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Re: The Last Word I've heard of the Cardigans, but not the others.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Death Tribble is going to the Houses of Parliament. HA HA HA HA. With "V" Bwhaahaahaa (actually I wish him well.)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Spicks & Specks TV Music Quiz Show/light entertainment

Re: The Last Word And Europe (band) and Roxette, and The 'Dancing' Queen. Missing anyone?

Re: The Last Word There, there, the mean lady didn't mean to insult your country. There is always Volvo.

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Re: The Last Word Fans of ABBA, Swedes etc I can't believe I justifying a throway line/post

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Re: The Last Word Love those spoken lyrics. Gloom was ne'er so beautiful.

Re: The Last Word How many more throwaway posts do I need to come up with? More I guess.

Re: The Last Word Nothing like a bit of ABBA to get you all revved up. Pop music, whoo.

Re: The Last Word The same dear friend is in a bit of a funk, that makes me sad.

Re: The Last Word If 666 is the number of the beast, sign me up for the 144000. Yes 144000 is a perfect number.

Re: The Last Word 10 sleeps until a dear friends wedding. Yes, I'm counting in sleeps.

Re: The Last Word It humours me that my post is the one that started page 666, and me originating the thread. Thanks to all who have posted.

Re: The Last Word Australians and those without TVs don't care.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Prompted by Zornwil, although I've been thinking about this the last few days. ------------------------------ Is science the be all and end all of human knowledge? It seems that way most of the time, but some of the greatest contributions to the Occident have been from theories, not maths-science. To me both theories, eg philosophical theories, as opposed to writing reality into the language of mathematics, complement each other for the betterment of Occidental society and cultural extelligence rather than the opposite. Maths-science has dominated the last few centuries and giving credit where it is due has led to the enormous increase in the standard of living. But why stop here, I fear that science as tool maybe leading us astray if it doesn't receive help from philosophy. Contrasting these two approaches philosophical theories with math-science, the figureheads I've chosen are Giordano Bruno and Issac Newton. One was a philosopher who was without the aid of mathematics and experimentation and the other used maths and experimentation to invent calculus, devise the 3 Laws of Motion, 'invent' gravity, and his book on opitics is well acknowledged. It was suggested by Ramon Mendoza PhD, that Bruno answered these questions: Is the universe finite or infinite?; Is the human mind interrelated ?; Is there one or countless universes?; and is there life on other planets? Furthermore, Mendoza asserts that Bruno was the true founder of modern cosmology whose writings included sub-atomic particles what Bruno called 'minima' to the acentric labyrinth of the cosmos. Quoting Mendoza: "Also Einstein question whether God had any choice in creating the universe had already been asked by Bruno...and answered negatively!" Bruno accomplished these things, and much much more 400 years ago...if only we listened! Mendoza quotes Bruno: "If Copernicus is the dawn, then I am the sun of the New Era". (Yes I'm an unashamed Bruno fan, if it wasn't obvious, he is my favourite philosopher.) To be fair, Mendoza has his critics, but I'm unfamiliar with them and this is beyond the scope of my point: The uniting of philosophical theory with maths-science would catapult the Occident to a level that would seem unimaginable as a jet airline would be to a peasant living during the time of da Vinci and Michelangelo. Whether it be dialogue, a treatise, enquiry or a critique, philosophical theory still has a lot to contribute to Occidental shrine to Sophia. Science may constantly leave her flowers but philosophy built her shine to begin with.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? O' Parvardigar performed by Pete Townshend, written by Meher Baba (The 'Baba' of Baba O'reily)

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Re: The Last Word The thing is, I could be like him and write long winded essays if I managed to put my thoughts on paper. I rarely do but it doesn't stop me musing about topics. And then invariably I'll have to source my essays/musings so people could see I'm not making this stuff up. So I empathise with him. edit: see a recent musing for an example...if you dare.

Re: The Last Word I never got that impression, and I read through (well the start of) a number of his posts. He was passionate about politics and wrote essays to defend his points. He also likes Noam Chomsky and quoted him a lot. My impression, rightly or wrongly, was that he felt that the rest of the boards was against him, politically speaking which I'm sure contributed to his epic posts/essays.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Newton may have been the last 'Renaissance Man' and according to author Michael White, The Last Sorcerer.