
lavod
Seal Whisperer

Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5,456 Loc: Over the rainbow
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"Vice-regent of god upon earth"
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10/12/10 11:45 PM
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crowley addressed himself to spare at their first encounter, the salutation i'll be so brash to tongue-in-cheekily borrow for this one. Be merry o' laughing lion, and taste greedily the bounties of the gold and the silver in symbiosis with the dew and the root.
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Freedom
Pigment of your imagination

Registered: 05/26/05 Posts: 6,016 Last seen: 1 month, 21 days
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Awesome Post
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08/16/10 03:04 PM
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Quote:
Notice that the concept of truth does not make any sense in a nomadic, pre-literate society. For something to be either true or false, there must be a fixed reference, the standard against which all other things are compared. And this axiomatic way of thinking is very tricky with speech, however it flows naturally with writing, as concepts like "point of view" and permanence arrive into the picture. In a pre-literate society, there are no hard facts nor reliable evidence, only gossip and rumours.
In fact, you can see the concept of truth getting stronger and stronger as writing evolves throughout history, and you can see things like "relativism" and "subjectivity" appearing shortly after eletric media became widespread and ingrained into culture ( that is, after WWII ). The very fact that we're here discussing truth may be a direct consequence of the confusion caused by the shock between the static and the dynamic modes of perception which we all experience: notice that we're discussing whether truth is true or not.
stick around
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AlexP

Registered: 06/04/09 Posts: 2,270 Loc: Europe
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Welcome!!
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09/07/09 03:04 PM
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Got yourself a free syringe!!
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