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I don't know if my situation fits yours. I'm a crazy person.

My wiki (https://philosopher.life) started out as a non-linear letter. That seed grew into a vine and then a garden. I write every day, even when I don't want to. I talk to myself and those who matter to me (even those I've not yet met or never will). I write because the stories we tell and retell ourselves and others are objectively valuable. I consider it my moral obligation and vocation to read, think, and write.

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Your wiki is absolutely brilliant. This is something I've been really wanting to get into and you've given me a lot of inspiration and ideas.

Thank you, that is very high praise. I've worked hard on it, and I'm glad it's useful. If you ever get the chance, I would like to see what you build. I think wikis are a great opportunity to share ourselves represented in hypertext with others. You should check out https://sphygm.us/.

I suppose this is neither here nor there, but for the giggles, I've been trying to reach out to the cast of Stranger Things (they aren't easy to reach) to see if they would make wikis too; I'd like to get to know them (or their characters) through their own self-modeling.

Your wiki is stupid cool. Love the layout and look and content. Just thought I'd let you know.

That's very kind of you. Thank you. I appreciate when people reach out to let me know. I've been trying to do the same for others lately. Feel free to HMU too; it's always my honor to speak with people over my wiki.

>The Right and The Beautiful are sublated by The Good.

That's an interesting postulated relationship between three of the four normative sciences. You've covered logic, aesthetic, and ethic. How does rhetoric relate?

That is an excellent concern. I've not generated my initial analysis of the concept of rhetoric yet, but it is a common topic in the wiki (it's a word I have wielded hundreds of times in it so far). I have a lot to say about it, but I don't want to flood you. So, I'll hedged-conservatively ack in our dialectic here. I suggest that whatever is normatively valuable about rhetoric can be analyzed in terms of rightness or beauty. When rhetoric is used wisely, it is a justified beautiful hack in expression.

Fantastic blog. The way you have used characters to display pictures, timelines. Lots of hard work and very meticulous.

Aww, thank you. I spend a lot of time inside it, so I'm glad to have something I enjoy looking at. I hope to be meticulous.

I couldn't really navigate your blog easily. Any posts you'd like to point me to that you think are good?

Just go to ">>" and the "browse hierarchy of tags"

The menu buttons have tool tips.

Blog is perhaps too weak a term; it is far more than that. I'm sorry that it's not intuitive or polished. It really isn't everyone's cup of tea. In a way, it is difficult to navigate because it's huge (much larger than most people would predict). There are currently +12,000 different pages inside the html file. Even the questions of what I think is Good, what is good in the wiki, and what it is good for, are core problems I wrestle with quite a bit inside it. I suggest that if it were to be useful to you, it would be in virtue of your patience and curiosity. I'm not trying to be obscure here, and it's not a mere game. I just don't know how to say it any better. I recommend wandering the entrance.

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