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I sure hope you've all been religiously celebrating Advocatus Diaboli every June 4th. Failure to do so is punishable by hemlock.
September 12, 2019 at 23:42
The little scraps of history one can still dig up (and which prove Hanover's account to be the pure unbiased truth): http://web.archive.org/web/200203...
September 12, 2019 at 22:10
Anybody who just goes out and claims to be a leader of all men without evidence is going to be an arrogant prick, obviously. This is not a case of the...
June 27, 2019 at 11:27
If they abide by the law, then they're not like you. You admitted to raping someone and attempting to rape someone else just in that post, as well as ...
June 27, 2019 at 11:09
And in boxing, the fundamental segregation between weight classes confers advantages on the skinny. So?
March 22, 2019 at 08:30
Philosophy is not the only way to be a thinker, just the most pompous. On average, women tend to prefer collaborative problem solving. On average, phi...
March 22, 2019 at 08:21
Of course black holes are differentiated by tests and evidence. We discover or verify new things about them, like for example Hawking radiation, from ...
March 22, 2019 at 08:14
Big business is just a lot of people. Often a business is dysfunctional throughout, but even when it's running perfectly it's expressing the decisions...
March 19, 2019 at 07:47
Total Recall is essentially a global skeptical hypothesis. Every global skeptical hypothesis is fundamentally the same in form. While you can't dispro...
March 19, 2019 at 07:32
You have the right to change your mind about who you want to be. If not being that person depresses you to the point of suicide, I suggest invoking th...
March 19, 2019 at 07:12
If you'd rather just live without looking for answers on how to live, then certainly famine, greed and sex instincts will dominate life. If you'd rath...
March 19, 2019 at 07:07
Why don't we use animals to build large structures today? Because they don't have opposable thumbs and are quite hard to train into construction worke...
March 08, 2019 at 03:32
This all comes down to how you define sophisticated thoughts, so you need to answer this question first: Does a human raised by wolves have a human le...
March 08, 2019 at 03:14
Distortion was generously hosting PF on his server for years, which of course ended with the sale. I'm not in contact with him anymore though. Sorry t...
January 22, 2019 at 02:54
PF had ~50,000 members and ~1.3 million posts. It's sad that the new owner killed that completely. Unfortunately, there's no way I can share any old b...
January 21, 2019 at 09:53
ModBot's shouts are human-operated by someone who won a bet with me many years back. I shall not reveal who, but it's not me. By the way I've just sta...
November 02, 2016 at 04:47
^ For empty domains that may never have had any content or search engine ranking, those are extreme rip-off prices too. thephilosophyforum.com is at l...
October 21, 2016 at 12:32
The problem with sharing a backup of PF is legal issues. If we share it, I wouldn't be surprised if the one thing the owners bother to do is sic lawye...
October 19, 2016 at 12:33
Actually it has almost no custom code. They just can't seem to keep parts of the database from crashing, for some reason, perhaps suggesting they've s...
August 04, 2016 at 17:55
The only way a computer is going to guess your password is if it's a really bad password, and password crackers have the same chance of guessing your ...
October 25, 2015 at 04:38
A different bidder, who didn't win the bidding, told me that he felt PF would make $350 a month from a single banner ad per page. The site gets a lot ...
October 24, 2015 at 09:57
If I were him, I'd probably limit you to one PM a day.
October 24, 2015 at 09:55
I'd suppose that from his point of view it's slander to bring up an incident for which he was found not guilty to make the implication that he was gui...
October 24, 2015 at 09:49
Fact is, on 99% of the internet, forum admins will delete any posts that attempt to encourage people to leave their site. I was banned from a forum on...
October 24, 2015 at 08:50
It seemed likely that Distortion wasn't going to be able to keep footing the $300+ monthly hosting bills much longer with the bad financial situation ...
October 24, 2015 at 08:20
Maybe so according to the notion that more = better, but the most fun times I had at PF were in '02-'05. For me, the discussions were more fun precise...
October 24, 2015 at 08:02
Libel against another website's owners is not a good way to get started. I suspect they have lawyers. And I find it very far-fetched that they're afte...
October 24, 2015 at 07:59
Wuli was Mr. "existence is demonstrably paradoxical". If you've read one of his posts, frankly I think you've read them all. As far as I know he just ...
October 24, 2015 at 07:52
Ah, you mean VM.US. That account was deleted, not banned. Deletion doesn't leave a record. I'll wait until he deletes an account that wasn't created s...
October 24, 2015 at 07:17
Please tell me the username so I can check it out quickly. I'm doubtful they have the technical skills to rewrite my forum script to remove the ban re...
October 24, 2015 at 07:15
I see no record of anybody being banned by the new management. All bans this month are by StreetlightX. Who do you think has been banned?
October 24, 2015 at 07:08
He meant to keep me on as an admin from the start, but he failed to communicate it and I assumed the opposite. Pretty sure Nik is a real guy, not a so...
October 24, 2015 at 07:04