This forum is useless

Since over taking over the previous forum, I find this nearly new forum useless as a means of good philosophical dialog
So I will unsubscibe

Alan McDougall

So what do you want us all to know with your departure? Being unsatisfied is one of the things that life presents us all. Seems that someone so versed in philosophy should understand so elementary a concept.

I get a kick out of people who say goodbye under whatever pretenses they choose, and all they are doing is going out to their refrigerator , stoking up on junk food, and coming back to the keyboard to find their Nirvanna at another www. Doesnt the entire "computer community" seem so ******* absurd?

Since over taking over the previous forum, I find this nearly new forum useless as a means of good philosophical dialog
So I will unsubscibe

Alan McDougall

I reckon it is OK, and I appreciate that attitude of all the folks here, and the people running it. Actually one thing I am enjoying are the Oz Politics threads.

The software isn't as polished as philforum, and that is an objective judgement, not a complaint. I haven't ever paid for any of this, so I don't understand the point of complaining about it. One either clicks on the address and turns up and interacts, or not.

I have been going through a lot of the old dialogues that I have had, and I realize have learned a lot from this activity. I am trying to learn to debate without being too emotional. It is still quite difficult. I feel I represent a minority viewpoint. But I have to get off my a*** and actually do some more study soon and consolidate the things I have learned. Philosophy is actually a very hard discipline if it is done properly. I have only scratched the surface up til now.

Since over taking over the previous forum, I find this nearly new forum useless as a means of good philosophical dialog
So I will unsubscibe

Alan McDougall

jeeprs wrote:

I reckon it is OK, and I appreciate that attitude of all the folks here, and the people running it. Actually one thing I am enjoying are the Oz Politics threads.

The software isn't as polished as philforum, and that is an objective judgement, not a complaint. I haven't ever paid for any of this, so I don't understand the point of complaining about it. One either clicks on the address and turns up and interacts, or not.

I have been going through a lot of the old dialogues that I have had, and I realize have learned a lot from this activity. I am trying to learn to debate without being too emotional. It is still quite difficult. I feel I represent a minority viewpoint. But I have to get off my a*** and actually do some more study soon and consolidate the things I have learned. Philosophy is actually a very hard discipline if it is done properly. I have only scratched the surface up til now.

No forum is responsible for the people who are on it. It is unfortunate that many of those who knew what they were talking about, Emil, Prothero, and Zetherin and others have left. Ignorance is one thing, but obtuseness, and the unwillingness to learn, coupled with the inability to make sense, is another thing. And is discouraging. I am committed to trying to get people to think coherently, but I have to say that things have become worse with the departure of intelligent and people who know something about philosophy has been discouraging. It is the combined complacency and arrogance of people who think that just anything goes in philosophy which is the worst. People who discuss logic but know no logic (and this does not even seem to concern them) reflect the contempt people have nowadays for learning and knowledge, and their wholesale commitment to feelings and emotion. It is indeed, as Wittgenstein said, "we are in the darkness of these times".

This forum is useless

tell me about it, i tried to use it to chop an onion the other day, big mistake, total failure

now, as a place to exchange ideas or generally be a nuisance, it's excellent

It was a waste of time trying to mow the lawn with A2K.
Useless.

Well what the hell is it good for then?