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Ahaseurus2000
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27 Feb 2011, 1:50 pm

Philosophical Mysticism - "The Truth is derived by Non-Rational Means".
Philosophical Rationality - "The Truth is derived by Rational Means".

Is well-balanced Reason a combination of the two?

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22 Nov 2011, 3:04 pm

Thread necro!

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci

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22 Nov 2011, 4:00 pm

I want to start a revival of Sumerian similar to the Living Latin movement: Sumerian has a very large corpus of texts, comparable to Classical Hebrew or even Ancient Greek I believe, is a very regular language and is not only among the 2 oldest recorded languages in the world (along with Egyptian) but, unlike Egyptian, it is not connected to any extant group of people directly so it is quite neutral. I think Sumerian needs a new, logoalphasyllabic writing system, to make it feasible for revival, though the writing system should have strong similarities to the original cuneiform in structure.

I would love to see Sumerian taught in high school classrooms and modern literature translated into Sumerian.

http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/sumerian.html

ṤitadugEmeĝira alzuzu u anam zuĝu ḫeineḫaleš./I know a fair amount of Sumerian and thus I wish to distribute my knowledge to others.

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22 Nov 2011, 6:06 pm

Quartz11 wrote:

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:

The devil teaches compassion while god speaks of damnation.

I've heard something similar before. Satan is freedom from God's tyranny.

That's not at all what it means, but okay.

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23 Nov 2011, 12:22 am

My woodburning stove has given me a new appreciation for the local liberal media, especially the free alt-news papers...

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23 Nov 2011, 7:08 am

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
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23 Nov 2011, 7:28 am

These days everyone seems to be an expert on everything, aren't we.

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23 Nov 2011, 8:07 am

Why is it that people always try to fog the lines between acceptable criticism and pointless insult?

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23 Nov 2011, 8:44 am

Still waiting for those jetpacks, science. Thought I'd put it out there.

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23 Nov 2011, 10:55 am

Why is it that people always try to fog the lines between likelihood and certainty?

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23 Nov 2011, 11:11 am

Lecks wrote:

Still waiting for those jetpacks, science. Thought I'd put it out there.

have been here for a decade or so,

im waiting for one that flies more than 25 minutes.

other than that i think we should ban all paper comercials, i receive around 60 punds of useless paper a week, most of it bleached.
registering for our no comercials program doesnt seem to have helped.

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24 Nov 2011, 1:03 pm

I was awoken by a dream the other night: I dreamed I was about to die. The next thing I knew was floating in the air and flames approaching from all directions. My exact thoughts at that moment were: "I'm dead! Oh crap there is an afterlife! I've gone to hell! Bugger!". Then I woke up. As an atheist I found the dream somewhat disturbing but my thoughts quite amusing.

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24 Nov 2011, 1:12 pm

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