Ah nice so just like ‘my’ plan!
This whole thing though it reminds me of the exchange between Srinath and @claudiu in the global warming thread (if I remember correctly) and I wonder if these kinds of dynamics which have played out today are what Srinath was getting at - with regards to the issues of the forum.
@claudiu The way it looks to me, and I am prepared to be completely wrong about this, but it is as if you have taken on some role of being the actualism protector. Yet the ‘actualism’ that you are protecting does have a whiff of dogma about it. I certainly don’t feel the need to be protected by you from being ‘led astray’ as I am capable of living my own life even if I hit a dead end.
I can see why this kind of rigid stance may have been needed back in the day, to distinguish something so new from all the misinformation about, but I think at this point this kind of approach is hurting things, it’s preventing fruitful interaction.
Reading your responses it is as if you have turned logic and reasoning into an absolute and then you go on to call it being sensible. But logic and reason divorced from direct experience is just as susceptible to being distorted by emotion, to becoming a belief.
On top of all that you then carry the full backing of the AFT to support your logical arguments, and you wield them like a sword.