Against the Web by Michael Brooks5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Book review: Give them an argument: logic for the left. ![]() Chapter review: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation: Right-Populism in a Neoliberal world.Just pointing out fallacies is lazy philosophy.A great way to get kids into philosophy? Get them into video games, especially RPGS.Facebook’s ambition into AI: What are the philosophical implications?.Mixed Martial Arts or Mixed Martial Science? The nature of MMA as a fighting sport.Follower’s question: How should I explain what is philosophy to kids?.Cloud’s hypocrisy: A thought experiment on climate change activismĬomments on literature/media/Follower’s questions.The mad mathematician: a thought experiment on the 97% consensus on climate change. ![]() Rick and Morty Season 4 Episode 1: A thought experiment on determinism and prophecy (spoilers).Thought experiment: The impartial observer.Ready for fight night: a thought experiment on privilege, affirmative action, reparations and meritocracy.Carbon emissions, Asbestos, Cigarettes and Lead: A short history of denial.The damaged bridge and global warming: Sinnott-Armstrong’s thought experiment on government/individual obligations.Thought experiment: Bernard Williams’ Jim in the village.Thought experiment: The ship of Theseus. ![]()
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Steven strong out of australia5/29/2023 ![]() The tour announcement comes a few months after a woman sued Tyler for sexual assault when she was a teenager in the 1970s. ![]() “Joey’s unmistakable and legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.” “While Joey Kramer remains a beloved founding member of Aerosmith, he has regrettably made the decision to sit out the currently scheduled touring dates to focus his full attention on his family and health,” the band said in a statement. The group’s founding drummer, Joey Kramer, will not be in attendance. The farewell tour will include original frontman Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry, guitarist Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton. “Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives.” “It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT!” the band, formed in 1970, said in a statement. ![]() Andre gide les faux monnayeurs5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason. ![]() Unite humanity with a living new language.Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.Although they are not numbered on the monument itself, they are presented in this order in every language: Those languages are English, Swahili, Russian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese. These ten “messages” are written on the Guidestones in eight different languages. The following ten messages are inscribed on one of the structure’s giant slabs. ![]() Here is the text inscribed in English on them. No one knows who paid for the construction of the Georgia Guidestones, nor what exactly is meant by the strange messages engraved on them. The Georgia Guidestones, also known as the “American Stonehenge,” are a massive granite structure in far eastern Georgia near the South Carolina border. What the heck is this weird Stonehenge-like structure in rural Georgia? Why do the messages inscribed on them predict the end of the world? ![]() Alphabet squadron victory's price5/29/2023 ![]() The Rebels-turned-New Republic soldiers are exhausted - mentally and physically - and many are hard-pressed to find any joy in victory over an Empire they’ve been fighting for decades. Overall, the trilogy follows the five starfighter pilots as they struggle to end the Empire’s deadly Shadow Wing TIE squadron and find their place in a galaxy that’s been consumed by war for decades.Īs for Victory’s Price, the book gives Alphabet Squadron the heroic, emotional ending it deserves.īy the events of Victory’s Price, the post-Endor galactic war has continued for almost a year. Victory’s Price is the third and final novel in Freed’s Alphabet Squadron trilogy, with Alphabet Squadron and Shadow Fall chronicling the ragtag New Republic fighter squadron in a post-Endor galaxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to satisfying endings in the Star Wars timeline, Alexander Freed’s Victory’s Price gives Alphabet Squadron an ending that’s both bittersweet and emotionally gratifying. ![]() God Help the Child by Toni Morrison5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Every emotional nuance-yearning, bewilderment, anger, love, self-empowerment-resonates in her voice, making this a powerful audio experience that elevates Morrison’s already remarkable and memorable prose. God Help the Child by Toni Morrison 3.9 (36) Paperback 14.54 16.00 Save 9 Hardcover 28.95 Paperback 14.54 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 25. Morrison reads with tremendous insight and empathy for the characters, vividly bringing them to life. Sofia’s angry rejection of Bride’s present, coinciding with the departure of Bride’s lover, inspires such self-doubt that Bride fears regressing into Lula Ann. Amid preparations for the launch of her signature cosmetics line, Bride offers a gift bag of cash and cosmetics to parolee Sofia Huxley, the kindergarten teacher Bride accused of sexual abuse 15 years before. Herself into Bride, a glamorous fashion executive who still yearns for love and acceptance in her personal life. ![]() The story begins with the birth of Lula Ann Bridewell, a deep blue-black-skinned baby whose light-skinned mother cannot stand to touch her. Morrison’s latest novel finds adults struggling to overcome the emotional scars of childhood. ![]() ![]() Rumours of it floated round every dockside tavern, traded and sold and - worst of all - believed. Older than any record in the Kingdom, the sea-wall was a legend. It was immense, nearly three times the height of the masthead, and behind it the northern lords had