Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 28, 2005 18:12:56 GMT -5
Purpose of Illyria Forums!!
Purpose of Illyria Forums is to instill wisdom in people or help them achieve it ('Sophos' in ancient Greek) and create more open minded, well informed, well rounded and generally wiser individuals (one might call them 'Haimians' pronounced 'Hemians', from ancient and original name for Balkans which was Haimos, pronounced 'Hemos') that would not feel out of place among Sophists in intellectual Agora of ancient Athens.
Thus another purpose of this forum would be to decrease the number of close-minded dogmatic tribalists (one might call those 'Balkanians'). Thus more 'Haimians' and less 'Balkanians'. More individuals and less tribalists. More thinkers and less followers.
(note: 'Haimian' and 'Balkanian' terms here represents primarily state of mind or rather a mind-set)
Most of the mods (in fact a great majority at least) I have selected to moderate my forums would fall closer under the group I would classify here as 'Haimians' then not and I must note that many have started out in these forums as full blown balkanian tribalists.
Further clarification:
The purpose is to make out of people individuals guided by light of ancient 'Hellenic wisdom' or in this case (ancient through modern) philosophy (as the highest verbal and generally mental achievement of human mind and used as a direction of where human being should be moving towards).
Therefore any darkness or dogma (be it religious fundamentalism, nationalism, being pro or against a certain nation or group thus including forms of propaganda) is only a barrier to the real purpose of this forum which is reaching intellectual enlightenment. Anything that targets a special nation gets people defensive and therefore unable to think in a racial manner and unable to achieve higher wisdom is an obstacle to the purpose of this forum.
Therefore please do not quote the sig (purpose of the forum) to anything that has anything to do with any dogma or anything that stops people from looking at each other as human beings first, cause if that is what you are doing you are missing a point of the purpose of this forum all together.
ps: At this point the purpose of the forum remains as distant light that the Illyria Forums will be moving towards to be fully reached one day (of course in a gradual basis since as the saying goes "Athens was not built in one day".)