Who is FDRAKE and why is this simpleton moderating a philosophy board
Well I am outta here.
This nonentity, whoever he is, closed my discussion called Evolution Debunked, apparently because of a slightly unconventional position being advocated. Philosophy is supposed to be a free-thinking pursuit for individualistic, intellectually-inclined people, not rigid narrow-minded morons.
This nonentity, whoever he is, closed my discussion called Evolution Debunked, apparently because of a slightly unconventional position being advocated. Philosophy is supposed to be a free-thinking pursuit for individualistic, intellectually-inclined people, not rigid narrow-minded morons.
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The horror, the horror...
Quoting Joe0082
Yeah, too bad there are so many that insist on logic, the scientific method and that stuff instead of free-thinking...
Quoting Joe0082
Bye.
You are right. I wished I hadn't piled on.
Quoting Wayfarer
Not so fast! In terms of intellectual content, this thread is far superior to Evolution Debunked.
I'm moderating a philosophy board because I have the ability to respond even handedly to people who are upset with me.
I decided to close your thread for a few reasons:
(1) Evolution denial is pseudoscience.
(2) It also wasn't a philosophical angle on "limits of evolution" so to speak (eg, mind of god = patterns+natural order, cosmological argument grist), or treating evolution philosophically, it was...
(3) An attempt at criticism of ideas with a series of largely decontextualised rhetorical questions, which you can tell attempt to criticise evolution by the tone, but can't sufficiently easily reconstruct the argument from the offerings.
(4) If it was thematically appropriate for the site it wasn't transparently so, see (3).
This is the OP:
In a nutshell, it was simultaneously not something generally thematically welcome on the site, and it wasn't particularly strongly written. If it was more thematically welcome, I'd've shown more lenience on the writing and left it open.
Fdrake, just ban the guy. Point.
After he apologises to Fdrake, I'd like to see if Joe0082 can come back with Evolution Debunked II; or maybe, "Some Problems with Evolution" - might be a less ambitious title! There are plenty of good questions I'd be glad to discuss if Joe0082 is a sufficiently, intellectually inclined entity! I suspect not.
Indeed, but the evidence proves otherwise.
I have 95 current thread but quite a few of others have been deleted because they were not fleshed out well enough. I wish they would have at least sent me back what I had written in them, but you have to learn get along with people. Then you will find this to be a place of intellectual pleasure. I don't think you're out of here yet, unless you want to
Admittedly, Evolution Debunked was very poor - and his subsequent behaviour - again, suggestive of a bear of very little brain, but... erm...but...
No, I got nothing to finish that sentence with!
Thank you for convincing me that your really ARE 100% evolved from pond scum.
And what a devolved degenerate I must be for suggesting evolution is not scriptural and inviolate. I am also sorry you found my thread poorly written, I tried hard but guess am just not up to your Rabelaisian Carnivalesque especially the part about "decontexualized rhetorical questions". You are clearly a person of deep soundings. You managed to find non-meanings and non-intentions in my thread that only a completely roboticized birdbrain could find, and I am impressed by that, just as I am impressed by the ability of a slightly different kind of automated nitwit to crawl flylike up the side of the Capitol Building over some cliche he heard. However, I must tell you that being subjected to the oversite of a robot-ding-a-ling who thinks philosophy is a matter of fitting words into an algorithm and rope-walking above an abyss of cliches is not my ideal for philosophical discussion and so I must wish you and your forum adieu and will not be reading any more of it. I am sorry I stumbled on it in the first place, no wonder US philosophy is the pathetic little pet rabbit of science that is it. It is because of science-fawining literal-minded sycophants like you, sir, who should be punching adding machines or somehing, not "monitoring" philosophically-minded people. GOOD NIGHT, GO BACK TO YOUR MENTAL CASKET.
That's okay! Try again some other time. @Baden has a really nice OP writing guide here.
Quoting Joe0082
Good night, Joe.
Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin 's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World.
Apparently, our former friend Joe0082 implies his Evolution Debunked thread was a piss poor jumble of incoherent nonsense because it wasn't sincere. He was merely subverting and liberating the assumptions of the dominant style through humor and chaos! In reality - he's a Darwinist, just pretending to be a ill-tempered, idiotic Creationist! Nice one Joe - you had me fooled!
Quoting counterpunch
He is a master debater!
Joe, You are right to question partial truths. The accepted term I guess is half truths. From Wiki
The purpose and or consequence of a half-truth is to make something that is really only a belief appear to be knowledge, or a truthful statement to represent the whole truth, or possibly lead to a false conclusion. According to the justified true belief theory of knowledge, in order to know that a given proposition is true, one must not only believe in the relevant true proposition, but one must also have a good reason for doing so. A half-truth deceives the recipient by presenting something believable and using those aspects of the statement that can be shown to be true as a good reason to believe the statement is true in its entirety, or that the statement represents the whole truth. A person deceived by a half-truth considers the proposition to be knowledge and acts accordingly.
For evolution to be more than a half truth, it would have to be discussed as a cycle along with involution. In the East it is called the breath of Brahma but is avoided in academic philosophy
He 100% debunked your debunking?
That is the sort of statement that can get ungrateful peasants banned. Look, the moderators are volunteers. They do a generally good and pretty much thankless job.
According to evolution theory we’re all 100% evolved from pond scum, I believe.
The irony....
Enough already
:lol: