Parts: discarded photo enlarger, 8 X 21 mm binocular, some pieces of scrap wood, Optional: some discarded camera lenses, piece of aluminum sheet. Costs: 15 - 20 E / $
- Ken Morley
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I'm already anticipating this is going to be a very frustrating read. Several reviews I've read describe the author as "irritating" and "arrogant" and his arguments as "insulting in their generalizations". But one must get both sides of the story. :P
- Ken Morley
"Free market globalization would be amazing if governments got out of the way and people got their shit together and started acting like proper econs." There you go. One side covered :)
- Eivind
So how are people in Turkey learning about the protests? Mostly through social media. "Revolution will not be televised; it will be tweeted," reads a popular Istanbul graffiti scrawl. According to an analysis by NYU's Social Media and Political Participation Lab, the Twitter hashtag #direngezipark had been used in more than 1.8 million tweets as of this morning
- Ken Morley
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When did it become possible to be moderately Islamist? I thought that term was mostly used about fundamentalism/militarism?
- Eivind
When I build my evil wizard tower, it's going to look like this!
- Ken Morley
"The balance of power had shifted rapidly towards Christianity during Augustine's lifetime, and at the end of it Christians were on the whole more likely to be busy suppressing the views of their critics than to be suppressed themselves. In around ad 448..."
"In around ad 448, an anti-Christian polemic written by Porphyry was publicly burned. Many other pagan philosophers had written criticisms of Christian ideas, but not one of these works has survived intact from its trial of refutation by fire. The censored pagan philosophers of this period even have their own martyr in the form of Hypatia of Alexandria, who was tortured and killed by a Christian mob in ad 415. It seems that in medieval times, Hypatia's shocking story was regarded as too good to waste on a pagan, so elements of this embarrassing tale were recycled in the Christian myth of St Catherine of Alexandria. This lady was said to have been martyred after refuting fifty pagan philosophers who were sent to argue her out of her faith in a sort of dialectic joust. She seems to have been a fictitious mixture of Hypatia and unknown Christians. In medieval times, St Catherine used to be the patron saint of philosophers, but she later had her sainthood revoked on the grounds of non-existence."
- Ken Morley