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I saw what you said. I just wanted to show he indeed wrote critical passages about religion, especially as an institution using bible verses.
Oh, there was an edit. :) Whatever, it is just different interpretation. Tolstoy was just a great man, let's agree on that. I see him as a Christian anarchist.
Oh, there was an edit. :) Whatever, it is just different interpretation. Tolstoy was just a great man, let's agree on that. I see him as a Christian anarchist.
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isn't he in the beard-thread too? or he should be.
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Meh, I like the writings of a vegan zen buddhist (Dogen Zenji), a contemplative catholic priest (Thomas Keating), and a perspectivist atheist (Friedrich Nietzsche). Solid thinking is solid regardless of how it's cased, IMHO.
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^ that.
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
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@machinebacon Anna Karenina as an intro to Tolstoy world can be hardcore, so a short story ( although not short compared to the average short stories ) is good enough.And short / long stories / novels depends on the mood and story itself ;) but i'll agree with you on the temper part, if you're very selective then picking up long stories is a rare occasion.I like short stories from O.Henry but most of them tend to be "the same old" stuff ( except Tolstoy's not so short stories are an exception ).I liked some of the spiritual experiences of Tolstoy except when he forced his beliefs on his family, its alright to spread what you belief but its for the people to decide whether they are going to choose to belief and follow that path or not.And you're right, Tolstoy did took the easy path but maybe he took it for granted that when we're finished reading his work, we belief and see what he does so he thinks that we understood it all and the road doesn't actually hit a dead end ? ( another terrible expression ).
@DebianJoe Thanks for sharing some good authors i'll look into them ( specially Dogen Zenji ) and +1 for the last sentence, its what everyone brings to table :)
@DebianJoe Thanks for sharing some good authors i'll look into them ( specially Dogen Zenji ) and +1 for the last sentence, its what everyone brings to table :)
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+1 to everything from everyone :D
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DebianJoe got me thinking of zen so its obvious.. :D
This goes to everyone in the FOSS community and specially this one, you all share this attribute whether you know it or not :)I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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This had to be added ;)
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http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 77#p334777Currently I'm using urxvt and it lacks a lot of features. I miss terminator! But there's no way I'm switching back, because urxvt starts instantly.
Somebody in this thread suggested xterm. No. It's an old, bloaty piece of shit.
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^ Lol'd. Whats tmux / screen / dvtm ?
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First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture. - Linux kernel coding style
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Captain AmericaIf you get hurt, hurt 'em back. If you get killed... walk it off.
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^ copyright 1985Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman was a prophet. I read Amusing Ourselves to Death two years ago and it has really changed the way I look at things; it seemed more foreboding than Orwell's 1984 in some ways.
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^Agreed.
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Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon“Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.”
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^ that's a good point :)
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. - R.M. Rilke