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sure but still obviously better than hitch-enz by far
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ATTN GERMAN JOEY EVERY POST WITH A BUNCH OF TEXT IS GETTING CUT OFF. IM IN FIREFOX BRUH

edit: I MEANT CHROME
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In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.
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just in case you were unsure whether he was a power-fellating charlatan like everyone else in his profession
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agreed. he mourns, rather than celebrates the 'death of the liberal class'
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the worst part about is that someone like hitchens wont be taken seriously in a lot of contexts, but hedges still has the sort of "progressive cred" necessary to make protesters threaten other "violent" protesters with (ironically enough) violence unless they take their masks off or whatever.

look at this shit:

Most important, we must stop being afraid. We have to turn our backs for good on the Democrats, no matter what ghoulish candidate the Republicans offer up for president. We have to defy all formal systems of power. We have to listen closely to the moral voices in our society, from McKibben to Noam Chomsky to Wendell Berry to Ralph Nader, and ignore feckless liberals who have been one of the most effective tools of our disempowerment. We have to create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive. The corporate coup is over. We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment.


like ok so we ought to stop voting for democrats and instead listen to chomsky and nader and also grow carrots or whatever in our backyards, capital has won boys all you can do is eat organic vegetables and sit around doing nothing. this person is an idiot, but hes an idiot who actually sounds plausible to a lot of people who have had it out with the current status quo. like he has absolutely no understanding whatsoever on anything pertaining to issues of power, political or otherwise, and yet he goes on and on about how you can only beat corporate power by "opting out" and living in some cabin in the woods + police will magically be turned to the side of the protestors if the protestors just offer themselves up to be beaten to death and keep a smile on their face the whole time (LEST THE COPS BE ALIENATED BY THE UNGRATEFULNESS OF THE VICTIM)

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i should post the hedges hitchens debate itt
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UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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never in the field of human fatness have two fat men been so fat or eaten so much food and climbed so few stairs
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please dont be ableist, as a hugely obese person i am offended
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wow hedges is disgustingly ugly. as if i needed another reason not to listen to him
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tinkzorg what do you think of dorothy day
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shennong posted:
tinkzorg what do you think of dorothy day



not another gay only holiday

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i picked up "war is a force that gives us meaning" on a whim a few years ago and i still havent been able to read it because i just cant stand his depressingly liberal style. later i tried to watch a youtube but it turns out he talks just exactly as he writes
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hitchens goes too far. however the point that we should not reflexively tolerate a religion just because it is practiced by browns is a fair one. in my opinion
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have you ever read the suras? they fucking own
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the vedas own too. also the bhagavad gita. its really metal.
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i need to read the bhagavad gita, can you give me some links or tell me what to buy? i don't really know anything about it tia
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http://sanskritdocuments.org/links2_gita.html

Imo you really need to get some good commentaries / notation to read the Gita (preferably one that explains the sanksrit root words, derivatives, and etc...) sanksrit is a really dynamic language and it requires, imo, the type of original-word-in-parenthesis notation they do for german intellectual texts
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DRUXXX posted:
http://sanskritdocuments.org/links2_gita.htmlImo you really need to get some good commentaries / notation to read the Gita (preferably one that explains the sanksrit root words, derivatives, and etc...) sanksrit is a really dynamic language and it requires, imo, the type of original-word-in-parenthesis notation they do for german intellectual texts



emil cioran once wrote that when he found out how many words for "the absolute" there are in sanskrit he decided that he'd been born in the wrong place, the wrong time, to the wrong people

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shennong posted:
tinkzorg what do you think of dorothy day



i didnt get to my illustrious depth in life by going around thinking about shit, dude

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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam

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ding dong the hitch is dead
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I watched countless Hitch videos and read countless articles. I also read this book and enjoyed it very much. A great intellectual is lost to us. I hope his last moments were peaceful.

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Tinkzorg posted:

shennong posted:
tinkzorg what do you think of dorothy day

i didnt get to my illustrious depth in life by going around thinking about shit, dude



do you want to frot a lil bit

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whoa, it still works
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I'm dead Yall lol
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sssshhhhhhhh..... *smokes rollie in the shower and lathers himself sensually*
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Tinkzorg posted:
The corporate coup is over. We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment.


is he talkin about forums here????

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gyrofry please make a thread about thomas friedman next
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drivel of drunken hags
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i successfully hexed jack layton in some terrible canada lf megathread on SA and kind of felt bad about it after the fact
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We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment.
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Impper posted:
have you ever read the suras? they fucking own



lol what are the "suras" im lolin in my pajamas saying the SOorah the sooorahs lol

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Impper posted:
i need to read the bhagavad gita, can you give me some links or tell me what to buy? i don't really know anything about it tia



don't get the "as it is" edition, whcih is very popular and you find it everywhere. it has awful annotations that fill up 2/3s of the pages

theres a new translation out by stephen mitchell that might be worth reading. i read a slim little paperback version which was excellent (http://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Krishnas-Counsel-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553213652/ref=tmm_pap_title_0)

http://www.amazon.com/Vedanta-Western-World-Christopher-Isherwood/dp/0874810000/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_8 this is also a good book, nice little collection of essays, you pretty much just read dif people explain the same thing (vedic philosophy) over and over from dif perspectives and using dif vocabulary until it clicks and then you can throw it away comfortable in the knowledge that you have mastered thousands of years of indian civilization's intellectual production in a weekend.