Honestly, I think that a different phenomenon is happening within the forum. Too many people are mistaking their absurd views as philosophy. And then when others object, they throw up their defenses and start spouting off about extreme relativism and pure subjective truth. Modern philosophy is about arguments and counter arguments. If people cannot take having others wholly disagreeing or down right dismissing their ideas, then they are probably in the wrong place. I am all for original thought within philosophy, but it should be grounded in reality.

Personally, I have rarely seen Wikepedia stuff on the forum. Although in some people's cases, if they are deriving their content from Wikipedia, it would be nice to know because some stuff seems beyond absurd and ridiculous.

It seems more and more people within the forum are replacing there own philosophy/words that denotes the truth in there statements with links to pages at wikipida that denotes such truths for them.

Dose anyone els find this an alarming trend?

Honestly, I think that a different phenomenon is happening within the forum. Too many people are mistaking their absurd views as philosophy. And then when others object, they throw up their defenses and start spouting off about extreme relativism and pure subjective truth. Modern philosophy is about arguments and counter arguments. If people cannot take having others wholly disagreeing or down right dismissing their ideas, then they are probably in the wrong place. I am all for original thought within philosophy, but it should be grounded in reality.

Personally, I have rarely seen Wikepedia stuff on the forum. Although in some people's cases, if they are deriving their content from Wikipedia, it would be nice to know because some stuff seems beyond absurd and ridiculous.

The relativism of reality makes it impossible to prove anything as wrong, so there isnt really much to do once you detect extreme relativism keeping up a view other than giving up the discussion or continuing hammering the nail that never goes down.

It seems that most philosophy is based on ones opinion of the subject regardless of its facts and truths. Somewhere in the evolution of philosophy it became trendy to discuss ludicrous ideology. Rather than contemplate and figure out the true natures of the subjects.