Hey, there, blog readers,
I know you're there; I've seen the site stats. Yet many of you likely don't look at the reader comments on our posts or consider adding one (unless we say something really dumb). You might be surprised that the blog has evolved to be a right spiffy forum, with a dozen or so regular commenters and many more that pop in and out (this leaving aside our ever-growing Facebook Group, which has a mostly different crop of commenters).
However, we've had the problem in the past that new blog postings immediately push down the existing discussions out of the sight of new readers, and comments on old topics or episodes tend not to get noticed by anyone except us podcasters.
Well, now you'll see in the right-hand margin of our web page a string of hyperlinks to the most recently posted comments. Better than that, the "Forum" tab just below the site title now links to a more sprawling list of recent comments that will key you into all the active, recent discussions. Check it out and raise the level of the discussion! Contribute to your fellow listeners'/readers' (and our) understanding of these difficult yet amusing issues! Use exclamation points if you like! OR SHOUT!
Best,
-Mark Linsenmayer
Shouting RULES.
So, is PEL a phenomenon or what? Shwing! Not sure I understand the shout. Please advise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsd7y5YbZw&t=1m01s
Whenever I hear the word phenomenon (yes I know about Grandmaster Flash\ Duran Duran but I grew up with this)
SHOUTING IS TYPING LIKE THIS. I THINK NIETZSCHE WOULD DEFINITELY BE WRITING THINGS ON THE INTERNET LIKE THIS RIPPING ON MUSIC THAT HE THOUGHT SUCKED.
PEL the whittest guys on the internet apart from stormfront.
Mark
I appreciate your open listening and action on my concerns. This bodes well for PEL and signals a strong, healthy website with staying power. Lesser web administrators would have hit the ‘delete comment(er) key’ on me, especially since I make scarce use of emotion icons 😀
I discovered PEL a couple of weeks ago and I am addicted! Currently in the middle of Danto. Please keep up the great work. Best, TAM in Ontario, Canada.
Thanks A.M.! Episode on the New Atheists coming soon, if your name is meant to imply anything.
rather, TAM, not A.M.
My admonition against degrading PEL into just another political and/or religious blograg where bloggers and their fans come to opine on contentious current news stories still stands. The legions of competitors already providing this service will wipe you out.
Wes, I will look forward to the New Atheist episode but that will be like shooting fish in a barrel for you guys (i.e. I see little philosophical sophistication in the work of the popular new atheists). What I would really like to hear in a future episode is you guys discussing the work of professional atheist philosophers such as Graham Oppy, Stephen Maitzen, Stephen Law and Matt McCormick. For example, Law has a forthcoming paper to be published in Analysis entitled “Naturalism, Evolution and True Belief” in which he demolishes Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism. Another topic that I bet would have wide appeal would be an analysis of David Benatar’s “Better Never to Have Been”. I’ll order that one for you as a fan gift if you email me the delivery address to: theatheistmissionary@gmail.com
The sad truth is that I’m not that bright and I really enjoy listening to you smart guys. TAM.
Thanks — I’ll check them out! And I’ll send you my delivery address for that book — thanks very much.