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"If you are able to rise to this challenge, if you are able to honestly examine the moral arguments in favor for slavery and genocide (along with the much stronger arguments against them), then you are likely to be either a psychopath or a philosopher." | "If you are able to rise to this challenge, if you are able to honestly examine the moral arguments in favor for slavery and genocide (along with the much stronger arguments against them), then you are likely to be either a psychopath or a philosopher." | ||
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| + | "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." | ||
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| + | This is Jimmy Winslow practicing editing things. Yay Wittgenstein quotes. | ||
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| + | In honor of the Scottish Vote for Independence this Thursday (September 18), I'll give you what could be considered philosophy, just from a surprising source: | ||
| + | "Everyman dies, not every man truly lives" ~ William Wallace. | ||
| + | Contributed by Macklen Scribner | ||
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| + | Since we were on the topic of science, this is somewhat related, and definitely mind-twisting (that's what we like, right?!) [http://youtu.be/PCu_BNNI5x4] ...-John Tomassi | ||
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| + | "Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day" -Polish Proverb found on the internet by Patrick Quinn | ||
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"If you are able to rise to this challenge, if you are able to honestly examine the moral arguments in favor for slavery and genocide (along with the much stronger arguments against them), then you are likely to be either a psychopath or a philosopher."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
---Ludwig Wittgenstein
This is Jimmy Winslow practicing editing things. Yay Wittgenstein quotes.
In honor of the Scottish Vote for Independence this Thursday (September 18), I'll give you what could be considered philosophy, just from a surprising source: "Everyman dies, not every man truly lives" ~ William Wallace. Contributed by Macklen Scribner
Since we were on the topic of science, this is somewhat related, and definitely mind-twisting (that's what we like, right?!) [2] ...-John Tomassi
"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day" -Polish Proverb found on the internet by Patrick Quinn
