^the thread's activities are cyclical, and this isn't that bad, it's been inactive for a day or two on some previous occasions. Like a week with a single page gained, or maybe two, my memory isn't that great but things have been going nicely lately.
Never trust people who are kind and supportive towards everyone, they are liars. I mean, we go through a conversation where I talk about a bunch of painful personal shit that I am very unwilling to talk about, then they say something nice blah blah no you're a worthwhile person. But are they willing to reciprocate? No, with one exception, and that is their real opinion of me. *grumble grumble* Yes, I am still rankling over that. The moral of the story is that you should be wary of giving knee-jerk kind responses to people, 'cause if that's all you give them they know that your words are empty, and that just hurts them more. 'course I know PDers are genuinely good people at a higher than average rate, but it's still a lesson that needs teaching.
In other news, I fortuitously found Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (alternatively Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals) at the library's for sale section, and I must say his ideas are much more compelling in the original than my previously reading second-hand about them in more general works on ethics. Only read some of it, as I am quite eager to finish my complete Sherlock Holmes collection.