Jun 6, 2011 -- 5:58PM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:

wohali

"... all of this is supposed to be devastatingly hilarious, I suppose ..."

Only if one has a sense of humor..........

Jun 6, 2011 -- 5:58PM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:

That you would be the arbiter of what sense of humor is, is quite funny, actually

No, its response to a silly-assed post.

Actually, several people responded.... perhaps you're being a little thin skinned? She said some stupid stuff.... She made some comments that were out of line and obviously got called down on it..... I mean she hasn't been back since making the post and it was removed along with a comment I made about it..... We didn't run her off, she did it to herself.

Jun 6, 2011 -- 5:58PM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:

Which, just out of idle curiosity?

MdS

Just like I said.... she made some remarks and they were removed by the mods..... I don't remember them.... do you recall every post that was ever removed?

Jun 7, 2011 -- 10:05AM, Bunsinspace wrote:

BS"D

Point of information - no moderator will remove a post that expresses  an opinion that the moderator or anybody else disagrees with.   Moderators will remove posts that violate the ROC that everybody agreed  to abide by when they signed up. 

I think Mario is aware of this; I know I am. I don't believe that was the point, however. I made a joke concerning Derowrs' absence, and a few others joined in. Mario took exception to it, and in his own childish way is trying to create guilty consciences where none exist.

Jun 7, 2011 -- 4:09PM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:

Jun 7, 2011 -- 10:05AM, Bunsinspace wrote:

Point of information - no moderator will remove a post that expresses an opinion that the moderator or anybody else disagrees with.  Moderators will remove posts that violate the ROC that everybody agreed to abide by when they signed up.

This is what a German philosopher would refer to as idealtypische ...

MdS

BS"D

Max Weber was a sociologist, not a philosopher.  But as I (and others) enforce the "typical ideal" I will decide upon the practical versus the ideal.  And those who are dissatisfied may apply as moderator volunteers themselves with my blessings.

Buns

Jun 7, 2011 -- 5:09PM, Bunsinspace wrote:

Max Weber was a sociologist, not a philosopher.  But as I (and others) enforce the "typical ideal" I will decide upon the practical versus the ideal.  And those who are dissatisfied may apply as moderator volunteers themselves with my blessings.

First, while Max Weber used extensively the word idealtypische and the relative conceptual category, he certainly did NOT invent it, but derived it from German Idealism.

Second, thanks for the advice ...

MdS

Jun 7, 2011 -- 5:50PM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:

... while Max Weber used extensively the word idealtypische and the relative conceptual category, he certainly did NOT invent it, but derived it from German Idealism.

BS"D

While I have no clue as to what you mean by "relative conceptual category," Max Weber did indeed "invent" the word.  The two separate words were obviously already extant in the vocabulary but he penned this technical term in his "Economy and Society."  I'll grant you the individual terms used together in a general sentence are indeed derived from "German idealism."  Not so with the term you used.  And I, too, would like to know what you meant by using this term as it seems to have absolutely no application here in its compound form. If you had, rather, posted "typische ideal," (English translation: "ideal type")  it would have made sense.  Is that what you meant?  If so what is so hard about posting something clearer in English like, "More honour'd in the breach than the observance?"  - Shakespeare's HAMLET.