Pony tale

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Pony tale

Tom Brosz — 1/29/2005 9:06:06 PM (archived)

I'm not putting this guy up on a pedestal with Aristotle, either*, but the response of amused contempt was as predictable as gravity.

I have concluded over the years that the hostility of a lot of people towards simple answers for big questions is not so much that the big questions demand complex and ambiguous answers--what we are usually told--but that the simple answers just aren't the answers they want to hear.

*Assuming Moses is any more real than Castenada's Don Juan

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"Cleaning Up Dodge" - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2005 1:21:39 AM
- The fatally flawed comparison to WWII again. - Bowser - 1/29/2005 7:15:42 AM
  - Declaring war - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2005 7:53:33 AM
    - Migawd. A bit of perspective, maybe. - Bowser - 1/29/2005 7:14:37 PM
- He probably thinks he's Christian too. - Mary Anne - 1/29/2005 6:02:22 AM
  - "Now y'see, Christ, he was faced with difficulties, too. And what did he do? - - - " (n/t) - Bowser - 1/30/2005 5:02:51 AM
  - The Europeans invented democracy? - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2005 6:48:12 AM
    - I'm Shocked - Mark Eby - 1/30/2005 5:00:10 PM
    - re: They did - Raoul - 1/29/2005 8:58:50 AM
      - Thanks, Raoul. And Tom: The Romans invented the Republic. - Mary Anne - 1/29/2005 1:42:10 PM
        
        Pony tale - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2005 9:06:06 PM
        
        "Simple" has more than one definition. - Mary Anne - 1/30/2005 12:43:40 AM
        
        Great. Any major developments in the last 2,000 years? - Tom Brosz - 1/29/2005 7:20:29 PM
        
        re: Yeah. You're living in one. - Mary Anne - 1/30/2005 1:17:00 AM
        
        P.S. Good post. - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2005 3:25:04 AM
        
        Classical - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2005 3:21:45 AM
        
        Not a judgement call. Iceland and the UK ARE in Europe - Doug Ellison - 1/30/2005 11:45:56 AM
        
        Some good points, but... - Tom Brosz - 1/30/2005 8:32:42 PM
        
        re: Some good points, but... - Doug Ellison - 1/31/2005 1:15:37 PM
        
        I said "harness" and I meant it. - Tom Brosz - 1/31/2005 4:45:48 PM
        
        re:You really need to blame somebody for your own country's violations, don't you! - Raoul - 2/1/2005 5:28:58 PM
        
        Violations - Tom Brosz - 2/1/2005 6:47:06 PM
        
        re: Blame, blame, blame!!!! - Raoul - 2/1/2005 7:15:51 PM
        
        Enough to go around. - Tom Brosz - 2/2/2005 12:06:34 AM
        
        re: All the time; it's a matter of chronology - Raoul - 1/29/2005 7:47:48 PM

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