Well yeah, that’s nihilism 101.
You seem to have chops, I appreciate people who make me stop and think, not everyone does; but the culture of commenters you will find here are more open to it than most.
Oh,please, yes, tell me all about the community here. I was born yesterday!
I’m not a nihilist. I merely enjoy the dialectic.
Sarcasm detected! hehe
The lone wolf role is so appealing, I know because I’ve induged in it myself for a loong time and still do consider myself an extreme outlier, even here on boingboing.
But I do appreciate the rationality, the ability to actually change a persons mind, when the skill level can be so high.
And I’m not suggesting you not be a lone wolf, just to game the situation, make headway with your ideas, otherwise; why engage in the first place?
edit: dialectic sort of implies more than one party, although I have read awesome examples of Zen masters just annihilating others who don’t have Samsara or some other point of the cannon. Hmm
I said I enjoy the dialectic. It is it’s own reward.
Apologies, edited my comment after you edited yours above.
editing
What I mean is, the dialectic concerning non transcendent topics should always be a debate with two dissenting views working towards development of more sophisticated synergies of the core ideas. Unless you are speaking from a point of enlightenmet or actual transcendent topic, that, I think, is the only possible topic on which one can be completely right and the other… well, no better than a rock.
And in those cases, wading in just to destroy the other with dialectic should be allowed but in (almost?) every other circumstance it is a debate to decrease entropy. On both sides.
Right. There are more than one parties involved. The Lone wolf thing is all your idea (not mine). Just because I have no goal changing someones mind doesn’t mean I want to talk to myself.
…gotta go exercise.
Keep the physical up with the mental. 
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edit: ‘A synergy of our ideas’
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Well, none to you.
or me.
yes, it’s a cop out when other people do it. Got that.
I think I was the lab rat in question in this case (and I think @anon50609448 as well).
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