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Any more guesses? Here's my take: Religion is basically ideology. Ideologies can be collectivist or individualist. What I mean is, the same ideology can be a means to homogenize and control others or it can be something a person has accepted by their own judgement which gives them a sense of purpose or fulfillment. No one can ultimately prove their ideology, there is a certain measure of faith in almost every abstract thing that you believe.

The world will kick you regardless, right in the figs.

Regime change is nothing new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act

I see the 'wiped from the map' quote is still making the rounds. This is a mistranslation. Here's the literal translation: Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from).

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Moon, really... The whole time theNectarofGods.com was actually up you never peeked? Yes indeed I do. Gulden Draak is perfection in a glass You know, I did, quite a while ago. It had completely slipped my mind until you just mentioned it.

You like Belgian style beers, I take it?

I share a novelty affinity for the Morrigan.

The burden of proof is hers, not yours.

The Bell Curve, eh? This may be accurate for a fixed and standardized system, which then makes it seem to me like circular reasoning. A statistical quantification of something like the human mind will always be subjective.

It's brewed with green raisins and beet sugar!

I stopped by the local liquor store to see if I might find some Chateau Jiahu, to no avail. Not all was lost, since they did have some Raison D'Etre. I really enjoy adventurous brews like this, especially when one spirituous coppery glass can make me all warm and fuzzy.

Thats one of the best pictures I've seen in a long time. If you ask me, you're waking up to some of the intolerable truths that exist. Many people decide to avoid them, for good reason, but some people don't.

School is the system's method of creating employees and consumers (as opposed to entrepreneurs and independent producers) The schools we have are the schools that are required. Most 'classical' means of learning have been removed to make way for a scientifically designed method and environment. You can't measure rhetoric with standardized tests. If you want a return to classical subjects and methods, you're not going to get it in the Department of Education, unless perhaps in selective AP classes and in very watered down form. To recite one of my favorite quotes again: The economy we have right now is solidly based on this. If you give every child a liberal education, you lose efficiency and the ability to centrally manage a large group of people. If you keep digging into this you will ultimately have to decide whether you think the current order should be maintained and your level of comfort within it, or whether it should be completely dismantled and be forced to confront considerable inconveniences. This sort of thing will truly only cause problems, are they the kind of problems you want?

That is pretty close! However, I usually get the same result as Ursus in personality tests, at least when I consider my myself overall while answering. Maybe this is more like me when I'm behaving extrovertly, which is only among friends.

I already know how my result.

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The ABC interview: I like how former CFR member George interrupts and tells him outright with a smirk that he is not going to win. Too bad most TV watchers can't pick up on the subtle meaning of this.

The word 'nation' was used in the statement.

All European universities are not in the same nation. Anyways, it's not my argument so I'm butting out, I just thought I should point out a misunderstanding as I see it.

I see some misunderstanding here. MPC is saying that 'US university-based research generates more scientific publications and garners more Nobel prizes than any other nation by a very large margin,' not that 'the research labs of US universities are better.' One is an easily verified fact, the other is a subjective opinion. Let's not turn this into a 'no, you're not better than us' discussion. 'Better' and 'best' were not even uttered. MPCs rankings post is a response to the unreferenced claim made by Bryaxis Hecatee about the 'best' universities. If you want to dispute some of the information referenced here, use referenced information to do it.

I think a more appropriate statement would be, why do neo-conservative Republicans bother. Ron Paul is essentially libertarian/classical liberal (a political stance which I think is widely misunderstood, due to a two-party mindset). He's running Republican because its nearly impossible to get on all the ballots as a 3rd party candidate, unless you are extremely wealthy. Perhaps because modern Democrats tend to be socialist and modern Republicans tend to be corporatist. Did you know that Bill Clinton set the stage for regime change in Iraq? Actually, in following Ron Paul's progress, I've seen unusual online support for him from Canada, Australia and Europe.

Haha, I can't argue with that.

The research universities in the U.S. typically are German model (Humboldtian) universities. I don't think the differences are necessarily in the model.

I'm just happy to see a growing interest in what he represents along with the resulting competition of ideas.