More Gems For the Fish Tank :)

After 9 - 11 way way back in the distant mists of 2001, I emailed this to someone who asked me what they thought would happen next -
"Bush will probably bomb what's left of Afghanistan. 
This will obviously achieve nothing whatsoever."


It is now 2011.
Hmm......

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‎"Autour de la lecture de Jacques Lacan" par Citoyen Canapé.




"Franchement, je préfère la lecture de l'annuaire téléphonique.
Il y a une lucidité supérieure."

FIN. :D

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Lacan = Freud.... Et.. on sait mon "chanson" quant a` Fraud...:D

Lacan est un "Mubarak" de la vie intellectuelle franc,aise.... :)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_lacan.html


*RESTS VERY OVERWHELMING CASE*

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Lacan is "..an amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatan."

(attributed to) Noam Chomsky.

E. F. SCHUMACHER!

Comment engendered by listening to "In Our Time" on Maimonides

Maimonides's major work was called "A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED".
This title is shared with one of the works of one of our greatest recent Philosophers.

FOR SOME REASON THAT I WILL NEVER EVER UNDERSTAND - no one seems to talk about this thinker -
the German of Oxford - E. F. SCHUMACHER.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

He is very relevant to many issues around now as well.

He was certainly a Green thinker and a spiritual thinker.

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July 2011.

I was very pleased that there was recently a Radio 4 program concerning this great philosopher.

I was not entirely happy with the way his views seem to have been portrayed.

Once again I feel drawn towards the conclusion or the sensation of the sheer futility of language.
Why did he bother to write his books?
Can people understand language of any kind?

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+7,211 "recs" for this post!!!

Thanks / Danke scho:n / Shookraan !

If I was Prime Minister.....

If I was Prime Minister of Italy I would build an 18-year old Belly Dancer Training School. 
And then live in it.


:) :D

"Work Shy"

‎"Work Shy" -

WHO INVENTED THIS PIECE OF LANGUAGE???
LET ME SEE??? HMM..... GERMAN BLOKE ...
PENCIL MOUSTACHE...ER....ER....

It was just used IN SERIOUSNESS on EBC News - so ONLY TO BE EXPECTED THEN....er....er... :D

The things is - NOT ONLY was this piece of language probably inaugurated by the Nazis - it is ALSO - meaningless and offensive.

Some Comments on the "Big Society".

Never once has Camoron acknowledged that Thatcher said - in full seriousness - "there is no such thing as society".

Another kind of "Big Society"

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

This was another kind of "Big Society" of a kind was it not?

They put us to shame frankly.


The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
(Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.)........


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Still! With so many thousands and thousands of monks and nuns the "unemployment" figures - which of course did not exist - must have been ridiculously HIGH/LOW....

AV is the wrong system. And FPTP is NOT a system.

Calling "FPTP" a "system" is an INSULT to the term "system" - that is what ANYONE NORMAL would be screaming to the English people every second of the day.

AV is the wrong system. And FPTP is NOT a system.

UNDER "FPTP" - IF you vote for someone other than the winning candidate in your seat - your vote COUNTS FOR NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

BASICALLY it is COMPARABLE to a night at the dogs. But with speeches.

Demolition

A degree has nothing whatsoever to do with getting a job or gaining anyone wealth.

This simple and obvious fact in itself DEMOLISHES everything the present government says about higher education.

Stop the destruction of the NHS.

Oppose the Coalition’s plans for mass privatisation of the NHS via the Health and Social Care Bill!

If doctors oppose the Health and Social Care Bill through their biggest organisation - the BMA - the plans become unworkable!

Thousands of soldiers finished the war in 1945 and voted for Labour to create a country worth the victory.

Dont let Camoron destroy it.

Think of Clare Rayner - and ask yourself if the country agreed to this?

The Tories ostensibly defended the principles of the NHS before election and are now destroying it.

What is the most communist institution in history?

What is the most communist institution in history?

The monastery.

"..the most stupendous confidence trick of the twentieth century".

Psychoanalysis is "the most stupendous confidence trick of the twentieth century."


(Peter Medawar, biologist, 1979).

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"Wir weigern uns, getäuscht werden."

Karl Kraus.

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Freedom. Spinoza

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts."


Benedict Spinoza.