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Schwerpunkt02 t1_j3qwkw8 wrote

I don't think this makes a whole lot of sense, and is strangely unrelated to the title headline link?

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ThoughtfulPoster t1_j3re9l1 wrote

There's a cogent point in there, relevant by reasonable standards, but it definitely falls afoul of the "either say something or stop talking" rule.

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baileyjn8 OP t1_j3v2dhg wrote

What would you want said that wasn’t said?

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ThoughtfulPoster t1_j3vw97d wrote

I think there are four or five reasonably-sized sentences worth of insight there, and I would have been delighted to read those four or five sentences. I resent being sent on a scavenger hunt to find that insight scattered across pages and pages of filler and fluff.

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baileyjn8 OP t1_j3w0imc wrote

What to you is filler is somebody else’s insight.

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ThoughtfulPoster t1_j3w0w1z wrote

I'm pretty sure there are whole pages that are both redundant and devoid of content. Just words for words' sake. Like, I don't mean to insult you as the author. I was having a side conversation with someone else who thought your paper wasn't even connected to your thesis, and I said, essentially, "there's some content there, but you've really got to hunt for it." But no, I don't think there are reasonable consumers of philosophy who would have their knowledge or insight positively added to by most of the sentences in that paper.

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baileyjn8 OP t1_j3w2eey wrote

First, I’m not insulted. I do not consider myself great, but I’ll say that 99% of the population thinks the Bible is crap that they don’t understand, so I’ve been aware for a while most people aren’t going to get me. I’ve found my biggest sin is expecting people to read at all. Anymore, if it ain’t on TikTok, it ain’t going viral.

Second, reasonable consumers of philosophy were only part of the intended audience. Concerned parents, superhero fans, movie critics, lay religious people, lots of folks. Actually, I wrote it kinda hoping it would be read by some producers at Warner Media and originally posted it on Superhero boards. It didn’t take root as well as it did here.

It’s also a part of a larger continuity of blog posts on my blog that are heavily theological. Basically defining why Satan hates God so much: he is a libertarian who thinks nothing determines the universe.

So as I said, what to you is filler is someone else’s insight.

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ThoughtfulPoster t1_j3w3gxg wrote

Okay. That's fair. I will say that many of the other categories you lost will be predominated by people unwilling to scan through that much nuance. This is a dilemma I know well: I write curricula for proof-based math modules, and the balance between showing enough steps not to lose anyone and not so many that even otherwise enthusiastic students feel their eyes glaze over is a difficult optimization problem. I only meant that I might have struck a different point on that spectrum in service of that balance.

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baileyjn8 OP t1_j3w49kl wrote

I get that. Also, I’m not a math guy. I’m an author. I’m sure my clever alliteration of the cafes of carracas and Boulevards of Bangkok was one of your wastes of space.

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