This is the third and final part I’m running in the series by Wright, John C., Pagan, Christian and Postchristian Civilization and it’s the one where I take issue with some of the statements or rather with their all-encompassing nature . I comment as it goes on: [continued] The third absurd notion is that all [...]
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A gutless wonder calling himself Anonymous [original, eh?], over at Mark’s place, wrote that “James Higham is a nutter.” I’m not going to argue with that – any normal person would get upset with being called names but I seriously don’t give a rat’s and I suppose that’s not sane. The question is, of course, [...]
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Jaki Liebezeit strikes me as a Beta – without Alpha looks but one of the greatest drummers of all time The ladies have been moaning that I don’t do any male-oriented posts. All right – here ye go, girls. Don’t know how it started but I thought I’d look at what all this Alpha male/Beta [...]
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Some of the sparkling wit of Esam El-Erian If you’ve been wondering whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood in its current form is a moderate or an extremist organization, I will let this interview with one of its senior officials, executive bureau member Esam El-Erian, speak for itself: Armin Rosen: How are Americans insulting the [...]
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Last of the current series:
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Wright, John C., Christian and Postchristian Civilization [continued]: 2. Devoid of metaphysics Second, the Postchristian philosophy is the only philosophy in the history of the world, or its prehistory, that is utterly void of any metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of those universal propositions which must be true in order for any particular proposition to [...]
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The Lady of Shalott is a magical being who lives alone on an island upstream from King Arthur’s Camelot. Her business is to look at the world outside her castle window in a mirror, and to weave what she sees into a tapestry. She is forbidden by the magic to look at the outside world [...]
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One point for guessing who it is, four points for giving its location. Answer: Google Wiki John Lennon Park
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Raedwald writes: The last government’s ID card campaign shows how even the slickest and most expensive PR blitz can be worthless when people have discussed and rejected the issues in advance. We’re not yet at that stage over the EU. But we’re getting there. He’s right about this, times change and I’ve commented on this, [...]
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Rebekah Brooks: I feel a deep sense of responsibility Damned right … and a deep fear of incarceration too.
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Source Steven Marche is a brilliant satirist – you might almost be fooled into thinking he was for real: Before the fall brings us down, before the election season begins in earnest with all its nastiness and vulgarity, before the next batch of stupid scandals and gaffes, before Sarah Palin tries to convert her movie [...]
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More forthrightness from Wright, John C., Pagan, this time in Christian and Postchristian Civilization: The Post-Christian mind differs from the Pagan and the Christian in three obvious respects: first, it has little or no concern for reason as such, neither logical reasoning in the abstract nor right reason as it applies to virtue or purity. [...]
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There’s a queue and some fella jumps in. “Hoi! Eh, there’s a queue you know!” “Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize.” ‘Eight people behind one another – what did you think it was – a gangbang?”
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Here’tis: Meanwhile, Ranty’s in fine form on that debt.
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Simply fabulous at Doc Brown:
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Just beautiful: Voters in fact do not care much about “inequality” per se, but rather care intensely about violations of fairness. Thus, it is not the astronomical increase in the income share of the very rich that moves most voters, but rather their indignation at the bankers who practically destroyed our economy yet hand themselves [...]
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We all have our own relationship with France. For some it’s the froggies over there and for some, a deep and abiding love affair which never goes away. France Magazine, in one book review blurb, called it “our infuriatingly charming Gallic neighbour”. Boat people [or now Chunnel people] speak of surly checkout women at the [...]
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Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides L’opprobre de tous les partis Tremblez! vos projets parricides Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix! Tout est soldat pour vous combattre S’ils tombent, nos jeunes héros La France en produit de nouveaux, Contre vous tout prêts à se battre.
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Once every 823 years what happens to July which she never forgets? Answer [highlight below]: 5 fridays, 5 saturdays and 5 sundays
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Courtesy of Bruce Charlton: One from me:
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Could it be that the French, some of the arbiters of fashion, are finally getting the right idea? Le figaro seems to think so [above]. Oh no [lower right] – back to the same old slappers and tarts again – the Anglo-Saxon disease in full swing in France, once the bastion of discreet eroticism. This [...]
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The world sure is warming up [click on the screenshot]: The snow took farmers and tourists by surprise in the usually dry highlands of Potosi – a vast area in the south-west of the country. A glut of reading on it Briggs on form:
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Well worth a look, as to why the EU cannot possibly assist our sovereign debt problem [click pic]: Comments are closed on this here – please comment over there.
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Over at Orphans of Liberty now: Revolution Harry wrote: Here’s the first question. Do we want a democracy, a republic, a monarchy (I hope not) or something else? First up, there’s not a bad article here about this question.
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