Greta wrote:
Yes, he was banned for repeated ad hominem attacks, after numerous warnings - three or four formal ones and a fair few informal ones. Obviously if we keep warning without consequence we will be treated with contempt, which was what happened. We put up with that for a while because, mainly because I thought Nick had something to contribute, so I kept cutting him slack.
He punished me for my softness, treating other mods and me with contempt one too many times - too many veiled and not-so-veiled insults, too many misrepresentations. I didn't notice his bragging about sex, though. Oh well, philosophy forums attracts a diverse crowd, with many malfunctionals seeking respite from their mental torments.
All of this is just proof of blind secular intolerance. Consider the amount of Greta's ugly ad hom attacks against me on this thread. I've been warned against standing up to fooloso4's attempts at intimidation. He is a person armed with facts but lacks understanding so when it is questioned he gets insulted. This is typical of spirit killing that goes on in universities. Anything which questions imagined secular superiority is considered condemnation. This is sick stuff. Looking back at some of my old threads at one time there were some serious thinkers like Quotidian. They left because of these superficial secular attitudes. So what is left?
Coincidently there is an article now in the magazine about intuition in children. The author is very astute and understands what the secularist hates. It could never be responded where secular intolerance is protected and considered a virtue since it invites speculation on anamnesis which is intolerable for a secularist since for them there is nothing to remember.. Yet it deserves a response worthy of the intelligence of the author and a real challenge to create one.
The Greta types will attack with their pitchforks and condemn what they find more comfortable to remain closed to. The author of the article suggests the importance of opening the mind at the expense of the secular indoctrination of selective facts.
Philosophy is a real challenge. Its mind opening potentials are essential for our species to remain human. Yet secular intolerance is doing its very best to destroy the great ideas in favor of secular indoctrination that must lead to catastrophe.
"even if we can't prevent the forces of tyranny from prevailing, we can at least "understand the force by which we are crushed." Simone Weil.
Secular intolerance and the gradual glorification of superficiality pretty much assures the collective descent into tyranny. All I can do is support and be part of the efforts to keep great ideas alive. I don't think it is possible. We've sold our collective soul for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver. I can at least grow to understand the force by which we are crushed. At least it's something.