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Voronwë_the_Faithful
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Jn, thank you very much for the offer, but I don't really see that reposting the information from dh's posts in new posts would do much to restore the integrity and continuity of the thread.

I continue to believe that members should have the discretion to edit their posts. I would never be upset at someone editing a post or posts to eliminate information that they though was in some way hurtful. But to eliminate information simply to show how damaging it can be to do so and for no other reasons is itself hurtful. I don't understand that attitude and to be completely frank I think it sucks. :(

And the fact that he restored the posts to this thread and not to that thread makes it worse, not better.


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Errr, the person who wrote them! Copyright laws still apply, even if the copyright notice isn't published along with the words.


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I finally had a moment's free time to check into this thread and am delighted that the story is back. It's late at night, so I've copied it all onto my laptop and will read it when my head is clearer.

I did get a reply from dspght. I asserted along with others on this thread that it is upsetting when someone deliberately pulls the rug out from under us. I can't say that I was swayed by his response to me. But we all are entitled to our own views, so I will just have to take what I can get, which is a second proffered story, posted here for an unknown number of days.

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Hmm ... to dhspgt out in the ether ....

There is really no way to know you have been here unless someone happens to catch your name in the Who's Online list, as I did this afternoon.

Even the search function indicates that you have not been here since Aug. 17; and, as you know, when a post is edited it does not bump the thread or make the thread flash orange.

Many stories might be told and untold in unheard silence. Only serendipity would reveal these gifts to us ... unless we vow to come back and re-read this whole thread on some routine basis ... and that may be too much to ask since the labor must needs be infrequently rewarded.

Perhaps you could hang a lantern in the window (translation - a 'bump' post at the bottom of the thread). A treasure hunt is great fun, but people have to know that the game is afoot. Besides, the answer is not 42. Really not. 42 was a glitch in the program. Someone put a gene in the strand that makes us yearn for simple answers, but there are only two simple answers in the Universe: 'Up/Down' and 'Food/NotFood'

Everything else is more than 42.

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Er, actually, dspght PM'd me. I should have bumped the thread. :oops: But I didn't have time to do the reading justice and post something intelligent.

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Laureanna, can you please explain it to me? What was dhspgt trying to achieve or prove here?

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Alatar,

I believe his last post, edited in to his last blank space, offers his explanation.

but it is gone now and that is not a proper discipline

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Ok. Where's the thread for stupid people again?

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Alatar, :D

Deontic Logic, Mally

It's an attempt to put Ethical questions in symoblic logical form, e.g. A is Obligatory if and only if B exists.

dhspgt is apparently working on a model that would put Tolkien's moral universe into symbolic form.

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It was not a proper discipline

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My brain hurts! I'm still trying to digest Jny's post. Haven't gotten to dshpgt's yet.

This helped a little: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology
Wikipedia wrote:
Deontological Ethics (from the Greek Deon, meaning obligation), or Deontology, is an ethical theory considered solely on duty and rights, where one has an unchanging moral obligation to abide by a set of defined principles. Thus, the ends of any action never justify the means in this ethical system. If someone were to do their moral duty, then it would not matter if it had negative consequences. Therefore, consequentialism is the philosophical antithesis of this theory.
I have to wonder if the world would be a better place if all these guys had spent their time and energy working in a soup kitchen, instead of teasing out the esoterica of moral obligation to their fellow man.

And what do partial differentials have to do with this? :scratch:

Jny, can you give me an idea of where the related posts are in TORC? I haven't been there in a long time, and completely missed them.

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laureanna,

The discussion took place in a M00bie thread started by Crispy Creme entitled, "Are They Important Films?"

When TORC changed its programming in response to a virus threat, all my links went bad. So I can't link to it. But I think it was still on the front page in the Fall of 2004.

The rest was not a proper discipline

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PM: What about the past? How can you post in the past without changing the story?

If no one looks in the past, then, from their point of view, the story never changes. :neutral:
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42 is a dead end.

This thing makes me angrier than anything else I've ever seen on a message board.


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All edited again!?

Or,
is this another example of Once More With Feeling?

<My brain hurts>

I haven't decided yet.

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All Eregion is filled with spies, and Sauron is just one big flaming eye, so naturally there is little that escapes our view.

We can also be found here: http://www.thehalloffire.net/forum/index.php

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Suddenly I feel very stupid. :Q

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I stopped reading Kafka when I was in my teens because it hurt my head. :help:

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This has to have been one of the stupidest exercises in internet history.

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