tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post5931074137799613711..comments2024-03-29T02:29:03.388-07:00Comments on Edward Feser: Social media’s fifth circleEdward Feserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comBlogger313125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-49925628872148135972021-09-19T17:17:56.741-07:002021-09-19T17:17:56.741-07:00@Freethinker
I barely comment here but your combin...@Freethinker<br />I barely comment here but your combination of straw man, ad hominem and juvenile minimization of a respectable and well-read philosopher contributive and influential to this field is precisely predictable of combox trolls. People come here to read criticisms and intellectual rebuttals to ideas, and Twitter-esque childishness does little to stimulate productive or even remotely interesting conversation. Is there so little else to do in life?Longbowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03334697676222603816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-58906938236867361212021-05-15T05:27:28.066-07:002021-05-15T05:27:28.066-07:00WCM
Ed's reputation???WCM<br /><br /> Ed's reputation???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-19700163555695300692021-05-14T15:29:51.921-07:002021-05-14T15:29:51.921-07:00From WCB:
Howdy God Hates faith. CRT is one of t...From WCB:<br /><br />Howdy God Hates faith. CRT is one of these conspiracy things created by the far right for the far right. The usual GOP politics of outage. Google for CRT. And then for Christopher Rufo, the loony who created this caricature of CRT. Rufo has appeared many times on Faux Nooz with clowns like Dumbass Carlton to spread this nonsense.<br /><br />There is no more truth in the far right's Critical Race Theory tantrum, any more than the claim the election was stolen from Trump. Latest polls suggest about half of GOP voters believe that.<br /><br />I hope for Ed Feser's reputation, he checks this out carefully before buying into the right winger myth about CRT.<br /><br />WCBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-23289159227614992412021-05-14T07:38:45.707-07:002021-05-14T07:38:45.707-07:00I like your line: "These 'social media...I like your line: "These 'social media' are deeply anti-social..."<br /><br />However, I don't think you made a strong enough argument when you attempted to connect this anti-social behavior and the Left. <br /><br />The Right has their own version of anti-social ideas they propogate. Additionally, the Right has its own version of cancel culture, but since their version is older, it doesn't seem like canceling to them. <br /><br />Finally, they use anti-social media to for things like Q-Anon, anti-maks/vaccinne propoganda, baseless claims of election fraud, and spreading conspriracy theories.God Hates Faithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-47254670568464772862021-05-12T14:40:34.713-07:002021-05-12T14:40:34.713-07:00Here we go again with your 'every Anonymous is...Here we go again with your 'every Anonymous is the same ' theory. Give it a rest will you.<br /><br /> This Anonymous will not adopt a unique moniker for fear of being bullied by you and your theistic hoards, as happened to StarDudty and still to poor Papilinton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-20433922591880207862021-05-12T13:09:15.600-07:002021-05-12T13:09:15.600-07:00You know guys it is not hard to make up a nick nam...You know guys it is not hard to make up a nick name and post using said nick name consistently.<br />I do it.<br /><br /> It really isn't hard unless this is just a troll talking to himself(which is likely).Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-3610329024714515532021-05-11T13:29:18.633-07:002021-05-11T13:29:18.633-07:00paradeparadeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-22293377128132078742021-05-11T13:26:46.195-07:002021-05-11T13:26:46.195-07:00Dimwit Anonymous
I did not intend wit, finesse o...Dimwit Anonymous<br /><br /> I did not intend wit, finesse or urbanity, just to say plainly 'Go fuck yourself', which is what I did. As to my IQ it is actually very high , but as you imagine that cognitive ability correlates with your notions of wit , finesse and urbanity , I infer that yours is very low.<br /><br /> Do not flatter yourself. You have not induced me to do anything ( effortlessly or otherwise ), as I am quite self conciously loud and plain speaking, and call a spade a spade and a cunt a cunt. You are a cunt.<br /><br /> As to my peculiarities, I am not embarrassed by them, and am happy to perade them anywhere and to anyone. <br /><br /> Now I am done with you, like a used condom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-44449198031351724942021-05-11T13:02:59.143-07:002021-05-11T13:02:59.143-07:00“Go fuck yourself”
