Well, there's alot to be said for "swimming against the current." You may not get very far, but you get a good work out, and it's easier to find your way home again.
Apo
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- Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:23 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Der Untergang des Abendlandes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 77122
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:32 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Der Untergang des Abendlandes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 77122
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SWADDLE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8205
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:32 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 134362
Henri: If, Apo, you wish to undermine my theory, what you have to do is introduce empirical evidence which shows that, despite the new guidelines, the incidence and severity of hazing has not decreased. Such evidence may exist, but until such time as it it produced, I shall continue to maintain that...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:56 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Credo
- Replies: 25
- Views: 49348
I think in a way you are correct, Henri, (may a god not curse me for saying so) but there is a metaphysic and a meta-logic to Tao ( the real Tao, not the so-called Tao) that looks very much like a denial of duality: something is true and not true at the same time. It is very much like the distinctio...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:51 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: God Jul !
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14793
LOL, Larry! Henri, Evolution, Schevolution, materialist-naturalists have no choice, but to believe it. Who made all this happen? Theist: God did it! Deist: God just wanted to see what would happen! Atheist: No one did anything, what do you mean? Why would a random set of chemical reactions wonder ab...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:34 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Singular noun/pronoun and verb
- Replies: 18
- Views: 50692
Truly, Larry, you have found some Gems here. Thanks! And you, too, BD! And I just thank Henri 'cause he's so explicit about the problem! I believe in naturalness before formality (while leaving a place for formality), and, also, naturalness before logic; afterall, language is only a quasi-logical sy...
- Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:21 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: CHRISTMASTIDE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8039
Wonderful explanation, Doc! I always wondered where peple got the idea that the twelve days of Christmas were before Christmas (maybe the Advent calendar). Epiphany has always marked the end of Christmastide, but being the ecumenical Anglican that I am I have nothing against starting the whole "...
- Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:04 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Singular noun/pronoun and verb
- Replies: 18
- Views: 50692
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:41 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Credo
- Replies: 25
- Views: 49348
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: go "antepenultimate" one better?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9377
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:44 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 134362
- Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:06 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Credo
- Replies: 25
- Views: 49348
- Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:12 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: excruciating
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9575
Catullus Poem 85HATE and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.
For deeper commentary:
Catullus: Poem 85
Apo
- Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: mensch antonym??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26816