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Theology and religion / Re: Kabbalah
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 23, 2020, 12:37:49 pm »
I'm not sure. But learning Hebrew would be too colossal a task for me, right now. Shall have to stick to English, French, German, or Latin, though I'd prefer one of the first three at this point.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 23, 2020, 11:47:05 am »
Dan!
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Theology and religion / Re: Kabbalah
« Last post by Ouros on July 23, 2020, 10:00:31 am »
Is there even good litterature in english on the Kaballah? If you're very interrested in this subject, to learn hebrew would probably the best way to have access to good intro.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Ouros on July 23, 2020, 09:58:51 am »
Quote from: Mackie Messer on July 22, 2020, 08:27:23 am
As for advice, I have a long list I'll post in the moderator forum before disappearing, but, in the meantime, the first order of business is to rebuild the administrator and moderator team, which must include philosophically or theologically knowledgeable people. If you like, I can recommend some people who might be interested. (Worry about ability, not degrees. Several of us lacked philosophy degrees when we started, but now have professorships, or are studying for higher degrees at, e.g., Cambridge, Oxford, or other top notch universities. That is part of why we no longer have time.)

May I ask who's going to Cambridge and/or Oxford? That's pretty amazing.
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Theology and religion / Kabbalah
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 22, 2020, 08:33:00 am »
I'm looking for literature on Kabbalah. Any recommendations?
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 22, 2020, 08:27:23 am »
As for advice, I have a long list I'll post in the moderator forum before disappearing, but, in the meantime, the first order of business is to rebuild the administrator and moderator team, which must include philosophically or theologically knowledgeable people. If you like, I can recommend some people who might be interested. (Worry about ability, not degrees. Several of us lacked philosophy degrees when we started, but now have professorships, or are studying for higher degrees at, e.g., Cambridge, Oxford, or other top notch universities. That is part of why we no longer have time.)
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 22, 2020, 08:11:27 am »
It's worth noting that part of the reason we opened Ontological Investigations was that we were spending so much time answering questions that we decided we may as well switch to a format better built for it. The other is that we always expected that over time the people who were asking questions would become knowledgeable to answer them and pick up some of the slack. Presumably, that was why they were asking questions, but the few who stayed either kept asking the same questions, or lacked confidence to help others. (Ouros, you, I think, were one of the exceptions who showed actual development.)
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Mackie Messer on July 21, 2020, 11:21:50 am »
Yes. There is truth in that. If there is no one knowledgeable to answer questions, there can be no Q&A. Hence, if the forum relies primarily on Q&A for traffic, then if there is no one knowledgeable to answer questions the forum is likely to die.

Incidentally, Scott had no formal philosophy training, but was knowledgeable. He had degrees in mathematics, computer science, and law. So, even today there are exceptions to the rule that only those who have studied philosophy formally are knowledgeable about it.
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Chit-chat / Re: Domain name ideas (poll)
« Last post by Ouros on July 21, 2020, 10:51:16 am »
@Mackie

As one of the newest member on the old forum, I must confess that I'm one of the Q&A crowd. As an excuse, if I have to, of which I'm not sure, it's because I don't even study philosophy in a rigorous way. That's not the case of the oldest members, at least it seems so. Doesn't all the contributors of the blog of Ontological Investigations have actual, academic training in the discipline, for example?

And when the majority of you lost interest in the forum, for X,Y,Z reasons, that was one of the deadly blow that put the forum in its actual shape.
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Chit-chat / Re: Paging Etzelnik
« Last post by Igor_Gavi on July 20, 2020, 12:16:36 pm »
Yep
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