Search found 231 matches

by avidaloca
Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:12 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Dangerous Ideas
Replies: 14
Views: 4994

Could it not be that different races or cultures had different priorities? For instance, could it be that cultures in ancient Africa and China were not interested in conquering the world? Having lived in West Africa for a few months at a young age I can tell you I saw no desire of those people for ...
by avidaloca
Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:09 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: I love honesty
Replies: 39
Views: 12264

I'll never forget living in the mountains at Kevin's place a few years ago. Compared to the city, you just don't feel dirty. I went from daily showering to once a week because when the air is that pure you just don't take in the muck like you do in carbon-monoxide land.
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:51 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Logically impossible to prohibit, logically
Replies: 10
Views: 2937

Kelly,

I also struggle to work out if I've comprehended you. I think I've got it, then you throw it to something else, and I no longer know.
by avidaloca
Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:13 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Recommend a movie
Replies: 21
Views: 8544

I saw Munich recently and it wasn't that good at all. If you liked the C.S.Lewis books (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) I doubt you'll be disappointed with The Chronicles of Narnia on the big screen. It's a very well made film that does not bore at all over the three hours - the story builds v...
by avidaloca
Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:24 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Disgust for Religion
Replies: 25
Views: 8674

The Vietnam War is a bit before my time, I was three years old when it ended. I did once do a research paper and speech in 1991 at uni on an incident in the war at Ap Bac, and I was pretty amazed at the various egos in the chain of command and how disastrous that can be. But after I gave that speech...
by avidaloca
Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:49 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Let's bring back the "Piss Christ" sculpture with a crucifix with Jesus on the cross sitting at the bottom of a glass of urine. And Last Temptation of Christ where Jesus lusts after a prostitute. Nobody minded them when they came out.
by avidaloca
Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:20 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Disgust for Religion
Replies: 25
Views: 8674

I just think in some places its got to the point where the power itself is what counts, not the responsiblity. The power has some kind of merit on its own, a high for those who have it, but bad for those who have to pay the price for their egotism.
by avidaloca
Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:06 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Disgust for Religion
Replies: 25
Views: 8674

It just shows that we operate in a hierarchy where it's assumed that those in power can do things (within certain limits) that those not in power can't.

By giving so much leeway to those in power, it actually encourages those who want to abuse that power to do so, and the caller has acted that role.
by avidaloca
Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:56 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cheney
Replies: 28
Views: 9367

It's also a handy way of continuing the open-ended war on terror because wait, they're not completely and totally destroyed yet!
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:13 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

The problem is we approach Weininger and other philosophers differently. You see him as someone to take a little from and throw out the rest because he doesn't meet your high standards. He is a "kid" who is only part way there, while you are at the zenith. I see his and others ideas as containing tr...
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:24 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

The way I look at it is it exposes the inherent weakness of Islam that it can't stand up to this. It just makes them look fragile. If they really believed in their faith they wouldn't be at all flustered.
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:36 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

DavidQuinn, I think that's the difference between good philosophy and bad. The good philosophy always opens up avenues beyond itself, and never claims the total glory. The weakest philosophy claims full victory and declares none more need be done. Under this criteria, the sage is the weakest philoso...
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:05 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

It's so tempting to remain in a lull and call it the end of development! I think that's the difference between good philosophy and bad. The good philosophy always opens up avenues beyond itself, and never claims the total glory. The weakest philosophy claims full victory and declares none more need...
by avidaloca
Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:02 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

What you say is pefectly right, the only problem is that Western countries value democracy, which means that it values the opinions of large groups of people, no matter how stupid those people might be. Herd mentality. I think a big part of the problem is that men don't have the same roles they use...
by avidaloca
Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:21 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

sue hindmarsh, As to what degree Australia has influenced Kevin or David in their philosophical development is difficult to say – but there is no doubt they were influenced. Having been born in Australia and spent my whole life here except for a year abroad I have to say I don't see Kevin as an Au...
by avidaloca
Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:44 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Maybe, being raised in this hedonistic culture got David and Kevin questioning their own values Except Kevin wasn't raised in Australia - he was raised in Guernsey till he was about 11 - an island in the English channel. Given that David has used Kevin's views as a springboard for his own, that doe...
by avidaloca
Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:19 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Diebert van Rhijn wrote: This understanding comes way more difficult in a life full of illusive forms of freedom and free-time. If anything they promote feminine mindsets way stronger than masculine ones . Speaking for myself, I think people hanker after freedom within discipline rather than freedo...
by avidaloca
Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:04 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cheney
Replies: 28
Views: 9367

Cheney's got a gun

Was it a veiled deathwish for his own countrymen when he said "the struggle can only end with their complete, and total, destruction"?
by avidaloca
Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:24 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

only two centuries after the goose Muhammad made his viewpoints the spiritual law.
Whoah big fella. Easy on the anti-Muhammad lines or we'll find a fatwah declared on the Genius Forum.
by avidaloca
Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:21 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Tying in with the golf thread, it looks like the Chinese were ahead of the West in that as well. China: We invented golf From: From correspondents in Hong Kong February 14, 2006 ANCIENT paintings allegedly proving the Chinese invented the game of golf 1000 years ago are to go on display in Hong Kong...
by avidaloca
Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Disgust for Religion
Replies: 25
Views: 8674

On the flipside if the caller had have been a real police officer and the manager did not follow his instructions he could have been charged with disobeying the orders of a police officer and, by letting the alleged offender escape, aiding and abetting a known felon. So the manager may have felt his...
by avidaloca
Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:30 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Diebert - sound thoughts in a very worthwhile read. Leunig publishes Holocaust cartoon From: Agence France-Presse By Siavosh Ghazi in tehran February 14, 2006 RENOWNED Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig has submitted the first entry in a controversial contest for cartoons of the Holocaust launched...
by avidaloca
Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

By that analysis, Western culture seems more honestly feminine, which itself is masculine by not covering up the truth. The Muslim world in contrast seems ultra-feminine, deviously feminine, with deviousness being the core trait of the feminine-minded (ref. Weininger's "organic mendacity" of women)....
by avidaloca
Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:41 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

Experiences in that area enough. What is interesting, you give the same response one would get from a Christian defending her religion. Seriously, one must stop being whatever one thinks one is, before knowing oneself is even possible. What about the old QRS adage that it takes a genius to know one?
by avidaloca
Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:50 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
Replies: 127
Views: 40227

I lived in New Jersey for over a month in the mid-90s.

I have little recollection of the American mentality by now but I do remember being impressed by the inclusivity of the place. European countries draw more lines between the natives and non-native population.