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Tom
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| Posted 6/24/2002 7:36 PM (GMT -6) |   | 666 is approaching dude...
I'm watching to see what happens.
Tom 
"Every saint has a history and every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde | | Back to Top | | |
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Springs
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| Posted 6/25/2002 6:46 PM (GMT -6) | | I was too till the Bon thread kicked up! 
Make it wicked good. (Bostonian accent)
-S
Gilthoniel, A! Elberech!
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Springs
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| Posted 6/25/2002 6:55 PM (GMT -6) | | Maybe I can inspire you...
Is there anything in life that cannot be related to Kierkegaard?
In reading some debates on Global Issues I found a rant on the evils of overpopulation that used K to make the point about how we can't even imagine the billions of people that inhabit the earth.
Check it out...
“The sheer habit of finitude plagues any mind that attempts to reconcile seemingly irreconcilable conflict. We use the zero almost as casually as common change. But by 10 to the fifth power – or one hundred thousand – we are no longer capable of visualizing the size. And this is precisely the point at which Aristotle, writing in Book VII of his Politics, suggested the emergence of a crisis in numbers. Human population, he said, is only in balance when it is "both self-sufficient and surveyable.” Beyond that surveyable, self-sufficient size, Aristotle advocated, by any standards, hideous alternatives - compulsory abortion, and mercy killing of children born deformed, though he did not stipulate what kind of deformities. But what does “surveyable” mean in the twentieth century? A man surveys his property. But what about a place like Macao, the moist densely human-populated corner of the planet, with 61,383 individuals per square mile over a region of ten square miles? In an essay he named “Despair Viewed under the Aspects of Finitude and Infinitude,” (part of his larger work, On Fear and Trembling), Soren Kierkegaard psychoanalyzed an individual attempting to survey the unsurveyable. We can’t see in the infrared, hear ultrahigh frequencies, nor single ourselves out from a cluster of 5.8 billion other people. The effort leads to loneliness, a kind of ecological existentialism, or insanity.” – Michael Tobias, From World War III: Population and the Biosphere at then End of the Millennium (Continuum, 1998).
Holy Freud!
-S
Gilthoniel, A! Elberech!
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 6/27/2002 4:00 AM (GMT -6) | | Hee, hee, hee...
Dude, you gonna take my advice and do something on "end times scenarios?"
Brandon
"We must love one another or die."--W.H. Auden | | Back to Top | | |
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 6/27/2002 6:31 AM (GMT -6) | | MODES, 'ya gonna do a "Dispensations of end-times hysteria?"
It would be a good next-project in your series! | | Back to Top | | |
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 6/27/2002 6:31 AM (GMT -6) | | Oh wait. That was meant for Tom. But applies to Modes as well.
Brandon
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