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Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 7:59 am
by PeterB
Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. :smile: Or perhaps it already exists.

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:04 am
by tiltbillings
PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. :smile: Or perhaps it already exists.
What be posted there?

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:10 am
by PeterB
Well I guess if it that subforum exists naming its content would defeat the purpose..

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:14 am
by tiltbillings
PeterB wrote:Well I guess if it that subforum exists naming its content would defeat the purpose..
When I helped moderate BeliefNet's Buddhist forum (years ago, before it changed and messed up it messaging systems and sold its soul to Fox Noise), I created a section called Avici Hell where all grossly off-topic (derailing) postings were consigned. Something such as that?

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:18 am
by PeterB
Yes good one. We must of course imagine an Avici Hell where everyone is temporarily content. We must imagine Sysiphus distracted.

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:18 am
by Aloka
PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. :smile: Or perhaps it already exists.

Might it not eventually be bursting at the seams, Peter ?

:rofl:

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:27 am
by Pannapetar
I don't think this is a particularly good idea, as it would automatically foster interventionism, overmoderation, and censoring. This board appears to do quite well without it.

Cheers, Thomas

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:29 am
by PeterB
Its a characteristic of papanca , Aloka that its expansive qualities are without limit...
Peter's Third Law of Papanca Dynamics states;
" When free to proliferate without constraint papanca will eventually fill the nearest universe ".

which of course should always be set against the Fourth Law ;

" When papanca expands to four times its volume the smell of the ordure of the male bovine will set in motion processes that will eventually end that particular expansion".

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:31 am
by Paññāsikhara
tiltbillings wrote:
PeterB wrote:Well I guess if it that subforum exists naming its content would defeat the purpose..
When I helped moderate BeliefNet's Buddhist forum (years ago, before it changed and messed up it messaging systems and sold its soul to Fox Noise), I created a section called Avici Hell where all grossly off-topic (derailing) postings were consigned. Something such as that?
I don't know if it was visible to non-Mods at E-Sangha, but all the posts which were deleted were put, temporarily of course, for nothing conditioned is permanent, in a special little Forum space called "The Bardo" (= intermediate existence). Of course, being Theravadins, such a name would have doctrinal issues. :tongue:

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:40 am
by tiltbillings
Paññāsikhara wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:
PeterB wrote:Well I guess if it that subforum exists naming its content would defeat the purpose..
When I helped moderate BeliefNet's Buddhist forum (years ago, before it changed and messed up it messaging systems and sold its soul to Fox Noise), I created a section called Avici Hell where all grossly off-topic (derailing) postings were consigned. Something such as that?
I don't know if it was visible to non-Mods at E-Sangha, but all the posts which were deleted were put, temporarily of course, for nothing conditioned is permanent, in a special little Forum space called "The Bardo" (= intermediate existence). Of course, being Theravadins, such a name would have doctrinal issues. :tongue:
To let out a wee secret we have the "Charnel Grounds" (borrowed from Termite's Websangha) for posts that have been removed from view.

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:55 am
by retrofuturist
Greetings Peter,
PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. :smile: Or perhaps it already exists.
Check out what the Lounge was called on the prototype version of Dhamma Wheel...

http://lotuscafe.proboards.com/index.cgi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?

Metta,
Retro. :)

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:00 am
by PeterB
Really ! thats amazing.. :smile:
Its like when I make up a song..it usually sounds suspiciously like something I have already heard..

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:01 am
by Ben
PeterB wrote:Its a characteristic of papanca , Aloka that its expansive qualities are without limit...
Peter's Third Law of Papanca Dynamics states;
" When free to proliferate without constraint papanca will eventually fill the nearest universe ".
Funny. It reminds me of something Philip K Dick wrote about in Do andrioids dream of electric sheep. If you've seen the movie Bladerunner, and not read the book, its the weird asberger-like character who builds little android-like companions and plays chess with the CEO of the android company. This character, whose name escapes me because its been well over 30 years since I read it, had a pet theory about the self-replicating principle of crap. It was beautiful! Then years later and reading Ledi Sayadaw for the first time, I read about it all over again. Papancanaana was never so sweet.
metta

Ben

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:04 am
by PeterB
:lol:

It strikes me that this joke "suggestion" has itself expanded rather beyond the Suggestion Box..

Re: Papanca

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:06 am
by retrofuturist
One might say it has proliferated....

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