Recent content by Damien

I'd say the ancient Greeks,inventors of politics and philosophy. Minoans were quite awesome.They were not indo-european and a "leisure society".Women were equal to men.Minoans adopted their script from Phoenicians. It is believed that Indo-european Greeks who came around 2000 BC adopted Minoan...

Mind's power is awesome and may affect your body.Paralysed hysteric ones are really paralysed. See those guys who stuff needles in their body without feeling any pain and without bleeding. Pain is a feeling. Now,about your broken nose,it may not be real as well.When you dream you see and feel...

About the french system: 1)There's no use...if you're not interested,it's forgotten after a month. 2)It's as if it were the same curriculum every year.We keep studying things we studied the previous year. 3)We study few things.You do nearly nothing everyday.5 sentences/hour in...

civ3 and civ3 PTW

Descartes takes the example of amputed ones who got a sore limb that doesn't exist anymore. Take the example of hysteric ones.They got spasms,sore limbs,are paralysed,etc but there's no physical cause..it's somatic...thx to hypnose and psychotherapy,all the troubles disappear. A good...

The sole thing we can't question is our own existance.I can't doubt that I'm doubting."I think therefore I am"(Descartes). The perceived world may not be real,it may be a dream. Our senses deceive us and it's why we can't trust em. See the example about the table.You believe that it's solid...

@Pillager:It depends on people and on arabs. Some don't like Arabs(the arabs we have here actually come from Morroco,Algeria and Tunisia),call em "crouilles"(slang for arabs) and some like em. I like some sides of their culture/behavior(many of em are friendly and share everything) and I...

It should be based on the swiss confederation. :p

Are there really big problems with asylum seekers? :( I heard that there were whole organized groups from Ex-yougoslavia and Africa but if foreigners violate the law,aren't they expelled? I heard many cases about drug dealers being expelled. Of course with asylum seekers,it's...

In a truely socialist state,there would be no unemployment aid since there would be no unemployment.People would work where it's needed. Unemployment aids are capitalist and disguised as socialist. When you're not needed,you're not offered REAL formations to find a place where it's...

:lol: I think both are insane.

You may let down your holidays for a small compensation...that's what most people do.

Where should they have gone in Israel?They were not so sure about the Jews.Jews are fighting arabs,you are arab...where do you go? And when your village is shelled,you're blown away. They consume 1/3 of the Israeli+palestinian water?:hmm: Israelis are 6 million,they are 3 million that is...

The town I was born in is traditionally communist.A kinda french Manchester.An industrial 250,000 inhabitant- town that was carpet-bombed by the Royal Air Force in '44,is constituted of 12-floor towers and encircled by 17 kms of oil distilleries that daily reject sulfure dioxid(SO2) and make...

In France,it's officially 35 hours but only 10% of the employees work for 35 hours.It's actually between 40 and 50 hours.