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Post #89,300
by screamer
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3/18/03 9:46:04 PM
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New P.S. Dimestore words like interlocutors...
that are even correctly spelled may impress some people... :-)

Here.

Not me.

I don't feel a twinge of guilt because I state my positions, especially unpopular ones, in my own style. I look for function not form. Aristotellian (sp?) logic (logos) is great for deconstructing a debate, but rarely an effective way to pursuade. The ethos, bathos, mythos, et al. tend to get in the way of logos. I couldn't care less about "style points". The really fucking hilarious part of it all is that we are quite illogical characters anyway. It's in the DNA. Even the erect ones who "try". The concept of an intellectual factual debate is hubrus anyway.

Long live the hubrus. Long live IWETHEY!
Just a few thoughts,

Screamer


Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me

J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
Post #89,703
by Ashton
3/20/03 6:55:30 AM
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New Well, when correctly spelled, then -
Hubris works better. But then, real hubris doesn't care if it spells itself correctly because - it just Feels Right-ist (or is that Rightest?)

As to the matter of your take on the authenticity of this Admin and its [Real !?] motives du jour: maybe in 3? 5 years enough material will have been leaked about the Rove-Wolfowitz-Dubya Axis of Goodness, about Armageddon and Rapturin Out (ie the role of Fundamentalist Charismatic dogma and doggerel amidst the balance of this little Cabal of ideologues) --

To have some idea of the private mindsets VS the execrably simplistic *public* slogans we've heard since 9/11. Maybe by then: we all will find out who was snookered and who wasn't.. There may be other clues sooner though:

Watch for Dominoes.. (remember those?)

Can Iran be far behind? Is there any limit to how many of these little wars For Just Plain Goodness.. we shall be able to sustain unilaterally? How many before a formal coalition begins to spend Big Bucks/Euros/Rubles to counter the New Empire? (Not to mention the h\ufffdmorrhage of deficit spending, now looking exponential - PLUS that give-back to the top 3% in Gift/Rebate! still a mighty gleam in the Repo eye)

No $$ left for the next wars? Take it outta Soc Sec, Pension funds yada yada. Let the great-grandkids pay Tomorrow for the delusionals running the asylum Today. That's why Econ is called the Dismal Science; neither science nor art.. it's about obfuscation of the transfer of wealth to the very-few. And ours is an Innumerate society, along with the general dumbth.

Do you happen to recall that, in total numbers of Wonderfully Destructive Objects:

The USSR arsenal was the Largest. Pu, U have loooong half-lives and there have been >1000 *TONS* of higrade collected.

Hubris . . .

>>Don't Fuck Up Your Home Planet Without It<<





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You don't need a Weatherman
To tell which way the wind blows
     interesting "Fresh Air" today - (rcareaga) - (32) - March 17, 2003, 10:30:35 PM EST
         Um... - (ben_tilly) - (31) - March 17, 2003, 10:38:50 PM EST
             Re: Um... - (rcareaga) - (29) - March 17, 2003, 10:46:53 PM EST
                 Very telling... - (screamer) - (28) - March 18, 2003, 09:55:41 AM EST
                     Your logic is wrong - (ben_tilly) - March 18, 2003, 10:23:59 AM EST
                     Re: Very telling... - (rcareaga) - (26) - March 18, 2003, 10:33:49 AM EST
                         Carrying this a bit further... - (screamer) - (25) - March 18, 2003, 11:56:23 AM EST
                             you're assuming *way* too much - (rcareaga) - (13) - March 18, 2003, 01:25:40 PM EST
                                 Very fair assessment... - (screamer) - (3) - March 18, 2003, 03:57:36 PM EST
                                     Eschewing obfuscation, then_____ 'Democrats' indeed! - (Ashton) - (2) - March 18, 2003, 06:49:18 PM EST
                                         Mou droog, I respectfully disagree... - (screamer) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 09:18:05 PM EST
                                             In simplest terms then - bringing this 'off' - (Ashton) - March 18, 2003, 11:57:16 PM EST
                                 Been down this slippery track with this person before - (dmarker) - (8) - March 18, 2003, 04:43:23 PM EST
                                     Add one more thing, Dougie... - (screamer) - (7) - March 18, 2003, 05:33:28 PM EST
                                         He HAD answered that, even BEFORE you asked! - (CRConrad) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 05:43:10 PM EST
                                             Avoiding the flames forum... - (screamer) - March 18, 2003, 09:26:54 PM EST
                                         Re: Add one more thing, Dougie... - (rcareaga) - (4) - March 18, 2003, 08:26:03 PM EST
                                             he's not a "seasoned brawler" Thor God of Flaming thunder! -NT - (boxley) - March 18, 2003, 08:37:21 PM EST
                                             Let's start again then. - (screamer) - March 18, 2003, 09:31:31 PM EST
                                             P.S. Dimestore words like interlocutors... - (screamer) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 09:46:04 PM EST
                                                 Well, when correctly spelled, then - - (Ashton) - March 20, 2003, 06:55:30 AM EST
                             Why the US won't attack countries with nukes - (ben_tilly) - (10) - March 18, 2003, 04:05:41 PM EST
                                 Re: Why the US won't attack countries with nukes - (deSitter) - (3) - March 18, 2003, 04:09:31 PM EST
                                     Conventional Western Wisdom holds... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 04:17:17 PM EST
                                         US current global strategy has China already contained ... - (dmarker) - March 18, 2003, 05:00:19 PM EST
                                     Digression -- Khrushchev - (rcareaga) - March 18, 2003, 05:26:03 PM EST
                                 Using same logic, what about bio/chem weapons? - (screamer) - (4) - March 18, 2003, 05:10:39 PM EST
                                     I'd dispute that getting bio/chem weapons are easier to get - (jake123) - March 18, 2003, 05:25:05 PM EST
                                     Bio/Chem won't have the same impact as nukes. - (inthane-chan) - (2) - March 18, 2003, 05:27:23 PM EST
                                         Basically agree with you and Jake except - (screamer) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 05:40:40 PM EST
                                             Re: Basically agree with you and Jake except - (jake123) - March 18, 2003, 06:06:22 PM EST
                                 'Immanent' - a Jungian typo ? ;-) - (Ashton) - March 18, 2003, 06:06:07 PM EST
             There was a piece on BBC World Service a day or two ago - (jake123) - March 17, 2003, 10:48:13 PM EST

I strongly recommend 72 as a good default.
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