> Every Sunday Christians congregate to drink blood
> in honour of their zombie master.
Erm, yes, but the blood is fake
- Klaus ;-)
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> Two of the "top 7" logical fallacies.
Aw. My favourite is "this saying rhymes, so it must be true."
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On 10 May 2006, at 11:08AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
Every Sunday Christians congregate to drink blood
in honour of their zombie master.
Erm, yes, but the blood is fake
That's religion for you. Bunch of charlatans...
--
William T Goodall
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Dan Minette wrote:
>
> As recently as 25 years ago, Marxist thought
> predominated in European, South American, and South Asian
> universities (in things like econ, liberal arts, sociology) and was
> common in the US. It is now considered fairly well discredited.
>
But not in South America :-(
On 10 May 2006, at 4:09AM, Dan Minette wrote:
As
recently as 25 years ago, Marxist thought predominated in European,
South
American, and South Asian universities (in things like econ,
liberal arts,
sociology) and was common in the US. It is now considered fairly well
discredited. Marxis
> From: Alberto Monteiro
>
> Dan Minette wrote:
> >
> > As recently as 25 years ago, Marxist thought
> > predominated in European, South American, and South Asian
> > universities (in things like econ, liberal arts, sociology) and was
> > common in the US. It is now considered fairly well discred
Andrew Paul wrote:
>
>>> Marxist (...) is now considered fairly well discredited.
>>
>> But not in South America :-(
>>
>
> No, in fact it seems to be growing in popularity.
>
In Australia too? That's surprising.
> Who discredited Marxism?
>
Communism :-)
> It's out of favour for sure, but when
Guys - change the subject line?
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: RE: Myers-Briggs
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:29:37 -0200
Andrew Paul wrote:
>
>>> Marxist (...) is now consider
> > Who discredited Marxism?
> >
> Communism :-)
>
> > It's out of favour for sure, but when was the official
> > accreditation lost?
> >
> 1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Did it discredit Marxism, or did it just discredit centrally planned
economy?
> > And are we talking Marxism here, or
> From: Klaus Stock
> > > Who discredited Marxism?
> > >
> > Communism :-)
> >
> > > It's out of favour for sure, but when was the official
> > > accreditation lost?
> > >
> > 1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
>
> Did it discredit Marxism, or did it just discredit centrally planned
> econom
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:21 AM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: RE: Myers-Briggs
>
> No, in fact it seems to be growing in popularity. Who discredited
> Marxism? It's out of
On 10/05/2006, at 5:34 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
In the long term, governments will fade away. In the short term,
there is
the dictatorship of the proletariat. Democracy, human rights, etc.
are
considered a bourgeoisie invention that does not take into account
that
societies are fundame
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Charlie Bell
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Myers-Briggs
>
>
> On 10/05/2006, at 5:34 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In the long term, governm
On 10/05/2006, at 6:12 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Actually, Marx may have envisioned more a bottom-up mutual-interest
based society. Collective ownership, as in social democracies, is a
*growing* phenomenon. Just look at the rise of collective owneship of
football clubs, for example. From only a co
As Steve said,
"The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
Charlie said:
LOL Atheists (at least in "the West") tend to be far more liberal
and laissez-faire than the population at large. Welfare state yes,
police state no.
If you don't want to be in charge of the Atheist Dominion, maybe I
could be?
Rich
VFP Just Asking
Jim said:
Do you think Banks actually *likes* the Culture? That is, the couple
of his Culture books I've read have generally shown the nasty
underside of his outwardly Utopian society.
I think that in his early books, Banks was unusually honest about the
underpinnings of his utopia, both in
Charlie said:
But yes, that's the idea of the books, I think. Let's face it, the
vast vast majority of the Culture's citizens (both flesh and
machine) live happy hedonistic lives - it's the edges where the
Culture meets other civs and the underbelly where people conduct
nefarious schemes
Nick said:
Eh? Insistence on the non-existence of God *is* dogma. Any
insistence on
the non-existence of something is dogma. It has to be, since it
cannot be
logically proved.
So if I insist that there exists nowhere in the universe a
calculating machine that can prove that 7 is an i
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Nick Arnett
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:43 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Myers-Briggs
>
> On 5/6/06, Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Nick wrote:
> >
> > > I see a
I've combined several posts/responses here-
> Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...I think the discussion of intuitive vs.
scientific
> thinking misses how science actually works.
>
> Intuition is an important part of science. Great
> scientists, such as
> Feynman, had overwhelming int
Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, dear - I didn't think that I'd hit Send twice!
Sorry.
Debbi
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Just for fun, here are some quick (well, some are
shorter than others, and I really hate 'yes or no'
only choices) tests to take:
http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/trek/
http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa080201.htm
http://www.blifaloo.com/quizzes/trek/trek_quiz_start.php
http://www.seabreezec
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:44 PM Tuesday 5/9/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
There are certain numbers that turn up over and over again in
wildly varying situations in nature.
And in the laundry room.
# of items in the first load: 21 # of my shirts: 8 # of
Dan's shirts: 13 # of D
On 10 May 2006, at 8:57PM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
I resemble Picard, Crusher, Sisko and/or Vedek Bareil,
with a stong dollop of Troi and Kes - it's interesting
to go back and change a parameter or two, where you
could have gone either way, and see 'the new you.'
Mostly Spock with some Picard
The acting was bad, the plot had some major holes,
some of the science was more-than-iffy - but it was
interesting to watch, and if it made people think
ahead just a little bit, that might actually be
helpful:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/121/114487.htm
...ABC's Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in
On 5/10/06, Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charlie said:
> But yes, that's the idea of the books, I think. Let's face it, the
> vast vast majority of the Culture's citizens (both flesh and
> machine) live happy hedonistic lives - it's the edges where the
> Culture meets other civs and
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:13 PM
> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
> Subject: Bird flu movie
>
> The acting was bad, the plot had some major holes,
> some of the science was more-than-i
On 10/05/2006, at 9:15 PM, Richard Baker wrote:
Charlie said:
LOL Atheists (at least in "the West") tend to be far more liberal
and laissez-faire than the population at large. Welfare state yes,
police state no.
If you don't want to be in charge of the Atheist Dominion, maybe I
could b
Dan asked me a ways back about who held the most
patents on new drugs: here is why I do not believe
that drug companies are the primary source of
innovation.
There is an article in the WSJ today about a lawsuit
between Eli Lilly vs 2 former NIH researchers; I do
not have it on-line, and the site
Oh, bloody h-
I just lost my entire reply to this - now attempting
to reconstruct it.
> Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
> > The acting was bad, the plot had some major holes,
> > some of the science was more-than-iffy - but it
> was
> > interesting to watch,
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