While We Wait: Part 5
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das
Regeneration In Process
Not my favourite, but it has its moments.
It was a while since I read it, but it wasn't the worst, though it did stretch on for longer than it probably had to. But that's standard 19th century novel fare, isn't it?
No, that's Tolstoy.
And standard forum TL fare.
Oh God, I remember that. To the devil with Pierre Bezukhov and Prince Andrei!das said:No, that's Tolstoy.
In all seriousness, I was wincing when Tolstoy was describing Austerlitz at how wrong it was, but at the same time the language was actually pretty evocative and it kinda 'worked'. (I lol'd at the Decembrist hints at the end too. Poor devils.) Reading English translations hurts, though. I remember how much better The Sorrows of Young Werther was in German as compared to English, so much that I've never read Mann in English at all.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
You're welcome.
@Daft: We all know Bigfoot is real so you still have a chance. If scientists recently found 125,000 gorillas they had no idea were there, Bigfoot can certainly exist.
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Symphony D.
Deity
I'll admit I am curious why pro-choice advocates don't just trot out the tired "But it's God's plan!" argument Evangelicals use to explain horrible events, in justification of abortion against said Evangelicals.
Free Will + Omniscient Entity = LOGIC ERROR
Free Will + Omniscient Entity = LOGIC ERROR
silver 2039
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In OT they manage a most impressive form of doublethink even greater than 1984.
Symphony D.
Deity
Thus, I avoid OT.
Kentharu
Zebra Commander
The fundemental flaw between the argument of Pro-life against Pro-choice is that Pro-choice both accepts and denies the Pro-life argument, in that Pro-choice recongnizes both the act of abortion and the act of non-abortion as valid choices. However Pro-life recognizes only one choice, that of non-abortion.
go go doublethink
go go doublethink
foolish icarus
Shipwreck
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How so?
The assertion that a prior event determines whatever I do and whatever happens to me, ever, seems a bit wrong. I mean, my knowledge of any sort of physics is horrendously limited, but I would tend to think that since Newtonian, deterministic physics is limited in its approach to, say, quantum mechanics, and that there are elements of unpredictability therein, that compatibilism is somewhat justified. I mean, I wouldn't go all the way and say that there is no law within one has to work, but there are degrees of freedom within that.
Besides, if free will doesn't exist, what's the point in democracy?
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
I'm pro-life, not because of religion or anything, but because I would have hated to be aborted and I think all humans need a chance, especially in Europe and America.
qoou
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I'm back! I haven't had internet access for the last few days, but will for the rest of the school year (albeit very limited). If I suddenly dissapear for more than ~4 days, and especially if I miss deadlines, I'm pretty much gone for good. I'm going to send orders as soon as I can, with my quicker-paced NESes taking priority.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
But if you had been aborted you couldn't ever have found out about it, thus you couldn't get mad about it. Thus it's all good and so on
Still wouldn't like to think of a world without myself. Plus, in the right atmosphere all children can be molded into great adults.
Kentharu
Zebra Commander
Or you could be Pro-choice, and respect the right for women to choose
@qoou, respond to PM quiickly then so we can get stuff done before you have to go
@qoou, respond to PM quiickly then so we can get stuff done before you have to go
I like to think of it so that "I" would've been born anyway, in some other place or time. Funny belief from me altho I'm atheist btw...
And I agree with 2nd sentence 100%.
Kentharu
Zebra Commander
Plus, in the right atmosphere all children can be molded into horrible adults
Interesting sentiments for somebody's birthday.
Do you want a thread?
