What books should ultimately be saved

[IamNoah]

Which has only been the most sophisticated for about the last five centuries, compared with five millennia of recorded history when that title was borne by Sumer, Egypt, China, Islamic Caliphates, the Greeks having plumbing while Anglo-Saxons were still shitting in huts, and not to mention two hundred thousand years of human existence.

I'm not a white supremacist. I'm a Eurocentrist. I think the West is best, has been for a very long time, and will be long after my poor name has been forgotten.

 

[belamyi]

Which has only been the most sophisticated for about the last five centuries, compared with five millennia of recorded history when that title was borne by Sumer, Egypt, China, Islamic Caliphates, the Greeks having plumbing while Anglo-Saxons were still shitting in huts, and not to mention two hundred thousand years of human existence.

Sumer, Egypt, China, the Islamic word and the Greek Roman Empire had the same comparatively short periods of the "sophistication" you refer to.
Apart from that, you are being very irregular and dishonest, even if out of mere ignorance, in mixing the vague denominations for greater, longer periods in other civilizations than for the late development of the Western world in the "Westphalian era" of the Western world... in fact, you are asymmetrical even in your mixing up Sumer and the Greek Roman, which are only subregions in a wider geographical and temporal espace of civilization, with the other designations of specific, well-defined, isolated espaces like "China" and "Egypt".

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Nor can one understand the Australian university starving.

Our nation is $326,552 million in debt.

The universities are importing people from other countries to keep themselves solvent. These people need the extra coffee rooms in libraries to drink coffee, socialise and have naps on the university library sofas.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Man if you are referring to me, step the fuck off.... you don't know shit about me ...

We know you're a Trotskyist Fanboy.

 

[belamyi]

We know you're a Trotskyist Fanboy.

It is not about what he "is" or may be or not be: the plain fact is that he SAID that it was a bad rule blablah but. ... he put all the emphasis, not on that, but on the consequences of it being not THAT bad.

Something which is recognized as wrong can produce "lesser" like humungous bad consequences, so he and their kind will just wait until discrimination against gays goes from mere interdiction of any innocuous posting of a kid's pic to anything related to the daily, normal activity of someone who is gay.

 

[otters]

Our nation is $326,552 million in debt.

The universities are importing people from other countries to keep themselves solvent. These people need the extra coffee rooms in libraries to drink coffee, socialise and have naps on the university library sofas.

From: EF@conservative.au
To: UV@conservative.au

A plan for recovery of the economy.

(1) All residents of the Commonwealth of Australia that do not have children are guilty of severe anti-conservative selfishness.
(2) They must be considerably more heavily taxed.
(3) Who tries to dodge taxes must suffer (we send them to Bali, you know ^_^ best greetings from Joko btw);
(4) In the case of aforementioned suffering, their property reverts to the Commonwealth of Australia.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Fair enough. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

 

[Alnitak]

^ Fair enough. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The problem with socialism is incentive.

 

[otters]

^ Fair enough. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

In how far "other" people['s money]? All residents are subject to the taxation, not just "the others".

 

[pat grimshaw]

In how far "other" people['s money]? All residents are subject to the taxation, not just "the others".

I live in a Welfare State where 40% of us sponge on the remainder.

 

[otters]

The problem with socialism is incentive.

Solution: You'll be a photo model for the election posters

 

[belamyi]

....

 

[otters]

I live in a Welfare State where 40% of us sponge on the remainder.

LOL ! In my country, one is PROUD when one has to pay more than 50% income tax.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ are you saying that you donate 50% of your income to others?

 

[Alnitak]

I live in a Welfare State where 40% of us sponge on the remainder.

Keeping things in perspective, the 40% of you probably constitute a percent of the country's wealth.

 

[otters]

^ are you saying that you donate 50% of your income to others?

T-a-x-e-s, t-a-x-e-s, t-a-x-e-s, and t-a-x-e-s was his name-o!

 

[pat grimshaw]

Keeping things in perspective, the 40% of you probably constitute a percent of the country's wealth.

Yes, I suppose. They go to shops and CONSUME.

 

[pat grimshaw]

LOL ! In my country, one is PROUD when one has to pay more than 50% income tax.

I suspect you have a better standard of welfare recipients in your country than the lazy spongers in Britain and my country.

 

[Alnitak]

T-a-x-e-s, t-a-x-e-s, t-a-x-e-s, and t-a-x-e-s was his name-o!

Ugh. The cost of living in society. Just ask Dick Proenneke.

 

[Alnitak]

Yes, I suppose. They go to shops and CONSUME.

Thereby padding investment portfolios. Money goes round, so does the world.