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Most people die after they disturb a nest and get stung several times... http://i50.tinypic.com/xktx8i.jpg :hairfire: :hairfire: :hairfire: :hairfire: :hairfire: :hairfire: :hairfire: :ask: :what: :nono: Of the people who die from hornet stings, most do so Most people die after they disturb a nest ...

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg134/orphone/knausgard%202_zpstoflzaha.jpg In The Guardian, Rachel Cusk said this is "perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our time." Zadie Smith's tweet was much more to the point: "KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD. MY STRUGGLE. It's unbelievable. I just read ...

Never actually read either Aquinas or the Joyce Book you refer to, could you expand on it? Dedalus actually appears in three of Joyce's books, although he is not actually named in Dubliners . I only ever read bits of all four of them myself, and I don't think I've missed out on much by dropping the...

Sorry - just wanted to jump in on those two points. Carry on.

Catholicism boasts some of the West's greatest thinkers, just so you know. It's easy to boast. :tea: and a real waste of thinking... just to think what Thomas Aquinas could have accomplished had he done real science rather than glossing on nonsense... I do like Aquinas on aesthetics; he had some ra...

When most of the population is uneducated and struggling to survive day to day, it's not surprising that philosophers of the time appeared to be intellectual giants. By today's standards, most of them are pretty pedestrian thinkers. I agree with the first sentence, but not with the second. Certainl...

His motive was preventing further burglaries? By deliberately leaving his garage open and placing valuables in it? No, that doesn't make sense. Those are not the actions of someone who wants to prevent future burglaries. However, he himself admitted what he was trying to do: Just four days before De...

Interesting! I didn't know of that Duchamp. Kiefer was born in '45. Curious.

Actually, you're very welcome to the United States. Those who feel as Seth does do not speak for all Americans. A large number of us feel differently. A lot of us see that in some ways US society is deeply, tragically flawed.

Painting with semen will be the next conceptual breakthrough... Anselm Kiefer has used semen in at least one of his works. It's unfortunate that he has gained a lot of notoriety for this; the semen is only one of many elements he uses, and his work certainly doesn't revolve around it as a conceptua...

That's too limiting. I think SYG laws in general are absurd. Self defense is not absurd. SYG laws are. Ever have someone invade your home and terrorize your family at gunpoint while they steal your stuff? Yes, as a matter of fact. When you have, get back to us on how absurd you think it is then. Ok...

International outcry. Officials demand justice. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/german-officials-demand-justice-after-exchanged-student-killed-in-montana/ Here's justice: Don't fucking burglarize other people's garages in the middle of the night, you might get shot. Sigh. How do you know he's a burglar...

That's too limiting. I think SYG laws in general are absurd.

Self defense is not absurd. SYG laws are.