I do not seriously engage these clowns because like oro I recognise their "opinions" not as reasoned and amenable to reason but as compulsions.
I'm not saying you have to engage everybody, I'm saying if you don't want to engage or want to engage minimally (such as I do when I point out BoP and leave it at that) there is absolutely no need to make things personal.
I'm not saying all grudges are petty. I'm not saying there is equality of blame as a first principle.
I'm saying that when somebody (you) comes into a forum thread and the first thing you say is mockery of adoption, they're in the mud. Nobody is going to be able to tell they weren't the one who started it and nobody is going to care if they didn't. That's not fighting fire with fire, it's setting yourself on fire and hoping an enemy hugs you.
Maybe you're yourself this is more intolerable than it is. Maybe I've done the same thing before.
In any case you're not making a compelling case for censorship, and that is especially true if you're going to run away because people didn't jump on your witch-hunting bandwagon.
It's like sex, ADOL. Your brain's a maze to be traversed towards orgasm or dopamine injection. You've carved out pathways. Not so easy to make new pathways.
Not sure what "it's" is in this context. Being on a debate site?
Yea I think it's safe to say there is nothing vertebrates voluntarily do that doesn't lead to dopamine in some form. What of it?
Now if truth really is your ultimate end, maybe, but who has truth as an ultimate end with so much else to get hung up on.
What makes it ultimate to someone is that they will painstakingly disentangle themselves from the thorns they're hung up on and keep going.
So I'll point out to Kaitlyn that she's adopted and mad at her genes and feeling inferior and just wanting to make someone hurt. Because that's her truth. It's the maze she's lost in. It's the best thing anyone could do for her to point that out. Anything else is banging your head against a brick wall. That or walking through your own maze.
If you bring it up out of the blue on a public forum, it looks like you're lost in it; the immediate and natural suspicion would be that you invented the maze.
Talking about people's psychology complete with personal facts is a personal conversation.
You obviously think your psychoanalysis of her is a weapon, and that is more disgusting to me than anything I've seen TWS say (and he has said some bullshit along with most of you).
And you're a bit of fun too of course. Never read anyone as deeply poetic about freedom of speech and debate and ultimate truth and no idea too repulsive, as you.
Thank you.
But then it's just very convenient that you also like to fuck your pets.
I fail to see the convenience.
I mean, what are we doing here?
Wasting our time? But then watching the latest cop drama or world cup game is no less a waste. As rare as a true debate might be, I think I've been made a better man by losing some.
Truth could be your safeword.
It's a holy word. Humans need something to be sacred, truth is my god.
The site's a ruin, has been let become a ruin.
Society is a ruin. Debating in good faith should be the size of twitter or tik tok. If it was I doubt we would be spiraling down to another turning of the well of collapse.
Nobody (of any usefulness) scans a site for unacceptable opinions before choosing to join and comment. A debating community needs people who are attracted by things they disagree with (and can articulate the reasons for disagreeing).
There is way more introspection on this site than is warranted. You all keep asking "what are we doing wrong?" "Why isn't the site growing?"
You're doing nothing wrong. The site isn't growing because people aren't into it and even when they are very few can handle multiple online communities simultaneously.
Forums (including those with attached formal debate systems) are like bars. You walk into a bar, that means the next bar doesn't get you. There is little to nothing the next bar can do to get someone out of the other bars.
Just try to serve good drinks, keep people from scaring off the newcomers, and hold on until somebody else screws up.
So, you (personally), just keep calm and carry on. If you've had enough of this site, you don't need to burn your nickname in a ritual. Just close the tab, go outside, and find a smoothie (or something).
