Everyone has one reality, but there are many different experiences of it.

It's like watching a movie, everyone having a different set of glasses, and different headphones. Some people with extremely fuzzy glasses might think the movie sucks, some with broken earphones might think the movie sucks, some people might have perfect glasses and good headphones... the point is that everyone is watching the same movie, or trying to.

There is something there, we all are here and experiencing it... If that's not the case how are there things that we can all agree on?

Haha, I know what you mean there. I sort of went on a vacation from CD when all of that was going on, and I'm glad I did.

If you need someone to tell you or debate for you who to vote for whereever, maybe just let everyone else vote... just stay home.

That's actually NOT a good idea, or at least I don't think so. There are too many debates that I see flipped to the wrong side, and not because the people on the "winning" side are right, but because they are backed by most people... You get what I mean? If it's a matter of opinion, you already sort of have this function by the voting or use of the tags... If it's a two sided, you have the problem that I mentioned up there, of having most (maybe) wrong people on one side, and few people on the other with better arguments.

You know there are a lot of philosophy IRC rooms that shoot topics out at the people in them and they'll debate until it turns into a troll party where everyone's just attacking everyone else.

Perhaps someone could set up an IRC room for CD? I would but I don't have anything that could act as a server... anyone else?

I think this is what the townhall's based on, and idk if that's still around, but I never see people there, or I never did... maybe just make that more accessable. I think that was a java based IRC thing on the page, so you wouldn't even have to have your browser open if that's the case. Just grab a varient of X-Chat and enter the channel.

The only issue with that is having a real-time joe cavalry...

Ha, I don't think this js is so intensive though. I have a mac, and js sucks for mac or just hasn't been implimented right yet for it... whatever it is, too much js will crash anything that it's running in if it gets too much. Flash is like that too...

I have an iBook G4 (1.42Ghz G4, 1Gb DDR333, 32Mb Radion 9550 @AGPx4) and it handles CD like a rag doll. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with it.

A lot of this would be solved by allowing people to vote on debates. The issue of quality debates would be taken care of if it was used right. This works fine on digg, and I think it would be essentially the same operation. Even if it's not an "intellegent" debate subject, if people like it they'll vote it and it'll be on the front page. People could still go argue in debates that aren't that important or likable to others and it won't make it to the front page. This makes me think that it won't actually detract from the usefulness of CD's frontpage, only bring things up that are argeeable. So in short there's no real downside, only an up. I might be missing something, so correct me if I'm wrong.

I still would like to see a philosophy category, but that's just me. Even 99chan had a philosophy category and all of the *chans are imageboards. I think there's more to debate about in philosophy than there is to post pictures on, and 99chan's philosophy board was always pretty active.

(99chan is sort of down right now or I'd link)

Even dreams are real. Even if life is a dream, what is producing it?

I get your point but you basically just barrel rolled that question. You said that it's subjective, and by that I take it you mean, because it's perceived by life that doesn't have the equipment to fully or perhaps barely grasp it.

Truth is just a way of saying reality then. This doesn't explain what you think reality is. If you mean that it's just truth, what is truth. Try explaining that and you'll find that it's a lot harder than it seems.

What is the truth? That's the question.