Superior Mind wrote:
When have been called an idiot, when have I not responded to legitimate arguments I was involved in? The problem is that most of the time the so call philosophical debates going on are recycled topics which produce the same repetitive answers and attacks over and over. This isn't me crying about people not liking what I post. I try to post questions which haven't been discussed before to try to stimulate new avenues of interaction.
Nobody here wants to write an essay properly explaining what is happening. We have professors to write those essays for. Beyond this, if we were qualified to debate philosophy to any reasonable degree, we might. As it stands, Jay can barely understand Marxism, let alone Hegel. We come here for a cheap laugh, to debate topics and say things you wouldn't consider normally, and to generally just stop thinking for a few minutes.
Accept that the world isn't about solving a higher truth to 99% of the population. It's about phatic speech (How are you today?), and trying to not die. This forum is not a bastion of the greatest minds in the world. This might be revelatory to you, given that you post pictures of space all day and speak about the greatness of cultures that were trying to find something to distract them from the death all around them. Here's the clincher: that's exactly what we do here, without ornament.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families