RichardY Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Can anyone recommend any computing or design forums? Please & Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofd Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Can you be more specific? What are you interested in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardY Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 @ofd Looking at website and forum design, with emphasis on the forum design. Ideally something functional and with good interactivity. I'm willing to spend time, in excess. So was looking for any forums that might be a good guide and support. Is Dreamweaver any good? Looking at quality, but a non-functional prototype would suffice as a concept to build on. Not really sure where to start, but would like to get a list of tasks prepared. There's not really any decent Philosophy/Self knowledge forums out there, with an exception of the presentation of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofd Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 I hate to say, but reddit is good for these kind of specialized interests. Usually they have one or two pages dedicated to even esoteric topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardY Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 Surprised that Reddit is as popular as it is. I guess it's Meritocratic, with up and down votes, helping to define the thread exhibition. Antithetical to what I'm aiming at. At moment my best alternatives seem to be open source forum software. Would be good if there was an organisation that has done for website design, what freedomain radio has done for philosophy. Although kind of a win by default, in the case of FDR, with or without arguments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardY Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 I don't like the subjective value that the free market often has, even if I agree that's how it functions with the Subjective theory of value of Austrian Economics. How utter cr*p can be super popular. I remember reading something about what Ayn Rand said about reading material, how somethings can be objectively proved to be superior or better in her words, but still not do as well as better material. Kind of like 5 minute philosophy videos with cartoons getting hundreds of thousands of views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofd Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Quote I don't like the subjective value that the free market often has, even if I agree that's how it functions with the Subjective theory of value of Austrian Economics. How utter cr*p can be super popular. I remember reading something about what Ayn Rand said about reading material, how somethings can be objectively proved to be superior or better in her words, but still not do as well as better material. Kind of like 5 minute philosophy videos with cartoons getting hundreds of thousands of views. For sure. There are objective metrics to determine how good a work is. It's the ratio of true information and the length of the presentation. A mathematical formula is better than endless descriptions of a phenomenon. Quote 9. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential. Quote 10. By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism. Quote 13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.) Quote 15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful. Those short paragraphs tell you everything you need to know about leftist movements. Compare that to the hours of output done by people like Peterson and you will realize that those paragraphs are better because they provide a better explanation with much less words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardY Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 Like crabs in a bucket. Read on Wikipedia that the author (I.Q of 167) was inspired by Freud in his psychological outlook. The author being the Unabomber......., someone who targeted a computer store owner, pretty messed up. Although if he was looking to get his manifesto out there, he obviously suceeded. Given the technology that is out there even one person could do a huge amount of damage if sufficiently motivated, only heard about those ricin enevolopes through Stefan's recent video, although skipped through a chunk. Nothing on Sky News, more propoganda. With techonology the way it is not sure how anarchy would even work, when you may have just 1 nutter(although probably correct about a lot of things) with access to technology far more developed now. If China develops those 200 I.Q super babies, what going to be like Star Trek The Wrath of Khan??? Probably going to be huge bloodshed if things are built on blood, and territory not enforced. I wonder if terror and territory are some how related if not, they should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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