Karl
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This bit is true, even if the rest was pretty poisonous. The title of the thread is to 'maximise sex appeal' and the only purpose of that exercise is to make one more sexually appealing than that which they really are. It is of course a hopeless fantasy in which people are attempting to cheat reality in order to obtain a value by deception. This is the immoral art of the confidence trickster and fraudster. It is also based around physical sexuality and hedonistic gratification. It is the act of stealing of sweets from the jar to make you feel pleasure, when it's actual doing a great deal of harm.
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You don't know anything for sure because Obama is passing legislation to that effect. Anyone can decide what gender they think they are-which means the Government has decreed that biological facts are 'in fact' redundant. All facts are therefore factually not facts, and any facts you are sure of, you can be factually sure and not factually sure at the same time and thus remain a floating uncertainty. You might well be a lesbian but you just haven't thought of yourself that way because you didn't have a safe place the come to terms with your sexuality and have always been repressed by a bigoted majority that shamed you into adopting your sexuality in order to conform with their beliefs. Until Government decided to liberate you, you were stuck as one kind of thing or another. Now you are free to be Mable or Marble or any combination in between. It's wonderful what Governments can do. It is said that they invented man.
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BREXIT - the film. Worth watching if you are still trying to make up your mind. I wished they had launched this in DVD format so it could have been distributed, but they wouldn't do it.
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What purpose does virtue and merit have in practice?
Karl replied to Clear'Waters's topic in Newcomer Corner
Only the objectivists definition: “Value” is that which one acts to gain and keep, “virtue” is the action by which one gains and keeps it. Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality—not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute. Merit is based on the concept of justice, that a man deserves/does not deserve some value. Man is the judge and men are the judges. -
Only a person who was LBGTQASX would deny he was LBGTQASX.
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Shouldn't this be in the transgender thread ? I knew him when he was Marble.
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Have you thought of getting into birthday card design Nungali ? Gave me a giggle.
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I'm sure you already know my response to that kind of thing.
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Cant say, never met the dude.
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Do you have the book ? I would recommend it, although there is nothing inherently new, it's the way in which Bernays is really using it as an effective lobby tool for his services to Governments. It gives a very different spin on things because he isn't inherently speaking to the mass man, but to corporate heads and politicians. Also 'the crowd' by gustav le Bon is worth a read.
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Did Jesus tell you that ?
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Food is the material we consume in order to sustain our lives. Food can only belong to a human, so any talk of a place to which food might belong can only mean a place belonging to a human. Property rights are an entirely human concept. Food is an entirely human concept.
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Catnip for humans.
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I found an egg inside an egg the other day. A perfectly formed hens egg inside a perfectly formed hens egg. It answered that age old question. It's an egg that lays an egg and no chicken is needed. Chickens are redundant. They have been masquerading as an important link in our food chain just so we don't turn them all into KFC. I suspect they came up with that chicken and egg propaganda just to confuse us....yeah.
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You think you had it bad......I used to chop off my fingers, sharpen the bone with my teeth, then puncture an artery just to correct a students poor spelling.
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Is that cuneiform ? I was in a museum in Turkey where they had tablets like that. They were seriously tiny and unbelievably complex. You needed a magnifying glass to fully appreciate the work involved.
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And I still can't do italics :-/
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It can't mix imperial purple because it's imperial and no one but the King can mix it. It's made by the hand of royalty by special order. I'm getting some princess pink because it's a bit cheaper, but still with a good hint of royalty.
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Let me know when your done with that and where to send the card and grapes. ;-)
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Wouldn't make a very good mark. Woukd anyone know it as writing. They would just point it out and say "it got spoilt when a cat walked all over it".
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Don't you mean claws ?
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economic injustice and the taboo about the stock market
Karl replied to roger's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Most people don't believe there is a fire, or if there is one, then it's manageable. I don't think you are wasting your time, but it's important to have some kind of solution, or action as an anti-dote. Noah didn't warn of floods without having built an ark. I agree with much of what you say, indeed I already own a small amount of bullion as a hedge and its proved a better investment than an ISA. I also have a small stock of food, water, fuel, medicine, flashlight etc. I wouldn't call myself a prepper, but in Britain we have experienced black outs and shortages in the 70s, and only recently we had the tanker driver strikes caused real problems. It's stupidity not to make some preparations for potential disasters. -
economic injustice and the taboo about the stock market
Karl replied to roger's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Yet you don't give any positive way forward. You are running around shouting fire and anyone daring to grab a hose or bucket is told it's a waste of time. There's only so much ranting and panic that can be tolerated before people come to the conclusion that they should toast marshmallows. That's the problem with Alex Jones, it's all conspiracies but no answers. Informing people is a good thing, but it only unearths the problem, then you have to figure out what to do about it. You will drive yourself mad if you give yourself no solutions because it causes a feeling of utter helplessness in a the face of impossible odds-the result is that you can only try and transfer this helplessness onto others as your chief aim. People do eventually get fed up with a siren. I've been guilty of this in the past and I have a habit of lapsing back into it on occasion and I see the same thing in you.