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by avidaloca
Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:22 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The diet of a philosopher
Replies: 53
Views: 23671

The sage eats whatever is placed in his bowl when he begs for food, as long as that item appears edible. If it is poisoned, he falls sick and dies.
by avidaloca
Tue May 09, 2006 8:05 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

DavidQuinn wrote: Marsha loves to dish the "satire" out to others, but the moment anyone tries to dish it back her way, she goes nuts. This makes her a hypocrite. I don't know about a hypocrite but she sure can't take a dose of her own medicine. To me a hypocrite is someone who espouses a ...
by avidaloca
Mon May 08, 2006 8:06 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

Fiazi wrote: You do this lecture series scene with great pretense toward wisdom while congruently engaging in name calling and innuendo. It looks like a duck quacking from both sides of its face. I don't know about the rest of you but this has always impressed me. The way David can character assassi...
by avidaloca
Mon May 08, 2006 12:41 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Rumsfeld
Replies: 44
Views: 22004

Fiazi wrote: Geographical and political knowledge will not get you to enlightenment but it may prevent you from being duped. For some people, geographic/political knowledge means the very essence of existence or life or death itself. Strategically placed countries like Belarus for example, wedged be...
by avidaloca
Sat May 06, 2006 2:51 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Rumsfeld
Replies: 44
Views: 22004

The Rumsfeld video link is worth a look http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/04/rumsfeld.ap/index.html Reminds me of when Kofi Annan was being unrelentingly questioned about buying a Mercedes at discount through oil-for-food. These videos don't come along that often, but there's obviously a welco...
by avidaloca
Sat May 06, 2006 2:16 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

Scott Schaula wrote: Is that TRUE? I don't believe it is. I think it's the law of nature. Dogs bark when the merest hint of another dog is around them. People of similar or different mindsets are also often acutely aware of that sometimes instantly. I think you need to be one to know one, or perhaps...
by avidaloca
Sat May 06, 2006 1:36 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Australia
Replies: 16
Views: 8066

Jamesh wrote: I’m indicating that even though Oz is much like the US these days Having lived in both countries I'd say this is false. It's commonly bandied about by Aussies who've never lived there. As Kevin said, we are somewhere between the US and UK culturally, but about a %10-15 swing away fro...
by avidaloca
Thu May 04, 2006 11:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Australia
Replies: 16
Views: 8066

I grew up with cricket in Australia so don't find it boring, but the most boring sporting event I ever saw was a baseball match at Wrigley field in Chicago. I'd go from the Whitsundays to Cairns, but I'm biased being a scuba diver. I'd also go to Fraser Island, and Kangaroo Island. Adelaide is borin...
by avidaloca
Wed May 03, 2006 12:12 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

DavidQuinn wrote:
Are you sure you would be able to recognize someone who is "beyond all vanity"? What do you think such a person would be like?
Fully enlightened.

Would I be able to recognise them? I doubt it. It takes an enlightened person to be able to recognise another.
by avidaloca
Tue May 02, 2006 10:03 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

I watched a documentary today on Aleister Crowley, who had a copy of the Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon to do black magic.

Anyone like The Lesser Key of Solway?
by avidaloca
Tue May 02, 2006 1:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

I saw it called "The Lower House" for a while before I reloaded the page to see "Worldy Matters".
by avidaloca
Tue May 02, 2006 1:53 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

I have to say in 10 years I've never seen David Quinn exhibit even the slightest trace of vanity about physical appearance, but then that is not the only form of vanity. To be beyond all vanity would impress me.
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:52 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

R. Steven Coyle

Well said. It's that kind of well-articulated clarification we need more of here, using terms meaningful to laymen instead of psychobabble.
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:32 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

I think Marsha is pretty honest and for the topics she discusses, I see truth in her observations. I don't think she's in the game of expounding ultimate truth to others, whatever that is. So I don't see what you're complaining about. I take it as it is. If I want deep truth about things I check out...
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:02 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

MKFaizi writes: I am pretty much barely clinging to what is left of the bottom rung of the US middle class. I definitely have no social status. I worked forty-five hours this week. Work is a bitch. No reward at all. I work because I have to work. If I did not, I would not. I know that others have wr...
by avidaloca
Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:33 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

Jamesh wrote: It is not that non-white/asian folk are necessarily genetically superior (for rational thinking) but merely that they ONCE were trained to be less emotional than the non-whites. I'm not sure what you mean by this. It is true that David regards people of African descent to have contrib...
by avidaloca
Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:04 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

DHodges wrote: sometimes its a lot less bother to go along with some minor thing - like shaving, or getting your hair cut - than to deal with the consequences of being poorly groomed. I don't think David Quinn will mind me saying that when he was looking for an apartment last year, he got knocked b...
by avidaloca
Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:42 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

Shardrol wrote: This doesn't make a lot of sense. If you really found sport completely tedious, why would you continue to watch it? And why does it disturb you that I find it tedious? I continued to watch it to see if I could stomach it and perhaps find something interesting in it. If I couldn't ha...
by avidaloca
Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:31 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

Shardrol wrote: I can't really speak to this with any kind of authority since I find all sports completely tedious to watch I find that disturbing but I understand it. I used to be the same about a sport until I had watched enough of it to understand the depths of it. I now think cricket, soccer an...
by avidaloca
Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:44 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

And I imagine you must think the same about men dyeing their hair, getting manicures & going in for cosmetic surgery, no? If I didn't I'd be placing greater importance on the fact of one's biological gender than the degree of M or F in them. Both are important, and it is difficult to say which ...
by avidaloca
Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:09 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

I'm not talking about changes in athletic participation and achievement, because I don't dispute that. Females participate at a far greater rate than in the 60s or 30s, and thus achieve more, even to the extent that they are better than men competing at the highest levels in some rare cases. The soc...
by avidaloca
Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:40 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

I love the way everyone under 25 thinks women have somehow changed magically from earlier times, and the "old stereotypes" no longer apply. There's nothing new under the sun. Different disguises for the same face. Don't judge a book by its cover.
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:59 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

But I wonder why a man has an idealistic problem with a woman rolling around in the dirt? In your idealistic view of a woman, do you see her looking lovely in a pink prom dress? Doing nothing but smiling and acting nice? It harks back to what Weininger said about men having to transform a woman bef...
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:05 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 59948

It plays upon the part of your mind that idealises women. They look like rough-and-tumble schoolboys or even bullies when they play rugby in the mud and the prom dresses add that bizarre twist to it. It makes me think of mens' idealisations of women and what that says about a man rather than a woman...
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:28 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 71181

Running a gently vibrating piece of soft curved metal over my face every day doesn't bother me.