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  • Lounge, The Re: Gas

    Yes, and since America, incidentally, only fights wars where there is oil, we're all paying pennies on the dollar for our gas!

    Aug 27, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Shakespeare: Before his time? Greatest writer known to man?

    Shakespeare is not better or worse than any author of today. A quick read through Stephenson's "Snow Crash" is more illuminating than an in-depth reading of Shakespeare's "The Tempest".3

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    I was and I still don't understand. Discipline never made me feel safer. It just kind of annoyed me. I think it doesn't do much good. If you give a ...

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    1.) The Laws of Thermodynamics do govern the physical world, Qi. 2.) Notice the 'transferred' part. Nothing is created or destroyed, only transferred. There is a point, obviously, where the ...

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Lounge, The Re: Tattoos

    That reason right there is the exact reason why you shouldn't get a tattoo. Old, flabby women with tattoos are gross . And, as soon as you get pregnant, that ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate avatars!!!!

    What's wrong with your tiger's mouth? It's all pointy...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discipline and Our Educational System

    Foucault defined the difference between the modern and classical penitentiary system as the difference in abuse of soul and abuse of body. His encounter and subsequent study of institutions and ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    [quote='Midnight']yes and Foucault refers to how violence has become less necessary because of the use of discourses to control ohers.[/quote] As Baudrillard points out, that is only true once they ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Title pending poll. Wow, this was cathartic.

    This made me shake my head, not a good thing. Vague, self-conscious language leading me nowhere. Practically speaking, the word "'Cuz" is repulsive in a poem. There's some odd punctuation, ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    The first law of thermodynamics: nothing is either created or destroyed, only transferred. Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish' is a very thorough book on the idea of child discipline and the ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    But if you don't stop violence, then any other form of 'punishment' is worthless. You have to create if you wish to destroy.

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    Violence creates and stops violence. Nothing else 'stops' violence. Most people see destruction as the conquer of creation, but that's not really true...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Lounge, The Re: Packing for school

    I hate packing for school.

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?

    Postmodernism is defined as a vast 'incredulity towards metanarratives' -- or, better, the disbelief in 'totalizing' theories (e.g. origin stories such as Creationism and Evolution). Here, Lyotard sug

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Media Reviews Re: Have you guys read these books?

    Jack Kerouack...:dreamily stares off:

    Aug 20, 2005


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