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April 19th, 2012, 04:23 AM
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#101 | | Historian
Joined: May 2010 From: Rhondda Posts: 2,804 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisieis I don't think so, I would like to live on after this life, I just do not believe that I will. What one wants and what reality is, are two different things. | But without being connected to a vast computer somehow you soon wouldn't even remember who you were even, from the overload. Better to know our limitations and bow out early.
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April 19th, 2012, 04:25 AM
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#102 | | Historian
Joined: May 2010 From: Rhondda Posts: 2,804 | Quote:
Originally Posted by monsieurdl Then what is the point of conforming to social norms? Why do we do it? If there is no Supreme Being, I might as well go around taking what I need and saying to heck with others- might as well live while I have life. That to me is madness. | There is no 'I' either, surely: it is just prehistoric grammar.
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April 22nd, 2012, 08:52 PM
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#103 | | Citizen
Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 39 |
Might be a weird hodgepod of people
Jesus
Malcolm X
Ivan Van Sertima
Ron Paul
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April 23rd, 2012, 02:58 AM
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#104 | | The Good Knight
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Cumbernauld Scotland Posts: 7,107 |
I am looking into the life of Thomas Muir of Huntershill Thomas Muir of Huntershill | | |
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April 23rd, 2012, 05:43 AM
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#105 | | Misanthropologist
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Wales Posts: 8,459 |
Most directly on a day to day basis concerning histiry anyway, my various supervisors and professors have had an a immense impact.
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April 23rd, 2012, 05:55 AM
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#106 | | Lecturer
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 442 |
for me, especially in the field of theology and philosophy:
Jesus
St Paul
Dante Alighieri
Thomas Aquinas
Cicero
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January 29th, 2013, 05:11 AM
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#107 | | Archivist
Joined: Mar 2012 From: Intern's Palace Apartment ,Woodlands,Texas Posts: 222 |
The Usual Suspects...
Socrates
Epicurus
Cicero
Jesus of Nazareth
St. Francis
Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglas
Robert Ingersoll
Gandhi
George Bernard Shaw
John F. Kennedy
John Lennon
Malala
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January 29th, 2013, 10:50 AM
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#108 | | Lecturer
Joined: Dec 2012 From: Soviet of Washington Posts: 471 |
Without a doubt the late William F. Buckely, Jr. I read him and watch "Firing Line" on TV.
Big surprize, huh?
Dave W.
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January 29th, 2013, 11:03 AM
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#109 | | ...
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 24,046 |
Aristippus of Cyrene
Yang Zhu
Vlad Tepes
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January 29th, 2013, 11:26 AM
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#110 | | Lecturer
Joined: Jan 2013 From: Duchy of the Archipelago Posts: 252 |
Plato
F. Nietzsche
Julian the Great
Arthur C. Clarke
Iulius Caesar
Niccolo Machiavelli
Diocletian
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