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benny

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  1. The purpose of language is to create a distance from a reality that is too strange for us.
  2. King Solomon had the solution for those of you who disagree on what to do with God: slicing him in half.
  3. Earth produces fruits and vegetables.
  4. Bank robbers may end up killing each other if they cannot agree on who is to get the last dollar because their own share become smaller than the one of their accomplice.
  5. Since Rand, philosophers have learn to use the word "always-already" so much so that a society can now be seen as something always-already there for you.
  6. - A receivable reference comes with the page number. - Digestion is the only involuntary labor we have to do.
  7. I think that pursuing a single issue on a forum is very ill-advised unless this issue is about renewing democracy altogether all together.
  8. A Muslim would rather say: she is not an infidel.
  9. What is ridiculous about the head-counting-type democracy is that we can be stuck with the most popular candidates having exactly the same total of votes.
  10. I was paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
  11. A terrorist is someone in regard of who one can say: "his ten minutes of fame".
  12. Follow me instead of trying to mimic my ability to write fortune cookie-like posts.
  13. Psychoanalysts know how to find meaning in seemingly meaninglessness.
  14. Will is like energy, it can divide and disintegrate all atom-like reality.
  15. Ladies! Please consider hermeneutics.
  16. "Creation" is only a word to start with; all words written or oral are symbols; a symbol is a presence made of absence.
  17. You said: "I take it back, that's not ridiculous at all."
  18. The will of the people is not the will of individuals.
  19. Going out to cast a secret vote is not motivating because having to cast that secret vote is like having to recognize that our society is divided, that we have not been able to reach a consensus in a public deliberation.
  20. The random pre-electoral surveys influence a lot the probability to be a pivotal-voter.
  21. From French and American perspectives, all Queens should just consider themselves lucky to be alive.
  22. This Assembly was an experiment in deliberative democracy and totally random experiment can be done only with non-humans. Routinely, people who accept to take part in focus groups have all sort of motivations, including making a bit of money.
  23. It is a thread about childhood and terrorism.
  24. The game around here seems to be: the poster with the most time to waste is the winner.
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