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Old April 19th, 2012, 04:23 AM   #101

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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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Old April 19th, 2012, 04:25 AM   #102

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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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Old April 22nd, 2012, 08:52 PM   #103
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Might be a weird hodgepod of people
Jesus
Malcolm X
Ivan Van Sertima
Ron Paul
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Old April 23rd, 2012, 02:58 AM   #104

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I am looking into the life of Thomas Muir of Huntershill
Thomas Muir of Huntershill
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Old April 23rd, 2012, 05:43 AM   #105

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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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Old April 23rd, 2012, 05:55 AM   #106

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for me, especially in the field of theology and philosophy:

Jesus
St Paul
Dante Alighieri
Thomas Aquinas
Cicero
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Old January 29th, 2013, 05:11 AM   #107

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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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Old January 29th, 2013, 10:50 AM   #108
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Without a doubt the late William F. Buckely, Jr. I read him and watch "Firing Line" on TV.

Big surprize, huh?

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Old January 29th, 2013, 11:03 AM   #109

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Aristippus of Cyrene
Yang Zhu
Vlad Tepes
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Old January 29th, 2013, 11:26 AM   #110

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Plato
F. Nietzsche
Julian the Great
Arthur C. Clarke
Iulius Caesar
Niccolo Machiavelli
Diocletian
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