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Mao was a perceptive guy about some things. Power and how to use it, for instance. Decent poet also, I'm told. Not a very nice man, but pretty smart. If three people as different…
19 May 2009, 14:41
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Really good propaganda will have people denying that it is propaganda. I find it very interesting that many of the people who disagree with Wolfe's politics argue that it is not t…
19 May 2009, 01:38
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This does not change the nature of the interaction, Dan'l. I do understand why one would want to deny the reality of the thing, of course. Government is force. It is a dangerous s…
19 May 2009, 01:32
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? Obtaining money by threat of violence is not robbery? And this wealth is obtained by armed robbery. What is a better word for it? Extortion, perhaps. We can call it extortion i…
18 May 2009, 21:41
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But then, how to answer the question; Where wolf? ?? .…
24 Apr 2009, 03:20
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Shhh. We're meditating. .…
24 Apr 2009, 03:08
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That would be excellent for the Christmas market, oh yes. Show it to every three year old in the world, man. .…
16 Apr 2009, 20:23
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There are people working on The Death Of Dr Island: http://www.doctorisland.com/ .…
16 Apr 2009, 20:16
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I sort of liked him. I think he was probably a valuable priest in his inner-city parish there. .…
16 Apr 2009, 18:43
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Now why do you dislike him as a modern priest, because he thinks children should be taught to violently resist sexual predation? Someone else was on about that, they thought that i…
16 Apr 2009, 18:41
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s/to believe to that the/to believe to the/ a bit of overediting, sorry. .…
15 Apr 2009, 12:26
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Although I question it sometimes, I am mostly still going with the theory that Gene has deliberately written a book which appears on the surface to be a bad pulp story but has more…
15 Apr 2009, 12:22
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Possibly so. .…
14 Apr 2009, 23:13
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It's not particularly modish. It may be very old. .…
14 Apr 2009, 19:14
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By the way, as far as I know 'ouanquerre' is an alternate spelling of wanker. Sort of like 'buncombe' (for bunkum). I certainly didn't invent the word. Henry Mencken invented bunco…
14 Apr 2009, 16:39
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No doubt about Chomsky. .…
14 Apr 2009, 16:29
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I think it was an appropriate question: unfortunately, after I wrote it I wrote another sentence, which you elide, wherein I wondered if Jon was a ouanquerre, which remark I regret…
14 Apr 2009, 15:17
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i want to apologize for my last remark, which I was very wrong to pass. You are entitled to your opinion, of course, I was at the tail end of a frazzled day. I don't agree with yo…
14 Apr 2009, 07:11
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So why don't you like the book, Jon? I understand from your article that you don't like it: that is abundantly obvious. But I think a review of this nature would be more useful if …
14 Apr 2009, 05:32
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What films have you made? .…
13 Apr 2009, 09:52
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I'm shutting up about this. It gets more bizarre the closer one looks at it. .…
12 Apr 2009, 11:45
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Was this edition of 'The Weekly Standard' dated 1 April? Another possibility might be that some fool mistook a translation into the Hungarian for an original work in Hungarian. A…
11 Apr 2009, 22:27
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Well, not all Zoroastrians left Iran (let alone Greater Iran). The ones that went to India became the Parsis: there are still some tens of thousands of Zoroastrians in Iran, and th…
09 Apr 2009, 20:04
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Not the Persians or the Parsees that I have talked to, or the ones who maintain this webpage: http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/qstns33.html Excerpt: To Zarathushtra, Ahura Mazda …
09 Apr 2009, 17:10
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This is a popular idea, but not a true one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is, in fact, the oldest of what are called the monotheistic religions. Wolf…
08 Apr 2009, 23:08
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Ah! Indeed it would be. Perhaps, by and by, someone will ask him if they ever met. .…
07 Apr 2009, 11:05
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It should be pretty easy to establish whether Wolfe ever met Borges in South America. .…
06 Apr 2009, 20:27
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If, and only if, what the Divine had in mind for that country would be perceived as good by its inhabitants. If THAT Divine was up to something more ambiguous, well..... .…
06 Apr 2009, 07:54
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That's pretty reasonable on the face of it and I am unaware of any evidence against it. .…
04 Apr 2009, 16:33
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I believe but am not sure that Messiah became one of the regular titles of the Persian Great King, and was read out in the familiar litany, "King, Great King, King of Kings, King o…
04 Apr 2009, 11:05
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Why do you say that? The books of Ezra and Nehemiah were recently published and widely read. What did people mean, then, when they said 'moshiach', anyway? .…
03 Apr 2009, 21:40
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That would be how you'd get to the New World, back then, for sure. .…
03 Apr 2009, 21:02
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It's an interesting period in Jewish history: when people talked about the Messiah, at that time, they usually meant Cyrus the Great. .…
03 Apr 2009, 19:17
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Palestine is not far from Egypt (and it is real, real close to Sidon). Palestine under Persian rule is more peaceful than it has been before or since. The second Temple is an opera…
03 Apr 2009, 18:26
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But how would the Latro series conclude? He's already been home and forgotten all about it. Now he's short his sword and (I misremember) does he actually remember his sword or ha…
03 Apr 2009, 18:11
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By the way, I left out a quote mark at the end of this paragraph.... .…
02 Apr 2009, 20:15
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It's memorable. You've read Cellini's Autobiography? All Cretans are liars. -- Epimenides the Cretan .…
02 Apr 2009, 20:14
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I did not. I said 'I am familiar with the history of this subject, what has been said by various people, how ideas have shifted over the years, what various folks have thought goo…
02 Apr 2009, 20:07
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Yeah, it's true. Apparently it has something to do with my neurological architecture: I have Asberger's syndrome or some other form of high functioning autism. It gets in the way …
02 Apr 2009, 20:02
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And I am sincerely trying to help. .…
02 Apr 2009, 19:52
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You'll thank me even more after you read them, and also embarrass yourself less when you choose to discuss these matters. .…
02 Apr 2009, 19:11
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OK, reread it and read the other three. .…
02 Apr 2009, 18:05
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Witz: go read Plato's "Republic", Aristotle's "Politics" and Niccolo Machiavelli's two works "Discourses On The First Ten Books Of Titus Livius" and "The Prince". This will give y…
02 Apr 2009, 17:48
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I imagine that if this is going to be real, at some point we will discover his likes and dislikes in these matters, which we will then conform to. I remember from his writings tha…
01 Apr 2009, 19:25
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I am completely serious about this, and I will go to great lengths to ensure that it is in fact a tribute to Gene and not a groupie fest, and I would be incredibly happy to talk to…
01 Apr 2009, 19:15
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Just don't drop him and don't let him kick you in the elbow. .…
01 Apr 2009, 19:12
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I got a bottle of ether and some ketamine darts.... .…
01 Apr 2009, 19:12
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Really, this doesn't come up with me. I must be getting old. .…
01 Apr 2009, 16:38
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Better off than this old immigrant I tended to when I was working in nursing: poor bugger thought he was back in the concentration camp. .…
01 Apr 2009, 15:48
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Sometimes I will meet people who know me from online, and occasionally they will try to get me to talk about some of the more controversial stuff that I do talk about. It is very e…
01 Apr 2009, 15:46
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