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As long as you can appreciate your neighbours' cultural heritage as commensurate to yours, I see no problem with that. And as long as you don't turn a...

The paper is signed by a certain Petr Akopov, in both the Web Archive version provided by Tim and in your version, relayed by the Frontier Post. The t...

Yes. Yes. Yes. Their eyes were open alright, because they cared, and they were markedly more humble than the westerners I met. The mood among the latt...

I don't need much imagination to picture what you have in mind, Proof, as I too saw Jupiter Ascending.

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Vladimir Putin has become “deeply worried” about his strategy after learning that Donald J. Trump called him smart, Kreml...

Why yes. I know something about that, re. Afghanistan. At some point, circa 2013 on a flight to Kabul, i got seated next to some UK general who introd...

And certainly against the French as well, and the Italians, the Belgium, etc. The Brits and Americans tend to think highly of themselves, they treat e...

The French have always idealized the 'Slavic soul'. The Greeks tend to be pro-slav, the Italians too. Don't confuse the West with America and the UK.

Interesting opinion of yours. Mine is that the real tragedy is in bombing people, and that western media are not doing that -- they just talk. That so...

"Thanks Obama!" This is what I hear. The same old same old anthem from the US right. It's either that or the US left equivalent: "It's all on Reagan"....

Axiom number 1: It's ALWAYS Obama's fault. Axiom number 2: When it's not Obama's fault, refer to axiom number 1. Axiom number 3: No matter what happen...

Thank Obama for COVID, too! ;-)

And you can thank Obama for that! ;-)

So you guys have sorted it out yet? Can we say at long last that all this blood is on Obama's and Clinton's head? Because you see, that thought helps ...

You are stupid alright. The truth is just stubborn. There's a difference.

I don't know, but I know that the only advantage of blaming the West for this war, is to exculpate Putin.

And thus they won't be able to have children... You see? So your assumptions aren't that different from mine.

What I mean is: EITHER your immortals are allowed to have children, in which case overpopulation ensues after a few eons, OR they are not allowed to h...

I just loved Mishima in my late teens. He must have known something about death. I can't imagine what it takes to kill oneself the way he did.

First you asked: "Why no more children?", and now you ask: "Why have children?"

If immortals are having children, where do you put the excess population?

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Peter de Vries

Guilty as charged. That would not be mine, as it would imply a world without children, and without novelty. In any case your memories would die, hence...

Yes, although if the Russians lose this war, a ray of hope will briefly shine on us all.

I'm not talking about you, as I hope was clear.

If Ukraine survives this attack as an independent state, next thing it does will be to join NATO. Russia will then come in direct geographic proximity...

Nothing odd there. If one suppresses death, one must also suppress life. They are two sides of the same coin. To live forever is exactly like being de...

But you won't have continuity in your system. People over 100 yr old would forget all their childhood. If you forget your childhood, who are you? So i...

I suspect he doesn't want to be complicit with Putin, which he would be if he spread irrelevant disculpatory blah in the midst of a war.

Not sure that is so original. Judaism was not monolithic back then , not as much as now anyway, and eschatologic hopes were a big thing.

Isn't that precisely what Putin is trying to do, install in Ukraine a government sympathetic to his interests? And you find it disgusting like the res...

Rest assured that none of what is said here will have any influence on the battlefield.

So our souls must die so that our bodies can live? Ironic...

Immortality would not be very different from death. Death by boredom. There would be no room for anything or anyone new. Things would be eternally sta...

Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom, Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians. Our enemies will vanish, as the dew does in the su...

No doubt there are many differences including in terms of a personal relationship with God being less of a possibility or imperative in Plato than in ...

If you're not scared enough already, imagine if Trump was president right now. :death:

But isn't the idea that matter is corrupt part and parcel of the platonic creed? It doesn't sound that different from the idea that the world is corru...

To provide you with convincing evidence, I would need to have an idea of the type of evidence that would be likely to convince you. I suspect none wha...

Okay, a bit of a "who said it first?" question. My money is on Greeks having heard of monotheist cults from afar very early. Is there anything I said ...

If you believe in it, I suppose. But what if one does not believe in the idea that gods have actual, literal offsprings on earth? What if one was to r...

As self-evident as the fact that Jesus the man was of his time and place, an individual not a universal. As such, even if he read Plato, which I serio...

So it's an attempt to arianize Jesus. To un-Jew him.

Ok, so it doesn't matter. Likewise, one could go on and on with the hypothesis that Plato was influenced by Jewish monotheism, but it doesn't actually...

I'm trying to understand why it matters. What would change, or what's the implication if Jesus had read Plato? Why do you find the idea seducing? What...

It makes life bearable. You should try it one day.

I am not sure what kind of evidence would satisfy you. I imagine one could plot murder rates in various places vs some indicator of the prevalence of ...

Afghanistan. Somalia. The US.

I followed Rachid Taha's career since the beginning, always liked him. He was a bit lazy, never produced a lot of albums but he was a provocateur... H...

Derrida was born in Algeria, I guess. Maybe also as a guru of post-colonial studies? Taha shouldn't be taken too seriously though, he liked to joke a ...