Where is it.

:D

Narcissus — Bitter Crank

Oh that poor fellow. It was a profound story when I heard it. I am haunted by it to this day.

Yes, I've read somewhere that Diogenes would walk with a lantern during the day looking for a real man or sage or someone worthy of praise.

I guess they didn't have mirrors back then or Diogenes refused to look at his reflection.

Or we can speak in a hypothetical question manner. Why would anyone be a Cynic and does that entail homelessness?

No, because the mad, ill, deranged, or impoverished people living on the streets did not choose to live there. In our world, 'the streets' is the last stop in economic descent, after which there is very little choice about what happens next. — Bitter Crank

Well, there can be people who voluntarily choose homelessness. I don't have the stats on hand but you've heard of them too I would assume?

I request that this topic is sectioned off. It's run its course and there's not much more to contribute here.

No thanks. Hope you feel better soon.

I politely asked you not to comment on my psychologically ill and apparent dementia or developing Alzheimer's. So, I won't comment in return to your post.

So, what you're really saying is to stay impartial towards reading a text. I agree. I've seen in my reading group threads hasty conclusions or ideas perverted even by myself. Or straw men appears from such practices.

Thanks for your input.

Then all I can suggest is the KISS method to doing philosophy. Don't ask me for examples. Hehe.

Interesting. So is the quality of the place too low or what's the impediment or deterrent why you would not want to stay?

If you wanted yours to succeed, you could have put in more effort. — fdrake

But success in what?

I mean, originally I had thought that people would want to participate in reading groups I started, like the Tractatus reading group. The only incentive to stay is to gain more knowledge.

I've been here since the shop opened and have enjoyed numerous topic. If I recall correctly I'm the #1 topic starter. Even if my topics are mediocre or stale, I still find joy in seeing how others react. For someone on disability this forum takes my entire time during the day.

I understand that life calls out and demands ones attention... But, why would you leave this place indefinitely? As @Bitter Crank says, what's not to love about TPF?

Becomes increasingly paranoid...

But I'm the doctor, remember? — S

I don't know who you are and whether you really are a closet sociopath; but, seek therapy for heaven's sake! Lul.

Seek therapy! Lol.

I'll stop since it's insincere.

Carry on fellow Philosophyforum'tarians.

You said you were 'playing the idiot' not that you were an idiot. — Baden

Well, isn't that the same thing? I mean if I authentically play the idiot, then that makes me one.

What's the difference between playing the idiot and trolling? — Baden

A troll doesn't care about the truth, and idiot although stupid still cares about it.

Wallow wallow

People are getting annoyed with you because the things you are saying were used within living memory, and are still used more or less covertly to coerce people into conforming to what is at best an averaged generalised image. Women are not all the same, and some are more 'mannish' than some men. I am a man, and I am shit hot at childcare, apart from the lactating thing. So please stop imposing your 'just basic averages' onto a wonderfully various and individual world. — unenlightened

Full disclosure, I took on the role of the dunce (yes it was intentional) to expose what I thought was something important. I haven't seen a female reply to my posts, due to perhaps not wanting to agree with me; but, some male posters sure got their jammies up over it. My work is done and I will respect the extreme plasticity of assumed gender roles which aren't mutually exclusive.

Anyone is free to call me ignorant or need therapy (what a joke), and the like. But, I will stop playing the forum dunce for now.

Please don't interact with me due to your unfound sense of authority over my intellectual abilities ya prick.

Oh you seem to be very judgemental about who I am as a person. I never assume anything above and beyond what I read nor do I judge the reader for the quality of content as you say you are doing. But to be honest that's what you are actually doing, and we tend to call people like those pretentious pricks.

Just saying.

You must be full of Sushi today.

Get it?

I'm sorry if my intellectually unpretentious jokes dont taste like sushi.

Get it?

Oh dear aren't we full of ourselves aren't we?

You may be right. I ain't as smart as I'd like to think I am. Wait, isn't that called hubris. And I'd take hubris any day rather than caring whether or not you think I'm trolling or intellectually shallow or whatever floats your boat.

Oh wait. My slow mind gets it. You would prefer I be deep and profound and pretentious, is that right?

Necromancing an old topic.

They say that after thirty if you haven't done it you turn into a wizard. Two more years for me to be able to say, "You shall not pass!"

Oh dear. I haven't looked up to my father since I was 16.

Then we'll go out and get you one of those real classy sex massage therapists, to wallow with you in a nice clean bed, to strum on the knot of being who you are. Unless that is grotesque. Then no. — Nils Loc

Phew you scared me there compadre. Last I need is someone telling this child born from one of those Kubrick movies to go through something as terrible as that.

Cheers though, how's your sex life going? Mine is well you know by now ...

I just love my mom because she cares about me. I'm also advocating Carol Gilligan's and Nel Noddings ethics of care.

It was meant as sincere. Aren't women better than men at some things and likewise men at some things? I'm trying to be impartial, and this hasn't anything to do with my mother.

Maybe I'm confused, but, I think women are just as good if not better than men in some regards.

Have I spoken some heresy?

To @Nils Loc

You are an inspiration to a wallower
To wallow is healthy; but, you choose to not.
This wallower is confused, why don't you wallow too.
Spending time wallowing on these forums, you bring this wallower a smile too,

Ok, I'll stop the horrific attempt at haiku.

But, I'm at least looking for affirmation here. Aren't women just basically better suited for some roles than men are or are I getting this all mixed up?

It's just another hasty generalisation, influenced by a harmful stereotype which you're choosing to spread. — S

But, women do better in schools, are nicer people, aren't backstabbers, don't go to prison nearly as much as males.

So, aren't they better than us males in some regards?

But, it's true!

But it's rarer for women than men. Doesn't that prove something?

It's really rare.

More pig chimp content please. — Nils Loc

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