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- Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:22 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The diet of a philosopher
- Replies: 53
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- Tue May 09, 2006 8:05 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
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- Mon May 08, 2006 8:06 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
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...
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...
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...
- Sat May 06, 2006 2:16 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
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...
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...
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...
- Wed May 03, 2006 12:12 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
- Tue May 02, 2006 10:03 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
- Tue May 02, 2006 1:55 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
- Tue May 02, 2006 1:53 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:52 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:32 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:02 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
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...
- Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:33 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
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...
- Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:04 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652
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...
- Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:42 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:31 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:44 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:09 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:40 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:59 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:05 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
- Replies: 124
- Views: 60208
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...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:28 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 71652