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- Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:26 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
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- Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:23 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: OIL, STRAIGHT FROM THE BOWSER‘S MOUTH
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From an email from a friend of mine in Ohio: I bought an old Nissan pick'em up truck. 201000 miles and 20 years old. I have been tuning it up because today I will take a long trip to the country. It is 4x4 and stick shift. It has a 4 cylinder 1.9 liter engine , I think it will be good on gas. These ...
- Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:34 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
- Views: 65437
Kind of sounds like he needed a scholarly translator who is familiar with all the nuances of the language; someone neutral but whose knowledge of German is beyond rapproach. I know he asked around at the time to German academics like Claudia Grinnell but she and others said they didn't have the tim...
- Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:43 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
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I am struggling to understand your meaning. I speak only English. Yet, I can read Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and understand their meaning, even if the usage is not modern. It is modern enough to be easily understood by a twenty-first century intellect. Weininger writes from both a different t...
- Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:54 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
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If your knowledge of German is modern, did you have difficulty interpreting Weininger? Is that what you are saying -- kind of unclear from your writing above. The only German I knew when I started looking at Weininger was modern German, like most people. It didn't help a lot. It's not so much the n...
- Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:09 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
- Views: 65437
I do think that Kevin is much better at wisdom than he is at understanding politics and the root causes of war. I don't think I'll forget for some years trying to translate Weininger with Kevin in 1999. I spent hours every day for months reading Weininger in German after some years experience with ...
- Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
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I can't imagine taking a razor to my face each and every morning. That's why I switched to an electric with a soft foil years ago. I didn't like all the cuts and blood, even if they were only on the surface. I only need a disposable razor for my neck area because it is a bad shape for an electric, ...
Sex and Character: Male and Femal Psychology Chapter
This sums up Weininger's entire thesis: In short, this is what it pivots on. It has been found that the logical and the ethical phenomenon, linked together as one in the concept of truth as the highest value, compel the assumption of an intelligble I or a soul, as an existence of highest, hyperempri...
Weininger: There is no man, in whom not yet somehow something supersensual lives, none, who could be not at all good; and there is no woman of whom that would in truth be valid. Es gibt keinen Mann, in dem nicht noch irgendwie Übersinnliches lebte, keinen, der gar nicht gut wäre; und es gibt kein ...
Notice that Weininger says that "the lowest woman" can be crushed. This means, she is not utterly, 100%, unconscious of her mediocrity. She is not totally incapable of thought. Hard to believe.... It's a salient point you make. Weininger wrote about everyone (excepting the absolute Woman [W] who ca...
Ego and woman
This passage by Weininger contains his famous line about the "lowest standing man being superior to the highest standing woman". It reminds me of Nietzsche who said "Woman is ego personified". I read in it that women have no higher essence, they are pure ego, which is lowness, of the world, of body ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
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Sometimes I fear that my lack of facial hair is an indication that i'm not man-enough to be a sage. Take a look at the Chinese sage Huang Po's writings: some of the best ever written. A true genius. As he lived in the ninth century, we can't be sure what he looks like, but you rarely see a Chinaman...
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:51 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
- Replies: 130
- Views: 45505
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:59 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
- Views: 65437
Breaking News....
US 'planning attack on Iran' From correspondents in Washington April 10, 2006 PLANS are under way for a massive US bombing strike on sites where Iran is believed to be enriching uranium before President George W. Bush leaves office in less than three years' time. Both Mr Bush and Vice-President Dic...
- Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:28 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22016
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:12 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are messageboards addictive?
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- Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:49 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Iran nukes?
- Replies: 205
- Views: 65437
I believe there would be a lot more hard evidence than there is if a systematic genocidal campaign to wipe out six million people had occurred. I don't deny that 1-2 million were killed in concentration camps, mass shootings and burials, and through starvation and violence in ghettos. I wouldn't den...
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:09 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22016
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:34 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22016
A while ago I went to a Zen meditation night and it was very interesting. The whole point was to quiet your mind, sitting in the correct posture facing a wall for three hours with a couple of short breaks where you had to be composed anyway to go through a tea ceremony. It was the hardest thing I'd ...
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:31 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
- Replies: 68
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the Genius Forum is no match for the backstabbing, ridiculing, deceit, posturing, teaming up, threats, innuendo and hypocriticism you will find 'out there'. It's amazing how little of that goes on here. I'd be out of here pretty quick if it was the modus operandi like on so many other boards, so th...
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: An honest academic being corralled into submission to
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2170
Funny how the words "honest academic" seem to be oxymoronic these days. The Aussie family were tougher, practical, uncomfortable of expressing anything unusual or witty , mother-lovers, and as bland as animals. People who lack expressiveness are the most boring people on earth to me. It's as if they...
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:46 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: An honest academic being corralled into submission to
- Replies: 7
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On the subject of racial differences, the article has this footnote: Note that Sailer's definition of "race" as an inbred extended family, means that some such descent groups are closely related, such as Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland while others, such as the classic continental race...
No. I said "The ego works the same regardless of whether the desire is sexual, psychological, emotional, or biological. These spheres may appear to be different, but ultimately they all have the same conceptual basis." One who is perfectly enlightened doesn't have an ego at all, by definition. Degr...
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:13 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: I like suffering
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7224
Memory is a bitch because it has inbuilt mechanisms for forgetting past suffering, for only remembering the good times. This increases one's desire to strive for more good times, which in the end results in more suffering once the initial excitment of a new experience wears off through repetition. ...