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Quarterly Fundraiser 2

Baden July 11, 2017 at 12:02 18575 views 49 comments
Hi all,

Bit late with this "quarterly" fundraiser but the long and short of it is if you have a few bucks to spare, please subscribe or send a Paypal donation directly to [email protected]. We've been doing OK so far largely thanks to your generosity, but we continue to need a couple of hundred bucks or so a quarter to keep what is now the number one philosophy forum on the net afloat. As usual we'll keep you posted with updates on how we're doing.

Cheers!

Comments (49)

Hanover July 11, 2017 at 12:48 #85486
How do you make a Paypal payment directly to an email address?
Baden July 11, 2017 at 12:56 #85487
Reply to Hanover

You need a PayPal account. There's an option in there to send money to another PayPal account identifiable by the email address. Cheers (Y)
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 11, 2017 at 14:51 #85515
I always was able to send cash (money order) to Paul and he in turned credited my donation to anyone I wanted to turn Green. If there is an administrator that is willing to trust me with their physical address, I would love to donate. In fact I lost bets to Hanover that Paul was the benificary of. So pm me if you are game.
Thanks for everything you do and for once again giving the Mötley crew that we are a place to call home.
Tiffers
Baden July 11, 2017 at 15:11 #85521
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff

Thanks Tiff. Best to PM @jamalrob about this as he's the one who pays the bills.
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 11, 2017 at 15:27 #85531
Reply to Baden Thank you kindly Baden, I dropped him a note.
Hanover July 11, 2017 at 17:46 #85578
Quoting Baden
You need a PayPal account. There's an option in there to send money to another PayPal account identifiable by the email address. Cheers (Y)


I have a PayPal account, but when I click on the link, I just go to my email. All it does is frustrate me and make me think about inappropriate things.
Michael July 11, 2017 at 17:49 #85580
Quoting Hanover
I have a PayPal account, but when I click on the link, I just go to my email.


I think grandpa needs Internet lessons.
Hanover July 11, 2017 at 17:55 #85584
Reply to Michael Either that or a God damn P.O. box so that I can send the money the way it has been sent for 5000 years. You guys a bunch of whippersnappers is what you are.
Shawn July 11, 2017 at 22:35 #85669
Could we put up a small ad from Amazon? I really think its a matter of being pragmatic and have no issues with seeing one quality ad from now and then.

Anyone?
Jamal July 11, 2017 at 22:41 #85677
Reply to Question No ads here, thank you.
Shawn July 11, 2017 at 22:45 #85681
Ok, was just a passing thought from an impoverished pseudo philosopher who appreciates this forum.
Jamal July 11, 2017 at 22:51 #85689
I would pay for the whole thing myself rather than see ads. Thankfully, the minority of members willing to cough up money provide just enough to keep it going, not least the large one-off donations we've had from a couple of people.
Shawn July 11, 2017 at 22:53 #85690
Reply to jamalrob

Its just a matter of taste then. But since you run and own the place its your call. Having ads run the place just makes the place self sufficient and not reliant on the donation of the few esteemed members.
Jamal July 11, 2017 at 22:55 #85693
Reply to Question Be thankful that people with good taste are in charge.
Shawn July 11, 2017 at 22:56 #85694
Reply to jamalrob

I am, and thank you and others once again. Ill be sure to add you guys to my Paypal monthly billing account once I'm on disability.
Hanover July 11, 2017 at 23:08 #85702
For real, if you give me an address, I'll send a check. I don't know another way.
Baden July 12, 2017 at 08:48 #85796
Reply to Question

Thanks and for the record I agree 100% with @jamalrob on the ads. That ain't who we are.

Reply to Hanover

Either PM jrob or wait a little and I'll do a visually aided tutorial for you on how to do it the PayPal way.
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 12, 2017 at 14:52 #85860
Reply to Hanover How about I send you the money and then you can post it to your PayPal account after your one on one tutorial with Baden?
Baden July 12, 2017 at 15:16 #85866
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff

You mean I may have to actually do that? Bugger.
Baden July 12, 2017 at 15:17 #85868
1. Log into your account at PayPal.com, select “Pay or send money” and choose sending money to friends and family.
2. Enter the recipient's email address ([email protected])
3. Enter the amount and click “Continue”

I'll add the pictures in a later century.
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 13, 2017 at 02:09 #86038
Reply to Baden
Well sure, you made the offer and it would benefit our happy home but in light of Hanover's limited knowledge of PayPal, I think step by step pictures would be most helpful. Don't you? 8-)
Remember how easy it was to read.picture books? Same idea just a different kinda book.
Baden July 13, 2017 at 04:35 #86091
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff

A lobotomized monkey could follow those instructions without visual aids. In other words, yes, Hanover probably does need more help.
TimeLine July 13, 2017 at 11:30 #86138
Quoting Hanover
For real, if you give me an address, I'll send a check. I don't know another way.


It's cheque. And those peas in your awkward dinners you post for everyone to see are not considered a vegetable.
Hanover July 13, 2017 at 14:52 #86218
Quoting Baden
A lobotomized monkey could follow those instructions without visual aids. In other words, yes, Hanover probably does need more help.


How do you know what a lobotomized monkey would do? My guess is that you're just guessing and you want everyone here to think you have the balls to actually lobotomize a monkey, but I know you'd probably start feeling queasy like a little baby when you started jamming the steel bar up the monkey's nose into his brain.
Hanover July 13, 2017 at 15:03 #86221
Quoting TimeLine
It's cheque. And those peas in your awkward dinners you post for everyone to see are not considered a vegetable.