flourished, protected from Islander raids and the storms of winter. The sea-wall was a giant breakwater of basalt - black, slick, and featureless - that lay across a gap in the cliffs, closing off access to the shallow bay and the estuary beyond it. No-one sailed this close to the sea-wall, not unless they wanted their ship dashed to pieces, funnelled in by currents that ran treacherously quick around the cliff walls. ![]() The ship lifted with the swell of the ocean and fell as the wave subsided under it. ![]() There was violence, and smoke, and shadow. ![]() The fall of the house of usher pages5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of his emphasis on style and language, Poe proclaimed his writing a reaction to typical literature of the day, which he called "the heresy of the Didactic" for its tendency to preach, Condemned by some critics for its tendencies toward Romanticism, a literary movement marked by melodramatic and maudlin exaggerations, "The Fall of the House of Usher" was nevertheless typical of Poe's short stories in that it presents a narrator thrust into a psychologically intense situation in which otherworldly forces conspire to drive at least one of the characters insane. Product Type Full-length Play Product Code FC8000 ISBN(13) 9780886800499 Pages 60. This philosophy of "art for art's sake" later evolved into the literary movement of Aestheticism which eschewed the symbolic and preachy literature of the day-especially in England-in an attempt to overcome strict Victorian conventions. Author(s) Adapted by Tim Kelly from the classic tale of Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() In place of a moral, Poe creates a mood-terror, in this case- through his use of language. Featuring supernatural theatrics, which critics have interpreted a number of ways, the story exhibits Poe's concept of "art for art's sake," the idea that a story should be devoid of social, political, or moral teaching. "The Fall of the House of Usher," written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1839, is regarded as an early and supreme example of the Gothic horror story, though Poe ascribed the term "arabesque" to this and other similar works, a term that he felt best described its flowery, ornate prose. ![]() Liz braswell straight on till morning5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Not forgetting, of course, mermaids with sharp teeth, shadows with their own agenda, and a desperate search for Peter Pan also await. More than just disgruntled pirates and daring sword fights, Straight On Till Morning effectively captures childhood whimsy and “the adult version of dreaming” while encouraging readers to consider what Never Land might mean to them. The main character of Peter Pan may be Peter himself, but the story is largely told from Wendy’s point of view and, according to Braswell, Wendy deserves to tell it in her own way. Released on February 4, Straight On Till Morning: A Twisted Tale, written by Braswell and published by Disney-Hyperion, is a Wendy-driven exploration into Never Land and beyond. ![]() Powerhouse author and former video-game producer Liz Braswell loves it there too. ![]() Over six decades and multiple media that is a lot of trips to Never Land. Its legacy includes books, video games, board games, a musical, a sequel and a live-action adaptation. Barrie, the film was allegedly the final animated feature in which all nine members of Disney’s Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. ![]() Released in 1953 and based on the play by J.M. On February 5, Disney’s animated film Peter Pan celebrated its 67 th anniversary. This week has been filled with a whole lot of faith, trust and pixie dust. ![]() Arthur miller's play the crucible5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Both events in history are known as unjust and make a mockery of the United States due to the wrongful accusations that were being made and being taken seriously to the public eye and superior officials of either the state or the country. Joe McCarthy was widely involved and responsible for the time in which the Red Scare took place in the United States which was intense during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions that took place in different towns of Massachusetts between the years of 16. ![]() ‘The Crucible’ is a playwright that was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller which is a true story that reflects on the Salem Witch Trials. ![]() Michael schmidt gilgamesh5/28/2023 ![]() One of the many fascinating aspects of this book is that Schmidt, uniquely placed as one of the foremost publishers of poetry in the English-speaking world, canvassed fifty poets in order to discover what Gilgamesh has meant to them, how they first came across it, and whether it has informed their own work. However, Gilgamesh, the Life of a Poem, is, as we shall see, far more than a mere layman’s guide to a long-lost and seemingly obscure literary text. ![]() He has now gone one step further by writing his own comprehensive introduction to the poem. As a publisher, Michael Schmidt deserves credit for having published, in 2018, Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis, one of the most readable and skilfully reconstructed versions of this foundational text. Subsequently, further scattered fragments have been found. ![]() Yet it only came to our attention when archaeologists discovered it on a set of twelve very damaged clay tablets in 1853. ![]() It predates the Iliad and the oldest biblical texts, both of which it may have influenced, by a thousand years or more, though its origins go back even further to a long-established oral tradition. ![]() The long poem known as Gilgamesh or the Epic of Gilgamesh is the most ancient literary text we have and the earliest surviving work of literature that has the power to move and inspire us. Michael Schmidt | Gilgamesh, the Life of a Poem | Princeton University Press: £22.00 ![]() |