Posts by Austin Carter

hiddenpuma75 said:6) Honestly, I don't care about the people on this forum as individuals, any more than I’d care about characters in a novel. 😲
I wish everyone nothing but the best in life, truly, but whether they sense it intuitively or see it plainly, some users realize I'm not interested in them as "people" or social cliques. What fascinates me is their ideas, our dialogues, and seeing where this novel—which we are collectively writing and calling this forum—is actually headed.

7) At the end of the day, people are mostly concerned with themselves, aren't they? They care about their own identity far more than they care about abstract ideas or some random guy like hiddenpuma75 who happens to get under their skin, leading them to hunt for ways to write him out of the story entirely. 😉

8) People can always tell when someone doesn't care about them PERSONALLY—when that person treats them like mere NPCs in a simulation, which inevitably throws them off balance. 😲

But they seem to forget that hiddenpuma75 is also just part of the SIMULATION ! 😉

And if that person dares to challenge their WORLDVIEW, they start retaliating in every way possible.

9) It's a messy web of emotions: a war of ideologies, a clash of personalities, different levels of reality... it's like a Holodeck program gone wild.

10) So, essentially, I am having a wonderful time here. 🎉 I'm learning. I'm giving and taking.
I'm exploring. I'm playing. I'm writing a novel. I am living the novel.

And that drives some people absolutely crazy. They go looking for any way—legal or otherwise—to stop my good time and my fun. To halt it. To destroy it. To erase it!

It’s that primal human impulse—

as if they could trample all over me and this persona I play on the forum, even though they couldn't care less about whether I'm happy or enjoying myself. 😠

NOT ON MY WATCH, YOU BANDITS! 😠

So, you're telling me you tried to pet a cat and it turned around and took your head off? That’s just wild. Was that thing seriously some kind of savage beast? It didn't just snap at you; it went full scorched earth. And honestly, I bet you weren't even at the local zoo—that sounds like something you'd run into deep in the woods. 😲
I did the exact same thing—little kids sticking their fingers in an outlet. And then boom, I get zapped. Just because I provoked a shock, I actually got hit with one?! You kidding me? Unbelievable. It must have been some new, high-tech kind of electricity. I’ve never seen anything like it in America. 😲

So, regarding these attacks on worldviews... have you ever heard of any communists?
Man, those people are incredibly sensitive about this stuff. Especially when it comes to attacks. And even more so when you bring up conspiracy theories. With them, if you even think about turning a saw the wrong way, you’re already finished. By the time you try to fix it, you’re dead and buried. Sometimes the jackals just tear you apart until there isn't even a grave left. They call these attacks "subversive provocation" or some kind of "agitation." Only they get to decide that. Their absolute favorite targets are the religious figures—you know, the priests, the clergy, the preachers. They’re the ones spinning that saw the most. But they aren't craftsmen. Sometimes they twist things so relentlessly that the Communists have no choice but to shut them down manually. Hard and fast. We're talking crushing their skulls under a boot until their teeth are shoved down their throats. And when it's over, the tread of the boot is left imprinted on their faces, stamped with the US Army logo. Or sometimes it says Josip Broz Marshall. Lately, it's been saying Marshall more often! They are so uncompromising in their crusade against conspiracy theorists that these religious leaders are actually the most fanatical and relentless of the bunch. And that’s exactly why the Communists deal with them with the most brutal, unforgiving force. 😲
They’re watching you constantly. You’re always in their crosshairs, and they never take their eyes off you. They just stare. You spend your whole life thinking God is looking out for you, when really, it's just the bureaucrats waiting for you to trip up. They're just sitting there, waiting for you to pull the trigger on them. Something like that:

hiddenpuma75 said:1) No! That isn't my argument at all. You've completely misconstrued what I said to make me look bad.

The core issue here is the "hijacking" of a topic. It's such a gray area that you couldn't even measure it accurately in a court of law.
One judge might rule a question from the prosecution or defense as totally relevant to the case, while another would toss it out immediately. 😉

Those are the classic subjective issues of 😉judgment.

One moderator might see something as trolling, while another sees nothing wrong with it.
As we all know, it usually just depends on whether the moderator leans left, right, or is just some total nutjob. 😁

2) Thank you for being principled enough to argue that banning hiddenpuma75 is going too far.👍

It’s incredibly intellectually dishonest to go after someone for how they handle a forum thread based on ideology. It seems that even though you aren't exactly my biggest fan, you still hold onto Volter's principle more than your own personal biases.😉
I tip my hat to you for that!👍

3) Look, it's perfectly fine if you have critiques of me.
But you misrepresented me in that quote! What I meant to say was that others are free to write as well, and that over at Samerhil on Philosophy and Anderson, they don't currently see it as an unacceptable problem.

4) My point was simply that because there's a shortage of moderators on the Philosophy board, most threads eventually drift into casual chat and tangents.

5) Here is how I see it: If we had enough moderators, those tangents would probably only account for maybe 10 to 20% depending on who is running the show.

6) Right now, the threads consist of about 60 to 70% quality content, with the remaining 30% to 49.99% max being tangents and general chat.

The exaggerated and false accusation made by Neo and Volter was that ONLY AND MOSTLY hiddenpuma75 drifts off-topic—which simply isn't true, as my own ignorance and other witnesses can attest.

7) We've established that behind this accusation lies pure ideology—basically, personal or worldview intolerance.😉

Their case is most effectively dismantled by looking at the permanently banned user Adis Sabovic; the reason no one complained about him is because he was playing on their team. 😉

8)
So, a wise judge would realize that Neo and Volter have ulterior motives for their complaint (their hearts just aren't in the right place) and would simply "dismiss the case."

Some people just can't wrap their heads around the fact that what's forbidden for the bulls isn't forbidden for Jupiter. It's like old-school communism. There aren't any bulls or Jupiter there—just communists. And everyone is equal. Because they aren't unequal. Because they're communists. They'll be equal. Or rather, they'll be communists. Meaning, equal. Or basically, communists. 😲