memories

[mendaciloquent]

So I've been trying to catch up on all this crap that happened on the fringe communities. A lot of it was pretty fucking funny, and I think the recent meltdowns indicate that LJ-philosophy has the capacity to become quantitatively more entertaining as time goes on. That being said, I found this thread particularly amusing, though not for obvious

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"What happened to the old <lj user="nanikore">," in chronological order

[nanikore]

The first person to point out what "CC" truly lack was travellingzinda. He said that he saw parallels with late Wittgenstein (despite my rants against "meaning is usage" at the time) but the entire system lacked application.

The metaphilosophical thesis of "CC" unable to answer tiresias2's and sisyphus's pragmatic challenge
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/39017.html

"CC" collapsing sometime after bullywug's infamous "assworld" subthread
(placing practical constraints in terms of existing beliefs, rather than using fantastic examples)
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/76601.html

The sputtering death of "CC", prelude to instrumentalism
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/87626.html

What led to me to dropping that "old system" is the following two things:

1. It's not practical. Just as those people pointed out- Okay, someone could take the suggested philosophical temperament, but so what?
2. I started having a rather deep-seated feeling that I was finding nothing fundamental regarding the workings of the universe or its structure, but rather making it up to satify some kind of aesthetic sense. I concluded that the activity is not one of discovery but the production of fantasy art.

Justification of instrumentality and the abandonment of metaphysics #1
(I was talking about the functionality of metaphysics and not its definition)
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/186419.html

Justification of instrumentality and the abandonment of metaphysics #2
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/245668.html

The major shortcoming of instrumentality, prelude to pragmatism
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/113000.html?thread=2782568#t2782568

Defense of instrumentalism (by that time I was getting less and less interested in it)
http://community.livejournal.com/philosophy/1235752.html

A Jamesian pragmatic/psychological treatment of the "Raven Paradox" non-problem
(which, by the way, was the real last post I made in philosophy, and not the faked screencap that was based on a friends-only entry that vulpina lifted off of my personal journal)
http://community.livejournal.com/philosophy/1382079.html

The obvious problem with pragmatism is the ethical is-ought distinction. Pragmatism in action seems to me to be some kind of mechanism for maintaining the status quo; There is no intrinsic "aspiration for betterment".

My conversion from Pantheism to Christianity had nothing to do with "approval seeking". It also had nothing to do with a kind of Jamesian evaluation deeming "God is the best hypothesis". Treating God in that manner would mean committing hypocrisy and self-deception. My participation in church started on an unwilling and skeptical note (it was my aunt, who isn't even a Christian, that compelled me go to those initial Friday night Bible study sessions in the first place), and it was I who was in the business of challenging the Christians around me with my pantheistic interpretations instead of the other way around. If you want a detailed personal story I can provide you with one elsewhere.

Does the above adequately answer the question of "what happened to the old nanikore?"