You mean shadow/hell/slowbanned banned I assume, disturbing practices. But aw, good for you.
Wrote that stuff late at night, actually think differently about it now, interesting as it is for me to explore those thoughts in writing, in a personally pretty unattached Socratic way, I'm not gonna bother again. Doesn't have to do anything with you. But if it did it wouldn't spur me on to a having a dialogue, seeing it as you choose to react like this.
Maybe you're seeing every nail as a problem, maybe I really am unreasonable, though I don't see any evidence of it, and seriously doubt it. Life's short, do what you want dude, I'm just being overly "generous" in choosing to respond, misplaced as it is.
Kiss the rings and grovel at my feet, yah, nah. You're actually the one who's on trial, banning without reason abuse of power. If you can't see it now, you're clueless. Waste of time to try to convince someone to be reasonable (logos) who's aim is the very opposite. Byeo.
I don't think I'm "supposed" to give a response but I kinda did.
Well, hot dang. HN seems to be about sharing information and discussion, I merely did the former, also, an ideology is a belief system, religions are basically a set of values.
If you read the text you should see it's just snippets of facts (historical in nature, and yes those two people have their agendas for the interview as far as illumination and answering questions go you can get a sense of it from watching them, arguably nothing malicious whatsoever for the masses, quite the contrary.) mostly from the links with quotes. The links themselves are fact dense from experts in their fields. Writer/scholar/researcher, and KGB defector.
"Eugene Michael Jones is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine. Jones is known for his writings from a perspective which defends the Catholic Church in American society and overviews the decline of the Catholic communities which were assimilated into the secular American mainstream after the 1950s."
"Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; 1939 – 1993), known by the alias Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada."
-W
I'd say the one who flagged the posts is the real problem, no idea what the hair up his ass was, problems with certain facts I guess. Looking at your posts, there seems to be a systematic problem with how the site works, wouldn't it be better if there wasn't this proclivity to censorship and knee-jerk flag/downvoting. It seems to lead to an echo-chamber effect. From whoever is arguing, this ideological battle thing though doesn't seem to have much of an argument regardless, 1-2/7 posts he would feebly at best as I don't see an argument, accuse me for it, weak stuff.
The point about how ideological "battle" destroying curiosity, I don't understand frankly, people interested in the truth wouldn't be hands off, rather they would engage, those who want to of course, when "ideologies" clash I think there's a "the axe sharpens the sword" effect and ultimately the more useful or truthful argument prevails, people with weak beliefs surely tend not to seek confrontation, not that I was or wasn't doing that.
Not sure If I get it, I'm not an ideologue in general, I'm not sure what that would even mean, everyone has ideals and values, changing as they may be, sure I have "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things." But that doesn't say much, as surely the same applies to you and most people, ugh guess there's no escaping the echo chamber of acceptable ideas in this format, as long as it has centralized authorities. Subjectivity rules.
Aside from sports which you mentioned, psychedelics and amphetamines especially are used by creatives. Writers, illustrators, directors, musicians and so on. Someone who would be "clean" would be at an ungodly disadvantage.
Although with altruism and psychedelics specifically, I would have to disagree strongly, as they actually tend to almost bestow empathy upon people who use them, that is to say that, the effect of increase in empathy is so strong that it seems as if people around and including the person who's had the experience are devoid of it by comparison. This increase in sensitivity if anything would in turn lend itself to altruism.
Coke fiend perhaps, Snowmass village, Aspen, Boulder. These beautiful and expensive places are home to some of the shadiest people who can't control their passions very well, to put it mildly. This goes back decades.
Wrote that stuff late at night, actually think differently about it now, interesting as it is for me to explore those thoughts in writing, in a personally pretty unattached Socratic way, I'm not gonna bother again. Doesn't have to do anything with you. But if it did it wouldn't spur me on to a having a dialogue, seeing it as you choose to react like this.
Maybe you're seeing every nail as a problem, maybe I really am unreasonable, though I don't see any evidence of it, and seriously doubt it. Life's short, do what you want dude, I'm just being overly "generous" in choosing to respond, misplaced as it is.
Kiss the rings and grovel at my feet, yah, nah. You're actually the one who's on trial, banning without reason abuse of power. If you can't see it now, you're clueless. Waste of time to try to convince someone to be reasonable (logos) who's aim is the very opposite. Byeo.