When You Stop Responding in Threads/PMs

[JustGeorge]

I favour something more dramatic. It requires a new thread denouncing the forum and moderation with claims of unfair treatment and promises to never return. Then come back in a couple of days as if nothing happened.

More common than you think.

 

[Left Coast]

When You Stop Responding in Threads/PMs

When I've WON, obviously.

 

[InChrist]

There are multiple reasons I sometimes stop responding in a thread where I'm engaged in a debate or discussion. For example, sometimes I don't have anything further to add, and since I don't care about having the last word, I decide to stop posting at that point. Sometimes something in my offline life comes up and I feel too drained to participate here, so I quietly withdraw from a thread. The latter has happened much more frequently ever since I started having certain health issues.

I've been wondering whether any members might find this disrespectful, though. If you have, I apologize and want to clarify that I don't intend my lack of response in that way. This applies both to PMs and threads; there's usually so much going on in my life that I don't always manage to respond as much as or as often as I'd like.

What about you? How do you perceive it when another member with whom you're debating or discussing something in a thread just stops responding or doesn't answer in a PM conversation?

I often stop responding for the same reasons you have expressed. I assume and understand that others likely may have similar reasons for not responding further at times.

 

[AdamjEdgar]

s if too many posts happen after my last one and I don't want to read a lot of pages to catch up.

This is a good point...it becomes pointless to continuing to debate an original O.P when there are many pages and many many dozens of responses. I tend to think that most debates get the issues out rather quickly. After that is just becomes this ongoing stoush where no one is listening anymore.

 

[Shaul]

I don't post on the Jewish Sabbath or holidays. That sometimes breaks my need for further posting. Also if a thread morphs into a different topic I am not interested in I'll quit posting.

 

[Heyo]

I've been wondering whether any members might find this disrespectful, though. If you have, I apologize and want to clarify that I don't intend my lack of response in that way. This applies both to PMs and threads; there's usually so much going on in my life that I don't always manage to respond as much as or as often as I'd like.

I have never seen that done by you to me.
There are posters who stop responding when I start asking questions. My guess is that they smell a Socratic method attack at their position and they avoid that. Bummer, but they've done all they could to defend their position - and lost before the debate began.
I'm more annoyed by posters who try to avoid the debate by insincere methods like red herrings. Then I might stop responding (and in some cases put the interlocutor on "ignore").

 

[AdamjEdgar]

My guess is that they smell a Socratic method attack at their position and they avoid that.

can't help myself...prove to me that Socrates was more than just a theatrical construct of Plato. Im suspicious he ever existed.

 

[Heyo]

can't help myself...prove to me that Socrates was more than just a theatrical construct of Plato. Im suspicious he ever existed.

It is not important whether he really existed. The Socratic method exists independent of him.

 

[PureX]

There are multiple reasons I sometimes stop responding in a thread where I'm engaged in a debate or discussion. For example, sometimes I don't have anything further to add, and since I don't care about having the last word, I decide to stop posting at that point. Sometimes something in my offline life comes up and I feel too drained to participate here, so I quietly withdraw from a thread. The latter has happened much more frequently ever since I started having certain health issues.

I've been wondering whether any members might find this disrespectful, though. If you have, I apologize and want to clarify that I don't intend my lack of response in that way. This applies both to PMs and threads; there's usually so much going on in my life that I don't always manage to respond as much as or as often as I'd like.

What about you? How do you perceive it when another member with whom you're debating or discussing something in a thread just stops responding or doesn't answer in a PM conversation?

Many don't respond to what I've actually posted, anyway. They respond to what they think they can reject and dismiss. Once I see that this it their motive, I stop engaging in that exchange.

Otherwise, I just take posts at face value. If someone else stops posting, I tend not to notice, as I don't think about posts that aren't there.

 

[Revoltingest]

I have never seen that done by you to me.
There are posters who stop responding when I start asking questions. My guess is that they smell a Socratic method attack at their position and they avoid that.

Repeatedly asking me if I've stopped shaving my
prize weasels...that doesn't inspire answering.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I stop responding to threads when @Revoltingest pushes the envelope so much, I giggle too much to be able to any longer address the original subject.

 

[AdamjEdgar]

It is not important whether he really existed. The Socratic method exists independent of him.

