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- Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:24 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Should I have kids?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4272
It doesn't make sense to me, Simon, because, it seems, from your justification, the only reason you want kids is to do a better job than what your parents did with you. What do you want to prove to yourself? That you can be better than your parents were? These will be new kids in a totally new situa...
- Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Should I have kids?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4272
Nah, go for it, Simon, your logic is totally messed up but...if you don't have a bunch of screaming, ugly kids...someone else will...I'm just cynical cuz I've been ditched by Mr Perfect for some drone red head woman...I've wanted to have my ovaries removed since like forever, but I don't want the pe...
- Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:50 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato's Republic
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5210
No, I think one can break a thing down until those with reasonable intellect can understand it. Most people are just not very good at explaining themselves. If no one can grasp their logic, is it really logic?? But you are correct Elizabeth, the political situations are quite futile, and yes, genius...
- Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato's Republic
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5210
yeah, see, that's my point. the truly brave, visionary ( or just plain dumb ) are the only ones who truly go for presidency. Obviously, the smarter a person is, the better ruler they would make, for they will see the traps and complications of political situations coming from a mile away...and avoid...
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Should I have kids?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4272
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato's Republic
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5210
Plato's Republic
Hey. I need some opinions. Been doing Plato's Republic in class and my thoughts about it are starting to get muddy. So I figured I could get some feedback from the geniuses to help me see things more clearly. Harassed the lecturer already, who ended up by saying "Ok, bye". Helpful. Revolutionary. An...
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:01 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Rollings Stones - Dead Flowers (live 1971)
- Replies: 296
- Views: 82310
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:56 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: What books/articles/essays are you reading?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4999
Reading discussion of Plato's [i]Republic. Having awful amounts of trouble getting over all the little errors he ( Plato ) made within the texts. Desperately seeking to discuss these odd features with my lecturers or trash them in essays but you know what university is like: They want to you to do r...
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:45 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: animal experimentation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1750
hey, Nordicvs! You seem to be "rattled" by my opinions! Sorry about that, I didn't mean to degrade meat eaters or scientists, but I do not personally agree with what they are doing. It is an extremely difficult topic, and the science part is the most difficult to consider. Eating meat is, according ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:03 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Vlad Tepes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5023
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:48 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Vlad Tepes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5023
hey Diebert. I think the point of bombs is to kill many, and fast. probably not meant as a sadism fest. Wanna phone George? yes, I'd prefer a faceless, nameless entity crushing me slowly. Yes, Diebert, you illustrated my point for me beautifully, Nature shares enough illness, destruction and death w...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:26 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Vlad Tepes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5023
Vlad was an exceptional example. If a nuclear bomb is all you get, you're lucky...It's a bomb. It's not some person from next door who sticks a stick into you slowly so it comes out by your mouth, for no descernable reason...much too personal for my liking. much more sadistic and packed with intenti...
- Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: irrational universe?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2974
i think scientists would accept your theory of irrationality only if you could prove it chemically. Like, say, you found a way to make water turn into nothingness etc., then you could show how the universe does whatever it wants to. But i know what you are saying and one can ask the question: Is the...
- Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:22 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Vlad Tepes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5023
Indeed, history and life itself is like an artwork to me. The endlessly strange and varied situations that were struck up in the passageways of time are fascinating. And yet, though the particular "art" that dear Tepes has created is original and interesting, it is an artwork which must be detroyed ...
- Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:17 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Vlad Tepes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5023
Vlad Tepes
If the devil did not temporarily escape hell and pretend to be human, I have little other explanation as to the existence and actions of Vlad Tepes ( Vladimir the Impaler ). He makes Hitler and even Genghis seem "nice". This is a man who once impaled 10 000 of his own people at once for unknown reas...
actually, i am writing a story at the moment which deals with accepting the insanity of the world to preserve one's own sanity. The book aims to make one comfortable with the crazy. Suppose it's my way of trying to deal with "it all" and to cast of my evil cloak of humanism/curiosity. It's filled wi...
i'm confused. if i told you not to stereotype art, i would be making a stereotype of art myself. But mostly the point of art seems to be originality, a constant amazement and entrancement for the senses. Art should thus not be tied to any weird "masculine" or "feminine" constraint ( in which case it...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:57 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: animal experimentation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1750
I once saw scientists give cocaine to monkeys. The little things were fried in their brains. it's sick. I believe one should only kill or torture in the name of self-defence or justice. I don't eat meat anymore. Nature is cruel, yes, so we shouldn't be. We have enough brains to register what we are ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:34 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Progress in Evolution
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4028
I wouldn't say TOE would be completely useless. Of course what would happen is that, if some people could predict the future, this knowledge might be put to evil use ( probably by governments ). I mean, scientists have created a fairly accurate means of making an object seem invisible by bending the...
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:22 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The solution to poverty
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1876
i don't understand. I don't have the sound function of the video. the kids pay for the rides? which would mean that money is just passed on from one poor person to another. it's not about the banal lack of educational provision for me, but about the capitalsit pretence. over-all the poverty levels w...
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:26 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Progress in Evolution
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4028
hey. interesting ideas. you seem to be more interested in manipulating the environment than the DNA structures themselves in order to create more effective organisms. Nice! But at the rate scientists are moving with their experiments I doubt they'd like to hang around for years to wait for organisms...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:53 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Tumbleman/OS 012 link/goodbye
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33846
PS: I'm sitting here in a certain Middle-East country where there is a wild "traffic festival" going on outside my flat, and I'm freaking out. How is it goddamn possible that in one of the safest countries ( practically Utopia ) a government can allow such fast drivers [ I hear popping wheels!! ] 31...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:31 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Tumbleman/OS 012 link/goodbye
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33846
hey Bubblefish. i doubt you are still here, but i like to talk to myself a lot anyway, so I'll start spinning. If you have been abused by a lot of people here I would like to extend my sympathies to you. Abuse is a sign of weakness on the part of the abuser, for such a person feels the need to displ...