tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post7527071005488322440..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: Is This Project Worth Doing Anymore? Composing, 11/10/2013Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-17818763059743894412013-10-17T21:12:02.235-07:002013-10-17T21:12:02.235-07:00don't stop.don't stop.magda ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10405324673663879944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-23171561449249321452013-10-11T12:45:15.362-07:002013-10-11T12:45:15.362-07:00Academia is a highly opinionated field. You'r...Academia is a highly opinionated field. You're bound to make enemies. Don't be discouraged. <br /><br />If the blog means something to you, do it. If not, quit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-36369386002334490742013-10-11T09:52:49.993-07:002013-10-11T09:52:49.993-07:00I'll just echo the others -- the post-a-day, i...I'll just echo the others -- the post-a-day, intense commitment you've displayed is admirable, impressive and has contributed positively to my life. I'd like to see you continue. I wouldn't like you to feel pressured to do so, but ceteris paribus do continue!<br /><br />As for the loss of friends -- well, what those two people wrote was not written with very much insight or sensitivity -- and certainly not in the good faith of free and fair debate. They weren't being good friends, as far as I can tell. The person today seemed to be doing classic boundary work: 'you can't talk about this issue unless you repeat our position'. And very ungenerously at that. Those aren't conversation I'd be interested in having, personally. But I think given the topics you cover here, which include feminism and environmentalism, it's an occupational hazard that you'll encounter political rather than intellectual push-back. (And politics tends to get personal!)<br /><br />Prof Bradley was a great thinker and great instructor. I think he'd be proud to see you engaging doggedly with this range of important topics and with complete openness to your interlocutors. What he taught me was that philosophical rigor was a dignified and necessary part of our shared world, not some obscurantist pursuit and certainly not secondary to politics. Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-1884605422580476782013-10-11T08:59:09.549-07:002013-10-11T08:59:09.549-07:00I enjoy reading your blog, and would miss it if yo...I enjoy reading your blog, and would miss it if you stopped.However, you certainly shouldn't feel any pressure to carry on with it if you don't want to.<br /><br />I don't know any of these people, or anything about your relationships with them, beyond what you've written here. That said, they don't seem to me to be behaving much like good friends.<br /><br />I had a similar sort of bust-up with a dear friend of mine a couple of years ago. It was an online argument about politics, something we're both passionate about, and where we have quite different views. It was distressing, but we worked through it with the help of a mutual friend and managed to put it all behind us.<br /><br />I don't think any reasonable person could draw the conclusions these people drew from your blogpost- but then, none of us is entirely reasonable all the time. Friends need to be able to disagree about things, and should make a real effort to discuss and deal with any offence that might have been caused or taken. That effort might not always prove fruitful, but anyone who flatly refuses to attempt it doesn't fit my idea of a friend.<br /><br />I'm sorry this has happened to you.Iain Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539286303757409401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-43990160420114985242013-10-11T08:33:44.444-07:002013-10-11T08:33:44.444-07:00Please don't quit your blog.
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If you&#...Please don't quit your blog.<br />Please.<br /><br />If you've been able to keep this up over any period of depression, PLEASE keep writing. I've been struggling with trying to keep writing over the past couple of years, and my D. has been my biggest enemy. Most days I'm left wondering if I even have a voice left. Often I feel like I'm just filled up with frustration and phrases that I can't get out, and they turn to poison. It's a very particular level of hell.<br /><br />As long as you have something to say, and you can, please do. It will mean something to someone, I'm sure.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546473586103723257noreply@blogger.com