I'm not sure how that furthers the belief in the man who is universally considered "the father of philosophy"? If something you believe in is called a fraud/fake because its founding father cannot be proven to exist, surely that has serious implications for ones world view?

To illustrate, i can show very strong evidence for the existence of Christ and a large number of new testament characters who claim to have known him. Humanism calls me naive and stupid because he didn't really exist (despite the very large amount of evidence to the contrary)...

The father of philosophy it seems, exists only in the referencing of Plato and, two individuals who are directly associated with Plato's own school and teachings. There is no external evidence of Socrates beyond the Platonian ones.

So, using the above examples... citing the evidence we have, would I be naive following the teachings of Christ or Socrates?

 

[Heyo]

I'm not sure how that furthers the belief in the man who is universally considered "the father of philosophy"? If something you believe in is called a fraud/fake because its founding father cannot be proven to exist, surely that has serious implications for ones world view?

To illustrate, i can show very strong evidence for the existence of Christ and a large number of new testament characters who claim to have known him. Humanism calls me naive and stupid because he didn't really exist (despite the very large amount of evidence to the contrary)...

The father of philosophy it seems, exists only in the referencing of Plato and, two individuals who are directly associated with Plato's own school and teachings. There is no external evidence of Socrates beyond the Platonian ones.

So, using the above examples... citing the evidence we have, would I be naive following the teachings of Christ or Socrates?

Would anything change in your belief system if it turns out that Jesus is a myth?

For a philosopher it isn't important if Socrates is a real person or a character invented by Plato. What is important are the ideas attributed to Socrates, whether they are from the man Socrates or the character Socrates.

Are the "teachings of Christ" equally important whether they are from the man Jesus or the character Jesus?

 

[AdamjEdgar]

Would anything change in your belief system if it turns out that Jesus is a myth?

For a philosopher it isn't important if Socrates is a real person or a character invented by Plato. What is important are the ideas attributed to Socrates, whether they are from the man Socrates or the character Socrates.

Are the "teachings of Christ" equally important whether they are from the man Jesus or the character Jesus?

I think you might be missing the point.
Christians are described by humanists as being naive, stupid, delusional, following a myth...

Do you not understand why it is so important that the distinction between the facts about Jesus and Socrates are so important? The ones calling Christians naive, stupid, idiots as in fact themselves believers in the writings of a fake/fable/fabrication/a lie.

So when we talk morality, the teachings of Christ, which addon to those of the Old Testament, are supported by a long list of historical sources giving them far greater credibility than the foundation of humanism.

anyway, getting a bit offtopic, but i think my point has been clearly made. I didn't want to start a discussion about the implications of the possible Platonian fabrication...just that Socrates came up and its important that some realise that the evidence for his existence is far inferior to that of Christ and the characters of the New Testament. Lets not also forget that this man Socrates (if he is not merely a fictional character) appears to have lived a life of a lazy slob and then died an apparent martyrs death by poisoning after providing the world with the "moral method of living". Anyway, I will leave it at that as its not really important to this thread other than to highlight some misconceptions about what we perceive is truth.

 

[Debater Slayer]

anyway, getting a bit offtopic [...]

Thank you.

 

[Heyo]

anyway, getting a bit offtopic,

Thank you.

Another good reason to stop replying.

 

[AdamjEdgar]

Another good reason to stop replying.

and yet i am looking at a reply from you!

 

[Twilight Hue]

There are multiple reasons I sometimes stop responding in a thread where I'm engaged in a debate or discussion. For example, sometimes I don't have anything further to add, and since I don't care about having the last word, I decide to stop posting at that point. Sometimes something in my offline life comes up and I feel too drained to participate here, so I quietly withdraw from a thread. The latter has happened much more frequently ever since I started having certain health issues.

I've been wondering whether any members might find this disrespectful, though. If you have, I apologize and want to clarify that I don't intend my lack of response in that way. This applies both to PMs and threads; there's usually so much going on in my life that I don't always manage to respond as much as or as often as I'd like.

What about you? How do you perceive it when another member with whom you're debating or discussing something in a thread just stops responding or doesn't answer in a PM conversation?

Sometimes when I say my piece on whatever topic I'll let it progress on its own for a while usually.

I might come back if it takes a turn or have the impulse to go further.