I don't need them to. I didn't have to respond at all and could have let you spin your wheels on this boringly by yourself. Nothing here affected Reddit in the least.
If you want to insist that I spent all this time and work humoring you just because I am secretly laughing at you for other social media (which... I don't actually have...), then I'll let you continue to work that out.
I was watching the first Q posts on 8chan, and I have more than enough invested here to justify my desire to keep this community stable and to engage with you respectfully.
I don't agree with Q on a lot of things, but I know he wanted thinkers, not zealots. Thinkers are allowed to look at evidence and disagree. Zealots are not. You need to reevaluate which role you're deciding to play here.
Eventually you’re going to recognize that the Socratic method is a mechanism used to understand, not persuade. Tell me if this feels like what Q had in mind:
You: What’s 2+X?
Me: There’s not enough information.
You: Answer, boy. 2+X.
Me: Uh, five.
You: Turn off your television.
Me: Six, then. There’a no way to prove this at all.
You: Stop listening to the media and answer. What is 2+X?
Me: Fifteen.
You: You really don’t know how to think for yourself. Look at this Q proof that says the answer is eight.
Me: You think Q has proven the answer to this question because he said the answer is eight?
You: Ah. Eight. Finally, you’re starting to consider the Truth.
Socratic questioners do not ask questions with the intent of closing doors on answers until by process of elimination they come to the answer you believe is correct.
Socratic questioners do not believe they have proven the right answer whatsoever. In fact, their position has nothing to do with their questions.
They ask questions with the hopes of understanding the other person’s position.
You tend not to even ask your own questions. Not ones you know the answers to for sure. Not ones Q ever proved he had the answers to, because future proves past.
Which is why I’ll wait to see if Q is proven right.
But it is admittedly exhausting dealing with all the arrogant misunderstandings of how Socratic questioning works in the meantime by people who believe they’ve figured everything out without ever demonstrating falsifiability or predictability.
Perhaps you are impressing people here with these tactics, but I’m promising it’s not as many people as you think, and certainly not anyone who is genuinely interested in the Socratic philosophies of understanding through questioning that Q espoused.
Honestly, dude, given the way you make your arguments and responses, and the content of some of your posts…
I’ve kind of been suspecting that you’re the one here secretly trying to make Q people look… like you… and that you might actually secretly be from my sub.
The things you sometimes say here are the kinds of things Reddit infiltrators tend to say for screenshots on my sub. And I’ve banned people for that kind of bullshit before.
I very much hope you aren’t one of them purposefully destabilizing diplomatic communication here. It’s a big part of why I’m still engaging with you specifically.
I don't need them to. I didn't have to respond at all and could have let you spin your wheels on this boringly by yourself. Nothing here affected Reddit in the least.
If you want to insist that I spent all this time and work humoring you just because I am secretly laughing at you for other social media (which... I don't actually have...), then I'll let you continue to work that out.
I was watching the first Q posts on 8chan, and I have more than enough invested here to justify my desire to keep this community stable and to engage with you respectfully.
I don't agree with Q on a lot of things, but I know he wanted thinkers, not zealots. Thinkers are allowed to look at evidence and disagree. Zealots are not. You need to reevaluate which role you're deciding to play here.
Eventually you’re going to recognize that the Socratic method is a mechanism used to understand, not persuade. Tell me if this feels like what Q had in mind:
You: What’s 2+X?
Me: There’s not enough information.
You: Answer, boy. 2+X.
Me: Uh, five.
You: Turn off your television.
Me: Six, then. There’a no way to prove this at all.
You: Stop listening to the media and answer. What is 2+X?
Me: Fifteen.
You: You really don’t know how to think for yourself. Look at this Q proof that says the answer is eight.
Me: You think Q has proven the answer to this question because he said the answer is eight?
You: Ah. Eight. Finally, you’re starting to consider the Truth.
Socratic questioners do not ask questions with the intent of closing doors on answers until by process of elimination they come to the answer you believe is correct.
Socratic questioners do not believe they have proven the right answer whatsoever. In fact, their position has nothing to do with their questions.
They ask questions with the hopes of understanding the other person’s position.
You tend not to even ask your own questions. Not ones you know the answers to for sure. Not ones Q ever proved he had the answers to, because future proves past.
Which is why I’ll wait to see if Q is proven right.
But it is admittedly exhausting dealing with all the arrogant misunderstandings of how Socratic questioning works in the meantime by people who believe they’ve figured everything out without ever demonstrating falsifiability or predictability.
Perhaps you are impressing people here with these tactics, but I’m promising it’s not as many people as you think, and certainly not anyone who is genuinely interested in the Socratic philosophies of understanding through questioning that Q espoused.
Honestly, dude, given the way you make your arguments and responses, and the content of some of your posts…
I’ve kind of been suspecting that you’re the one here secretly trying to make Q people look… like you… and that you might actually secretly be from my sub.
The things you sometimes say here are the kinds of things Reddit infiltrators tend to say for screenshots on my sub. And I’ve banned people for that kind of bullshit before.
I very much hope you aren’t one of them purposefully destabilizing diplomatic communication here. It’s a big part of why I’m still engaging with you specifically.