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Thank you for your post, Tosh. I understand your point. However, I must confess my doubts about this method. Words have a specific meaning. So I would have thought that the best way to defuse offensive comments is to withdraw them with a "sorry".

Anyway, sorry for the interruption.

Perhaps, I don't have a sense of humour. But I find this thread childish and silly. Have some of you considered that Jn might not find it funny? She has been working her ass off for months to draft the organization documents of this board, and to solve issues arising out thereof. She has been patien...

Beautiful post Athrabeth. Beautifully written (as usual).

Yes, water is where Tolkien's imagination dwells.

Perhaps Jacques Chirac? He will have some spare time after 2007.

Very confusing. Perhaps the impeachment procedure was a disguised attack by old and jealous guitar heros and goat singers against sax players ? Hey, Kenneth Starr, that sounds like a guitar hero name!

Hendrix was a better guitar player than Clapton who himself is a better guitar player than Page. However, Page is the best composer of the lot. As for Robert Plant, he had his moments (today, however, he sings like a goat).

Also, I like Clinton. The impeachment procedure was a shame.

Iavas_Saar wrote:

The earliest rumours after a major incident are usually the ones that have the most truth to them,

It is so obviously the contrary.

...or trying to find a job, as I believe that France will slowly reform its employment market and render it more flexible. I would like to add a caveat that applies to everything I've been saying in this thread: this is just my opinion, as expressed in a rough manner and without thinking on this dif...

Job security is indeed very good in France when you are an employee or a civil servant. You cannot fire someone without an actual and serious cause, unless it is for economic reasons. The redundancy process is cumbersome for employers. And finally, when you have been fired, you continue being paid f...

vison, you are not picking on the French. You are being realistic. :) The difficulty in legislating against discrimination based on "ethnicity" is that such discrimination is very, very difficult to prove, especially when a company is hiring people. France's anti-discrimination rules are a...

Ax>>>I may steal that for a sig. Go ahead. :) Eborr>>>The are especially afraid of their womenfolk being developing realtionships amongst non-muslims. Unfortunately this is a behaviour that seems to prevail amongst the less educated muslim parents - the more educated - dare I say it westernised seem...

These events are not linked at all to muslim extremists, or to muslim philosophy, whatever that is. They are linked to economical and cultural issues. They are spontaneous riots that arose out of the despair of these youths. However, these events could afterwards lead some young muslims to turn to m...

I hope that these riots will make the French governments realize that affirmative actions are necessary in France in order to integrate minorities into our society, and in order to fight against discriminations. The so-called French "republican" model where all French are equal as soon as ...

French television also reported yesterday that chemical weapons were apparently used at Fallujah by US soldiers. Two former US soldiers were interviewed, who confirmed such use. Then they showed horrible images of dead bodies discovered in Fallujah after the US attacks (by two irakis doctors who fil...

That's a very good trailer. Looking forward to this.

Beautiful post, Di.

Is LOTR a dark story? No, IMO. It looks at darkness sometimes, but as we would expect from a lucid mind, and always with the light on our side (Cerin ), even when despair temporarily seizes the hearts. For me too Lorien is a restful place. And joy too can break a heart.

Jn, these are old memories of what I had understand of Phenomenology of Spirit (this is the hardest book I have ever read; a real pain, and perhaps not worth it, seeing how little I remember from it) and Introduction to the Philosophy of History. >>>the concept of self-abstraction or self-alienation...

Hey Faramond, >>>You say that when one has lived as a Saint, one cannot live as a Man afterward. Well, why? It seems right, and yet you gave a perhaps mild counter-example in the same post with the example of Strider becoming Elessar. You are absolutly correct about Strider. There was a contradictio...

I have realised that the 9/11 cover-up extends to planting false theories in order to discredit the real ones. Those complicit in 9/11 would not just sit back and watch people working out the truth online. They would do their best to muddy the 9/11 truth movement and attempt to make 9/11 skeptics l...

Interesting, but not that surprising I guess. IIRC, the original King Kong is a pretty short and straight to the point movie (probably 90-100 minutes). PJ's version will certainly be quite different. Ditto for looking at Watts for 3 hours. She is stunning. Alas, the same cannot be said of Black and ...