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  1. Ella S.

    (Unofficial) Beliefs questionnaire for RF

    I would like to preface this with an apology. I'm still in deep introspection regarding my vices and how to best mitigate them while continuing to improve myself. If anything I say here rubs anyone the wrong way, I promise it is not my intention. I think this might be a safer post to respond to...
  2. Ella S.

    I'm sorry for my poor conduct on this forum

    I have failed to live up to my own standards of conduct. This has likely resulted in a great deal of harm. For that, I am sorry. Here is the problem as I perceive it. I have been hyper-critical, passive agressive, judgmental, and extremely opinionated almost as a hard rule through my posts...
  3. Ella S.

    Personal/Private Journals

    You're not standing up for yourself by trying to manufacture a hostile narrative towards me for simply voicing my concerns about what could happen with a new policy. The moderator with the power to ban and kick me does not have to "stand up" to me by strawmanning my points, insulting me...
  4. Ella S.

    Personal/Private Journals

    You're free to your opinion. I wasn't always this "paranoid," as you call it. Experience on a number of internet forums over the years have shown me that I'm usually not paranoid enough. No, I visit unmoderated forums, too. This is serious copium on your part. I certainly hope so, if they have...
  5. Ella S.

    How do you define SCIENCE?

    Give me an example of a "primary" scientific method and I can point to several instances within the sciences that do not adhere to it. Scientific practices are derived from the philosophy of science. To this day, some languages still refer to science as "natural philosophy" and doctorates in...
  6. Ella S.

    Should the legal age be raised?

    That's not going to happen, though.
  7. Ella S.

    Personal/Private Journals

    I think it's a little unfair of you to suggest that the staff be given the opportunity to have greater control over the lives of their users. Anyone who voluntarily takes a position of power over others has earned their mistrust, in my opinion. It's not that they're a werewolf or an evil...
  8. Ella S.

    Should the legal age be raised?

    I'm assuming this is in the US? I never understood the 18 and 21 legal age limits. What are these numbers based on? Why were these ages, specifically, decided? I think it makes more sense for age limits in general, especially when it comes to substances which can impair the development of our...
  9. Ella S.

    Personal/Private Journals

    And that trust in the staff can be misplaced and violated. Placing the power in a single staff member is potentially worse, because it also consolidates power in that single staff member. It pretty straightforwardly benefits any Machiavellian personalities that wind up on staff, which is more...
  10. Ella S.

    What makes somebody atheist and not a theist?

    Those are strong qualifications, thank you for adding them. I do think it's interesting that "atheist" now has more of a social connotation. When people think of an atheist, they aren't normally picturing a baby elephant, for example. They're usually thinking of people that are likely to...
  11. Ella S.

    Personal/Private Journals

    Why write a public journal in a forum if you don't want other users to comment on it? Even if it were simply to separate that journal from your regular posting account, what would be the point if the staff knows who you are? All it takes is for a staff member to have one too many drinks on a...
  12. Ella S.

    What makes somebody atheist and not a theist?

    @Heyo recently made a distinction between "atheism" and "Atheism" which I approve quite a bit of. I probably would not have defined Atheism so generally, though. For me, I see "Atheism" as a positive stance that classical Theism is false, which asserts the existence of an absolute metaphysical...
  13. Ella S.

    The Random Positive Words Thread

    I appreciate my recent interactions with @Firenze @Rachel Rugelach and @anna. You have been welcome lights in a dark world.
  14. Ella S.

    Should ghosts have rights?

    Great question. If there's an invisible man sleeping in your bed, who ya gonna call?
  15. Ella S.

    Simple Not Easy

    I think of my emotions as a swirling mass of liquid and my reason as the rigid order which contains them. They are not restrained or repressed; they are free to flow about within the container. Logic simply covers them up with a lid. It's inspired by an ACT exercise where we're taught to view...
  16. Ella S.

    Simple Not Easy

    Integrity.
  17. Ella S.

    Ask me anything, mid 2023 edition

    Have you read "The Rebel" yet? I ask because I had a similar relationship with Camus's writings, but after I read and re-read that work it made much of his other material much clearer for me.
  18. Ella S.

    Musk threatens to sue the Anti-Defamation League

    You're fine. I'm not upset over it. These days, I mostly feel a sense of emptiness that drowns everything else out. Even when I do have feelings, I have to exaggerate them in order to express them so that I don't come across as a Vulcan, but I am finding myself putting less effort into that...
  19. Ella S.

    Do Aliens Exist?

    We are already keeping tabs on a few planets in other star systems that might contain extra-terrestrial life and the jury is still out on Europa, Ganymede, and maybe even the Martian ice caps. That said, there are some unique features of both our solar system and Earth in particular that are...
  20. Ella S.

    Ask me anything, mid 2023 edition

    That's essentially my position as well, interestingly. What do you make of the Sisyphean struggle?
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