Aint No Right

I once asked my German Lit. prof if she thought great poets counted syllables.

Don't emulate people. Emulate ideas. Exemplars are useful for packaging some group of ideas together, but the problem is that it's too easy to confused irrelevant features of people for what is causally important to what is valuable about them. This is the source of a lot of confusion in religion, a...

I'm glad that Bob's on risperidone. You probably also need, or are on, lamotrigine (Lamictal).

You might also want to check out Ron Dworkin's latest book. Here's a review: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=414939 Dworkin criticizes the positive/negative liberty distinction in a few really interesting ways. In many ways I'm closer to Dworkin than I am to Cohen, but Cohe...

Gah. Sorry Hoka, I guess I didn't explain the negative/positive liberty distinction properly. 'Negative liberty' doesn't have negative connotations, it just means 'freedom from coercion' or 'freedom from state interference'. This isn't something that was placed on libertarianism by its detractors, i...

Mescal wrote:

Adurentibus Spina wrote:

That wasn't 2011

It wasn't 1969 either.

imail724 wrote:It's ok I guess. it's no Wrong Girl, that's for sure.

There are gonna be people turning up in canyons, and there are gonna be people turning up in cities, because the fans there aren't willing to accept what I think they know, and they know I don't remember these songs.

So this song just popped up on iTunes, and I don't know if it's the wine I am drinking or what... but god damn what a rad song. 80s sound aside, this shit is fucking amazing. Why don't they do it live more often? I kind of want to call Perry up and be like "hey dude, what the hell were you thinking...

So busy, I love it. Stressed as hell, but I get to do philosophy as a career for at least the next 3.5 more years. :aoa: The next two weeks will be a cacophony of 50 or so shitty essays to mark (on Berkeley and Locke's anti-skepticism) and Christmas food and two more papers to write before the 25th....

Larry B. wrote:Because in Chile some people have unprotected sex in March.

Okay, but how does that explain why the parties (birthday or otherwise) are costumed?

Why does Chile have costume parties in December?

Window regulators are fun (annoying). I learned how to do those when I briefly worked for (and was subsequently tragically hilariously fired from) an auto glass shop I worked for over a summer a few years ago (holy shit it might actually have been five years ago... I can't remember). The markups tho...

They don't sell personality groomers. Unless you count guns.

:tiphat: He was not the most intellectual of the people I look to emulate, but he was the most skilled debater I've ever seen. And he had the courage to change his mind drastically, even when it made people dislike him. These are reasons to respect him, even if you disagreed with many things he said...

I'm still not seeing an example of how this applies to a Libertarian society. I think there is some confusion here. My reductio ad absurdum of the libertarian principles aims to show that there could never be a libertarian society. Asking me to apply what I'm saying to a presupposed Libertarian soc...

Larry B. wrote:

Adurentibus Spina wrote:

Enron wrote:Seems like self-flaggelation.

... which sounds like a good time, to me.

What would you prefer: getting hit in the head with a bat or being anally raped while maggots feast on your danglers?

The latter.

Enron wrote:Seems like self-flaggelation.

... which sounds like a good time, to me.

True, he could do that, but it seems like it bothered you that you might have annoyed him, I think... so that's why I said probably best not to post about politics, as a fan, just because it avoids these types of awkward situations, even if EA doesn't give a shit what you said, you'd avoid feeling l...

But all of that is arguing against complete anarchy, not libertarianism, which is about limiting the federal government, not completely eliminating law and order. You also seem to be completely ignoring the ideas of contracts and lawsuits. No man... that's not what's going on in what I said. I expl...

My view these days roughly rests on the simple empirical fact that a partially, or even completely, realized implementation of the libertarian ideal of maximization of negative liberty would in fact collapse into absurdity when we attempt to put it into practice precisely because in the process of ...

It wasnt a message. It was in the comments section of a post he made. And yes, it was big government vs small government debate. I was trying to be respectful. My last post was something like "politics aside looking forward to giraffe tongue orchestra" or something like that and he never replied. P...

Tyler Durden wrote:

Adurentibus Spina wrote:Saddest story ever. Parents named my bro after Clapton's son.

Yeah, that is a sad story.

Not a fan of that name?