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- 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 ...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:09 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: I love honesty
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12264
- Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:51 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Logically impossible to prohibit, logically
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2937
- 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...
- 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...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:49 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
- Replies: 127
- Views: 40227
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:20 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Disgust for Religion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8674
- 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 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.
- 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...
- Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:24 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
- Replies: 127
- Views: 40227
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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"?
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:24 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
- Replies: 127
- Views: 40227
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)....
- 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?
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:50 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Cartoons cause an uproar
- Replies: 127
- Views: 40227