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Okay, I will change my hypothesis: The main causes of war are online forums... what do ya think, all?? 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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Okay, I will change my hypothesis: The main causes of war are online forums... what do ya think, all?? You're trying to steal NWP's hypothesis!!! This means WAR!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I loved that portmanteau, "hypothecary." Gonna steal that.
Yes, I think if we were more judicious in our use of words, many conflicts could be avoided. I learned this as a small-framed child walking to and from school who was always faster with his mouth than effective with his fists. Biting words are so much less useful in self-defense. Never use a bark when a bite is called for, and running is great exercise, if you wish to be alone.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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"Obliterating face and hands
The dumb-bell guns of violence
Show up our godhead for a sham.
Against the armour of the storm
I'll hold my human barrier,
Maintain my fragile irony.
I've walked this brazen, clanging path
In flesh's brittle arrogance
To chance the simple hazard, death.
Regretting only this, my rash
Ambitious wish in verse to write
A true and valued testament.
Let my words knit what now we lack
The demon and the heritage
And fancy strapped to logic's rock.
A chastened wantonness, a bit
That sets on song a discipline,
A sensuous austerity."
Hamish Henderson
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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A question, noomie - what do you think are the "unintended consequences" referred to in the article title? It seems to me that all of the consequences are, if not intended, at least generally predictable. I don't reckon why noomie dodging this question... it's serious and directly relevant to his topic.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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"There are many dead in the brutish desert,
who lie uneasy
among the scrub in this landscape of half-wit
stunted ill-will. For the dead land is insatiate
and necrophilous. The sand is blowing about still."
Hamish Henderson
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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A question, noomie - what do you think are the "unintended consequences" referred to in the article title? It seems to me that all of the consequences are, if not intended, at least generally predictable. If you look at my record, almost always I am forced to make side comments in order to correct errors and false statements of others who have already sidetracked the threads. I don't reckon why noomie dodging this question... it's serious and directly relevant to his topic. He's been complaining that others always do the sidetracking and he does the bringin' back... I'm startin' to think I can't trust what noomie sez?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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"But still, in utter silence, from bas-relief and painted tomb
this civilization asserts
its stylised timeless effrontery.
Synthesis is implicit
in Rilke's single column, (die eine)
denying fate, the stone mask of Vollendung.
(Deaf to tarbushed dragoman
who deep-throatedly extols it.)"
Hamish Henderson
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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A question, noomie - what do you think are the "unintended consequences" referred to in the article title? It seems to me that all of the consequences are, if not intended, at least generally predictable. If you look at my record, almost always I am forced to make side comments in order to correct errors and false statements of others who have already sidetracked the threads. , I'm here for ya! Let's bring your thread back onto the topic!  (mebbe you can have a pm with your BFF, he's off on a weird poetry jag...)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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= Unintended Consequences of Military Intervention hmmm ... if i take perhaps the fundamentalist position, then we have the consequences would be the result of precisely what God intended ... ergo there are no UNintended consequences and all is well whew ... the obviousness of that is overwhelming case closed
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
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