National Day of Reason

[Moonwood the Hare]

When philosophers have discussed ethical behaviour the conclusion has tended to be that the egoist theory of ethics is incoherent - that is to say the argument that you should behave ethically and encourage others to do likewise because it is really in your own best interests does not add up. The way to best benefit yourself is to encourage everyone else to behave ethically, to give them as far as possible the impression that you always behave ethically, and then to act in your own best interest and forget ethics whenever you can get way with it.

Hahaha... That's really a great observation! And it says SO much about philosophy and philosophers, doesn't it?

Jim

As long as you understand that is not how they say you ought to behave but that that would be the logical way to behave if all you were concerned about was your own benefit.

[Rian]

This from the guy whose post average is more than double that of mine, and is higher than anyone else on the board?

Just wanted to quote this for reference.

Well, I am active, but in a variety of ways. I have political posts and humor posts as well. What I was talking aobut is your need to chime in with your bigoted "angry athiests" nonsense and slather every conversation with theistic input. And yes, of course I could have put this in the Atheist column, but I chose not to-- and true to form, along you come to drop your pickles on it. You have the right to, it's just interesitng that you feel compelled to do it.

Do you think anyone thinks that you would NOT jump all over a thread in the general discussion section on the National Day of Prayer? Of course you would. And if you want to talk compelled, let's look at some more statistics (thanks to a bad pain night last night, I was on the computer trying to get my mind off of it).

I took a 2-week break from the discussions, then came back last week, and made 8 posts in a week. YOU made 72. That's right - 72 posts in one week.

It took me almost 5 years to get 3321 posts; that's 664 posts/year. You took one year to get 1680 - more than double my rate. And your average posts/day is also more than double mine.

If anyone has a compulsion, you do. You are Mr. "If you post it, he will come." You post far, FAR more than anyone here. It's like you can't stand to not respond.

Anyway, you brought it up - I just wanted to present the actual data.

[Keep The Reason]

Do you think anyone thinks that you would NOT jump all over a thread in the general discussion section on the National Day of Prayer? Of course you would.

I don't know that I would-- probably. Maybe you should have started a different thread to find out.

And if you want to talk compelled, let's look at some more statistics (thanks to a bad pain night last night, I was on the computer trying to get my mind off of it).

I took a 2-week break from the discussions, then came back last week, and made 8 posts in a week. YOU made 72. That's right - 72 posts in one week.

So what again?

It took me almost 5 years to get 3321 posts; that's 664 posts/year. You took one year to get 1680 - more than double my rate. And your average posts/day is also more than double mine.

If anyone has a compulsion, you do. You are Mr. "If you post it, he will come." You post far, FAR more than anyone here. It's like you can't stand to not respond.

Anyway, you brought it up - I just wanted to present the actual data.[/quote]

"Posting" accounts for such a wide variety of categories, I fail to see the point. So I'm involved in the forum. So it's more than you. The content matters too. Simplistic numbers of "posts per day" is bereft of anything specific except, "number of posts per day".

[Rian]

The point that you failed to see is this - the personal insult ("You just can't control your theist sphincter, can you? It's never enough.") that you said in response to my on-topic post was ridiculously hypocritical, given that the data show that YOU are the one that "can't control [his] sphincter." You're trying to back-pedal a bit now by saying that it's not numbers alone, but that's no good, either, because in addition to numbers, your content is so often filled with atheist ... well, whatever it is that the sphincter is not able to hold back.

Anyway, back to the thread, but you asked ...

(n.b. - KTR's post above mine has messed-up quoting - in some places, it looks like he said what I said.)

[Tim-the-Hermit]

Can't your GP give you pain-killer/stronger PK, Rian? You shouldn't have to go through that.

[Rian]

I'm already on some strong stuff for complications with the third surgery in 6 years, and am working with a pain dr. to get the dosage down. It's just a sad reality in my life that I have daily, constant pain I usually don't have more than 1 night a week where I can't sleep, though. But thanks for asking

[marcuspnw]

I don't see why we can't share the day. We could call it the National Day of Prayer, Reflection, Meditation and Reason. I think it would drive all the political pundits crazy since they would prefer we are carved into separate demographic groups in a perpetual state of perceived conflict so as to keep all the lobbying firms financially supported at the nation's expense. Maybe, D.C. thinks that we can bicker our way to prosperity and security? It sort of works for the media I guess.

Now if only I can get the President to endorse my National Day of Proclamations...