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Free Music Streaming, Online Music. The Drinks Every Man Should Know. Episode 2: The Future of Nightlife | Discotecture. NIHILISM by Eugene Rose. By Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose [mark-up mostly done--- notes need work] Editor's Preface I. Introduction: The Question of Truth II. The Stages of the Nihilist Dialectic 1. Liberalism 2. 3. 4. III. 1. 2. IV. 1. 2. 3. V. In a basement apartment near downtown San Francisco in the earl 1960's, Eugene Rose, the future Fr. In this room Eugene undertook to write a monumental chronicle of modern man's war against God: man's attempt to destroy the Old Order and raise up a new one without Christ, to deny the existence of the Kingdom of God and raise up his own earthly utopia in its stead.
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So... Echoes of War. Sergei Larenkov His photographs of the siege of Leningrad and St. Petersburg really got lots of name on internet and are famous too. so we present some really nice photographs by sergei, where past and present meet in Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Prague.. 1. Vienna. 1945/2010. Soviet soldiers in the Imperial Palace Hoffburg. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. EPICURUS EXONERATED. Masterymistery/flickr Why is pleasure so suspicious? None of the greatest western philosophers has produced a proper guide for today's enlightened hedonist, writes Anthony Gottlieb. But Epicurus, that much-maligned Greek, was on to something ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2007 Where is a hedonist to look for his heroes? None of the greatest western philosophers has produced a paean to pleasure that can serve as much of a guide for today's enlightened hedonist.
But there is one Greek philosopher whose name has become synonymous with the life of pleasure--especially sensual pleasures, and above all those of a gourmet. Exactly what Epicurus got up to in the undergrowth will never be known. In particular, it was crucial to overcome the fear of death and of an unpleasant afterlife. Epicurus did once say that in order to lead a happy life, one needs first of all to be fed. Vietnam Spa Accommodation & Resort - Six Senses Ninh Van Bay – An Ana Mandara Property. A blog of very little brain.
As I sit here on the coach from Oxford to London, reclining in a fabulous maxi dress from Monsoon and blogging on my Macbook, I look around and I think to myself, “I am a massive twat.” The deal is, a long time ago in the misty recesses of 2009, I decided to start a blog. I had plans, nay, dreams for this blog. I would mix a light scattering of poetry, music, art, television and film with lessons in every day pragmatism that could be drawn from them. I would make witty and incisive comments on popular culture. I wrote one post and then let it gather dust. So now I begin again, marginally more humble, though not much. As a nearly-twenty-one-year-old English student who occasionally manages to dupe the other person in the conversation into thinking she's a functioning adult, I feel the need to put my deep attachment to Doctor Who under the microscope.
I honestly do think Doctor Who is important. Actually, I have to say this last series in general has been my favourite. The Twilight Experiment: Part 1. Twilight, eh? Once it was a time of day, now it's a plague upon the face of humanity. Or is it? (Yes. It is.) Because I am so super-devoted to you, and because I have been thinking about monsters a lot, and because my morbid curiosity has grown too strong, I'm caving. So in order to make this bearable, I'm recording my thoughts as I go along. In the interests of full disclosure, I actually know quite a lot about what happens in Twilight already. So, Twilight. The film starts and I feel vaguely dirty, like I'm watching porn only less fun and with explicitly Mormon overtones.
The narrator is, of course, Bella Swan. Outside, a guy in a wheelchair shows up and some dorky kid with long hair. Bella arrives at school, so I'm expecting some kind of dorky-new-kid-montage of her being unpopular but no, people literally start fighting over her. In the cafeteria, a bunch of models walks past and Bella is distracted by the sudden switch to slo-mo. And then, fifteen minutes in – BAM. ARGH. WHAT? ► Old Number Seven by The Devil Makes Three | Listen.Drink.repeat | K.RothBinew | 8tracks.
BBC One - Super Smart Animals, Episode 1, Chimp genius. George_orwell_with_quotes.jpg (JPEG Image, 648x500 pixels) The Psychedelic Sixties: Illicit Drugs. RELIC. The Advocate: A Short Story eBook: Matt Debenham. WHAT DO PHILOSOPHERS BELIEVE? And what do people ask them in mid-air? Anthony Gottlieb decodes an unusual opinion poll ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Spring 2010 There was once a website on which academic philosophers listed the curious things that strangers had said to them upon learning that they were in the presence of a philosopher. The following conversation allegedly took place on an aeroplane: “May I ask you a question?”
“Yes.” “It’s a philosophical question. In a similar vein, also from the skies: “What do you do?” This exchange makes professional philosophers titter, because their daily work is far removed from the production of sage utterances. One answer – a novel one, it seems – comes from a new survey of philosophers’ views. First, some background. This movement is often contrasted with “Continental” philosophy, which is more expansive and synoptic, tends to see itself as allied to literary, cultural and social studies, and is more likely to draw on subjective experience. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness.
Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. Think You Got a Good Night's Sleep (After Only Two Hours of Actual Sleep) So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully.
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Hideous, inexorable foreign "adventures" followed, of course. Gordon Brown also struggled with the detail of home affairs, most notably in his desperate, off-the-cuff pledge of "British jobs for British workers". Only when the global financial crisis struck did Brown step on to the international stage and become sure of himself (even if he didn't convince the electorate).
Brown went so far, in what was surely a Freudian slip, as to declare that he had "saved the world". David Cameron, too, seems to find the minutiae of domestic social policy tiresome and intractable. Of course, the perceived simplicity is deceptive. Still, the immediate advantages of goading Scotland are manifest. Hear Two Unreleased Radiohead Tracks. Book-A-Minute Classics. Got another book report to do?
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WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD??? Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD! This page was created by David Saum. Bertrand Russell Quote On The Paradox of Fools And Wise Men.
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