Fabricio the Guido

Flakes...as in flaky people.

There's just no way I could be a Leo, am a virgo through and through..

Cant be much of a good night if you intend to avoid cock all night :))

It's on sale in Blackwells.

Precious nano seconds which could have been spent on some other social media? Seems like a waste to me. Where pedants fear to tread fools rush in... Actually, is that a call for more careful references or denigrating the web as a resource?

@ CitizenEd, I agree with you. Some people think it is better to do shitty things to others before they do it to you. A sort of reversal of the universal moral code. One of my fav books is by an author called Todorov called 'Facing the extreme : moral life in the concentration camps'. He basically takes testimony from people and uncovers ordinary gestures of compassion and solidarity. This is in a context where there is zero value to human life. Some people will try to remain decent and others will not. Who's example would you follow? The Anne Frank case is another example protected by one person and betrayed by another. It shows that moral choices are personal but people like to abdicate their responsibility by joining in collective amnesia. These are sort of lies which enable us to do shitty things to others and then justify it through the rarefication of social processes.

Interesting post. I could talk rubbish as well all day but I like to know what I am talking about. Or, at least, pretend. Curious thought about Anne Frank, would she have changed her view if she had survived the camp? Remember that the view she held was when she was still in hiding and most of her family, still alive. How wouldher view of of human nature have changed? My own conclusion is rather like this - I think you can be nice to strangers. It makes you a better person. "Consequently, personal relationships and morality are not at odds in the ways many philosophers have supposed. Rather, they are mutually supportive. Experience and involvement in close relationships will enhance our interest in and sympathy for the plight of others. Conversely, concern about the plight of the stranger will help us develop the traits necessary for close personal relationships." http://www.hughlafollette.com/papers/morality.htm Here is the Hobbesian view of human nature. Some nasty poeple subscribe to this view. I tend to think otherwise. Human Nature Human beings are physical objects, according to Hobbes, sophisticated machines all of whose functions and activities can be described and explained in purely mechanistic terms. Even thought itself, therefore, must be understood as an instance of the physical operation of the human body. Sensation, for example, involves a series of mechanical processes operating within the human nervous system, by means of which the sensible features of material things produce ideas in the brains of the human beings who perceive them. (Leviathan I 1) Human action is similarly to be explained on Hobbes's view. Specific desires and appetites arise in the human body and are experienced as discomforts or pains which must be overcome. Thus, each of us is motivated to act in such ways as we believe likely to relieve our discomfort, to preserve and promote our own well-being. (Leviathan I 6) Everything we choose to do is strictly determined by this natural inclination to relieve the physical pressures that impinge upon our bodies. Human volition is nothing but the determination of the will by the strongest present desire. Hobbes nevertheless supposed that human agents are free in the sense that their activities are not under constraint from anyone else. On this compatibilist view, we have no reason to complain about the strict determination of the will so long as we are not subject to interference from outside ourselves. (Leviathan II 21) As Hobbes acknowledged, this account of human nature emphasizes our animal nature, leaving each of us to live independently of everyone else, acting only in his or her own self-interest, without regard for others. This produces what he called the "state of war," a way of life that is certain to prove "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Leviathan I 13) The only escape is by entering into contracts with each other?mutually beneficial agreements to surrender our individual interests in order to achieve the advantages of security that only a social existence can provide. (Leviathan I 14) " But notice the role that the social contract plays for Hobbes? People still have to come together. Their motives might be suspect but the need for others cannot be denied. But who are these others? How do we select and distinguish between them? How can we justify differences in treatment? PS: is it always necessary to quotes one's sources when posting on here? In theory, can I make up any old farrago of nonsense and pass it off as "commonsense" "opinion" "fact"? it does make for a very laborious conversation if I have to have a reference for every comment I make. Just saying.

It is never too late to jump on the bandwagon. Gosh. Maybe i should just draw diagrams. I think I've made my position clear in my earlier posts. If you read it very slowly it might become clearer with time. I'm glad we are all in agreement that racism is a very bad thing. Indeed.

