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Which philosopher are you? Your Result: Aristotle   Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not too far from philosophy. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
Nietzsche
Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein
Early Wittgenstein / Positivists
Plato (strict rationalists)
Immanuel Kant
Which philosopher are you? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Decent quiz, but I wish they'd had it proofread.

The idea is, comment here and I will give you a color. Then, in your journal, list ten things you love that are that color.

rikibeth gave me RED

1. Blood.


2. The Sox!


3. Our comfy couch.


4. My old VW Beetle.


5. My stapler


6. Bing cherries


7. The root chakra


8. half of my Feste costume (which alternated red and white)


9. the tomatoes in tomato/basil/mozzarella salad


10. steak (but that brings us back to #1)

I ganked this from rikibeth:

According to the Science Fiction Book Club, these are the 50 most significant SF & Fantasy Books of the last 50 Years, 1953-2002. Bold the ones you've read, strike the ones you hated, italicize the ones you couldn't get through, asterisks for the ones you loved (more asterisks, more love), [underline] for the ones you own.

( and lj-cut because this is a fifty-line list )

I was surprised at how much emphasis was put on traditional Japanese art (Ukiyo-e). It's really never done anything for me (except for a brief time as a young teenager when I discovered pillow books).

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.

15 Impressionist, 4 Islamic, -5 Ukiyo-e, 3 Cubist, -2 Abstract and -20 Renaissance!

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They forgot to mention that much of the world actually looks like impressionist paintings to those of us with myopia.

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.

I choose Griswold v. Connecticut, which declared that the massive state intrusion into an unenumerated right (use of contraception within the bounds of marriage) did not demonstrate an overriding state interest. Yes, the decision does find a right to privacy in the 4th amendment, but it's one of the few decisions which draws on the 9th amendment for its reasoning.

Now you! (And see whether you can avoid "Brown v. Board of Education", which seems to be the hands-down favorite.)

Grab the nearest book.
Find the 5th sentence on page 23.
Append it to the story below.
Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the story.
Post the result to your LJ.

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They also talk of our being guilty of injustice, and their being the victims of an unjustifiable war. Brandy, and Tom got increasingly close-mouthed and sour. Although a certain sense of tripartite society survived down to Christian times, the three classes described in the Eddic poem "Rigdthula" bear little resemblance to Dumezil's three.

It is often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad men, and prohibiting what only such men would wish to practice. At its nearest point the wall was little more than one league from the City, and that was south-eastward.

When he saw Jack Hare jump towards the fire, and the Practical Man brandishing the toasting-fork, Sir Isaac grabbed the strings of gravitational force that bound Jack to his destiny and PULLED--- That's a seventy-four gun privateer, besides. To honour a group of British nobles, treacherously slain at a conference by Hengist's guards, Aurelius decides to erect a great monument near Amesbury. That being so, he did not chortle when he went upstairs. Let stand. This ensures that when the garbage collector runs, it has complete access to the memory in the heap and can perform its tasks safely without the threat of being preempted by another thread. And then you may begin to laugh.

The data are stored in Column 1 and renamed "Age." Pull your hand back. I don't remember that any secrets were revealed to me, nor do I remember any avid curiosity on my part to learn something I wasn't supposed to--perhaps I was too young to know what to listen for. You don't remember how awful it is being normal. Highlight the desired state tax table and press Enter. Abraham had now reached a ripe old age, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. This doesn't alter either string, any more than 2+3 alters either 2 or 3.

And I will say firmly that it is the author who says, "One does feel," who is really an egoist; and the author who says, "I believe," who is not an egoist. The police have agreed to let us show this video. She was particularly fond of Union Maj. Joseph Willard, some years her senior, who courted her amid the competitive field of Blue and Gray. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womanservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. Nonetheless I am surprised to see the amount my week's worth of toil has actually brought me.

Her cheeks began a burn against her palms. He sang when he was making things of this sort; and when Smith began to sing those nearby stopped their own work and came to the smithy to listen. "Nej, vänta lite nu!" utropade premiärministern. "Ni kan inte bara stoppa in ert folk på mitt kontor, det är jag som bestämmer vem som arbetar för mig..." The small, dark interiors were, especially of the temples, were places where the gods, ancestors, and a few authorized lords visited. A little too much heat, and the odors so skillfully blended escape the dish or are degraded into potentially acrid or bitter molecules. Bribery is, oh, we guess that Tetesse of Ellekijro is going to be their elector for Aliilu, so we slip her a thousand tiyo and promise another thousand if we get Aliilu. "How noble," the Reverend Mother sneered. DREAM ENDS.

AGGRESSIVE implies a disposition to dominate often in disregard of others' rights or in determined and energetic pursuit of one's ends. She lives on a ranch in the central coast of California with her husband, David, and with their robust ranch-dogs Pepper and Sadie. "Then you could fly, at least."

"It isn't getting into the house." They represent the internalization of correct principles upon which enduring happiness and success are based.



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This is a gorgeous quiz, and it definitely nailed me:

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...

The Gadgeteer

32% Elegant, 80% Technological, 33% Historical, 24% Adventurous and 21% Playful!

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Unlike the similar meme about the year you were born:

- Go to musicoutfitters.com
- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
- Bold the songs you like
- Italicize the songs you liked then, but don't now
- Strike through the ones you hate
- Underline your favorites.
- Do nothing to the ones you don't remember/care about.

( Ladies and Gentlemen, 1978! )

Yeah, that's a lot of songs off Saturday Night Fever and Grease. That kid actor from "Welcome Back Kotter" sure had a good year.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

( Because nobody needs 100 frequently-copied lines on their friends page )

Note that this meme doesn't have a mark-up for "read part of it, never finished, no particular desire to pick it up again". Nor does it have mark-up for "read the condensed version in Cliff Notes/Classics Illustrated/Readers Digest", so I left those out. There should also be a mark-up for "never heard of it".

(via slipjig)

The movie fans behind the website They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have assembled what they claim to be the most definitive "greatest films ever" list by gathering no fewer than 1,604 critics' lists and 656 other miscellaneous polls from hundreds of print sources from the last several decades, and used a complicated formula to tabulate the results shown below: The 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time.

Your task:
Bold the titles you have seen.
Italicize the ones you have only partly seen.
Underline the ones you currently own. (I add an asterisk for those I owned on VHS, but we purged our tapes)

To participate in the short form of this meme, do this for the first 100 titles only. The more daring and film-obsessed among you, however, will want to do the full 1,000 title list. Enjoy!

1) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
2) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3) The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5) 8 1⁄2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
6) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
7) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8) The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
9) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
10) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) (but I really have to see this)
( the other 990 )

I'm surprised by the number of these that I've "partially seen". Some, I caught part-way thru on TV; others, I walked past a showing in the Student Union in college.