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Some time on Saturday afternoon I got upgraded by Hotmail to a 250MB account. Finally!
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"Here it is! You're on your own now. What kind of lifestyle do you want? Answer these few basic questions and we'll give you a Reality Check. Good luck..you're gonna need it.
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(The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy)
Yay for frugality.
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Vox Day, Theodore Beale and The Spiritual Side of Killing Palestinians
"The Dark Window introduces me to Vox Day (thanks!), Southern Baptist and Christian libertarian. However, as with a number of other Christian libertarians we’ve come across lately, the word “libertarian” is here being used in a rather odd way. As The Dark Window quotes him:
It's pretty clear to me that one of the most destructive forces in our society has been women's suffrage. Women consistently and reliably turn towards government as a solution for perceived problems, which creates more intractable problems, which then is used to justify more government intervention. This process is unlikely to stop until the entire edifice collapses of its own weight.
The answer, therefore, is to ban women from voting. Previously, Vox Day has outlined his Middle East peace plan:
The Israeli government must announce to the world a unilateral ceasefire, balanced by the deadly promise that for every Israeli soldier killed, 25 Palestinian police will die. For every civilian, 100 non-combatant Palestinian adults will be slain, and for every child, 1000 adults... In a fallen world, violence does solve some problems, and at times extreme violence is required."
From: Bartholomew's notes on religion
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Someone on Bush's faith-based funds:
"So what's wrong with a little faith-based drug addiction program? I mean, Bush SAYS it works, so why wouldn't it? He wouldn't ever lie to the American People would he?
Religious Zeal has been attributed to curing people's cancer as well. I think we should do away with all cancer drugs and painful chemotherapy and just refer these "sick" people to local churches. Surely an exercise routine of bible banging and a diet of forced conversion will surely cure all of those people with Cancer, and if it doesn't, oh well, at least they won't be a drain on our soon-to-be-privatized Medicare system.
This guy is the most misguided idiot to ever hold the position of President."
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(Since I wrote the following for Writing class, I might as well post it here, in an expanded form)
I would say the best argument against epistemological nihilism is this: if you cannot be sure of anything, how can you be sure of the argument that nothing is certain? Being certain that nothing is certain is logically impossible. So the universal skeptic has undermined his case from the start by laying claim to a concept that he has no right to.
Which can also be rewritten like so, with respect to Descartes' Meditations:
Descartes says that, since he cannot tell when he's sleeping, having thought in the past that he was awake when in actuality he wasn't, he cannot trust what his senses tell him. Going by the same logic, since in the past he has (presumably) reasoned imperfectly, should he not now distrust whatever conclusions he comes to by way of reason, and does this not lead to epistemological nihilism?
You can tell that the position of epistemological nihilism doesn't have much credence with me.
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"The harm in dancing. Jan 1892
1. The conditions under which people generally dance - late hours, heated rooms, nervous excitement, are injurious to health.
2. A girl is frequently thrown into intimate association with one she would not and ought not choose as a companion.
3. The positions permitted in the dance are contrary to all modesty and would not be tolerated by pure girls and women were it not for the glare and music and general excitement.
4. The influence of the dance is to wean the mind from all serious studies and the heart from all sober purposes. The intellectual and scholarly men and women of our country are seldom dancers, and active praying Christians, never.
- Rev O W Willis, in Michigan Christian Advocate"
- The Malaysia Message, A Methodist Publication
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While looking up a reverse search referral, I found the following:
Zao-Yang Suppliers/Products/Manufacturers<Xiang-Fan<HuBei
"ZAOYANG JINNIU CHEMICAL FACTORY
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Address:ZAOGENG RD., ZAOYANG, HUBEI, CHINA" (Emphasis mine)
Zao geng road in Zaoyang. Interesting.
In other news, not unexpectedly, Dick Chan comes tops when you search "zaogeng". Even though more than half (at least) his stories are probably fake.
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WEHT.net: The Online Compendium of 'What Ever Happened To' and 'Where Are They Now? - "Ever wonder what happened to: Eddie The Eagle? The chick who shot Andy Warhol? That 'Mikey' kid from the Life Cereal commercial? Well you've come to the right place, this is where we track the has-beens, the flash-in-the-pans and those pseudo-celebrities who were all too annoying during their 15 measly minutes."
48 reasons not to get a boob job. - "6) Though rare, it is not unknown for complications to be so severe that the breast ends up getting amputated. The chest wall can be injured. Your lungs and heart can be affected. You can end up dead." [Ed: Emphasis original]