Jamal

I moved it to the Lounge because it's a low quality or informal discussion. The one interesting post, from Tzeentch, gained only a stupid response. To...

I banned @"Asif" for unmitigated low quality.

Again no philosophy, and again quite Russia-centric. Recent highlights: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens The characters are grotesques or ciphers: rather...

Instead of many, why not read a few? It's not all or nothing.

Me too. Maybe only you can see them @"SophistiCat".

Yeah, great stuff. I haven't read Timbuktu but I've read Mr Vertigo, Leviathan, Moon Palace, and a couple of others. I can recommend those ones.

Now I'm really confused.

Tell me more.

I imagine you in a brownstone next door to Paul Auster. But don't worry, I don't spend much time imagining you and I'm not spying on you. You mentione...

Haven't pinpointed your exact location yet. Somewhere around Union Street I think.

Do it. Only 32 minutes by bike.

Yep, seems plausibile.

Whisky yes, but vodka is the diminutive of voda (water). So it's affectionate, something along the lines of "little water" or "sweet little water". Wh...

Sweet, a bit sour, a bit mango. It's the same here. The markets are great, but I hate them. The endless clamorous solicitations from the vendors when ...

Nice. My relevant childhood experience from Scotland is blackberries. I once survived on blackberries for a whole day and night when I went camping an...

All right. The mods are mostly against a ban, so don't worry. How do you feel about berries? Here in Russia at this time of year, they're berry crazy....

In France I cycled alongside the rivers Lot and Garonne to Bordeaux in August. Away from the river on high ground we stopped in vineyards and ate some...

Maybe you enjoy your olives in the miserable New York winters even more than I did in Spain. For you, they supply a striking and welcome contrast, a r...

Me. (*shares) I don't know the names of different kinds. In Spain, where I was living for a couple of years, anonymous olives are always supplied in b...

I always do when I see them.

Then is blame is always a mistake, and is there no such thing as agency, which would seem to follow?

I was just curious. It seems to me there's a great confusion, at least a great divergence of opinion, about what the difference is.

Do you think there are character defects at all?

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I'm only saying what I'm saying. My first post was kind of making fun of the fact that you're still bitter since I deleted or moved one of your discus...

By the way, when I talk about stupidity I don't really mean a lack of intelligence so much as an attitude, e.g., thoughtlessness, lack of good sense (...

That stuff is hard sometimes. Stop what? Take it easy.

It's been at least two weeks Wheatley. I thought you'd be over it by now.

There hasn't really been a concerted push for heavier moderation of low-quality posts. Every so often one of the staff might say to the others, "let's...

I pretty much agree with @"StreetlightX" and @"Banno". I think we're too lenient. There's too much low quality stuff on the forum, because the mods ar...

Sorry ssu, but your post is shallow, stupid, and ignorant. Ciao xxx.

No. It's really annoying when you do this. Many things got worse for many people, but it doesn't follow that I think things would have been better had...

Vagabonds existed because the common land was stolen in the enclosures, with many peasants being evicted. Luddites protested the unfair situation that...

Your response to KK is emotive and irrational. It's hardly debatable that the concentration of the ownership of land, and capital in general, can be t...

I agree. I want to keep it open to a wide spectrum of views.

I thought so too at first, but now I suspect he did. In any case, it was his racism that led to the ban. Even if it were true that he'd become racist ...

Yes, I considered addressing what you meant by meaningless sex, but decided to assume you were equating it with casual sex. Well we're in agreement th...

Deceiving and hurting unsuspecting people is bad, sure. I was making the point that lies and manipulation are most often just part and parcel of flirt...

Fair enough. But I don't even think it's clear how to distinguish genuine from fake interest. In performing a connection, a connection is made, I thin...

A sad and unimaginative view. The worst thing is that you move from personal discomfort so easily into moral condemnation. People like to have sex and...

I disagree with Michael on this: I think you're right. To find someone physically attractive just is to objectify them. The problem is in treating or ...

It was low quality and unphilosophical.

:up: More than that, though: the "resistance to race", as Street puts it, even if it's a luxury, is no less progressive for that. One can hardly advoc...

Fixed. Praxis had posted a non-https image URL.

I knew you'd say that.

In style more than in substance. Street would make a better Leninist, I think. Hang the bloodsucking kulaks, that kind of thing.

@"StreetlightX" Calm down

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You tell me, Socrates. If you're interested, have a think about it and let me know what you come up with. I reckon it could be an interesting avenue.

Well I didn't say that every orientation is a belief.