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“Odysseus the man of mind refuses immortality because he understands that there is no mind without soul, and no soul without death. This is perhaps the deepest version of what Seth called the teleology of evil. To learn one must experience or suffer — pathei mathos. This suffering must remain hard, but knowledge of its necessity somehow transforms it. Because to be alive means to die; to be angry about the fact of death means to hate life. Seth was a lover of life, which was for him the love of learning — philosophy.”

— Michael Davis – Memorial Tribute – The Benardete Archive

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Did Trump appoint Hegseth so Hegseth would commit war crimes like an Israeli?

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The question that Europe makes me wonder—in all seriousness—is whether private discomfort or at least simplicity is, in fact, a sort of requirement for, or flipside of, great public spaces and cities. I’m kind of kidding when I say you sit on a piazza with a spritz because your apartment is tiny and it’s too hot to go indoors, but not completely kidding. And yet the observation that American suburbia is a privatization of what should ideally be public—the yard for the park, the large comfortable home for the public gathering space—is also in some sense true.

I Went To Europe And Now I'm Not So Sure About Urbanism

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Christopher Edward Nolan was born on 30 July 1970 in the Westminster district of London. His father, Brendan James Nolan (1936–2009), was a British advertising executive of Irish descent who worked as a creative director.

Christopher Nolan - Wikipedia

I like the Irish (I guess), I am part Irish Catholic myself, but holy crow the Irish seem to be at the scene of a lot of crimes. 

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The Five-Timers Club includes all people who have hosted the show at least five times.

Five-Timers Club | Saturday Night Live Wiki | Fandom

Every single person is white except for the Rock. 

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Northrop Frye lgli/Northrop Frye - Words with power being a second study of "the Bible and literature".pdf

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Candy was raised in a working-class Catholic family in Toronto, where his childhood home was at 217 Woodville Avenue.

John Candy - Wikipedia

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Bee was born in Toronto, Ontario. She attended Humberside Collegiate Institute and York Memorial Collegiate Institute.

Samantha Bee - Wikipedia

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Michaels and his two younger siblings were raised in Toronto; he graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute before attending University College at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1966.

Lorne Michaels - Wikipedia

Lorne Michaels grew up in my neighborhood. I knocked on his door in the Hamptons once when our wiffle ball went into his backyard. Mike Myers lived much farther out in the suburbs, Scarborough. 

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He grew up in Toronto's Willowdale neighbourhood with four sisters.

Harland Williams - Wikipedia

Williams was a good Norm Macdonald friend. 

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Trump was right when he said after the June 2025 war that Iran’s key facilities had been “obliterated.” There’s no pathway to a bomb now, Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric to the contrary. If Iran tries to restart its program, the U.S. and Israel will likely know it and can take appropriate action. After these months of war, it’s evident that Iran’s government is so well-penetrated by its adversaries that it will have trouble keeping secrets.

Assuming Ignatius gets this from his intel sources, it makes the decision even harder to justify. Trump just really wanted to assassinate the leadership. Given that, we should expect Trump to escalate. That's what he's doing. Trump is so Jewish that he basically can't tell the Jews no. It's a safe bet that when Trump is confronted with a choice to go Jew or not Jew, he will always go Jew.

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The book concludes with three chapters on “the elliptical path” of Thomas Mann, from un-Kantian chauvinist, aristocrat, anti-egalitarian and militarist, to a pro-democracy Kantian. It was not an easy or straightforward journey. Mann’s intellectual path requires Ameriks to chart his relation to the major philosophical figures that make up the late modern German tradition, with whom Mann was quite familiar, if never always on the mark. In the course of this story, Ameriks also judiciously and compellingly corrects misinterpretations of these figures, some of which show up in Mann’s early years. (Kant, the early Romantics, Novalis, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are discussed, as is, outside of that tradition, Whitman.) Eventually, after the first World War, the distinctly Kantian notions of dignity and equality emerge in Mann.

Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame

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“One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction. It’s something nobody believes, but we all pretend to because it makes life so much easier. My favorite example was of a Pygmy couple. Pygmy divorce involves quite literally breaking up the home: the couple tears apart their house (it’s easy - the houses are made of leaves) and once it’s down, the union is dissolved. One anthropologist was watching a long-married couple have a fight. It escalated until the wife threatened to leave, and the husband yelled something along the lines of “Fine!” and there was nothing the wife could do but start tearing down the house. She began tearing the roof off, clearly miserable. The husband looked wretched too, but at this point neither could back down without losing face and by now the whole village was watching. Finally, the husband called out the Pygmy equivalent of “You’re right, honey! The roof is dirty! It’ll look much better once we get those leaves washed!” The two of them started carrying leaves down to the river, soon with the help of the whole village, and then washed and rebuilt the whole roof. When the anthropologist later discreetly asked how often one washes the roof, everyone looked at him like he was a complete doofus.”

— Memetix: True porn clerk stories

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"Anyone can be [x]" is a polite fiction and this should always be pointed out.

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Phil Hartman was born Philip Edward Hartmann on September 24, 1948, in Brantford, Ontario. He was the fourth of eight children. The family was Catholic.

Phil Hartman - Wikipedia

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So the index runs an inadvertent filter. It bids up the businesses that retain and reinvest, which is most of what is expensive, and it leaves alone the ones that pay everything out, which is where the yield is. That is the bargain. You collect a real yield on the assets best built for the world the deficits are inviting, and you collect it precisely because the largest pool of money in the market is forbidden to bid against you. The only thing asked of you is the willingness to buy what no one is forced to buy, and to hold it on the days when no one is forced to buy it back.

Credit Bubble Stocks: You Cannot Grow an Acre

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Little in the film stings as much as the fact that Knoxville and co. have clearly lost a step. It’s a bummer that Knoxville himself is too banged up to get involved to the same degree that he once did, and though some of the new bits reflect the visionary idiocy of the crew’s finest work (Larry the robot is a brilliant addition to the cast), many of them fail to leave a mark. The Jamiroquai-inspired opening sequence, usually a glorious and expensive spectacle of “I can’t believe a Hollywood studio paid for this” stupidity, is so limp compared to the “Godzilla” intro from “Jackass Forever” that it hurt me just to watch — and not in the way I wanted it to. Knoxville has reached a point in life where he can’t imagine getting hurt, and that has naturally affected his ability to imagine getting hurt.

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Johnny Knoxville's Greatest Hits

The people who are in movies are too old. Matt Damon should be playing Nestor, not Odysseus. Johnny Knoxville’s hair is snow white and he is clearly retarded. I’m not just talking about the Harrison Ford’s and Tom Cruise’s, who should have retired a long time ago, it’s that there are no young stars. Even Chris Pratt, who might have been a good Odysseus, is 47 and Ryan Gosling is 45. Odysseus should be 35, not 55. 

Edit: It turns out Odysseus is 45 to 50 but even at that age Damon is too old. 

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Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon. He is the oldest of five children. Miller attended Saint Anne School, a Catholic elementary school.

Dennis Miller - Wikipedia