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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    or But Menelaus lord of the war cry had caught Adrestus alive. Rearing, bolting in terror down the plain his horses snared themselves in tamarisk branches, splintered his curved chariot just at the pole's tip and breaking free they made a dash for the city walls where battle-teams by the...
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    Fascism was too, well, contemporary a word for what I was getting at. I'm talking about two generalized approaches to life; the one expressed in the Iliad, where the purpose is to bend the world to your will, striking at the very Gods or even Fate itself to do so. And the one expressed by the...
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    The Results Are In: Conservative States Prosper, While Liberal States Decline

    i'd say 1) First we ought to compare adjusted per capita income rather than just gdp per capita. 49k in Iowa is a very different cat than 57k in new york, which is different from 65k in Alaska. Although I wouldn't describe either Alaska or Iowa as "conservative"; Iowas politics are pretty...
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    Why do people have sex (apart from for reproduction)?

    Try to focus on the principles involved, not the particulars.
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    Why do people have sex (apart from for reproduction)?

    this idea that you can reduce virtue to a metric space (a binary one at that!) is pretty childish. Welp, today i donated lots of money to charity and then butchered and ate my maid. I guess that makes me pretty neutral! All men are compromised of virtues and vices; frequently they come...
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    Episcopal Church may approve blessing of same-sex relationships

    Well, its a little late for the anglicans to get terribly excited about the sanctity of marriage
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    I'm gay.

    Nobody's perfect, the issue is a humble and contrite heart.
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    Religion Sucks

    copy-paste; the sign of a truly liberated mind. Perhaps someday i too will no longer be a sheeple, able to copy-paste other people's chain emails to forums as well! THE RESPONSIBLITY IS TOO MUCH!!!!
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    Thats because moderns sympathesize with the Trojans and Hector. Achilles and the Greeks are the heroes; and their primal hyper-masculine world of the beached boats defeats Hector because they are undivided. Achilles is a killing machine, while Hector is a mighty warrior, but also a statesman and...
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    Socrates is the speaking one who advocates censorship, indoctrination, caste society, etc in the republic... I think you'd be surprised by the ancients if you bothered to read them rather than your professors opinions on them.
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    And the democracy of Athens was an oligarchy of ruling families. About a third of the population were slaves, a third nonvoting resident aliens, and only a third citizens. Epicurus is the person you are looking for, if you are looking for an ancient Greek who seems vaguely modern; but I don't...
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    Dear, plato was the original fascist. He wanted to seize children in a creche to indoctrinate them away from any influence of their parents, to heavily censor speech and music (he devotes an entire chapter in the republic to music censorship). He heavily idolized Sparta because although an...
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    the Iliad and Maccabees

    So i've been reading Fagles translation of the Iliad for the first time and its amazing. One of the most unique things I've read in my life, in that particular ancient tempo and tone. I wonder what contemporary author affirmative action'd it off the curricula for modern students? Probably...
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    in the adult world people bully each other all the time. Its adverse socialization, and it maintains behavior norms, and gets things done. President Johnson giving "The Treatment" to Senator Richard Russell in 1963.
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    because then bullying is immaterial to suicide. But there will be no real martyrs for homo rights; only invented ones.
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    maybe committing suicide is always indicative of a highly disordered mind.
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    whites are about 2.5x more likely to commit suicide than blacks or hispanics. Depression is also more common in whites than hispanics or blacks. Do you always just make stuff up that seems convienant for you?
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    Loss of Faith around the world

    Spirituality without religion is just superstition.
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying civilization -Aristotle
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    Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens; 100 Students Walk Out

    Anyway, I can't help but bully. I was born this way. Stop judging the Bully Lifestyle.