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  • #16
    Most of them.
    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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    • #17
      Originally posted by chegitz guevara
      Most of them.
      Most of what?
      Only feebs vote.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Agathon
        A well rounded education should include:


        The Platonic dialogues.

        Homer

        Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics.

        Thucydides' Peleponnesian War

        The Communist Manifesto

        Locke's Second Treatise on Government

        Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

        Hobbes' Leviathan

        Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (or his Treatise on Human Nature)

        Herman Melville - Moby ****

        Mill - On Liberty

        Rawls - A Theory of Justice

        Some Freud (there's lots)

        Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

        Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic

        Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

        Conrad - Heart of Darkness

        Any of Bertrand Russell's popular works.

        An encyclopaedic history of the world (there are lots).


        Oh no, I'm not well rounded!
        We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
        If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
        Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Agathon
          Most of what?
          Most of the books I read.
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #20
            Originally posted by SpencerH




            Oh no, I'm not well rounded!
            *shrugs* Most of these I read during my undergraduate university education. Some I did on my own (like Freud and Nietzsche) but most were for courses.

            Having said that I've forgotten a lot of stuff.
            Only feebs vote.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by chegitz guevara


              Most of the books I read.
              Including the Hardy Boys and Harlequin romances?
              Only feebs vote.

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              • #22
                Any science in that 'well rounded' education?
                We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Agathon


                  Including the Hardy Boys and Harlequin romances?
                  The Hardy Boys is a really gay name. Conservatives should be angered and pushing for a name more in line with modern conservative values - the Lardy Boys perhaps?
                  Only feebs vote.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by SpencerH
                    Any science in that 'well rounded' education?
                    Not at varsity. I did all the science options at high school (did exceptionally well too) but I became bored by it.

                    Science will get you a job, but philosophy will get you a life.
                    Only feebs vote.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Agathon
                      Including the Hardy Boys and Harlequin romances?
                      Yup. Hardy Boys help you look for things out of the ordinary and put disparate facts together to discover the unknown. Plus, they helped hone my reading ability. Never read any HQ romanaces.
                      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by chegitz guevara


                        Yup. Hardy Boys help you look for things out of the ordinary and put disparate facts together to discover the unknown. Plus, they helped hone my reading ability. Never read any HQ romanaces.
                        I used to like Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.
                        Only feebs vote.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Ecthelion
                          Roberts' History of the World
                          So, what did you think?

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                          • #28
                            *looks at massive pile of college textbooks lying on floor (and empty wallet)*

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                            • #29
                              I can't think of any smartification books off the top of my head, except for a big ass collection of Ray Bradbury short stories and a big ass collection of Harlan Ellison short stories. Too many smartifying books include far too much jackoffery for my tastes, so I tend to avoid them.

                              I'm currently reading The White Boy Shuffle on the recommendation of one of my friends -- I'll report back if it makes me smarter.
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                              • #30
                                "Science will get you a job, but philosophy will get you a life"

                                A life you can't afford
                                Monkey!!!

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