I have not read the book, but i can't understand why he has come to that conclusion: neo-classical economics, if anything, is an example of the failure of the application of scientific empiricism to...
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I have not read the book, but i can't understand why he has come to that conclusion: neo-classical economics, if anything, is an example of the failure of the application of scientific empiricism to...
No, these kind of 'personality disorders' are gross simplifications and a very rarely true to life. To boil down the complexity of an individuals life, thought processes and consequent emotions to...
Ok, except i did not say this at all. Where did i say 'don't talk to anyone, keep your thoughts to yourself and let them fester in your own head'? Of course he should speak to other people, at the...
Well i take about a half-dozen baths a year and there's nothing wrong with my hygiene.
Would you care to justify such rubbish? You must have a remarkably manic and hysterical hatred towards Hitchens to be branding him a racist and antisemitic follower of Pol Pot. No wonder you like the...
You will not get a better answer than this from any doctor from my experience:
And you will frequently get worse advice.
Just don't put yourself into the hands of mental health...
A reply was posted in Salon that, i think, adequately takes to pieces the article posted at the start of this thread:
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Just be careful with benzo's if you use them. They can be really nasty, and if you ever want to get off them the withdrawl is horrific.
1. Absolutely correct: drinking is a majority pursuit, whereas smoking is not. This is a case of the majority enforcing their views upon a minority.
2. Not true at all: tobacco is a big part of...
Saul Bellow - Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils
Anthony Powell - Dance to the Music of...
Not only that. The enforced torture of the terminally ill is a clear result of Christianity. And the Christian fear of the intemperate mind had a big role in inaugurating and continuing the...
I'm sorry, but what is this crap? Why should someone have to read what some guy wrote several millennia after the supposed events for it to be a valid critique? Is Bertrand Russell's critique of...
I don't know.
Camus purported a random universe where humans inhabit a tiny planet which hurtling to its doom. His assumption is only that consciousness and memory are all that we are, and based...
I usually just tag as i go. Anything i feel i might want to refer to, or take another look at, i tag and then note it down when i've finished the book. I find that works pretty well, and if you...
You seem completely incapable of comprehending the analogy Camus was actually making. Every single human being is involved in a futile activity the same as Sisyphus, because it is life itself that is...
Dear god...
Then why is he in here propounding non sequiturs such as:
'Great literature does not make us better... The world is predetermined; we are what we were born to be'
Such...
No, in a predetermined world one is shaped by one's interactions and experiences; they may be predetermined also, but that does not mean that if they did not exist then the person would be exactly...
Completely disagree. It has not been long since i exited the education system in the UK, and i find that there is a deemphasis placed on anything that does not have some kind of practical or...
I don't think the question here is at all whether someone can be a wicked person while also having a good taste or love for literature/art/culture. The answer to that question is obvious as you have...
Why on earth would you want to do that?
The Spirit Level is garbage: bad stats, selective data, tedious prose; simply is not worth the time.
hahaha, what a load of drivel. Just because you dislike someone's tone gives you no right to change it, and i have a great distrust of someone that would invoke authority for such a minor quibble....
You can't stop people killing themselves either; so all making it illegal does is stop those who are the most vulnerable, and most in need of it from their only means of escape. It is a barbaric...
What a load of nonsense.
If you do not have the most basic right of control over your own body, then you have nothing. Who has a right to tell someone else that they must live their life? Answer:...
Of course it is: belief does not constitute knowledge in any way.