EmperorofIceCream

EmperorofIceCream

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Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

An after-thought. Why is my Doctorate never-to-be-completed? Because I came to hate every word of it. I'd sooner kill myself than finish it.

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Alrighty. This is a ramble, not a coherent response to anything mentioned in this thread. However, neither is it off topic. I wrote my final essay for my Master's Degree on the topic of the relationship of thought between the work of Michel Foucault and Hobbes's theory of civility. And the bulk of the work for the introduction to my (never-to-be-completed) Doctoral thesis dealt with Kant. The Introduction was over twenty thousand words. I'm bragging now. Sue me. I was

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Reply to Are Public Schools best for Kids? in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

LW here, momentarily on Emp's account... Reading back over some of Zig's other posts, they're ALL full of grammatical mistakes, every single one of them. Call me a grammar nazi, I'm not the one presenting myself as a teacher of children, a creature to be revered as all knowing and God-like in my wisdom, knowing what's best for your children in spite of your own parental instincts. Hey Ziggy, hukt on fonix werkd fer me. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ju/T_JU/smiles/Laugh

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Reply to Death of America in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Philosophy... At one time the love of wisdom (philo = 'love' + sophos = 'wisdom' = 'philo-sopher' or 'lover of wisdom'). Now, commonly (and regretably), the love of one voice speaking. Kant: first and by far the greatest Father of the European Enlightenment. Trying to follow the rigor of his thinking is like taking a bath in the coldest water imaginable. Alas (for the lovers of wisdom), it's also hysterically funny - because his every thought in the Critique of Pure Re

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Ock, I appreciate the compliment, but it's not generally considered kosher to copy an entire blog post. I'll forgive it this time, though. Be careful you don't strangle on your own condescension. You write a decent essay, but your manners are abominable. And your argument in relation to Individualism is specious, at best. The contribution of the European enlightenment was that it accelerated the cycles of hist

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"Immortality Institute"? There are people who actually want to live forever? That's very nearly as funny as suicide. or do we just say fuck’em they’re all doomed anyways? Yes. That's exactly what we say. The more of humanity that dies, and the faster they do it, the happier I will be. We are a disease, and it's about time we were cauterized.

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Reply to Night Thoughts in Misc JoeUser Forums

Rowena is the narrator's second wife, married after the death of the never-to-be-forgotten Ligeia. As such, she becomes the unwitting (and unwilling) fleshly vehicle for the return of Ligeia from beyond the confines of death. Other than that, within the terms of the story, she isn't anybody at all. Poe was not so sufficiently master of the short story that he knew how to give a secondary character independent life, and Rowena Tremaine is purely a vehic

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300 in Misc JoeUser Forums

'300', which I saw for the first time last night via On Demand TV, is visually one of the most impressive movies I've seen in a very long time. There is an epic, mythological feel to the imagery that goes a long way toward compensating for deficiencies in dialogue and acting. Not that the dialogue is particularly stiff or wooden (or no more so than in many

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I just read the original, and left a comment there under my own name. I t read something to this effect: "I wish I'd written this. Every American - everyone who has ever aspired to be American - should be made to read this with the barrel of a gun pressed firmly to the base of their skulls. Anyone not immediately laughing hysterically in fits of delighted recognition should be removed from their self-satisfaction via a bullet to the brain. I wish I'd written this." as any truly

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Night Thoughts in Misc JoeUser Forums

The images are Munch's Madonna and his more famous Scream (for the unfamiliar, Madonna is on the lef

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Reply to Christian Caught with Foot in MOUTH in Current Events JoeUser Forums

the Horse in Hebrew,in latin it means god of swine,Hosea means salvation Hosea - deliverer, not 'salvation'. WWW Link Horse in Hebrew - the closest cognate to the word horse in Hebrew (for which I have fonts) is the Ugaitic word 'prd'. There is no cognate to the word 'Jesus' (as meaning 'horse') at all. <a href="http://www.telecomtally.com/blog/200

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Reply to Christian Caught with Foot in MOUTH in Current Events JoeUser Forums

you mean all of those rabbis that i have been listening to has it wrong. Yes, you egregious idiot. Your Rabbis are wrong. Not only are they wrong but they're terrible tachers if an unadulterated ignoramus like you is a product of their teaching.

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Reply to Christian Caught with Foot in MOUTH in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Nothing like a Catholic priest perpetuating the fallacy that all JEWS are Greedy. Yay Christians! Once again caught with their pants down, oops no that is another story. Shows you that in their hearts they still blame the JEWS for killing another JEW called Jesus, so much for forgiveness huh? Of course Christians want to kill Jews. The New Testament explicitly condemns Jews for executing Jesus, as a political pawn in an ongoig struggle between the Temple

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Reply to Humanity. The ape that thought it could. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Why should human beings, and human being generally, survive? What is there, in what we have added to the world (if indeed we have added anything), that requires our survival? What is there about us that makes it necessary to the life of the world that we , as a species, should live when other creatures of different kinds have been obliterated and exist no more? The answer is - nothing. The 20th century saw greater cha

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Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

So far my strategy is a dismal and unmitigated failure - except it's taking longer for my ass to be kicked now. A sound thrashing is still being administered however.

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Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I have devised a new strategy. Having mastered the mysteries of grouping I'm going to breed two new fighters (even if I have to recycle one of the reservoir ships I have) and then set them to guard the Omnicruiser. Meanwhile my current pair of fighters will attempt to invade the station (which will initiate the first wave of defenders), then retreat to within range of the two on guard duty. The Omnicruiser and the reservoir and lab ships will carry out

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Reply to Others are. So I will. in Misc JoeUser Forums

I had no idea that the Spanish Inquisition had been abolished only so recently. I followed quite a few related links and found the topic interesting, for which I thank you. I hadn't heard of the 'Black Legend' previously (though of course it makes perect sense in the context of all those Enlightenment struggles with Religion). I was particularly fascinated to learn that the Inquisition did not create the Iron Maiden (I should have guessed the Ge

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