Gosh, what wit, what finesse, ...<i>“Go fuck yourself”</i><br /><br />Gosh, what wit, what finesse, what urbanity! <br />And, haha,…what IQ!!!<br /><br /><i>"Are you autistic? Nothing wrong with that of course, but it would explain a lot."</i>”<br /><br />Really?<br />Well, how would my alleged autism explain:<br />1. you being a benighted, loud boor and <br />2. me inducing you (so effortlessly) to publicly parade such embarrassing peculiarities?<br /><br />Anyway, I'm done with you.<br /><br />GQ<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-80969620546441747892021-05-11T07:18:39.750-07:002021-05-11T07:18:39.750-07:00Hi Ben ( can I call you Ben? )
Are you the crazy...Hi Ben ( can I call you Ben? )<br /><br /> Are you the crazy Anonymous interacting with the sensible one ( ie me ) below?<br /><br /> What do you think of Nicola Sturgen? I think she's well hot - fancy her a lot more than Alex Hammond. What do you reckon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-61783704170110117052021-05-11T06:13:56.398-07:002021-05-11T06:13:56.398-07:00 Are you autistic? Nothing wrong with that of cour... Are you autistic? Nothing wrong with that of course, but it would explain a lot.<br /><br /> Now go fuck yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-14048460026551242062021-05-11T05:33:42.032-07:002021-05-11T05:33:42.032-07:00Anyone curious about the “background to this” can ...Anyone curious about the “background to this” can read my first comment of 6 May at 3:51pm to see that the background is Anonymous’ curious claim that the Scotts are ruled by the British Monarch. To be fair, he also takes the opportunity to make the rest of us aware of the monarch has never been elected.<br /><br />While the former is curious, for not to say absurd, the latter has been a well-known fact for about a thousand years. Not much of a revelation here.<br /><br />In any case I haven’t commented on the Scottish referendum in as much as a single word and BTW being neither Scottish nor English I will be perfectly happy with any of its possible result. <br />What, in the context of our exchange, has made my interlocutor reporting on the Scottish independence matters with such ardour is a mystery. <br />Perhaps it had some “huge symbolic” he evokes in his entry May 10 at 5:35am.<br /><br />GQ<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-37849253275415739952021-05-10T15:26:49.374-07:002021-05-10T15:26:49.374-07:00 For anyone not familiar with the backdrop to this... For anyone not familiar with the backdrop to this, polls suggest that there is now a majority of Scotts in favour of independance from the UK , and there is now a majority of pro-independance MSPs. Nicola Sturgen - fitst minister of Scotland - has made it clear that she will hold a referendum on the issue in Scotland regardless of what the English Tories say, and then dare them to ignore the result. So it is quite possible that in the near future Scotland will ditch the UK, and her unelected majesty.<br /><br /> As to what the pedantic Anonymous at 3PM is getting at, fuck knows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-35980882467769949722021-05-10T15:00:21.591-07:002021-05-10T15:00:21.591-07:00It’s nice of you to admit that “The monarch takes ...It’s nice of you to admit that “The monarch takes little direct part in government”. (A practically zero, rather than little direct part would be more precise.)<br /><br />Now a fact is a fact and remains so regardless if its opposite may have a “huge symbolic” value for a group of people prepared to elect Richard Dawkins for a president. <br />Indeed, “symbolic”, however “huge”, can never compete for substance even with a humblest actuality.<br /><br />“Scottish nationalists do not appreciate her unelected majesty lording it over them either, if only symbolically.”<br />Well, if they’re uncomfortable with a symbol, what prevents them ditching and replacing it with one representing a simple and incontestable fact that the “unelected majesty” is NOT "lording over them"?<br /><br />GQAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-19117694106269872592021-05-10T05:35:00.018-07:002021-05-10T05:35:00.018-07:00Anonymous at 3.51PM
