Warning signs of dementia.
it's true i saw this in the DSM-5
I think you're being too hard on yourself. So you said some dumb stuff on TOTSE2. We all did. I think most of us on that site were barely getting into adulthood with a few exceptions.
Again, assuming you ARE the GP of old...
a few years ago, i had a talk with easy-e about this as well. he said basically the same things (minus the questioning of my identity at the end - we had stayed in touch so there was some continuity there (and you have a healthy amount of skepticism for the info you've been given)). i was an adult at the time, albeit still a relatively new one, though i clearly had some more growing to do.
All that said, I'm still proud to have been a part of TOTSE2. I don't regret it in the slightest. I learned extremely valuable things at that site that I don't think I would have been able to learn elsewhere. And I don't just mean the many text files TOTSE2 hosted. The true TOTSE mindset taught one to sort through bullshit posts and use critical thinking to arrive at your own conclusions instead of somebody else telling you or what some dumbass post voting system said was good or true. (Reddit)
i knew the site wasn't a complete waste, and am glad it was such a good influence in certain ways. association with and influence from certain kinds of people aside, it was an experience i too am fond of.
It is strange though that you're here now if you're now no longer a fan of such sites.
i don't know yet that i'll stay here, but we'll see. i'm still a fan of this kind of site, my only real issue with it is that free speech absolutism tends to attract hateful people that had made themselves unwelcome in other communities, and their presence tends to make people who are not like them unwelcome in the 'free speech absolutist' areas. i've actually considered hosting my own totse-esque site at some point, though with restrictions on hateful speech. i think we can still acheive most of the aims of the spirit of totse without forcing the community to endure people asking "do we REALLY have to treat minorities as people? i'm just asking questions, THEY don't want us to know the tRUTH". but we'll see. it's on the ever-growing never-shrinking pile of "things to do one day", heh.
Website archive is online. File database is still offline. (Last I checked anyway which was some days ago.)
i guess the ball's in my court then, huh? i'll see if i can find it, but it not being in my "totse2 things" folder means it's either buried in a loooot of "backup/new folder/unsorted" folders, or it was just lost. we'll see!
About time we had some more differing opinions on this site, though I'm a centrist, so I definitely disagree with Communism. And yes, even the true-blue (or should I say, red) Karl Marx communism. Extremists from either the right or left get on my nerves big time. (Your old fabulous post being excepted of course.)
i should elaborate, at least a bit, if i do too much i should just start a new thread but for now, i'm first an anticapitalist. the idea of an ownership class that by some virtue (typically birth into wealth) entitles them to an abundance of value created by others is just clearly wrong, and that they are given an unfair amount of political power creates feedback loops that further increase misery of the masses. there's no reason why some people should be cursed to live a full lifetime of hard work and be rewarded with poverty while others can fail upwards and be gifted corporations and control of enough capital to live off the investments without ever so soiling their hands. there's no moral reason to stand by this as a system.
i think government should exist to serve the needs of people, and that the means of survival should not be hidden behind a paywall, especailly not one that exists for the enrichment of individuals at the expense of others. we pay way beyond any reasonable share of the costs of necessities, and we have long since past the point where we are capable of provide way more than we need. when i say that i'm a communist, it's that i believe a better world is possible, acheivable in our lifetime, and that we should work for it, be it by legislative power or by ripping the reigns from the hands of the ownership class.
i'm happy to provide that differing opinion.