Attraction

Loved the Corrections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-dyNGaCWQo&feature=related

I will come back on the research. I did not say they are or would be racist. I am just saying reasonable people make mistakes especially when it comes to race and when the person at the receiving end of the mistake is different from you. See the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence,( all men are created equal) and the small matter of the slaves. As a juror you are presented with certain facts and required to make inferences based on those facts. The inability to hold two opposing thoughts or differing strands of a story whilst sifting through the evidence is a bit of a disadvantage in jury service. In my opinion. The comments made in dismissing the allegation of racism in the media can be summed up (a) the may be other factors at play in the under reporting, what factors we 're are not told, just leave it up to the police because they know what they are doing, they deal with this all the time; (b) it is not always about racism. All "reasonable" assumptions. If you are...

Gag reflex

The issue is about the media and the way certain stories are reported or under reported. It is astounding that in 2011 these well established, researched, facts, are still being disputed. It was a simple point made by someone that the under reporting of her disappearance may have been connected to her ethnicity. I made the connection between this particular case and well known sociological facts which rendered this a possibility. A possibility on that basis of which I was prepared to accept it as a proposition. I supposed if I was of another persuasion, I could easily have made another assumption. What is unbearable is the smug assumption that x & y were the case because the girl was found, therefore, it was not racism. The issue was about under reproting of the girl's disappearance an d the only reason why the amount of publicity around the case increased was because of the highlighting of this fact and the celebrities who attached themselves to the case. In America, attitudes such as those exhibited by members of the forum often leads to the imposition of the death penalty. Fortunately, in Britain, we dont have the death penalty even if we get such "reasonable" people serving on juries.

Throat

The Police ( ....State,.... Church,... Dai Lama...I... interpose at will) are always right. Racism is a figment of the imagination. Everyone is equal and treated the same. It takes a nation of morons to hold one back.

Just started it the other day and I cannot put it down. It is as good as "Corrections." I am now thinking of comparing it to Buddenbrooks or War & Peace, but I think the themes of enviromentalism and the end of the Left wing politics anchor it more closely to our time. Big themes or the detail of family history or both?

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Character

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, lay a beautiful land, with a village green and in the summer, blue bells would sway in the wind and the only sound to break the song of the swallows was the thwock of the cricket ball against that bat, .... then the ships came bringing exotic fauna, and all the houses were bought up or boarded up and mabel couldn't get her teeth on the NHS and george couldn't get a flat and all the time the people lived longer and memories of the the past grew dimmer but even more glorious. Up side down cake vs tiramisu? Oh I digress.

Simonet Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm disposing of mine now too. Mine had the > distinct taste of Dog pee. > > There is a very noticeable difference between the > smell of cat urine versus dog urine. Cat urine is > very strong, high in ammonia content. Dog urine, > on the other hand, has almost a sweet smell to it > and is not nearly as potent. If the smell doesn?t > knock you over or make your eyes water, I?d > suspect the dog, if you have one ! > > Are you sure yours wasn't dog pee or was it cat > pee? Was the smell of the possible urine high in > ammonia content, would you say and do you have a > Dog ? @Simonet, could i venture a sugestion for your specialist subject on mastermind should you ever compete....& did you really mean 'taste'? Move away from the drinks cabinet now. LOL

Can you describe the smell? Piney? Rotting vegetation? Dead animal? How strange. Have you tried glade? That's nature for you. I'd stick with a plastic tree in future...

The question is really about the nature of time and consciousness, with the roman twist that purposeful endeavours are somehow more virtous. No limit to time but there is a limit to the consciousness which observes it. Grow vegetables in your allotment, eat, fcuk, shit and die. It has the significance which it has for you. The African in a mud hut with no eletricity or runing water, does not think about the meaning of life until sunday when he or she goes to church. Each day is spent in a struggle to acquire the basic essentials. Here in Europe it's about some other 'must have' which helps you to better express your uniqueness. All breathing is purposeful activity, so its only the graeco roman who wants us to believe that consciousness and purposeful breathing is somehow better than just breathing. Sorry to break it down like that but...

Continent

Just finished S4 . It's good.