything I read. But he mentioned with Islam historically you are basically never allowed to leave the religion, regardless of your beliefs or practices.
Which worked well for representation in the religion in the long run. Because even if your family went a generation or two where religiosity wanes, as long as you are still nominally a member of the religion, at some point your progeny will rediscover religiosity.
In fact, he mentioned historically most people initially converted to Islam for matters of expedience with little interest in religiosity. But within a couple generations their progeny were as devoted as anyone else.
I'm trying to be nice and didn't want to personalise it so I'd rather leave it as a general comment that if mods are going to clamp down on abusive remarks they might be advised to look at their own posting history first.
King Spew just comes in occasionally and does drive by bannings. It is what it is. It was actually much worse during Covid when he would randomly go through the Covid thread and ban you if you said anything to challenge the medical orthodoxy of the times.
So do I. Call me mad but I think Berlin is quite a (depressive) masterpiece and of course the VU were fantastic.
Of course the Velvet Underground stuff is even better, but I was referring to the self titled Lou Reed album, which has been out of print since not long after it was released and is sadly so obscure that even most fans don't know of its existence.
It includes mostly songs which were previously recorded by the VU but had not been released at the time.
Most of the original VU versions were later released on VU, Another View, or expanded reissue of Loaded.
It's still worth checking out though.
King Spew just comes in occasionally and does drive by bannings. It is what it is. It was actually much worse during Covid when he would randomly go through the Covid thread and ban you if you said anything to challenge the medical orthodoxy of the times.
He couldn't handle it and ended up closing the COVID thread.
Good. Covid misinformation was actively killing people at the time.
FWIW forum rules have changed since your last hiatus. Karl has not posted anything ban worthy under current rules, and most of the stuff you have been banned for over the years would not be ban worthy either.
i wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't given a perma
you may have missed the posts advocating lagtight end his life
That wasn't called for or good but Luciom's still posting here despite advocating that millions of people have their lives ended for them.
If you dress hatred up as politics it will get through the mod net.
King Spew just comes in occasionally and does drive by bannings. It is what it is. It was actually much worse during Covid when he would randomly go through the Covid thread and ban you if you said anything to challenge the medical orthodoxy of the times.
Look, snowflakes on Easter! And it’s 77 degrees here!
