[MD] Greetings and Happy New Year

[Ian Glendinning]

And last one for today JC.
Did I say a day ? Unsubscribed from LS GG after under 1 hour.
Already 20 or 30 (automated) spam mails from Tim Rapsncows - need to
recognise spam when you see it.
Ian
PS - You have my email if you need to communicate.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ian Glendinning
<ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, I didn't say "moderated" I really did mean editorial control.
>
> Comment threads on web content are so last decade .... lots of
> discussion why they will never work ....your friend should get
> depressed, I'm sure Horse doesn't.
>
> (Anyway - Tim / Rapsncows was pure - offensive and downright
> aggressive - spam when he was on here, and seems he's the same over
> there.)
>
> (Joined your love-fest over there for a day.)
> Ian
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:57 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ian Glendinning
>> <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> John, when you say "LS" you mean the Google Group called Lila Squad or
>>> another site (one of many blog & forum attempts with the Lila Squad
>>> name) ?
>>>
>>>
>> j:
>>
>> Yes, I meant the LilaSquad group that Mary initiated.  It's a small
>> discussion group.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> So far as I can see the LSGG is same old same old - Bo calling
>>> everyone SOMists and Platt egging him on with anti-democratic rants ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> j:    Well Platt posts rarely.  Bo is quite prolific on his own without
>> need for much egging.  But I find
>> trying to argue with him has been jolly good exercise.  I can't bench press
>> 300 pounds either, but trying does build muscle.
>>
>>
>> i:
>>
>>
>>> That plus resurrection of 200 year old philosophic problems long since
>>> solved, and a lot of unfiltered spam.
>>
>>
>> j:  you must mean tim there.  I don't think he believes in speaking plainly
>> but it's not really "spam" so much as unfiltered craziness.
>>
>>
>>
>>> (Surprisingly I've tried to
>>> r-engage Bo a few times in the last couple of years, but all he ever
>>> does is hurl ignorant insults.)
>>>
>>> Anyway, incidentally after posting on only a handful of threads on MD
>>> in the last couple of years I too was heard to remark in December on
>>> seeing a Marsha conversation with Dan that "it was great to be
>>> reminded of why I remained subscribed to MD".
>>>
>>> Sadly very few people on any related discussion site actually listen
>>> to any post 1980's contributions. Each finds a refuge on which to
>>> argue their own points on their own terms - as if antagonism was the
>>> point of the exercise.Twas ever thus.
>>>
>>>
>> j:  well, if so then that itself is an interesting phenom.  But there is so
>> little conversation to be had about Pirsig and his ideas,
>> anywhere in the world, that the fact that a group of people do so is a rare
>> and valuable treat and we all ought to be
>> grateful rather than antagonistic.
>>
>> i:
>>
>>
>>> I've concluded editorially managed channels are the only hope for
>>> constructive progress, and there are plenty of those around.
>>> Ian
>>>
>>>
>>
>> An old friend of mine, Steve Marquis (who used to belong to MD) is the
>> moderator for a discussion group on stoicism and he says its getting more
>> and more discouraging - the kind of reasoning that passes for sound these
>> days.  Tsk tsk.  We are starting to sound like old curmudgeons - kids these
>> days don't care about reason, they use logic to justify
>> socially-transferred opinions...  but as you say, twas ever thus.
>>
>> John the curmudgeon
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