Little bit harder today. What did Nite Moves try on? What’s the middle one all about? How were the Scouts snubbed? The answers can be found here, here and here .
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1. The first is a homespun American tale which might resonate with a few. It’s worth reading the whole thing [cheers, Chuckles]: I recognized the way he looked you in the eye when he spoke and that inability to show fear or indecision; as if he were to say, what do I have to be [...]
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Quoted by Jesse, Bernie Madoff: “How could I have done this? I was making a lot of money. I didn’t need the money. Am I a flawed character?” Now I’m going to suggest that there is one very good reason why. Let’s give another quote from that post:
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The development of the ideology In terms of long-range influence, the most significant Frankfurt School sex propagandist was Herbert Marcuse. Like his colleagues, Fromm and Reich, Marcuse understood that a true cultural revolution would include sexual liberation along with political and economic transformation. In this regard, he called for the casting off of all traditional [...]
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Via Sackerson, written up at Orphans and quoting Jesse, the following is my definition of Them and it’s gone into my pages as such. To me, Jesse here sums up everything this blog was set up to oppose. Sackerson himself it was who asked me to define Them and I’ve struggled to do so ever [...]
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I’ve been reading The Secret Life of France, by Lucy Wadham, Faber&Faber, 2009, on the differences between French and British culture [part 1 is here]. It’s not only an interesting insight into France but also into the way an Englishwoman sees life and liberty. This post is not so much a coherent whole but a [...]
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The development of the ideology In retrospect, the Frankfurt School had a significant influence on the evolution of the American left over the past 70 years, particularly the kind of cultural Marxism that generated the New Left movement in the 1960s. Since then, the left has launched an unremitting culture war of attrition that has [...]
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Guede’s testimony, as reported by the Kercher family lawyer: In my opinion Guede once again confirmed the presence of all three accused at the site of the murder that night. It seems to me the truth of a co-accused already found guilty. To me it appeared absolutely clear,” Maresca concluded. Maresca appears to have no [...]
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home:
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I’m reading The Secret Life of France, by Lucy Wadham, Faber&Faber, 2009, in which an Englishwoman who’s lived in Paris most of her adult life gives the low-down on what makes the French tick. It’s interesting reading a woman’s perspective in a country which worships the beauty of women.
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Last of this series. 4. The absence of doctrine Fourth is the absence of a mental and philosophical structure to the pagan view of the universe. There is no one in charge, no one monotheistic creator-god who made the world but is not part of the world. Indeed, rare is the pagan lore that holds [...]
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The double standards leading to inclusiveness As Martin Jay explains: “Each period of time has its own truth, Horkheimer argued…. [and] what is true is whatever fosters social change in the direction of a rational society.” He goes on to note… Dialectics was superb at attacking other systems’ pretensions of truth, but when it came [...]
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The argument for marriage: Unwed parents are six times more likely to split by the time their child is five The study from the think-tank the Jubilee Centre will reignite concerns that Britain is fast becoming a nation of broken homes.
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‘I am half-sick of shadows,” said the Lady of Shalott
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QM, on June 27th, 2011 at 07:11: The thing I don’t understand is what they hope to gain by this destructive philosophy, because by destroying western civilisation, it’s highly unlikely that any sort of spontaneous Marxist replacement will replace it, far from it, it’s more likely to be some sort of fascism either religious (Islamic) [...]
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Critical Theory In essence, Critical Theory was a comprehensive and unrelenting assault on the values and institutions of Western civilization. Based on utopian social and political ideals, Critical Theory offered no realistic alternatives, but it was nonetheless a devastating critique of the history, philosophy, politics, social and economic structures, major institutions, and religious foundations of [...]
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(disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about here, what is cloud computing?) Apple, Google, Microsoft and who knows how many more are all hoping we choose their Cloud service. So which will be the first to adopt this as their theme music- (my betting is Apple) …………………………………………………… JD, I’ve taken the liberty [...]
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2. Melancholy The second significant landmark of the pagan mental world is melancholy. Contemplate the despair inherent in Norse dreams of the Twilight of the Gods, where all that is bright and good in life must perish bravely; or contemplate the grinding inhumanity of the Hindu wheel of reincarnation, where none of the travails nor [...]
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The development of the ideology In 1930 Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute, and at that point a new philosophy took hold in the Institute. Horkheimer’s view of Marxism was more expansive and dialectical rather than rigid and mechanical, and like Gramsci and Lukacs before him, he was convinced that the major impediment [...]
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Vale.
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A behavioural scientist would have a field day where I work, especially if studying women. The reason I concentrate on women is that they’re a richer study than men – if any of you ladies wish to blog about men, feel free and I’ll mosey on over and have a look. Now, how to run [...]
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