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March 27th, 2012, 08:19 PM
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#21 | | Scholar
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 915 |
"All we have to see,
Is that I don't belong to you,
And you don't belong to me" - Freedom, George Michael, ex of Wham.
There. My view of life in a dumb little pop song.
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March 28th, 2012, 09:20 AM
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#22 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2010 From: Florida Posts: 1,914 | Quote:
Originally Posted by ReaganSmash  Which note worthy people have influenced you political or philosophic views?
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell
Adam Smith
Henry Kissinger
There are more, but those are the most famous. | There are much more noteworthy people, "more famous", than these who have influenced my views and outlook on life. The above-named are the better known capitalist right-wingers among the bunch. Plato, Spinoza, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenauer, Nietzsche, Burke; all have influenced both my life and way of thought tremendously -- and I thank God, in my own agnostic way -- for having given them to us...
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March 28th, 2012, 05:51 PM
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#23 | | Restitutor Canadensis
Joined: Nov 2010 From: The Great Indoors Posts: 2,530 |
Epicurus, more than anyone else.
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March 28th, 2012, 09:39 PM
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#24 | | Archivist
Joined: Nov 2011 From: Canada Posts: 140 | Quote:
Originally Posted by augustus There are much more noteworthy people, "more famous", than these who have influenced my views and outlook on life. The above-named are the better known capitalist right-wingers among the bunch. Plato, Spinoza, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenauer, Nietzsche, Burke; all have influenced both my life and way of thought tremendously -- and I thank God, in my own agnostic way -- for having given them to us... | Those goddam right wingers
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March 29th, 2012, 07:14 AM
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#25 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2010 From: Eugene, Oregon Posts: 1,782 |
Socrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Thomas Jefferson are four people I consider the most important. However, I also enjoy Jimmy Carter's words of wisdom.
How about Aldous Huxley and Tocqueville?
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March 29th, 2012, 07:46 AM
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#26 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2010 From: Florida Posts: 1,914 | Quote:
Originally Posted by ReaganSmash Those goddam right wingers | Lol! And let's not leave out those goddamn left-wingers! Them no good molotov cocktail-tossing summanabitches!
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March 29th, 2012, 08:04 AM
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#27 | | .
Joined: Jul 2011 From: na Posts: 3,067 | Quote:
Originally Posted by augustus The above-named are the better known capitalist right-wingers among the bunch. Plato, Spinoza, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenauer, Nietzsche, Burke; all have influenced both my life and way of thought tremendously -- and I thank God, in my own agnostic way -- for having given them to us... | I highlighted the hilarious part of your post.
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March 29th, 2012, 08:10 AM
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#28 | | Historian
Joined: Mar 2010 From: Florida Posts: 1,914 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fireatwill I highlighted the hilarious part of your post. | 90% agnostic/atheist; always leave room for doubt, and thereby keep your ass covered...
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March 29th, 2012, 08:39 AM
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#29 | | .
Joined: Jul 2011 From: na Posts: 3,067 | Quote:
Originally Posted by augustus 90% agnostic/atheist; always leave room for doubt, and thereby keep your ass covered... | There is a hilarious section in one of Nietzsche famous books, its called The Ass-Festival, check it out...
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March 29th, 2012, 12:37 PM
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#30 | | Lecturer
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Nebraska Posts: 358 |
James Madison
Ben. Franklin
Locke
Hume
Milton Friedman
Bill Maher
Ronald Reagan
Abe. Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
John Marshall
Fareed Zakaria
Father, Mother, Grandparents
and...John Wayne (Marion Morrison)
That is a fairly concise list, there are others of course.
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