Post #143,175
2/25/04 2:19:20 AM
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Yeah, right. A starving two-months-old Ethiopian one? How?!?
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Post #143,178
2/25/04 2:52:12 AM
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No need for drama
Sure, starvation must have taken some good humans. But I think the kind of thing SL is talking about is more like this:
[link|http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ramanujan.html|http://www-gap.dcs.s...ns/Ramanujan.html]
[link|http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html|http://www-gap.dcs.s...cians/Kepler.html]
Both were from undistinguished backgrounds.
I am not as pessimistic. It often happens that a key idea will emerge in several places at the same time. It may be mystical, but the way the world reveals itself to us sort of guarantees that the key ideas will land on someone when the time comes.
-drl
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Post #143,190
2/25/04 5:53:58 AM
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Why not? "It's just some dark-skinned furriner", or what...?
Ross demonstrates a remarkable ability to ignore everything that doesn't fit his preconceptions: Sure, starvation must have taken some good humans. But I think the kind of thing SL is talking about is more like [...] You think wrong. See [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=143143|Post #143143]: I used the word 'survive', not 'succeed'. As in stay alive long enough to learn to walk let alone read [...]
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html|Andrew Wittbrodt]
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Post #143,192
2/25/04 5:58:00 AM
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Re: Why not? "It's just some dark-skinned furriner"
I'm getting sort of sick of you, you know? Go fuck yourself with a horned hat, you bilious bastard.
-drl
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Post #143,205
2/25/04 10:01:08 AM
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starvation can cause brain damage, so doesnt count
when I was young I envisioned myself as the embodiment of Trinity, Now I realize I have turned into the Bambino
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Post #143,212
2/25/04 10:25:21 AM
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Huh?!? Where you malnourished as a child, or what...?
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Post #143,217
2/25/04 10:47:17 AM
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Re: Huh?!? Where you malnourished as a child, or what...?
For fuck's sake you sack of bile, are you trying to make some kind of extra tragedy out of starvation of ANYONE, child or adult, that wasn't there already?
This is the kind of stupid whining that makes moderate people think all "liberals" are ninnies. Hey, if your damn nutbag people hadn't started two Earth-shattering wars in the last century and fomented destruction and revolution everywhere, we wouldn't have quite so fucked up a world with so much horror and pain poured into it. And before you say anything about MY people - I have six million words for you.
-drl
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Post #143,219
2/25/04 11:14:10 AM
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:-)
when I was young I envisioned myself as the embodiment of Trinity, Now I realize I have turned into the Bambino
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #143,279
2/25/04 4:01:26 PM
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Wrong forum; learn to use the forum software. (new thread)
Created as new thread #143278 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=143278|Wrong forum; learn to use the forum software.]
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html|Andrew Wittbrodt]
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