Category: Society
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Discovery-History-Animal Channel - Get the meaning?
TV is always educational. But not always in a good way (now that I think of it - NEVER in the good way lately). What do Discovery Channel and History Channel and Animal Planet teach us? Well, it all comes down to this: You can catch a lot of crab until extinction [Deadliest Catch], but…
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Bad Chinese eating dogs! Good Westerners, eating... everything else!
An article [Source: web news] showing how appalled we should all be for the Chinese who pack together many dogs for slaughter. Why? Well. They just eat them! How horrific can that be?!? All those poor animals stacked together in the journey to their death... Right? Wrong! Who are WE to judge the Chinese for eating…
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A world of φαίνεσθαι, a world of lies...
We live in a world where φαίνεσθαι (Greek for "appearances") seems more powerfull than "is". People adore women who are just plainly UGLY just because they have concealed their uglyness under tons of makeup. Modern people are not able to see beyond flesh and bones - they actually want to be fooled. Its too hard to…
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Why society NEEDS to tag murderers "insane" - The Breivik case
Anders Behring Breivik's defence have told his trial he should be considered sane. Lawyer Geir Lippestad told the court in Norway his client had been driven by extreme politics, while on the same trial the prosecution has called for Breivik to be considered insane [1]. Is that really happening? What is the matter with "progressed" societies?…
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Ancient Greek Translation, Heidegger, Plato...
Writing means putting your thoughts into a specific framework designed by others. You must use the words and structure invented for the specific language of your choice and your ideas must be changed so as to adapt to that framework. Heidegger himself was terrified even at the thought of how much information modern day philosophers…
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