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notes"Literature is the question minus the answer."Roland Barthes (via gouachegalatea) (via libraryland) (via enormousair)
What would be the reverse? News? Beauty? Capitalism? Texas?
(via tragos) Fruit cups?, Jheri curls?, Boggle? Reverse Discrimination?
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Two charges dropped against shopkeeper
This story is an embarrassment for Toronto.
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GUESTBREAKER: You’re A Philosophy Major
Oh God. Here we go. You’re discussing how we “know what we know and if we truly know it.” Again. You know what? I’ll play your game. Next time you want sex, I’ll tell you your penis doesn’t exist. When you rebut, I’ll go off on a tirade that causes you to have an existential crisis, and then you won’t care about boning anymore. Pick a real major, dude.
A Guest Dealbreaker written by Amanda. (dealbreaker)
Well, Amanda, if you had majored in philosophy, you’d know that this carp is a strawman. Most philosophers don’t take ontological skepticism very seriously, and it’s been pretty easily defeatable since it was invented.
Nice.
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"We all live every day with the victory of this fifth-rate Nietzsche of the mini-malls. Alan Greenspan was one of her strongest cult followers and even invited her to the Oval Office to witness his swearing-in when he joined the Ford administration. You can see how he carried this philosophy into the 1990s: Why should the Supermen of Wall Street be regulated to protected the lice of Main Street?"
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notes"Finally, let me say that religious extremism is the other face of political despotism. We cannot get rid of the extremism before we end the despotism. Democracy is the solution." -
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notes"Given the short amount of time that has elapsed since the initiation of these studies, the persistence of this response cannot be determined at this time, nor is it possible to determine if a second dose or a booster dose will be required at a later date.
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The Minister authorized the sale of the Arepanrix™ H1N1 vaccine (AS03-Adjuvanted H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine) on October 21, 2009 based on limited clinical testing in humans under the provision of the Interim Order.
"Notice of Decision for AREPANRIX H1N1
Scares me. I don’t want the government injecting stuff into my arm. But I also don’t want to be the first to die cause I wear a tinfoil hat to sleep. But when the so-called “vaccination” turns everyone into zombies, I’m also prepared to kill brain-eating family members!!
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"Preliminary findings from some Canadian studies indicate that those healthy adults that tested positive for H1N1 were twice as likely to have received seasonal vaccine. More research is needed to establish whether or not there is a causal relationship between these factors. What is important is that there is no association with receiving seasonal vaccine and experiencing serious illness from H1N1."
Backgrounder: Vaccine Myths - Public Health Agency of Canada
I’m still on the fence about getting the H1N1 vaccine. Anyone want to offer advice?
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notes"The thing is, these people who committed this crime are not “animals”, “monsters”, or otherwise sick in the mind. I get from the tone of these comments that a lot of people would like to see nothing but the most severe retribution meted out to these perpetrators, including the bystanders. But what makes this crime so sickening is the idea that so many boys watched the assault happen and thought that it was normal and not particularly alarming, and didn’t feel the need to interfere, because they didn’t want to make waves.
That’s what’s scary about this, because of how easily easily these “normal” kids (you can’t argue that ALL 15 of the bystanders and perpetrators were psychopathic delinquents) helped commit an act of great evil. That the desire to appear cool can lead to such horrible acts is more horrifying than the fact that there are real and genuine monsters walking among us. We can isolate and quarantine the Goebbels of the world, but what about the Eichmanns — those ordinary people who can commit monstrous acts simply by conforming to the norms of their society?
The perpetrator here includes the culture that allowed this gang-rape to happen so openly. It doesn’t take away from their guilt of the individual rapists (especially those who instigated this crime), but it certainly doesn’t mean that we should consider our job done if we exact our revenge upon these boys. That won’t change anything, because for all we know, the forces that caused these kids to act the way they did might one day cause our bothers, sons, or partners (who we all know to otherwise be good human beings) to act in a similar fashion.
"Comment here on the high-school gang rape in California. (via katoleary) (via historicupstart) (via igather)
This comment notwithstanding; I blame the parents.
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notes"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth — greater indeed, inasmuch as knowledge should tend more definitely than wealth towards discretion and good manners."What are moral virtues and what are the characteristics of mankind? I am reminded (by Langer et al.’s reply) of Hobbes’ rundown on man’s characteristics (too lazy to find quotes). He says humans are more or less equal in mental capacity - we reason, imagine, sense, etc. But we are quite different physically, some stronger than others and so forth. For Hobbes, this meant we need the state to be the authority (and monopoly on force), to sort out our unequal differences.
Langer and then nudawn follow Hobbes in a way, by saying we need to examine the material conditions within which people act to make moral determinations. If a democracy or republic, (material conditions which require thoughtful participation), then we ought to privilege intelligence, since it enhances the value of participation, and so improves the common lot.
For me, it helps to make moral determinations of actions rather than characteristics. An intelligent person who sits around and does nothing all day, is certainly different from an intelligent person who devotes their studies to curing cancer. The difference is in the action. And we make moral determinations of the actions based on an account of human good.
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”— Voltaire
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Belated GPOYW… Wigging out edition.
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(via bloodythumbs) any idea where this photo comes from?
Seriously, I’m assuming it’s staged but..I thought it was a doco...
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awwwww… so cute! (via endlessendeavour)
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Bells where ringing..
Last Tuesday I walked into Chapters (If your not from greatest country in the world, CANADA, this is a bookstore) to find...
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Toni Morrison, I’mma let you finish, but Primo Levi had the best Holocaust literature!
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Front cover, Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
There are people who celebrate keeping people who love...
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It’s normal to be afraid of something you don’t understand.
