Thorongil

If it's exploitation, it isn't capitalism, and you are operating under a strawman.

Dear lord, no. It is precisely the reverse. Try being a substitute teacher at a public school, as I was, or talk to a teacher over the age of 50. I ha...

I've liked Charles Murray's ideas on universal basic income whenever I've heard them. Milton Friedman supported it as well. The key is that it must si...

I don't either, actually. I'm neither a Catholic nor a Christian. Within Christianity, however, Catholicism makes the most sense to me and attracts me...

I can imagine Buddhism without the historical Siddhartha Gautama. Many later Mahayana schools don't seem to depend on the historicity of him. Islam wi...

Or you.

If you say so.

You're still not making any sense. You can't believe in something that requires the existence of God if, as per one's materialism, you don't believe G...

In other words, you're a mind-reading prophet. How should I know what a hypothetical person does with his money? He could just as well reinvest it or ...

The stock market is doing well and employment numbers have increased, but the effects of the recession are still not over and the jobs added are not a...

True. Quoting a heretical non-saint like Tertullian doesn't help your case, especially as he doesn't reject the doctrine of the real presence in that ...

I don't see what's so ruinous about it. The bad thing is that, short term, it will likely add to the deficit, but as you perhaps allude to, this is a ...

I don't see that it does.

You're strawmanning here. And the burden of proof lies on whoever makes a claim. If the non-believer claims that transubstantiation is false, it's up ...

Well, that makes those particular leftists hypocrites.

No, not in any way, but certainly not in a scientific way. Of course, the positivist could reply that only that which is verified by science counts as...

I don't know what part of the left you're talking about, but it is obvious to me that most who belong on said part of the political spectrum have a se...

These are opposites. However, I would say that the American religious conservative values authority in matters of religion but self-sufficiency in mat...

If I may interject, this is the reason why you fail to understand transubstantiation. The doctrine assumes that what is real, indeed what is most real...

Interesting post. There's a book I've been eyeing for some time called The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman, which treats of this g...

If my question (what question do you mean?) was absurd, then yours is incoherent. Who is the "he" in that last clause? I don't know what you're trying...

This need not be a permanent judgment, by the way, as I just got done saying to TL, and as indeed I said on page two of this thread.

I think you guys are rather petty at times. The deflections and farcical responses to my suggestion of making Agustino a mod are proof of that (my fav...

Thank you for the elaboration. I have a rather severe disposition most of the time, which may mean that I don't pick up certain frequencies of humor a...

Oh hello. Getting answers in this thread has been like extracting blood from a turnip, so I'm glad you've finally made an appearance to help settle th...

jamal, I hope you're not so naive as to believe that most of the mods would not love to get rid of me as they would Agustino. Their contempt for us ca...

You have done less than nothing to reassure me of this. But let me guess: "I don't owe you any reassurance." Fine, then learn to live with my complain...

How about this: she doesn't like me and is now a mod, which provides her the opportunity to unjustly censure me and others with impunity. Why "impunit...

You don't owe me one. It's your forum. I've made what my issue is abundantly clear.

So it comes to this: "We value feedback and a diverse mod team, but on the other hand, fuck feedback and fuck having a diverse mod team. We're going t...

So what is? The whim of the mods? Do the mods work in mysterious ways us mere mortals cannot fathom?

Why are they better? And whoever said there needed to be a precise number of mods?

Good god man, you do realize this confirms precisely what I'm concerned about? This sentence implies that it's not a big deal to make someone a mod. A...

I never agreed to make TL a mod, so no, I don't think I created this drama. You surely realize that Agustino is a lightning rod for the other mods. Fo...

Three people have now recommended Agustino as a mod. All it took for TL to become one was to ask. This isn't that hard. You likely know that my compla...

An exasperating response. I don't dislike the forum. I don't dislike all the mods. What I do dislike is discussing these things. It seems as though so...

An attempt at housekeeping in an increasingly shabby looking forum.

Taking just the people who've commented on this thread, I would nominate Noble Dust, BC, and Buxte as mods. However, the ultimate counterweight to the...

Please note that I have never flagged anyone (except unintentionally one time, when I meant to hit 'Reply') or reported anyone, so my concerns are not...

I try very hard not to employ and to my knowledge have never employed such "rhetoric," which is commonly associated with immaturity, and yet I am accu...

It is now because she's a mod. Otherwise, I wouldn't have cared. I didn't care as of this morning and haven't been on the forum much recently, but whe...

Well, I beg to differ. See here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/129749#Post_129749

She would resurrect the neutral opinion I had of her prior to our most recent conservation if she would retract the accusation that I am an apologist ...

You hit the nail on the head I believe.

Most intriguing, first because none of you could manage to think of a single reason why she ought not to be made a mod, and yet are thoroughly unsurpr...

Fine, don't talk. As you say, you don't have to. But you must know that your silence only raises my suspicions about how it went down and why.

It means you still haven't answered my question but are merely kicking the can down the road. It's an expression commonly used. That someone asks to b...

More can kicking.

Not in my recent experience. So am I. But I'm not optimistic.

Stop beating around the bush. Why was her name suggested? Why also did there need to be another mod? I suppose it doesn't seem so inexplicable when on...