From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2025-03-16, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> The internet cuts peoples' heads off on a regular basis,   
   >>> leaving people running around spewing liberal nonsense   
   >>> between screams of "HITLER!" and "FASCIST!"....   
   >>   
   >> Well, I have a head to cut off.  From your posts, I gather   
   >> that you don't.  Maybe that's got its benefits. Your   
   >> lonely isolation in your ivory tower safeguards you from   
   >> the natural shocks that flesh is heir unto.   
   >   
   > Indeed is identification with the idea of a free-willed   
   > being lonely isolation!   
   >   
      
   You seem to me to be fighting for a widely held philosophical idea; that   
   mind is on its own, uncaused, unattached and free as the wind swell.   
   OK, so I won't take you up on that. As John Milton put it "the mind is   
   its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven".   
      
   But that seems to be the end of your campaign. A battle in the realm of   
   metaphysics; a battle to establish the autonomy of mind.   
   Me, I love battling. But I'd never battle to be alone. I fight for my   
   rights; my convictions; my political goals. They keep me in the world,   
   attached to other people.   
      
   I won't fight for empiricism, I won't fight for idealism, I won't fight   
   to grind myself into a corner. Philosophy is interesting, but it's a   
   hobby, not an ideology.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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