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Steel true Blade straight- epitah of A.C. Doyle
The Owl Of Minerva Flies At Night.
Nullius in Verba.
Time is what a clock reads.
The Owl Of Minerva Flies At Night.
Nullius in Verba.
Time is what a clock reads.
Bacle2 said:" Parents work hard to give their children a better life than they had, only to then complain that
their children have it too easy." Unknown.
I never learned to drive. As a kid, I saw too many fatal accidents and I grew up hating the idea. Automobiles slaughter 40,000 people a year, maim a hundred thousand more, and bring out the worst in men. Any society where a natural man — the pedestrian — becomes the intruder, and an unnatural men encased in a steel shell becomes his molester, is a science fiction nightmare.
krash661 said:My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.I am truly a " lone traveler " and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings which increase with the years.One becomes sharply aware,but without regret, of the limits of mutual understanding and consonance with other people. no doubt, such a person loses some of his innocence and unconcern; on the other hand, he is largely independent of the opinions, habits, and judgments of his fellows and avoids the temptation to build his inner equilibrium upon such insecure foundations.-Albert Einstien
A later poster writes...The Guillotine stopped being the official method of execution in France the same year that MS-DOS premiered.
Historians are still arguing about which one ultimately caused more pain and suffering.
Charles Chaplin as the Great Dictator.We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Are you cocksure about that?Ivan Seeking said:The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell,
While scientific theories can be disproved, they are never proven "true" -- there are only theories more well supported than others. This is a statement of scientism.MathJakob said:"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
lambda90 said:Are you cocksure about that?
lambda90 said:While scientific theories can be disproved, they are never proven "true" -- there are only theories more well supported than others. This is a statement of scientism.
Are you forgetting that General Discussion posts don't count toward your post count?epenguin said:Is there some subtle joke here? Is it only on my device that I can see two posts by lambda90 and that his total number of posts is 0? Apparently 0 =/> 2.
Anyway what he cites us not an example of 'scientism' which is a derogatory term used to describe certain superficial ideological misapplications of the general idea of science.
Borg said:Are you forgetting that General Discussion posts don't count toward your post count?
JayJohn85 said:"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Bruce Feirstein
Civilization is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates un-barred and its walls unguarded
--- Chinese ProverbA closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.