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RE: Signatures!
January 16, 2012 at 11:08 pm
(January 16, 2012 at 10:17 pm)apophenia Wrote: ETA: I just want to say that I appreciate the Schopenhauer quote. The World As Will and Representation is on my reading list, though it will likely be a couple years before I get there. I anxiously await that day. I suspect I will agree with much he says, though at present, I have no more experience of him than your quote. (I have the two volume Dover edition translated by Payne; if you have any suggestions on additional materials or translations to consider in approaching him, please share.)
Well, with regards to translations, it seems that Schopenhauer has suffered, because his writings (except for academic versions you have to pay far out the ass for) tended to have been translated in a... sporadic form: For instance, his Parerga and Paralipomena, which contains some of his best work, has, in the past, been translated into several volumes, but all of these are out of print (except for some PD publishers who seem to only sell through Amazon.com), and there are only two editions in print: a translation by Hollingdale by Penguin entitled Essays and Aphorisms, and a selection by Schirmacher entitled the Essential Schopenhauer.
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RE: Signatures!
January 16, 2012 at 11:53 pm
That Pascal quote is interesting, because Pascal is a mathematician, but he is not very intelligent! 
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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January 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 12:14 am
(January 16, 2012 at 5:08 pm)AthiestAtheist Wrote: (January 15, 2012 at 4:17 am)Michelle_Patton Wrote: I thought mine was appropriate given the amount of times I've seen theists call atheists closed minded - it boggles the brain!
Plus, I love Derren Brown almost as much as I love Mike  I kinda like that. It's a little wordy, though.
It is a bit 
It was a toss-up between that one and "In general terms, True Believers rationalize failures and ignore them, whereas science welcomes failures and uses them to better understand how something works"
"No-one who decides that scientific evidence is not for him and that his own experience or the stories of others is the be all and end all of deciding what's true ever has the right to call people searching for reliable, repeatable evidence narrow-minded. That is hypocrisy of the most laughable kind." Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind.
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 1:42 am
Mine is just that I think old Mark was on to a central bit of wisdom
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 3:47 am
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(January 17, 2012 at 12:01 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: ![[Image: 87Ybt.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2F87Ybt.jpg) Yeah, I remember that line. Even an idiot can refute a moronic religious idea. I use something like that when arguing against Pascal's wager. I love your sig too! (Although, drones do have sex; it is the workers that don't have sex.)
Here's another Pascal thing I came up with: "Pascal invented a measurement of pressure, he is not a philosopher. He should stick to what he knows: hot air."
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 4:07 am
Mine is what my boyfriend told me when I explained what my defense would consist of when I get put on trial for murdering someone.
That will never hold up in court...
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 8:02 am
(January 16, 2012 at 10:17 pm)apophenia Wrote: Actually, my first forum sig was based on Zen Badger's sig - true story.
Really??? I'm intrigued, which ones are you talking about??
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 1:27 pm
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(January 17, 2012 at 4:07 am)Phaedra Wrote: Mine is what my boyfriend told me when I explained what my defense would consist of when I get put on trial for murdering someone. Yeah... that has no context whatsoever. I never got that.
Now, can anybody deduce what my new signature means?
(For future reference, it's "When counting your chickens, you don't start counting backwards from infinity...")
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Signatures!
January 17, 2012 at 7:51 pm
(January 17, 2012 at 1:27 pm)AthiestAtheist Wrote: (January 17, 2012 at 4:07 am)Phaedra Wrote: Mine is what my boyfriend told me when I explained what my defense would consist of when I get put on trial for murdering someone. Yeah... that has no context whatsoever. I never got that.
You weren't supposed to. But now you do. Damn. Time for a new signature.
That will never hold up in court...
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