Philosophy Now Forum

mickthinks wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:43 pm Is trokanmariel a bot? And by "bot" I mean it usually goes like this, perfect female in a business suit means that God cannot find the exit.

It would appear to be a widely ignored redditor who happens to be so tediously formulaic as to look much like an algorithm at work. I'm pretty sure this one matches a deleted thread here. Then again, I've never bothered actually writing anything at Reddit, I would probably get ignored too.

What's sort of sad is how reasonably he mimics some of the people here. Take the above formula, modify to it to be "thing seen as the opposite thing, perhaps with some geomoetry thrown in". You can now roll dice to recreate about half of HandJob7's output, leave out the geometry and you have his religious works too.

Much the same formula also gets you Bill's wise sayings generator.

Variations of "Some people think ... <insert.random()> .... but I think it's more complicated than that" will deliver a reasonable slice of PhilX's works too.

So perhaps we have been quite exquisitely skewered by a great satirist after all.

-1- wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:30 am

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:21 am

-1- wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:20 am

Well, I tried to tease you. The tease overworked itself. In turn, that turned out badly.

I APOLOGIZE for being harsh on you.

Did you mean trokanmariel when you said 'timeseeker'?

No, I did mean TimeSeeker. In his or her early posts, TimeSeeker was a real asshole. I tried to reason with him, uwol, and others too; TS was incorrigible.

So I put him on iggie because TS was irritating me to no end. S/He kept asking "define "inasmuch as"", (joke, but s/he did keep on asking definitions) and s/he was making irritating, untrue, conclusions.

I don't know if he or she is still disruptive or not. I found TS made a post much more succinctly and saying the same as I did, in a thread last night or this morning. So maybe TS has calmed down. I don't know. I don't want to spend energy to find out for sure.

I see what you mean. A stupendously irritating poster. And yes, he does like to pass off others' ideas and comments as his own.