Forum: Film, TV & Performing Arts
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Replies: 2
Views: 115
Re: The Kingdom: Riget
Yes, I saw it and liked it very much. It's not grotesque in the least, but rather darkly amusing and strangely poignant and charming.
The over-the-top caricatures of Danes and Swedes were simply...
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Forum: Modern Age & Contemporary History
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Replies: 161
Views: 10,055
Re: Remembering Dresden, 13 February 1945
I just realized the following two links may be of interest: the original, 1995 edition (http://anonym.to/?http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Dresden/Dresden_1995.pdf) of Irving's Apocalypse 1945: The...
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Forum: Modern Age & Contemporary History
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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Replies: 161
Views: 10,055
Re: Remembering Dresden, 13 February 1945
Irving does quote Goebbels as citing in his diaries a figure of "300,000 women, children and defenceless civilians". He also quotes two German generals who mentioned in private conversation the...
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Forum: Literature & Book Reviews
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
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Replies: 482
Views: 15,522
Re: Quotes, Poems and different Statements
Immortality
George William Russell
We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto...
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Forum: Visual Arts
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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Replies: 273
Views: 29,516
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Forum: Literature & Book Reviews
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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Replies: 482
Views: 15,522
Re: Quotes, Poems and different Statements
The Nuts of Knowledge
George William Russell
I thought, beloved, to have brought to you
A gift of quietness and ease and peace,
Cooling your brow as with the mystic dew
Dropping from twilight...
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Forum: Literature & Book Reviews
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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Replies: 482
Views: 15,522
Re: Quotes, Poems and different Statements
Parting at Morning
Robert Browning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.
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Forum: Articles & Current Affairs
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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Replies: 11
Views: 249
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Forum: Help & Suggestions
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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Replies: 8
Views: 322
Re: What Happen to my Thread?
As the moderator who moved your thread out of public view, please allow me to briefly add my own comments to Thorburn's eloquent remarks, with which I heartily concur.
Lately Skadi has experienced a...
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Forum: Help & Suggestions
Friday, December 8th, 2006
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Replies: 1
Views: 189
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Forum: Visual Arts
Friday, December 8th, 2006
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Replies: 0
Views: 447
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Forum: Politics
Friday, December 8th, 2006
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,492
Re: Moral Politics Test
My impression was that leaving these terms undefined was part of the test strategy. For example, moral conservatives are more likely to believe that people are "bad", while liberals are more likely...
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Forum: Music & Hymns
Friday, December 8th, 2006
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Replies: 13,734
Views: 231,283
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Forum: Music & Hymns
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
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Replies: 13,734
Views: 231,283
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Forum: The Lounge
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
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Replies: 32
Views: 986
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Forum: Music & Hymns
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 13,734
Views: 231,283
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Forum: Modern
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,240
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Forum: Philosophy
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,316
Re: Why Do Philosophy?
Summarizing both the philosopher's task and the philosopher's reward, Plato says:
-Via Heidegger in his speech on the occasion of Husserl's 70th birthday, 8 April 1929, from Plato's (possibly...
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Forum: Literature & Book Reviews
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 1,336
Views: 31,650
Re: Currently reading
Alain Badiou - Polemics
Essays on the relationships between language, judgment and propaganda in contemporary political discourse by the noted French political philosopher.
Slavoj Žižek -...
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Forum: Help & Suggestions
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 14
Views: 551
Re: Profile>Country
Historically, both then and now, the Turks are the invaders and decimators of Europe. They cannot be considered European by any standard other than conquest.
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Forum: The Lounge
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Replies: 678
Views: 31,685
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Forum: Men, Women, Relationships & Gender Roles
Friday, August 4th, 2006
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,392
Re: Thicker Women
Same here. Svelte, lissome, slimmer types are my ideal. :thumbup
Katherine Heigl is not unattractive, but she'd be much more attractive to me if she lost rather than gained a few kilos. :)
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Forum: Farewells & Absences
Friday, August 4th, 2006
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Replies: 24
Views: 707
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Forum: Modern Age & Contemporary History
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
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Replies: 7
Views: 604
Re: AW: Hitler's intelligent sarcastic humour
Among other things, by introducing a truncated version of the speech with this voiceover, in English:
The intention of this statement, as I saw it, was to portray Hitler as nothing more than a...
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Forum: Music & Hymns
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
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Replies: 12
Views: 948
Re: Frank Rennicke
I agree it's not new, but it's still a good reminder.
Yes, I do listen to his songs from time to time. They're great!
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