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- Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:43 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Liverpool
- Replies: 0
- Views: 33354
Liverpool
Football Club. I may do it alone here, but for the first time in what seems an age, I can wax lyrical about the team whose every heart-beat is in synchronicity with my own. And that's football,. as in soccer. No snide comments from this side of the Herring Pond; "soccer" has been in use he...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:01 am
- Forum: Arda Reconstructed
- Topic: Reviews
- Replies: 160
- Views: 294303
I have been slowly (possibly slower than any book that I have ever read before) working my way through Douglas Kane's work, and I have to admit I am thoroughly fascinated by it. The scholarship involved is meticulous, and admirable for that. Hats off! :) Yet as I progress through this book (this enj...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:42 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20425
Henry Ford was an expert at artificially simplifying the complex, and reducing the world to gears and predictability. History isn't bunk. History is evidence of a restless race - constantly, imperfectly, peacefully and murderously, seeking higher ground. The Fir-Bolg are always there, but to our cr...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:24 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: United Nations versus The Vatican
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7289
I have a slightly askance view of what is transpiring here. The UN is challenging a power base that is distinct from its auspices. The RCC has its own laws, own rules, own rationale; all distinct from the UN, which is this paragon of probity and virtue... OK, sarcasm is most likely unwarranted, but ...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:57 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20425
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:05 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20425
Ethical relativism may well be a steep and dangerous slope, but ethical absolutism does not enjoy any particular position of authority. :) x kills a man y kills 2 men. Is y twice the criminal of x? I think the single most criminal act of WWII was the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki.* The bombadier on th...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:51 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20425
Without making any specific comment on the rights or wrongs of this event, I wonder why there is this discomfort with historical revisionism. I am not a historian, but even from my lay perspective, I am aware that if I read a history book from the nineteenth century, and read a text that covers the ...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:57 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Galadriel: telepathy or memory?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13667
But there is also this: `Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal,' she answered, `and to some I can show what they desire to see So I really don't think that it is a stretch to suppose that she could see what is going on in Ithilien by commanding the Mirror to reveal what is happening with F...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:09 am
- Forum: Arda Reconstructed
- Topic: Edits to female characters
- Replies: 131
- Views: 220039
A quick aside: it is entirely possible for an author or editor to do any number of things systematically *and* unconsciously. Any number of times I have looked back at my own work and noticed glaringly obvious trends I was oblivious to while writing and revising. The result can be more revealing th...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:19 am
- Forum: Arda Reconstructed
- Topic: Edits to female characters
- Replies: 131
- Views: 220039
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: Arda Reconstructed
- Topic: Edits to female characters
- Replies: 131
- Views: 220039
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:22 am
- Forum: Arda Reconstructed
- Topic: Edits to female characters
- Replies: 131
- Views: 220039
- Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 984863
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:14 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
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- Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:03 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 984863