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On Morality: A Thought Experiment
Was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and it got me engaging in a thought experiment:
Say you were trapped in a snowstorm for many days with one other person, a stranger. Your food rations run out, and both of you are desperately hungry. There is no one around to seek help from. The stranger is weaker than you, and you could easily overpower the ( Read more... ) -
Paved over paradise and put up a (shopping mall)
"We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club (the movie)
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The Christmas period yields the climax of modern ( Read more... ) -
I find it kind of funny
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
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I envision a world in which children will not be brought up by televisions and enticed to behave with promises of the latest video games and gadgets. Where parents will see that spending time with their children ( Read more... ) -
Why you got no boyfriend?
You know your parents are worried about your lack of a boyfriend when:
Dad: Don't always talk about food when you go out with your boyfriend.
Me: Huh? I don't even have a boyfriend. (And for the record, I don't always talk about food.)
Mom: Hey you want me to introduce you a guy? My friend has a son, he's a dentist.
Me: No?? The guy's probably old.
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Gravity Pulls On Everyone.
"Sigmund Freud theorized that humans are born with an instinct toward life (Eros), and an equally powerful instinct toward death (Thanatos).
[Freud on Thanatos] "It is at work in every living being and is striving to bring it to ruin and to reduce life to its original condition of inanimate matter.""
-Social Psychology, 7e, Akert, Aronson, Wilson
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You know you're my saving grace.
I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and ( Read more... ) -
Next Favourite Thing Besides Coffee.
www.bookdepository.co.uk
Online bookstore with free international shipping! Singapore is in the list of countries which they ship free of charge to! Have already flagged out books I'm interested in getting: Machiavelli's The Prince, The Communist Manifesto , Wilson's What Price Liberty? as well as the Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
I think my ( Read more... ) -
It just keeps getting better.
www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/02fight.html
Are these people serious? I would sooner associate Jesus with Mahatma Gandhi than Rambo. They need some lessons in metaphor, stat. And so to be able to be a leader, one needs to be able to have the means to violence.
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The Stuff Relationships Are Made Of
Amongst the many topics that came up during supper today (or rather, which began yesterday and ended today, and was the longest supper I've ever had), this was a recurring theme I picked up on - that women go for men with the financial resources to provide for them and a family if they start one. Richard suggested that this sparked off a self- ( Read more... )