eigenstate
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Joined: Nov. 2011
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| Quote (Kattarina98 @ Jan. 24 2012,13:20) | Welcome, eigenstate!
Thanks for making me think and learn over at UD.
You do realise that the administrators of UD patrol our forum and check for familiar names, earmarking them for blocking? |
Hi Kattarina98,
Yeah, I'm aware. Been lurking/reading there and here since the early days of DaveScott. I know how creationist "moderators" are, and have lots of experience with that elsewhere.
If there are useful things to learn at UD, it's not the power of dFSCI, but rather the dynamics of ID as an activist movement. There is no way to be pandering, obsequious or servile enough in one's *style* to protect one from bannination for being a critic offering critques. So, while I'm all in favor of focusing on the ideas and concepts, and not getting bogged down in personalities and ad hom, trying to please the mods at UD is futile, and it debases you in the process.
So, just planning on talking about topics I'm interested and know a little about. That's enough to get me banned, eventually, I know. "Diffaxial", among many others, provided a clear case that trying to mind p's and q's and be extra, super polite can't save you. Only ceasing or watering down your criticism will appease the gods of UD.
I don't worry about it. I expect hypocrisy, abuse, bannination, eventually, no matter how grown-up I behave. Why should my case be different?
Thanks for the heads up, though. If the UD gods want to indulge their spite as a result of reading this, that will be no less petty than what eventually gets me censored if I'd stayed away from here out of fear. This way, I can skip the fear and worrying part. Better that way!
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