Agustino

I don't really see your point. I'd say the primary element in horror is the terrible unknown. You don't know what it is, but you do know, with certain...

Well, it's pretty much the standard view of sin in Christianity - namely that human sin in Heaven affected ALL of Creation which is now corrupt. It's ...

Yep, after having seen a horror movie I always became more paranoid >:O - I never understood how people could watch such things.

That is interesting. I am much the same, I also avoid movies containing extreme violence, horror movies, and the like. Even "One Flew Over the Cuckoo'...

Yes, the telos of the whole Creation is God, and as such all Creation attempts to draw closer to God, however unknowingly. No, since it's not the nece...

I have already answered that. You have to look at the activity or thing in its full context and how it fits in with everything else. You will detect b...

Not necessarily. They could also be accidental features. That's why you have to conceive of the activity in its context and determine if the feature i...

The same way we know the telos of any other thing/activity - by looking for the end towards which it is directed. In the case of sex, one such end is ...

I suggest that I am given moderator position for 10mins to make a necessary amendment to the amended poll. It would read as follows: "HANOVER IS WAS G...

:-} You should provide a context for that comment. But yes, most women and men for that matter aren't very intelligent, so you cannot discuss much abo...

I remember being told when I was warned that I must follow the requirements of the OP - especially if the OP clarifies. I clearly did that in my own O...

>:O >:O >:O - that's the exact contrary of my experience with him. Yeah, that's probably true.

No, you were too lenient in the sense that you let him misbehave as he wanted to for far too long. Not letting him misbehave = deleting his posts, war...

I complained about the leniency that was shown to him, and that it shows bias because his views were in agreement with the moderators, who wouldn't ha...

For example, this was one of the last messages I sent before he got banned: And guess what? His posts were still there after that :s

No, obviously if he didn't heed the warnings you had no other choice. My point was that I think it was inconsistent because if someone with right-wing...

Well, I haven't followed his posts much in that thread, but apart from you (and maybe some of the moderators), other posters found his behaviour total...

How can you stop the giant economic octopus? It's too large already, I'm afraid only a World War can restart things by this point, for those who are l...

I've alerted some of the mods many times before. And I'm sure many others flagged his posts... I don't remember if I ever contacted you personally abo...

Thanatos Sand was insufferable, and that's one of the instances where the mods were entirely inconsistent and biased. If anyone with right-wing views ...

Some people openly admit to totalitarianism :B

Promiscuity is the same as free love, just a different name. When the name is dirty, you change it for another one, hoping to trick some people.

I suggest you pop out the Nichomachean Ethics and check what it says about continence. Doesn't continence involve self-restraint and self-control, the...

Okay, whatever. You're not actually interested in having your views questioned and thinking through them honestly. Yeah, I find that contradictory, an...

:s Aristotle had already looked into chastity (called continence). Nothing is imported and renamed a virtue. Chastity itself is a virtue. And it's not...

Well, there's 31 votes. 23% of those votes are from moderators >:O

No, I do understand dimensionless quantities quite well, thank you. What I don't understand is your silly metaphorical fancy of treating a dimensionle...

I don't get your meaning. I've edited my previous post a little.

That is correct. But it did come with some disadvantages, Paul's software that is (think here mainly of security).

True, but very superficial. Why did they enact them? I agree with this, but not with what immediately follows it. And their own instinct to dominate s...

My ethics bears a family resemblance with other strands of Aristotelian virtue ethics (and by extension to some strands of natural law theories), but ...

Okay, but I fail to see how this changes anything :s - I mean sure, you can use whatever number system you want, so effectively you always start with ...

Well if that was your intention it would have been very easy not to make this about yourself simply by answering the original question. You didn't, so...

Yes and no - you're carrying out a Foucauldian / structuralist analysis. What this analysis blinds you from seeing is precisely the origin of those ec...

Well I'm actually not very sure what your moderating practice is. To say it's been on display for long enough is an obfuscation because I clearly am n...

I noticed you have this misunderstanding of virtue ethics (at least of the Aristotelian kind) ever since we discussed MacIntyre in another thread. You...

What do you mean not actually solving it? How isn't the demonstration that the problem doesn't exist in the first place a solution to it? It resolves ...

Yes, that is indeed an interesting implication of any growth process that depends on symmetry breakings - it must ultimately reduce itself to a beginn...

Oh, but why does that surprise you - it's not the first time there's been threads about me. By now I got used to them. Some people want to call me a s...

Oh yeah, great tragedy, where's my handkerchief?

>:O - well I actually do know that, that's precisely why I've asked him the question >:) .

Okay, so in practice, what would you actually do differently than now? Don't get me wrong these are all nice words and all, but it's at a very general...

Sorry Apo, been very busy, will try to get to your comments here in the next few hours.

Obviously, but why aren't they? This clearly would have something to do with promiscuous desires themselves. Sure, even in that case the lack of stabi...

Wait there's a problem here because labelling an activity or a group of people as sinful or immoral isn't persecution, that's just a matter of fact. P...

You're a moderator, you shouldn't be allowed to vote, otherwise the polls will be skewed.

So then interact with only the "intelligent" members whoever you deem that to be. There are groups and cliques anyway. I find myself always conversing...

Yes, definitely leaning towards "too strict" in general. Though in some rare cases it hasn't been strict enough.

Nobody forces you to participate in what you take to be idiocy. Leave the idiots alone, and they will leave you alone too. There's many people on thes...

It is better to think in terms of final causes instead of purpose. (Purpose is only a specific instance of final causality in conscious agents). Arist...