Pagan morality

[accelafine]

Seemingly [to me] to have imploded into another whole other frame of mind.

Imploded?
At most, without reading the whole context, it seems like a person changing their mind about something.

That's not something I would write. It doesn't even make sense, just like the rest of his loony rant. Fixed it and I would appreciate it if you did the same. It's not pleasant to be 'quoted' with something you didn't write.

And yes, he seems to have completely missed my point.

[Iwannaplato]

Seemingly [to me] to have imploded into another whole other frame of mind.

Imploded?
At most, without reading the whole context, it seems like a person changing their mind about something.

That's not something I would write. It doesn't even make sense, just like the rest of his loony rant.

And yes, he seems to have completely missed my point.

I think you were spot on in pointing out his post's problem. His overdramatization and third person expressed 'compassion' for Maia was unnecessary at best, and that's being charitable.

[promethean75]

Well, the only real problem would be linking yourself to your Facebook at a philosophy forum. One asks why... what's more dangerous about giving personal info on a forum than on Facebook. Facebook is populated by relatively normal people. A philosophy forum, on the other hand, will have a higher number of nuts on account of the nature of the forum and philosophy in general. Now add to this the scarcity of attractive females at that forum; the ones that are attractive now stick out. If Veg, Veg, and Veg weren't so ugly, the forum hotties wouldn't cause such a stir in the male members. It's all simple anthropology, mates.

Yeah, no, I've never had Facebook. Had instagram for about a week once, though.

Maia, don't run off, bro. Just ditch the Facebook and delete the pics. Also, get a free VPN (have a friend set it up). You will be in total incognito, hidden behind the veil of the Maia.

[attofishpi]

wot a load of bollocks

[accelafine]

Well, the only real problem would be linking yourself to your Facebook at a philosophy forum. One asks why... what's more dangerous about giving personal info on a forum than on Facebook. Facebook is populated by relatively normal people. A philosophy forum, on the other hand, will have a higher number of nuts on account of the nature of the forum and philosophy in general. Now add to this the scarcity of attractive females at that forum; the ones that are attractive now stick out. If Veg, Veg, and Veg weren't so ugly, the forum hotties wouldn't cause such a stir in the male members. It's all simple anthropology, mates.

Yeah, no, I've never had Facebook. Had instagram for about a week once, though.

Maia, don't run off, bro. Just ditch the Facebook and delete the pics. Also, get a free VPN (have a friend set it up). You will be in total incognito, hidden behind the veil of the Maia.

That's pretty funny, from the forum's middle-aged paedophile who wears a baseball cap backwards (wtf is it with retarded American men and backward-turned baseball caps? Is it nature's way of ensuring retards don't breed?) and spends all his time playing drum karaoke in his 'mom's' basement. That's just so 'attractive'

[promethean75]

The backward ballcap is a commemoration and testament to the zeitgeist of the 90s adolescent culture of which i was part. It is also subconsciously purposed to re-attain a period of lost innocence, fascination with life, and the youth that is taken from us as we age. In short, I'm an emotionally developmentally arrested Peter Pan. Finally, the cap covers a tiny newly forming bald spot, which i would like not to be associated with in any way or be seen in the company of.

[accelafine]

So in other words retarded, which goes with the retarded notion that anyone who doesn't provide you with curiosity-satisfying photos of themselves must be 'ugly'. You are a freak.

[promethean75]

I know, i had thought about that. What if Veg is a total Australian MILF like Olivia Newton John or something. We've never actually seen her, ya know. However we get two opposing images of Veg in our heads: one of the old ugly curmudgeon and the other is a slim upper middle class wine drinking woman who's taken care of herself who happens to have an acerbic demeanor. It's perfectly possible. You very well could be a sexy beast, Veg.

[accelafine]

Don't know who you mean, but I guess you'll never know unless they were stupid enough to show you (so in other words never).

[promethean75]

One 'vegetariantaxidermy' was a poster here who was an exact duplicate of you... who then got banned or left or something and then came back as accelafine pretending it isn't abundantly obvious who they are.

Also I've done you a great favor by building up anticipation concerning exactly how hot Veg is. Now, Veg has a legitimate reason not to post a pic and is justified in not doing so for the purposes of avoiding an awkward situation. Your very welcome.

[attofishpi]

you're

[promethean75]

Right.

Won't happen again.

[iambiguous]

Seemingly [to me] to have imploded into another whole other frame of mind.

Imploded?
At most, without reading the whole context, it seems like a person changing their mind about something.

And, sure, if that's enough for some here to dismiss my own concern that this turn-around might be something a bit more than that, fine.

I hope that's all it is myself. Again, however, it struck "me" as rather abrupt...strange.

Besides, we're philosophers. And it's not our job to just shrug off minds being changed but, from time to time, to probe more deeply into what might have precipitated that decision.

[attofishpi]

Right.

Won't happen again.

..well, you know what a grammar/spelling nazi veg is. That could have tipped her over the edge - the rest of the day men on the forum would be quivering in their underpants.

[iambiguous]

Imploded?
At most, without reading the whole context, it seems like a person changing their mind about something.

That's not something I would write. It doesn't even make sense, just like the rest of his loony rant.

And yes, he seems to have completely missed my point.

I think you were spot on in pointing out his post's problem. His overdramatization and third person expressed 'compassion' for Maia was unnecessary at best, and that's being charitable.

Come on, when any number of posters here insist that others miss their point, what they often really mean is that others refuse to agree with their own point.

Objectivists I call them.

At least with Maia, she is more than willing to acknowledge that, although she believes what she does about nature and Pagans and morality, it's embodied in an Intrinsic Self that "I" myself no longer have access to.


As for accelafine and her ilk here, I'm sticking with this particular rooted existentially in dasein personal opinion:

Indeed, what, in my opinion, is always most intriguing about these at times "arrogant, autocratic, authoritarian" pontificators is not what they argue but the way they bully those who dare not to share their own insufferable dogmas.

Like, for example, if accelafine is vegetarian taxidermy, she did with Maia on another thread.

So, perhaps, someday she might finally confront whatever or whoever turned her into this Satyrean caricature. Something has clearly pissed her off in life. Something that brings her into places like this in order to vent. And to accumulate scapegoats.

It seems [to me] that she needs to make scapegoats of those she construes to be part of whatever she is outraged about. But what is it? And how did it come about?

Wouldn't that be far more fascinating to explore?

Unless, of course, I'm wrong.