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05-04-2015, 02:33 PM
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Cynics just find the complications of life irritating, so they try to dismiss everything with four words.
'This too is bullshit.'
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05-04-2015, 05:44 PM
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Rational Anarchist
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boreas
A past master's what I am.
And, as to mythology, a cynic such yourself might argue that mythology is all that holds up any nation state. This being the case, when the mythology is destroyed, so too is the state.
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Cynicism is the hard shell we grow to protect the romantic within.
If you reread our conversation, you may notice we are basically in ageement.
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05-04-2015, 05:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donquixote99
Cynics just find the complications of life irritating, so they try to dismiss everything with four words.
'This too is bullshit.'
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Bullshit.
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05-04-2015, 09:18 PM
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Disappointing!...Seems like we were nursing intellectual notions.
Last edited by Dondilion; 05-04-2015 at 09:20 PM.
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05-05-2015, 05:21 PM
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Jigsawed
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05-05-2015, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Dondilion
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I'm liking ol' Dirty Harry more and more these days.
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05-05-2015, 07:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobabode
I'm liking ol' Dirty Harry more and more these days.
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I've always liked him. He's a tough cookie and he knows how to play the game.
Plus, the wing nuts hate him! That makes him aces in my book.
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05-07-2015, 05:14 PM
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Jigsawed
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05-07-2015, 05:31 PM
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I am aghast that Obama is using his 'fuck you I'm a lame duck' moment for this.
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05-07-2015, 05:44 PM
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I believe that the TPP will be a net plus for the USA, though it will definitely cause some displacement - creative destruction, as it were.
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