ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

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and when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless and ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity--then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions only one thing: whether you have posted to ilx, or not.

no way to verify this but i guessed kierkegaard and then i googled it and it was kierkegaard

felt excited about that victory because i had to skip quizzo tonight

last time i went the only answer i successfully contributed was "kalashnikov" and i was like :/

Treeship,

What would be your first action as mod?

It was great to see you again,

http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=100687

i sometimes pretend to be on 77 to keep posters guessing, but i'm not actually in there ;_;

oh. that is a poll i started a few weeks ago titled "unban all banned posters (at midnight on halloween)". poll closes soon.

so i would do that but i would also ban the other mods in a move that my enemies will call a coup but my allies will call a revolution from above. after that only history can say.

can one mod really ban another? what checks and balances do we have in place?

oh i don't know. are the mods unbannable? that's kind of disturbing if true.

i flagged my post for moderation so maybe we will find out

i think i will possibly be banned for doing that

under this administration, it's likely. especially after you disregarded waterface's request for discretion.

treeship do you think youre a good ilx poster?

what's your issue with me, lamp?

i dont understand you and am curious

what don't you understand?

why you post so much to ilx, what you get out of it, what youre 'about'

tbf i probably shouldve read the early part of this thread before asking

about the amount that i post, i am a compulsive procrastinator in graduate school and i think the amount of time i spend both posting to ilx and talking to people on gchat and facebook chat is dysfunctional.

but i like many of the people here and the discussions are more interesting than most other places i've found on the internet.

do you like that hozier song?

what are the next most interesting places you have found on the internet

treeship what grad program are you in?

dylannn: yes, very much. a bit self-pitying, but in the way that i can be so i relate. "take me to church" is the one you are talking about right?

nakh: i don't know. lots of things. i like that blog "the charnel house."

lamp: i'm just doing a one year masters of education program that involves certification as a high school english teacher. i've dabbled in literature grad classes but never officially enrolled in a program and ultimately decided not to pursue a phd... for now

trís ive never read anything by rawls or rorty or any of those centre ground american humanities mavens, do you think people should read their books?

rorty is awesome

contingency, irony + solidarity is worth reading

just in terms of general edification?

do people read these books apart from in universities

trying to remember what the book the person was reading in that excellent scene in the sopranos where he is sitting reading while listening to second viennese school piano music and is told by his wife that the crime he witnessed was mafia related and then they freak out

think it might have been rawls or rorty

also trís how would you feel if a very erudite and patrician socially and fiscally conservative yankee sort of poster joined ilx

question #1.) only read rorty, and only contingency, irony, and solidarity. the best part of that book is the chapter on nabokov.

question #2.) i think that sounds sweet. there's too much homogeneity of opinion here. guy like that would probably force people to question and refine their perspectives, ultimately strengthening them.

even if that poster were to have some rather difficult views about gender, race and so forth? what if they revealed themselves to have donated $15,000 to pro life campaign groups in the last year?

you tell a guy something in confidence

idk i'm w/ marcuse we shd be intolerant of intolerance imo

yeah, this person presumably would exist whether he posted to ilx or not. if he poses his views in interesting, provocative ways i think that could be useful and who knows maybe he would change his views or soften them

if he was an abusive, obtuse dick then he would just ruin threads and get banned. but you said he was erudite

yes, erudite, and haughty

from new england

what's his name

lowell

he would describe himself as a 'reluctant schopenhauerian pessimist' on ilx, though not on his twitter biography because he would have left twitter after deciding that microblogging was 'inimical to proper reflection'

what's his middle name?

How would he react to people playfully abbreviating his name to "lol"

just would not reply to any post that did not substantially engage his own arguments

he would have a low threshold for caustically insincere nihilistic irony

a lowell threshold

a 'I got friends in lowell places' dn