Posts by Rich Lock
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those Ancient Greeks and those slightly less Ancient Romans had no word for art
Just like certain native groups having no word for snow?
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be warned, you will get an instant response from the offices of John Key, Gerry Brownlee, Kate Wilkinson and Nick Smith.
Sounds like one of those fun euphemisms the US military is fond of, like 'terminated with extreme prejudice', or 'collateral damage'.
"We received a complaint from your sister about the national park mining, ma'am. Our instant response unfortunately led to her becoming collateral damage after we terminated her ability to complain with extreme prejudice."
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those benefit changes are horrific, snuck in like that.
Someone needs to tell them that bashing single mums is about as cool these days as legwarmers, backcombed hair and suit jackets with the sleeves pushed up.
Sooner we get through this 1980's retro shite and on to the '90's, the better.
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I'm aware of the way extraction industries have unwritten the prosperity of our neighbours across the Tasman
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
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Paul, it does seem that your definition of 'discovering' art is a bit like how all those explorers back in colonial times went off and 'discovered' new countries, completely ignoring or conveniently overlooking any indigenous peoples who happened to have been living there for quite a while, who were usually a bit surprised to be told that up until now they hadn't actually existed.
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OK, I can dig that. In which case it would seem like it would actually be a fairly straightforward job to show that fascism is objectively wrong.
Either way, I'm agin it, just so as we're clear on that.
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Do you think I'll ever get this thread back on topic?
I love black pudding, me.
I also found out recently that our local butcher does haggis. It's offally nice
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it seems that Fran really wrote that!
Could have been one of those outsourced work-experience subeds, to be fair...
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Black-or-whiters being absolutist about relativism is mighty tedious many decades after the death of unchallenged modernism. Considerably more sophistication (and humanity) shown elsewhere here than either end of that old spectrum.
There's an implication here I've been chewing over. You seem to be suggesting that only by taking an absolutist position on, say, moral matters can we act with more humanity.
That's uncomfortably close to the position taken by some religious fundamentalists, who state that only by having a belief in god can we know right from wrong, and that if we don't believe, we'll inevitably slide into some sort of anarchic devil-worshipping, blood-drinking, 'do what thou wilt'-style of society.
Not that there's anything wrong with drinking the blood of virgin sacrifices by the light of the full moon... I mean, who am I to judge?
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But (as you admit) the fastest car in the context given is.
Serious question: can something really be called an objective fact when you've had to define it by hedging it around with a whole bunch of subjective/arbitrary rules and definitions?