January 2011
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Lamar Moore, armed with a shotgun, stormed into a Detroit police precinct and got into a close-quarters shootout with four cops, all of whom suffered wounds but eventually managed to take him out. The John Woo-esque diving action sequence was superb.
Jan 29th
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Jan 25th
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Re: The Zeitgeist Films Are Right-Wing Propaganda →
digitalpidgin: sroek: digitalpidgin: Below I will discuss a few elements of the Zeitgeist films and make the case that the films bolster right-wing ideology and objectives. I will also argue that the films are psychologically manipulative, particularly when watched by unbalanced individuals, and thus that they have the potential to… The Zeitgeist films are indeed propaganda (what...
Jan 24th
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Re: The Zeitgeist Films Are Right-Wing Propaganda →
digitalpidgin: Below I will discuss a few elements of the Zeitgeist films and make the case that the films bolster right-wing ideology and objectives. I will also argue that the films are psychologically manipulative, particularly when watched by unbalanced individuals, and thus that they have the potential to… The Zeitgeist films are indeed propaganda (what presentation isn’t?),...
Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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Re: A Question for a Nihilist
humanoidmachinery: If all is meaningless, what does it mean to possess meaning? A standard nihilist would probably give you an answer like arbitrary direction, but that too, is sort of a contradiction. When any idea is painstakingly deconstructed, its paradoxical nature becomes glaring. Nothing is absolute, everything is fleeting.
Jan 20th
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Diogenes was walking backwards across the Agora, affecting a studied indifference to all who laughed at him. Finally, when he had collected a large following he stopped and announced, “You are laughing at me walking just a little distance backwards while you all lead your entire lives arse-about.” “And what’s more,” he asked, “can you change your way of...
Jan 18th
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“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.”
– Diogenes of Sinope
Jan 18th
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Re: Thoughts & Things: To Believe, or Not to... →
briannadaily: Now in this modern day and age people question whether or not there is a God, or even a supreme being. Many people either truly believe there is one. Others aren’t so sure, and then there are the few who strike down even the thought of an all knowing, all powerful being. Now there are many… Utter non-sense. Beliefs aren’t chosen, they are the causatum of rationale....
Jan 17th
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Jan 14th
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“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav’n of hell, a...”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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