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Oh dear Heister... you should watch out man, you don't want to end up mashed potato do you? >:O

He wants to make sure that he appears as a match for: (L) >:O >:O >:O

This guy worked with big lawyers telling them to take 4 days off every 3 months. Clearly that's what made them successful :D (NOT those connections wi...

Sure but the risks aren't the same. If I design and build an online shop + a marketing campaign to build traffic and get conversions for a client my r...

>:O I'm fucking joking. I'd never vote UKIP. If I was honest, I'd have gone for Lib Dems.

What if I spill the beans about the moderator forum? :-O >:O

Au contraire! If this was a forum just for casual chitchat, then you should have simplified things as much as possible - like now. For simple chitchat...

It's funny that people think they were lucky - but the truth is that they were just exploiting an asymmetry generated by pure luck. They say "Oh I kep...

Yes, but they're not risking their own capital are they? I mean you could say some of my clients exploit me too, but I wouldn't put it like that. They...

Yes, I am aware, I am a poker player myself. I simplified the example on purpose to illustrate the point. It did happen though before that I won a rea...

To be honest, I've yet to see a supermarket - even in my own country - that doesn't do (or try to do) EXACTLY the same. It's just controlling the dist...

Right, and this isn't melodramatic?

Yes but if someone having 600 goes all-in and loses, he's finished. If someone having 3200 goes all-in (meaning he puts just 600 because that's all th...

I'm not so sure. I tend to think that exploitation always requires power, and just like in the poker example, the bullying only begins once that power...

What's your issue with UKIP though? Their policies are exactly what Britain needs.

I think this is one of the things that's wrong with modern philosophy. It's not the argument - but the insight that counts. Argumentation is merely a ...

At first. If there's anything important there, I will read everything. If the author is worth reading, he should at least be aware of what his message...

For you, which is fine. You are free to disagree and have your own opinion. But there's a long way from having your own opinion, and thinking that oth...

Right - you can check out other forums then. I don't remember old PF being messy, or somehow being affected by the "lack of common standards of presen...

Yeah, sorry I didn't know those peeps who keep their eyes glued to the TV screen have a personality :P I'm part of those who appear on TV, not those w...

Inbred? Is that supposed to be something disgusting?

I have no clue who that guy is ;) You can tell I never watch TV.

I voted for UKIP. I appreciate the bait and switch though ;)

Okay, I get it you don't like it, but my question is why not, and what does that have to do with web development?

And you do >:O

For web pages, not for the content inside posts. If I post something I should be able to decide if it's green or yellow, or whatever. Maybe I want to ...

Why not? You are aware that most forums have word processors for posts right (at least the other non-philosophy forums I've been on do, and I remember...

No, I actually don't think I'm fit to be a moderator, but I would have other people to propose: Mariner, Thorongil, yourself, John and a few more! I'd...

Okay, can you prove this? This is a possibility, but why do you reject accepting the opposite possibility: namely that they really had ample reasons f...

You have that wrong, I'm all for a strong moderating team, but not for unnecessary interventions.

Okay, I agree with all that. The target of this forum, the way I see it, is anyone seriously interested in a philosophy. That's what I mean (and thoug...

Ok, understood. Formatting and style though is a means of communication too, and as such, it is a writer's concern. One of the things that I think has...

You are right about that, I agree. Well I think the posts weren't getting in the way of anything. Actually quite the contrary: the thread is now long ...

Not necessarily - they may also overestimate the constraints they're under, blow them out of proportions. Willpower can break passivity and inaction. ...

Big surprise! Did you expect me to tell you how things should work according to my grandmother?! >:O

Depends. If you have strength of character you won't be a doormat. You'll be an invitation to something more. A doormat is characterised by need - a d...

And you're proud of that? >:O In either case, I never implied that. You seem to have reading difficulties. Or comprehension difficulties. Either way, ...

That's the kind of thinking that misses opportunities. Anyone who is interested in philosophy should be hooked in - it's not the healthy that are in n...

All my replies in that thread were deleted. It seems that the mods are pushing this place to become more academic and less communal. That is a mistake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

Well do you want to think of yourself as someone who doesn't want to work, and will cut corners if possible? Or do you want to be proud of yourself th...

Okay I understand you. So can a depressed person provide reasons for considering those beliefs valid at face value? For example: • Why is it that you ...

One thing I totally hate about the interface of this forum is that there's no adequate text editor. I can't centre text, can't wrap text around images...

My personal opinion: The difficulty with depression is the same difficulty as that which is found with losing weight, making money, finding the right ...

Exactly. Yes, agreed.

Okay, so then you agree the work is in changing their beliefs - namely that their beliefs are at fault for their condition. Would I be right in saying...

False impression or not isn't even what's under the discussion. What's under discussion is solely what brings the best performance in you? What maximi...

And? Where have I evangelised? I just made the point that a certain political persuasion is disempowering - I made no reference to whether it's true, ...

I did not evangelise at all, I didn't ask anyone to convert to Christianity. In fact, the video I posted is of a hard-core atheist (Jacques Fresco) wh...

Please provide an argument showing that right ideology argues for patriarchy. I just did - the fact that you use unsupported leftist memes (such as th...