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Actually gardening and martial arts go together nicely.

Didn't some forms of Karate use trees with a certain type of bark to punch in order to build calluses?

I'm just thinking of Musashi in gardening cloths and gardening gloves, carefully picking flowers....

Basketball... is that the game where tall people run around or something?

My fiend Stuart Hayashi wrote the following on the subject: ----------------- When I pointed out to many people at once that President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and their henchmen in Congress had publicly expressed their desires to impose laws requiring young people to perform "community service,&qu...

Did you all know that in Germany, right before Hitler, there was a large "back to nature," movement by the youth? They said that humanity has too many luxuries. They were described as unkept, unbathed, and civilized. They went around protesting technology and beat on drums and such. Basica...

It it definitely a moral revolution happening, not just an economic one.

http://www.johncoxart.com/2009/02/todays_special.html

Talks about how industrialist are using the term, "going galt," as meaning cutting back because of government interviening. http://www.patriotpost.us/opinion/michelle-malkin/2009/03/04/going-galt-americas-wealth-producers-vs-wealth-redistributors-.html Another thing on this. http://www.yo...

I like your model Musashi. It is where everyone puts all the oil in the world into a big funnel, and then don't do anything about it until they see it around the rim of the spout. In truth, what would probably happen is that we'd slowly start finding less sources of oil. The price would slowly start...

Shar Tegral wrote: 4 - Send me isk for making you laugh

*Hands Shar one thousand Tolthar Bank (tm) notes.*

These are good anywhere someone will accept them!

But it is not "free market" that will get us to that point, nor is the free market the essential cause of the solution. The solution is man taking up a rational philosophy once again (which also happens to be the cause of a free market). We went from the dark ages, through the enlightenmen...

I'd also like to point out, that even if people would think long range, they would probably still stick to oil for now. Like I said, there is no shortage, and no bad effects other than some smog here and there. So if you are trying to make some type of inductive proof based on evidence.... this is a...

I have no idea how Musashi made those conclusions about what I said. Musashi, your version of an objectivist society is basically a bunch of lemming walking towards a cliff. Like I said before, if you want life to get better for you and those you love, you should advocate a rational philosophy. One ...

I'm not really answering specifics on this thread, but instead the gist of the topic. A main carrier for disease (and just plain nastiness) in towns used to be horse poo. It was unfortunate, but at the same time, we have to ask: did it make life worse in the long run. The answer is obviously "n...

That's not really a minor difference. Let's see, how do I say this... It is minor in the sense of, its off topic from the topic that I derailed this topic to become? :P What else is a contract but an agreement of terms? A contract deals with legality. An argeement doesn't have to. A contract deals ...

No. They found clusters of stuff in space and attributed it to blackholes with huge gravitational pulls pulling light and stuff into them. But they say black holes are black and that's why you can't see them. With nuetron stars, they basically saw that there were stars that had these flashing light ...

This is a very cool video on the theory of how the universe is really shaped by electricity running through plasma. It denounces all those things that have absolutely no proof and seem far-fetched like black holes, dark matter, neutron stars, etc. After watching this, those things seem alot like rat...

Petyr Baelich wrote:Hilarious! But what do they eat? How do they survive?

Well, to them, a rock is like jesus. Unfortunately they can't live up to their ideal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA

OMG, just fast-forward to the last 10 seconds for the best part, if you can't take the first half.

Personally, I found the entire thing hilarious. I left a message, "rofl, more burning trees! More humor!"

Great talk on all of BBT's core values found here.

This would be very good for anyone interested in managing and such.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDAn51D_YxY

Well, I heard this compelling argument that the world is flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc

Obviously, it's because it isn't in the Quran.

I don't think anyone has been arguing this. In a previous post, you called yourself immoral and then said it was an honest error. Morality and immorality stem from reality, not from what our individual beliefs or whims may be. and much less so after really becoming an Objectivist, and I'd like to t...

I'm actually against the use of the term, "contract," here, actually. What we are talking about is ethics, not politics. Politics only comes after ethics have been established. The topic of, "should AR come out and tell everyone that she was wrong," is not an issue of politics. S...

"When you screw up, do you not admit your mistake to yourself? Is it not contrary to your own self-esteem to do otherwise? I think so. So if you have a public contract, why wouldn't you admit the mistake publicly?" The standard of value is one own life. So you have to tell me how it is goo...

Just remember what Ayn Rand said about a reflexive non-conformist being the only worse thing that a conformist. The best way to deal with puritanical freaks is to go about your daily business and ignore them. Nothing infuriates their sense of righteousness more than knowing people are perfectly fin...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/


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