Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[star-warrior]

 

[belamyi]

Hap-πie day!!!

 

[pat grimshaw]

Today I learned what a gaff is....

Are you intending to wear one?

 

[zoltanspawn]

Are you intending to wear one?

Can you think of some reason I would?

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Perhaps, you're going to one of those old-fashioned, Ziggy Stardust dress-up parties or perhaps going in that Seattle Nudie Parade.

 

[zoltanspawn]

^ Perhaps, you're going to one of those old-fashioned, Ziggy Stardust dress-up parties or perhaps going in that Seattle Nudie Parade.

I appreciate your excellent imagination.

 

[belamyi]

I appreciate your excellent imagination.

 

[zoltanspawn]

It's becoming a popular notion that Enlightenment values are finally bearing their fruit and we are entering a period of Long Peace and altruism.

Is that so?

Another John Gray essay.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...we are entering a period of Long Peace...

1. We haven't had a "World War" since 1945. We're no longer calling them "total Wars' anymore because we now use weaselly descriptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

2. I know an engineer (who's lived and worked in 5 continents) who says the death toll is reducing in each conflict.

 

[belamyi]

It's becoming a popular notion that Enlightenment values are finally bearing their fruit and we are entering a period of Long Peace and altruism.

Is that so?

Another John Gray essay.

Perceptions about the future are too often actually about the present that has come to be, so that would have been a more accurate thing to say while in the decolonization and Cold War period, talking about what we have TODAY, but TODAY we would have to say precisely the contrary of that while talking about the FUTURE.

 

[zoltanspawn]

... the death toll is reducing in each conflict.

Yes, the essay says we not declining in violence despite the reduction in battlefield deaths.

 

[belamyi]

Yes, the essay says we not declining in violence despite the reduction in battlefield deaths.

Democratization even in that: war for everybody, not just the professionals.

 

[star-warrior]

http://avery.morrow.name/blog/2013/11/dogfight-and-palindrome/

 

[belamyi]

子子子子子子子子子子子子

 

[star-warrior]

BA flight was force to land early

He said it was liquid faecal excrement. Those are the words he used

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31908620

 

[zoltanspawn]

 

[belamyi]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cancel-kanye-wests-headlining-slot/ar-BBikfX2

 

[mbamike]