I have a special place in my heart for polemics and the argumentative style, a la Swift or Voltaire. I also love argument, rhetoric and disputation for its own sake. I feel the best insights fall in the sparks of debate. So I don’t mind heated exchanges, but I’m sure to treat others in kind. — NOS4A2
Offline, however, I’m a gentleman. I suspect if we all sat around a pub table and talked over a pint we’d be good friends. — NOS4A2
There's a conscious umph towards more high-quality and structured content. The hope is that trolling, animosity, and such babble gets shoved aside, and more attention is shifted towards our new Protestant work ethic. — Wallows
which to me says that the only thing one should be rigid in, is valuing fluidity and diversity within ones self.Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
I have noticed this as of late although I'm curious as to why you describe it as Protestant? I mean, speaking personally I'm a baptised Salvationist and both my Grandparents on my fathers side are Majors and my mother and father worked in Homeless Hostels for the Salvation Army too so for me this probably true but to a lesser extent than my family as I diverged from my families religion at an early age because of social difficulties with the other Sunday School Children at the Army hall. So while the protestant work ethic is true of me, I'm interested to hear why you think the same shift is happening collectively on the forum? — Mark Dennis
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