The British monarch is the h...Anonymous at 3.51PM<br /><br /> The British monarch is the head of state of the UK, and is the fount in which ultimate executive power over government lies. The monarch takes little direct part in government , but this is a huge symbolic matter for republicans, especially as we might elect Richard Dawkins as president if allowed a free vote. Scottish nationalists do not appreciate her unelected majesty lording it over them either, if only symbolically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-58566915701015954942021-05-08T16:47:05.834-07:002021-05-08T16:47:05.834-07:00>No Thomist would anymore than a militant five ...>No Thomist would anymore than a militant five point Calvinist heretic would defend us having free will. It is against the teaching of the entire school of Thomist Philosophy."<br /><br />No Thomist of the Traditional School like Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange would defend the idea you could compare God to creatures univocally anymore then a Calvinist would defend free will or a Lutheran deny sola fide.<br /><br />I am speaking as to the conduct of persons in those schools and the improbability they would belong and deny their fundamental premises. <br /><br />I am not saying Calvin's anti-Free will nonsense or Luther sola fide errors are true. They are not. I am Catholic by the Grace of God from now till Death and Beyond by that same Grace. May it please God to make it so.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-55142294299894375462021-05-08T15:51:24.803-07:002021-05-08T15:51:24.803-07:00"UK Royal family" is ruling the "pr..."UK Royal family" is ruling the "proud Scotts?" (Or the English for that matter?)<br /><br />GQ<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-78062212077525649272021-05-06T05:44:12.837-07:002021-05-06T05:44:12.837-07:00Son of Ya'kov
No Gods, No Masters comrade.
...Son of Ya'kov<br /><br /> No Gods, No Masters comrade. <br /><br /> Are you a monarchist then? It will not be long before your compatriots ditch the parasites, especially with Charlie set to assume the throne before too long. Proud Scotts will not be ruled over by a feudal relic for much longer ( that's the UK Royal family, not the Catholic Church ). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-33896277989078604172021-05-06T05:19:12.128-07:002021-05-06T05:19:12.128-07:00Then feck off sociopath.Then feck off sociopath.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-18525106591412429692021-05-05T23:41:47.982-07:002021-05-05T23:41:47.982-07:00Son of Ya'kov
Nope I cannot as I am a republ...Son of Ya'kov<br /><br /> Nope I cannot as I am a republican and partisan of the prolerariat.FreeThinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12542926199146156167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-78833074981889111232021-05-05T23:39:20.439-07:002021-05-05T23:39:20.439-07:00Son of Ya'kov
Nope, I cannot, as I am a repu...Son of Ya'kov<br /><br /> Nope, I cannot, as I am a republican and partisan of the proletariat.<br /><br /> FreeThinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12542926199146156167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-20527089380646758662021-05-05T22:03:19.317-07:002021-05-05T22:03:19.317-07:00I just did or can't you read the Queen's E...I just did or can't you read the Queen's English?<br /><br />Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-38927752042286128622021-05-05T16:30:13.727-07:002021-05-05T16:30:13.727-07:00Son of Ya'kov
Instead of being obnoxious all...Son of Ya'kov<br /><br /> Instead of being obnoxious all the time you could at least have a go at properly answering WCB"s points.FreeThinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12542926199146156167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-85627887637122933132021-05-05T11:50:00.230-07:002021-05-05T11:50:00.230-07:00My ancestors stole sheep. I steal good zingers.
&...My ancestors stole sheep. I steal good zingers.<br /><br />>If God could act to eliminate horrendous moral evil and does not act to do so, that is an act of a moral agent,just not a good moral agent.<br /><br />A reader who could read Davies and does not do so acts as a Davies reader. Just not a good one.<br /><br />Intellectual Nihilism.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-45466430891417198572021-05-05T10:26:50.067-07:002021-05-05T10:26:50.067-07:00I agree that we seem to be on the same page. I'...I agree that we seem to be on the same page. I'm delighted. Here is what I read about free will that I may have misinterpreted, although I still don't see how: "No Thomist would anymore than a militant five point Calvinist heretic would defend us having free will. It is against the teaching of the entire school of Thomist Philosophy."Ghostmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04107835190626272125noreply@blogger.com