Jamal

I told you what to do: take part in discussions that were started by other members. It's good enough for most members, who rarely or never start discu...

I never liked that draft topic so I'm glad to see it closed.

I have told you why. Your discussions in themselves are mostly not very good, but the fact that they are so numerous--I'm guessing you post two or thr...

You are free to say whatever you like, but here, we make editorial decisions to maintain quality. It has nothing to do with free speech, any more than...

Is there something there that you'd like to see addressed in some way? What is the threat you're referring to?

Sure, or I can post what I wrote myself.

The Lounge shouldn't just be the Wallows dump.

The problem is not only your low quality posts, but your endless stream of new discussions. I'd like you to participate in discussions started by othe...

Ok

Yes, by "meeting people" I probably mostly mean getting laid. The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it's not easy to get laid without meeting p...

Tinder is a way of arranging such meetings, not an alternative to them. Maybe that's how it's mostly used, but it's not really my experience of it. An...

I think yes, your perception is conditioned, or "warped" as you say, by your circumstances. But whatever we tell you will probably not alter those cir...

:up:

But isn't it good that you have non-Muslims like George Eaton, and a few people here, to protect you from offence? :wink: Maybe they'll say you have i...

Reading your recent posts, so do I.

I did not enjoy being assaulted by the thought of "masturbatory diarrhea" first thing in the morning.

Hardly anyone comes here any more anyway

Maybe you're right, but meh. I'm a deal with it when it happens kind of guy.

Unenlightened posted the news article and I responded here, but then realized it would make a good discussion so I copied my post and made the new dis...

As all the people I've read who make the claim, or who criticize the concept of Islamophobia, are not racist, and are even sometimes explicitly anti-r...

Thanks for the thoughtful response. It's good to know that some people who strongly disagree with Scruton's opinions are willing to be reasonable.

Knowing that you've seen the full quotation, I have to say that this is beneath contempt. You attempt to push his position outside the realm of reason...

I more or less agree with this. But this is wrong. Can one criticize the West as such? Can one criticize Islam as such? Even though I may have indulge...

EDIT: I've posted an edited version of this comment here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5573/philosopher-roger-scruton-has-been-sacked-for...

Yep. Incidentally, this was a time when the concept of race was quite different from how it is now. It wasn't about colour, or wasn't only about colou...

Even if it were true that the early European settlers were (mostly?) violent criminals, I can't see how that would account for the behaviour of today'...

It comes pretty naturally out of what follows, I think. You treat meaning rather like a thing or a property, whereupon it seems mysterious that it cou...

Reification of meaning. I take you to mean an ancient text in an unknown language that is as yet undeciphered. In one sense it is meaningful: we know ...

Maybe more like Dr Nick Riviera?

I supported the closure. The philosophical content had shrunk to almost nothing and letting it continue would have resulted in more childish bickering...

Yeah, it's good to know about those fallacies, but I don't think it's a case for pinning.

I agree with @"TheWillowOfDarkness" and @"Hanover" and @"StreetlightX". Among the bad posts and obnoxious posters, I suspect that fallacies and biases...

Unfortunately there is no such feature in the software we're using, but SophistiCat created browser plugins that do the job: https://thephilosophyforu...

Yeah, I had an article published in Philosophy Now a long long time ago, and I received a year's subscription. Otherwise I'm not sure. It could simply...

If my memory serves me right, I had the Submit an article for publication discussion pinned at the top of the forum for a year or more, and we got alm...

Sorry Jake, I don't know. I only found out because there's very little documentation for PlushForums, so when I was Googling for information about som...

Yep, that's how I understand it.

In this form and hosted as it is, yes it's just a service from PlushForums. But I believe it's based on a fork of VanillaForums, which is open source ...

We could move if necessary, say if it became too expensive, but it would mean starting from scratch unless we had control over the source code and dat...

Hi Evil. I don't think I have the heart for this debate any more. Who knows, maybe I'll muster the energy to gather up my tatty old opinions for anoth...

This could be a good idea.

Thanks for the comments. As I'm in a minority, I don't feel justified in making any substantial changes. I agree with the several comments about the s...

I just told you: the site is categorized. It always has been.

Still don't know what you mean. There are many categories and every discussion is in one of them. All discussions are categorised.

What do you mean? Specifically, what is "implementing the categories in practice"? And what is "sticky and guidelines"?

Fascinating.

Unless you go with the Bitter Crank-Terrapin view that "it" refers to the conditions (which is the view of at least one linguist, so Google tells me),...

A question with a view to showing that ethics is about the things we value and not merely about moral comprehension: if I destroy the Mona Lisa for no...

I'm sure you can imagine examples. The point is to show that our actions in respect of people or babies or animals or dead bodies or psychopaths do in...

But take the generalized AMC. Some infants may not ever gain moral comprehension--it could be some kind of severe mental disability--and yet they woul...