Kentharu
Zebra Commander
I was under the impression that absurdism took the position of "life may or may not have a meaning, but even if it does, who cares"
While We Wait: Part 5
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It did last year.
That's not technically what nihilism is; it's basically a refutation of the validity of any existing institution and the necessity of the destruction of said institutions in order to create something new. Problem is, said nihilists never really figured out what that something new was. A combination of that lack of a solution and the complete and utter disorganization of the movement sort of preordained its failure as an effective philosophy, much less a political entity...
Yeah, Fathers and Sons. Creepy how stuff from earlier in the thread comes around to bite you in the butt.
das
Regeneration In Process
Sad, but true. With a name like "nihilism" they could've come up with something more, I don't know, nihilistic instead of this cultural anarchist nonsense (which, in addition to the flaws already pointed out, meant that they did not as a matter of fact believe in nothing, but instead believed in something that they had no idea about. I want my
Mind you, if I recall correctly Bazarov was more of a proto-communist, of a kind, especially with that workshop metaphor. Especially if you compare with Julio Jurenito. Did anyone here read "the Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito"?
das
Regeneration In Process
I think you'll like it. It's sort of difficult to describe (seriously, even I am at loss for oversimplifying parallels here, though I might come up with something later), but definitely worth reading.
Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
please excuse me for being in a time warp, but I think the dinosaur comic that Dachspmg linked to back on page 115 is amusing 
Just wanted to share that.
I will post a comment relative to this page in approx 22.7 years from now. Thanks.
Just wanted to share that.I will post a comment relative to this page in approx 22.7 years from now. Thanks.
The link was actually supposed to go to this one.please excuse me for being in a time warp, but I think the dinosaur comic that Dachspmg linked to back on page 115 is amusing
But the one you liked to is also QUITE AMUSING. (Secret: they all are!)North King
blech
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You mean the quiz bowl lead-in for any question about Ehrenburg?No, I haven't, sadly. Wie war's?
On that note, I hate lit questions.
Lately, ACF lit questions have been tending towards the 'author' as opposed to 'work' side of things, which yes, IMHO, degrades question quality and makes it easier for people with list knowledge to get TUs quickly. It's extremely saddening, but Weiner and co. have recognized the problem and are, I believe, going to attempt to rectify it for this coming season.
Have you been to any college tournaments yet? Our club isn't going to any until ACF regionals in November (which I'm not too confident about, considering the depressingly unprepared state of our team, something I'm not used to, having had a much more well-rounded team last year
).North King
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Have you been to any college tournaments yet? Our club isn't going to any until ACF regionals in November (which I'm not too confident about, considering the depressingly unprepared state of our team, something I'm not used to, having had a much more well-rounded team last year
We went to a tournament at Brown, didn't do so well. They tend to stick a lot of science and lit in their questions; I was the closest that our team had to a science guy (this is a very bad thing). Also, we had no lit people. But we crushed almost everyone on history questions.
I'm looking forward to NAQT tournaments, though, since apparently those ones have rather easier techy stuff.
Especially since our lit guy is about as reliable in attending tournaments as certain mods are at updating.
No lit people from your college?
Shocking! Still, your team would probably clean up with us. We're probably pretty safe on history, might be able to swing lit, but have similarly no science (nobody as good as you; at least you took AP Chem and stuff).I should hope so.North King said:
They most certainly do.North King said:
By the way, NK, did you see Hampshire College there? A crazy dude I know (sadly?) rather well is on their team...apparently, according to the hsquizbowl results, he was a top scorer. Long hair, glasses, scrawny?
Disenfrancised
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Holy Crap - someone page Insane Panda!
flyingchicken
Deity
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The horse's facial expression is priceless.
Abaddon
Deity
Last one had 83 more pages. I guess we could make another thread, but is it really needed? (Other than for angering Abaddon)
The mods usually like threads not to last over a hundred pages. Not that NESers usually care anyway.
Eh, he's not really around.
EDIT: Of course your empires aren't built to last, silver. Dar al-Islam was one of the world's worst ideas taken to a startling degree.
Meanies
You keep stealing this thread 
Please try modding an NES before you start shooting your mouth off...if you make it 10 or more updates, then you can say that.
Ninja Dude
Sorry, I wasn't listening...
I had a dream that I was reading the End of Empires update, only to realise it was a different NES that updated. It was very sad.
