His allusions to his missionary work are provoking an immune response from many here, including me (not that I write much). I think this is why (from a quote thread):
I have not been particularly bothered by the missionary allusions but obviously don’t consider the posts nearly as valuable as you do. There is an undesirable emphasis on norms and a constant pressure to move things in the direction of ‘making the group do set projects’ and ‘consensus’. This isn’t an organisation, it’s a blog.
Some of us would like a %$^&ing organization, pardon my French.
You have one.
Injecting LW with a pint of blood from a religious Behemoth will not give you another organisation, charged up with the power of divine effectiveness. It’ll cause an autoimmune disease, doing serious neurological damage and causing externally visible disfigurement (unnecessarily cultish vibe), scaring healthy potential recruits away.
If you want to actually enhance the potential practical effectiveness of LW and LW spinoff communities instead take the quickening of an entrepreneur. Or at very least track down and feast on the essence of a successful business professional and an economist or two.
Food for Thought: Holy Books usually don’t get implemented at all. Which is usually a good thing. What mainstream religious authorities do when ‘implementing Holy Books’ is something quite different from implementing holy books—and not something that is necessarily desirable to emulate.
I have not been particularly bothered by the missionary allusions but obviously don’t consider the posts nearly as valuable as you do. There is an undesirable emphasis on norms and a constant pressure to move things in the direction of ‘making the group do set projects’ and ‘consensus’. This isn’t an organisation, it’s a blog.
Some of us would like a %$^&ing organization, pardon my French.
You have one.
Injecting LW with a pint of blood from a religious Behemoth will not give you another organisation, charged up with the power of divine effectiveness. It’ll cause an autoimmune disease, doing serious neurological damage and causing externally visible disfigurement (unnecessarily cultish vibe), scaring healthy potential recruits away.
If you want to actually enhance the potential practical effectiveness of LW and LW spinoff communities instead take the quickening of an entrepreneur. Or at very least track down and feast on the essence of a successful business professional and an economist or two.
Food for Thought: Holy Books usually don’t get implemented at all. Which is usually a good thing. What mainstream religious authorities do when ‘implementing Holy Books’ is something quite different from implementing holy books—and not something that is necessarily desirable to emulate.