"let he who has not sinned throw the first rock?
I should also mention that many people regard their way as "the best" way. If you do something a different way, you're shaking that belief, and they become defensive."
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Bart commented on Greg's blog post Greatest 250 year ever?"I blame the middle-class for this exponential development the last 250 years or so. They've produced so much actually useful shit. As the royalty was too busy with the enlightenment-version of Game of thrones, and the poor was distracted by…"
Bart commented on Lore's blog post Passion vs. Practicality"Have you considered working with book publishing? It's not as "fashionable" as writing yourself, you won't get invited to the coolest party and get blown off by celebrities, but who wants that anyway :)
Publishers need someone to…"
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Devious plan for ending the oppressive regime of nicotine
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Just another Greek tragedy
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Israel and Palestine - A love story part 1
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Comment Wall (14 comments)
- At 3:24am on March 3, 2013,
The Shiznit said… 
- At 5:02am on March 2, 2013,
SparTom007 - Tom said… Hey man,
Using your awesome knowledge of economics could you please do a post explaining why monopolies are bad. I've tried to explain this in as simple a way as possible to so many people recently and I'm sick of getting to the point where I feel like saying "you know what fuck it, you're just an idiot" because these people are usually rather intelligent lol. Maybe I'm not explaining it and they're not making the leap from knowing what a monopoly is to why it's bad by reading about what it is on wikipedia etc.
Thanks man, if you don't have time don't feel like you've let me down or any BS, I thought it might be interesting for you to write and other's to read :)
- At 1:41pm on June 10, 2012, The Shiznit said…
- At 11:18pm on February 21, 2010,
Radu Cornea said… - "if anyone knows the exact meaning of going "a-wall", plz send me a message :) thx [Nov. 30, 2009]" - I think the term you're searching for here is "going AWOL".
edited: spelling.
- At 1:59am on October 16, 2009,
Arthur Wawrzyczek said… - i read an article in the news about this woman who was tortured and left to die in a basement... the writer wrote: she was alive for hours before she died..
and i was like, no shit
- At 7:49am on July 23, 2009,
L.G. said… - haha thanks for the song comment man but then again, who doesn't love a nice word about some hard work? :D Hope all is going well with you and you're still 'hanging up there' lol
- At 12:32pm on July 20, 2009,
Cato Albertsen said… - Takker bart, utrolig egentlig:P Ble litt overasket når jeg så det.
- At 3:25pm on July 14, 2009,
Sophie said… - Congratulations newbie :)
- At 1:31am on July 13, 2009,
Kokomo said… - what are you doing on the door? Your defying gravity wow.
- At 10:28pm on July 12, 2009,
Jonas Ingstrup said… - Congratz on becoming Newbie of the week :)
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Am i living in a democracy?
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 12:42am 14 Comments 3 Likes
This question might be hard to find an answer to, so i made a checklist, and did a thorough (it's a bit of a stretch of the word) analysis of my environment, and the state. I did this to see, if the people that's been making the laws, can be said to be true representations of the people.
- Does the taxation law reflect the average Lars (since this is Norway, i'll swap Joe with Lars)? Check. It's ok to put taxation on income, but stay away from my property. Rich people like to…
Weekly challenge pt. 4 and "Das Kapital"
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:55pm 0 Comments 1 Like
my last weeks challenge was to read Karl Marx' - Das Kapital. Which i did, two hours on overtime, but that's close enough. I'll make a small summary here.
The main thing he talked about, was how the capitalists made a profit by having the workers work "for free". By this he means that per example, a weaver have to work for six hours to make enough produce to cover the price of her own salary. Then the capitalists profit comes from the hours the weaver work beyond those six…
Continue Weekly Challence pt. 3
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:44am 1 Comment 4 Likes
Before new years, i solemnly swore to read faster than 500 words per minute. I did do this, and it has been the sparkle of a little revolution of habits. I've been chewing up newspaper like sweetrolls, and it feels great.
For next week, i'm gonna combine the speed reading, with two other interests, economics, and dead, bearded economists. So i'm going to pwn through the thousand pages of Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" from here to next sunday. I'm even going to remember some of it.
Christmas for Christians
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:49am 1 Comment 3 Likes
As Christmas now is over us, there also follows in it`s wake the Christians claiming some sort of copyright on Christmas. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus and that is what you should tell yourselves and your children when they ask why we celebrate now.
If you are one of those, you may shove it up... somewhere.
Getting sort of tired of hearing these whiners. Our national television broadcaster decided this year that the TV-calendar would not show religious…
Continue weekly challenge pt. 2
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:15pm 0 Comments 1 Like
new week, new challenges.
Last weeks challenges was to cut down on cigarettes and coffee. Got cigarettes below ten per day, and coffee from an awe inspiring about two liters on average to something more like two cups.
this week i`ll get back to my speed reading again. I did focus on it heavily earlier this year for a week. But since then i`ve only been maintaining, not really improving, so i`ll do something about that. For now i`m reading around 350 words per minute. Gonna try…
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Condemning others to validate ourselves.
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The ethical implications of "Temporal Isolation"
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Lexical argumentation and its merit
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Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Cognitive dissonance. One of the most irritating human traits."
Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Absolutely, I completely agree. The only way to solve the problem is to eliminate the cause.
Exactly, the shooter gains worldwide fame over night. Why would a resentful, friendless, lonely, insane young man who wanted to leave an impression on the…"
Aya replied to Aya's discussion The ethical implications of "Temporal Isolation""From the last three lines of your post, I'm assuming you are applying the "better safe than sorry" mentality to life-rights over all of time. This addresses points 3) and 5) of my post on Wed 5/15, but does not address points 1),…"
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Anthony D replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."An issue in the context of your reply is the so-called "mad/bad debate". And it very much plays into the perception of these rather extreme forms of criminal behavior.
From a legal and forensic psychological standpoint a…"
Lore replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Interesting. I think that just being aware that our behavior is not always justified and taking on some personal responsibility can go a long way."
Lore replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Maybe I take empathy and attempting to understand such actions by people to the extreme, but I think it is important to understand the causes of such behavior. You do bring up a good point about school shootings Nathaniel, in that the media makes…"
Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."I agree with the principle to an extent. However, in the case of school shooters, I don't think it can be justified. Same with rape. There's definitely a line, but like you said, those are the most extreme cases.
On the topic of mass…"
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