You don't know American, so stop trying to act like some sort of spelling bee queen. I'll have you know that I raised two kids off those mixed pea dinner treats, both of them performing well above the educational standards that have riddled the deep south since cession.

Send me a pic of your food and see how it feels when I ridicule you. When the shoe's on the other foot, you won't be laughing so hard then.
Shawn July 13, 2017 at 18:13 #86292
Reply to Hanover

Drop the double standards, please.
TimeLine July 13, 2017 at 19:10 #86332
Reply to Hanover

My recipes get published. I would not want to further ridicule you by posting them. :-*
Hanover July 13, 2017 at 19:18 #86340
Reply to TimeLine Hanover's Baked Chicken
1 chicken cut up
Season salt (the red kind)
Salt
Pepper

Put the chicken in a roasting pan and sprinkle the other stuff on it. Cook at 425 F for about an hour.

Now I've been published.
TimeLine July 13, 2017 at 19:23 #86347
Reply to Hanover Do you mean paprika?
Hanover July 13, 2017 at 20:59 #86369
Reply to TimeLine No, I mean ferocious season salt for all your seasoning needs. User image
TimeLine July 13, 2017 at 21:25 #86379
Reply to Hanover

Oh right, the one that contains paprika.
Jamal July 17, 2017 at 09:03 #87632
I don't really want to receive cash or checks.
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 18, 2017 at 02:00 #87804
Quoting jamalrob
I don't really want to receive cash or checks.


I cannot say that I have ever heard those words put together in a sentence like that. :-O
Jamal July 18, 2017 at 07:00 #87849
Michael July 18, 2017 at 09:46 #87856
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff If it helps, he only said "don't really", not "really don't".
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 18, 2017 at 12:37 #87883
Quoting Michael
If it helps, he only said "don't really", not "really don't".


I really need a small version of you that I can carry around in my back pocket that puts words in an order that I hadn't thought of before.
Jamal July 18, 2017 at 12:41 #87884
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff A back pocket seems like a reckless place to keep a miniature Englishman.
Michael July 18, 2017 at 12:47 #87888
Quoting ArguingWAristotleTiff
I really need a small version of you that I can carry around in my back pocket that puts words in an order that I hadn't thought of before.


Really need a small version or need a really small version?
bert1 July 18, 2017 at 13:58 #87908
I'd really like to know if Hanover managed to make a paypal payment. I'm already stressed and tired and it would be one thing off my mind.
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 19, 2017 at 11:14 #88113
Quoting jamalrob
A back pocket seems like a reckless place to keep a miniature Englishman.


Not nearly as reckless as keeping a miniature Englishman in my front pocket would be. ;)
ArguingWAristotleTiff July 19, 2017 at 11:16 #88114
Quoting Michael
Really need a small version or need a really small version?


See? Your polish on words is blindingly brilliant! 8-)
Janus July 20, 2017 at 23:28 #88652
How about setting up a bookshop where members can offer their books for sale and give a commission to the site?
Agustino July 21, 2017 at 08:31 #88755
Quoting John
How about setting up a bookshop where members can offer their books for sale and give a commission to the site?

X-) I like it. What would you be selling?

And I suppose we would have to take care of transport if our book gets sold? Or we'd all have to mail our books to jamal, and when they get sold he pays us and takes care of transport, but that would be a lot of work for him.
Jamal July 21, 2017 at 08:54 #88761
Reply to Agustino I'd expect to set up an account or "store" with some existing platform to make that stuff easier. Amazon or Ebay or whatever. Don't know how that would work though.
Janus July 21, 2017 at 09:57 #88770
Reply to Agustino

I imagine mailing direct as you do if you sell books on eBay. If Amazon or eBay are not used then it would be financially better for the seller and buyer and The Philsophy Forum. As to buyer protection I imagine the good will engendered by a small online community of like-interested members would be sufficient to ensure honest dealings. That coupled with extreme public shaming and even banning abusers from the site altogether. >:)
Agustino July 21, 2017 at 10:32 #88776
Quoting John
If Amazon or eBay are not used then it would be financially better for the seller and buyer and The Philsophy Forum.

Exactly ;)

Quoting John
That coupled with extreme public shaming and even banning abusers from the site altogether. >:)

X-)
Janus July 21, 2017 at 20:59 #89021
Quoting Agustino
I like it. What would you be selling?


I always have a few books (mostly philosophy) that I have read and/or am no longer interested in for sale on eBay. At the moment I have 3 Heidegger books and a biography of Foucault. :) I have probably at least a thousand books I will attempt to sell over the next few years.
Agustino July 21, 2017 at 21:42 #89031
Quoting John
I always have a few books (mostly philosophy) that I have read and/or am no longer interested in for sale on eBay. At the moment I have 3 Heidegger books and a biography of Foucault. :) I have probably at least a thousand books I will attempt to sell over the next few years.

Cool - I also sometimes sell mine, but I should sell a lot more than I do. It's just that I'm often worried I might want to come back to one in the future, even though I don't actually have any reasons why I would come back to them atm. I also have a ton of Kindle books (or other electronic format ones) - the only way to monetise those would be to give people access to my Kindle library :P
Janus July 21, 2017 at 21:48 #89033
Quoting Agustino
It's just that I'm often worried I might want to come back to one in the future, even though I don't actually have any reasons why I would come back to them atm.


This has always been a bit of a problem for me, too. But finally now, as an old bastard, I am confident that the range of my philosophical interests will no longer change that much.

Quoting Agustino
I also have a ton of Kindle books (or other electronic format ones) - the only way to monetise those would be to give people access to my Kindle library :P


Yeah, I have a packed Kindle as well. I guess you could sell access to your library but Amazon might get suspicious when download to 'My 15th Android Device' is requested. >:O