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re: Can most people really handle freedom?
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TB
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11/17/2008 8:17:29 PM
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Time Magazine this week
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TB
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11/17/2008 4:59:25 PM
Forgot the link
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TB
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11/17/2008 5:00:27 PM
Good analysis.
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ER
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11/17/2008 7:10:18 PM
Can most people really handle freedom?
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Socrates II
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11/17/2008 6:36:54 PM
"Freedom" seems to be an indefinite term.
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Bowser
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11/17/2008 7:38:24 PM
"Trailers for sale or rent..."
(n/t)
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RobVG
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11/18/2008 3:13:43 AM
"Freedom" is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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ER
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11/17/2008 8:53:39 PM
As a creature of this culture, I regard myself as "free".
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Bowser
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11/18/2008 5:42:49 AM
re: Can most people really handle freedom?
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JEKing
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11/17/2008 6:57:58 PM
re: Can most people really handle freedom?
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TB
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11/17/2008 8:05:31 PM
Do you consider Iraqis "free" at the present time?
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Bowser
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11/17/2008 11:52:47 PM
The problem is...
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Socrates II
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11/17/2008 8:40:06 PM
law of the minimum
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JEKing
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11/17/2008 11:51:10 PM
I wouldn't take the word of a "Deep Ecologist" on this.
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TB
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11/18/2008 4:38:13 PM
Ever read Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz?
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Socrates II
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11/18/2008 1:54:27 PM
Putting the seed corn in your SUV.
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ER
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11/18/2008 2:09:09 PM
Too many people
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TB
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11/17/2008 9:18:34 PM
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TB
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11/17/2008 8:17:29 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.