davidm wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:01 amGreta wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:55 pmStill, credit where credit's due. How can a misguided overcompensating queen like Nick string so many people along for over 50 pages? He has a talent for pulling people in to indulge his bullshit. He is an expert theistic troll who can take over large swathes of forums and turn the whole thing into circular fights about religion. I have seen him do this before, unfortunately.
Listen, Nick is a piker. You just don't even know. I can't explain it myself. At a forum where I used to post (it's pretty much gone dormant now) someone named peacegirl strung us all along
for more than six years. That would be 2,047 pages, 51,160 replies, and 2,999,904 page views. I only regret that she finally left before that three-millionth page view.
We threw her a big Page 2,000 party when the odometer rolled over.
Yikes. I can see why the forum died - when the signal-to-noise ratio reaches a certain level, people switch off.
The Nickhead is not finished yet and his pace is accelerating. I suspect you may have given him a new goal in life. He is highly impressionable and prone to parroting (he always parrots my barbs) so I expect him to be right on board with the idea of owning an endless thread. Publicity! Notoriety! Influence! Nicky's dream!! The next Simone Weil!!! Watch this space (or not).
Still, such ratbags provide light amusement to contrast some heavy and complex stuff that can appear on philosophy forums at times. When I'm tired or just not in the mood for D&M discussion I go check what Nick is up to for a laugh. He believes he's presenting a case or challenge, but it's largely just a tantrum dressed in philosophical frippery, with a solipsist attitude not wildly unlike Dwayne Hoover in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.
To the Nickhead, you and I and most others here are like Chalmers's philosophical zombies - with only physical sensations and abstracted thoughts, but no actual sense of inner experience or depth of emotion or empathy. He does not believe that any of us are fully human - only himself and a few other similarly enlightened superior souls.
Also, apparently, we are all engaged in supporting The Great Beast - society at large - and betraying individuals and individualism for conformity. This of course is a strawman based on blinkered B&W thinking, lacking any nuance or sense of continua.
The same applies to his accusations of spirit-killing education. The public education system is paid for by the many so its aims are for the many (not for power-hungry theocrats). So the aim is to produce productive units for the economy rather than individual building of character. In the past schools were more focused on the person (and in some cases, brainwashing) but many - and fair - complaints made by parents about ideological biases one way or another resulted in the "character shaping" aspects of the public education system being withdrawn and delegated back to families.
None of the above is ideal but these issues are far more prosaic and understandable than p****'s prolonged and rather hysterical twittering about it.