RE: Ontological Disproof of God
September 11, 2018 at 3:46 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2018 at 4:00 am by negatio.)
(September 10, 2018 at 9:06 pm)emjay Wrote:(September 10, 2018 at 8:11 pm)Losty Wrote: I prefer plain English, I genuinely do not know what you mean. What I do know is that he was not punished by staff, we gave him an official warning. That’s it.
I don't believe he's a troll or poe, and whatever WIFOM I had about that originally, I no longer have. But I know my opinion is in the minority; first impressions are hard to change, and unfortunately his first impressions were mostly bad. And now he's paying the price for those bad first impressions even though I believe they were simply the result of him being a complete newbie to the world of online forums, both in terms of technical understanding, and etiquette. But he's improving on the technical side, and fighting an uphill struggle against the general perception of troll. So from that POV it's understandable that he feels angry and paranoid, including about the staff and the nature of punishment here. Basically he feels overwhelmed; he jumped in at the deep end of a new experience... and unfortunately floundered. That's how I see it.
One cannot viably employ any other language than language particularly efficient for description of the peculiar state of affairs under consideration.
Here I employ the language of philosophical anthropology:
In the instance at hand, the state of affairs being described is the structure of the relationship between the Atheist/Agnostic Forum, and, Newbies, thus:
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ATHEIST/AGNOSTIC FORUM FROM THE PERSPECTIVAL VIEW OF A RECENT NEWBIE. Written and
presented in serial form, thus:
When a newbie unknowingly and unintentionally posts a ''text wall'', he has thereby, immediately poisoned the wells against himself by exhibiting a key
cardinal "troll" characteristic, as a troll is conceived by certain biases of pre-conception held by both staff and members of the forum, who, together, from
a point of departure that is the OP, proceed, with relish, to intently apply a methodology of insult, whereby a newbie, via goading, is made to appear to
be a troll, or, in the language of the outside world, a "criminal".
The Forum is a perfect microcosm of the actual world of law/jurisprudence transpiring outside of the forum.