"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Hello Steemit!

in introducemyself •  7 years ago  (edited)

Hello Steemians! Before I properly introduce myself, let me confront you with the following quote:

The unexamined life is not worth living.

With these famous words Socrates chose death rather than exile from his beloved city of ancient Athens. His exile would mean the end of his Socratic method, the end of what he considered the most virtuous of all human endeavours: the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom through questioning, logical argument and above all else open debate.

If Socrates was alive today, he undoubtedly would have been a Steemian. This platform has an incredible potential to nurture meaningful and respectful debate between people of all walks of life. And that’s why, today, I’ve decided to become a Steemian myself.


Hi! Im Bruce, a 30 year old male from Belgium. I make a living as a freelance copywriter and game journalist. Hence the nickname ‘Games Joyce’. Get it? Clever, right? Right…

I feel very fortunate to be able to combine my love for language and video games in my professional life. Yet, there’s a third passion I’ve been neglecting for too long. Philosophy - who would’ve guessed after that intro huh? And, I’m sorry fellow Steemians, but you’re about to bear the burden of this neglect.

Fret not however, because my silly obsession with understanding ideas might actually be beneficial to this whole community.

Debate can be an unbelievably powerful tool, not only as a way to distinguish a good from a bad idea, but more importantly as a collective search for truth. When two open minded people engage in honest discussion something magical happens: both minds strengthen each other with the unrelenting force of well thought out and reasonable arguments. A good debate can absolutely embolden and strengthen the individual.

And that’s why I plan on instigating as many meaningful debates on Steemit as I can. How I’m going to handle this most noblest of missions is still a bit unclear to me though. On one occasion I might pit two interesting ideas against each other, at other times I might challenge commonly held beliefs by the community with counter-arguments (I’m looking at you anarchism, just-kidding-not-kidding). Think of me as the midwife of your own ideas, if that makes any sense.

I’ll call this series of debates ‘Debate This!’ (as a tribute to the wonderful Philosophize This! podcast by Stephen West).

So if all this philosophical mumbo-jumbo strikes any chord with you, look out for that highly original prefix ‘Debate This!’ and get your arguments ready. Or, you could just follow me ofcourse. :-)

Here’s to a successful, open and good spirited Steemit community! Cheers!


PS: Feel free to ask me a question about anything. And yes, this includes Gamergate and ethics in game journalism. I might just give you some industry insider filth. (Idea: should do a post about that in the future.) 

PSS: I’m not a native English speaker, so linguistic suggestions and corrections are greatly appreciated!

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Hi! I play video games for a living. I was directed here by @alexander.alexis.

I've followed because heck, video games are literally my life. I play video games, and write in my free time. I used to debate a bit, but not nearly as much as I would've liked.

Hey man, great to meet another video game aficionado. Will be writing more about them soon on Steemit too.

Btw, what do you mean by playing video games for a living. You a famous streamer or something?

No, not really. Can't reveal particulars but I basically work for a software company that want to become a gaming platform. So they need someone to play games on their platform, tell them improvements, and what not.

Excited to see more of Debate This!
Keep up the content.

Hi! Im Bruce, a 30 year old male from Belgium. I make a living as a freelance copywriter and game journalist. Hence the nickname ‘Games Joyce’. Get it? Clever, right? Right…

Actually, yeah! Lol!

I like you! I'm following! And if you can get on private chat I can introduce you to a community of thinkers we're trying to build here to promote minnows like us.

Thanks! Much appreciated! I feel some great conversations coming up soon.

Yup! And knowledge-imparting. I've already discovered a podcast and a shadow-theory from you!

Welcome on Steemit Bruce! Interesting post and very well written. I guess you speak some French if you're from Belgium.

Anyway, nice to meet you and have fun on Steemit!

Thanks for the warm welcome! Glad you liked it.

Mais je vis dans la partie néerlandophone de la Belgique et mon français est malheureusement pas très bon...

Hey hey! No cursing!

Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now

Welcome to Steemit Bruce! Keen for some good philosophical debate - following

You speak (or write I should say) better English than most of the people I know, but then again, I am in America....

Thanks! That's really nice to hear (or read I should say ;-) )

Welcome to Steemit. I am especially pleased to make your acquaintance because two of my favorite channels of thought are of games and 'thinking about thinking', which in a way is what games mirror. I invite you to take a look at my recent post Taking care of things where levels of complexity in "common sense" underlie both the games people play and also the philosophy they enact in ordinary experience. That post contains a link to my companion website, Manifest Orders, where I currently am elaborating a theory of culture grounded in different modes of individual attentiveness. I welcome any comment you might care to offer.

Hey @johojo, sorry but I must have missed this reply earlier.

Will definitely check out the post and site, and get back to you on them!

Welcome to Steem @gamesjoyce I have upvoted and sent you a tip

Nice, a new Steemian, more or less ^^ Hello Gamesjoyce I hope you have fun here. feel free to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @chrisx

welcome to Steemit Gamesjoyce ! Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me at @mekong

Welcome to the platform @gamesjoyce, it's an incredible bunch here! minnowsupport is an invaluable section for newbie members. Follow me if you would like free banners you can use on your posts!

Welcome to steemit! Upvoted and followed (y) Check my profile, there are lots of guides and hacks for newbies ;)

Hi @gamesjoyce Welcome to steemit. Upvoted..:)

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Hello ! I am @digital-gypsy , nice to meet you @Gamesjoyce ! Welcome to Steemit and all the best for your posting

Welcome to steemit. Followed n upvoted