If you want me to redo this post @Baden, as it perhaps deserves better than what I can muster, then let me know whether it's missing a topic subject, introduction, etc. etc.

I fucking demand this be moved back to the front page, given Banno's post:

Lol. Not since I started on philosophy forums. :nerd: — Baden

I always assumed you were Nietzschean. But, you got a side that loves competition and duels. That's where we diverge, my two pennies.

@Banno, would you be OK with sharing this on the front page, because I think it's brilliant shit. As this seems to be the trifle issue @Baden is trying to personalize towards me.

BTW, Baden, I have nothing against you, I just think you're a really hypermasculine guy.

So, here's the grand question, which I hope you answer without any bluster.

Is Banno's profile feed not good philosophy that I felt needed to be shared?

Take a while to answer that, as it's comparable to a criticizing a lifetime of work by a selfless comrade.

1) Did you ask Banno if you could analyze his ideas on the front page? — Baden

Yes.

2) What of substance did you contribute to your own OP? — Baden

It's an OP in Banno's name. And since, Banno isn't an imbecile as you think everyone else is, he would have enjoyed educating others about his feed on philosophy.

3) What specific philosophical topic is the OP aimed at examining? — Baden

Go read it again.

4) What's your thesis with regard to this topic and where is it? — Baden

Do beliefs require justification? Are facts mind-independent?

5) Recall being asked not to make too many topics? How many have you made today alone? — Baden

Yeah, that personalized attack again. It's 3:49 AM and I made two topics, one got moved to the lounge without any fucking justification (you treat lepers better in India), and the other disappeared.

Work out the non-sequitur there then get back to me with a better objection. — Baden

Help me out, teacher. At least make the effort as one that you are, I don't have all the answers.

Why the fuck this got moved to The Lounge @Baden, we all know Banno is the most experienced philosopher on this website.

@Banno

What are we to do about what goes on in Meinong's Jungle? Frege keeps on waking me up with nightmares and I have to soothe him by saying that he just needs to feed his beetle in his box.

Crysis 1&2

An observation somewhat tangentially related to another thread of mine on Internet Identities. Is that one needs to dissociate from the world they speak and their attitudes?

A Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can be demonstrated to be exceedingly true in light of this.

Fine, try this.

Forms of life, taken within the context of the grammar and syntax used by people, point to... cognitivism.

How else do you state this?

Ugh. — StreetlightX

What did you expect me to say?

What is it about? — StreetlightX

A different grammar or syntax being used by it?

A comic? Seriously? Does your thread have a point? You listed a bunch of Wittgenstein buzzwords, briefly invoked Chomsky - a thinker who could not be more antithetical to late Wittgenstein if he tried his darnedest - and then asked 'is this something that modern scholars think about?' - what is 'this'? — StreetlightX

Hold your preconceptions in pause.

Just what does a talking yet incomprehensible lion exactly mean to you?

What you think Wittgenstein says this? — StreetlightX

So jelly you people can read books.

But the Hoi polloi need to be conditioned, would you agree Glaucon?

Is there anything we can do about this?

@Erik, how's buisness? Post something philosophical!

I used to work at movie theaters. You should see how zombified people are when they come out of a good movie.

Dude any more UV tanning and they'll get a melanoma. Anyway, what are we peasants to such gods?

was it boobs or dangly parts the second time?

Mmmilk

Must have been penis envy by @Baden when seeing the profile pic of your naked and exposed husband's pecker.

Yes, it would be sad to see you leave like @funcouple 4 months ago.

Well, we welcome all sorts of people around here. Marxists, exhibitionists, Randians, you name it.

And no insult was meant to your husband. :snicker:

Tell your husband that his pecker needs to stay in his pants if he wants to post here. But then again you two look like you just conquered K-2.

Oh you and the Germans. Visit the country and then tell us what you think.

And here's the grand takeaway. Once productivity increases saturate, then all those trillions and billionaires will be angry that their purchasing power levels with a prole's meager income.

People don't realize the upside of all this. If the house wins, then eventually that money has to enter the M1&2 stream.

Money held in offshore tax havens can sit there till it rots, which nobody wants.

This is fundamentally an issue about fractional lending and credit. As long as there are people willing to work (something that will never end), the economy will grow.

As I posted in another thread, then there's deflationary tendencies ongoing that will supply the prole with unimaginable goods.

All in all, here's the takeaway. If money is kept and stored, then it isn't doing any work, and hence deflation takes place. I'm quite content with letting the house win everything because it increases my purchasing power through deflation.

We're way past an oligarchy people. It's a plutocracy at this point.

Did anyone mention tax havens with some 15 trillion in wealth held in the Bahamas.

The upside is entrapment. Let's see if anyone knows what I mean by that.

But I'm putting my money on the house to win in the end. :wink: — Gnomon

Yeah, but you don't ever want to know who lives there.

@Grre noticed because she cares about me. We had a fictional marriage that was ordained by Plato. He just told us no sex. I said no problem, but Grre got angry and demanded a prenup. I had nothing to offer so, she said Marx has to be the ordainer.

I hope these guys never leave:
@weareacouple

COMRADES, ENJOY THE AESTHETICS OF A FALLING EMPIRE:

@Landru Guide Us, where art thou?

Then just learn on this forum. — boethius

No shit. Been learning philosophy since 2005 on online forums. That makes it 14 years of interacting with people.

You know what makes me mad, apart from losing the old database, which I will buy back from Porat once I get enough funds. It's seeing people come and go. What the fuck is with the turnover rate here?

I recently ordered Kripke's Reference and Existence and feel like a fucking moron for not being able to even read some of it. Infuriating shit in my little world.

I have a question to you to just spark a debate. Is the number 2 an empty name, and if not what does it signify?

Wow, nice post. I am glad events turned out this way, as my post was essentially a rant.

Here's what I think about what you have in mind. The tendency for the rate of profit will actually accelerate... upwards.

Marx was a guy living in a time when productivity increases such as seen today were nil, zero, uncomparable.

You will most likely see the automatic stabilizers in the economy... failing to account for the deflationary spiral we will most likely experience (think Japan). After Japan will be South Korea, the Scandinavian countries, Germany France, and lastly the US. The US will be last because the greenback is still the unit of exchange across the world and their demographics are growth-oriented.

Fueling hamfisted growth will be from BRIC countries (except Russia, there's something economically downright fucked in that country).

The neocons are having an orgy given that they convinced the masses that trickle-down works. It does work; but, only through trade. Furthermore, since the whole world seems to have adopted the fiat system, and accepted the implicit neo-Keynesian sentiment that goes along with it, I see the Austrian school making a comeback sometime soon.

Everyone should be cumming in their pants.