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MarkusWelch
I'm not going to debate politics with you here. That is and has been my point Nutrino.
Start a new thread, or email me, or pm me, or go to AFL. My suggestion *again* is that there are other, perhaps better, venues to promote your political views.
Markus, while I understand that not debating can sometimes serve a purpose, in the case of this forum, and in particular, in the case of nutrino - I think if you actually do discuss/debate politics or anything with him w/r/t matters of philosophy, language or matters of general knowledge (save the brain surgery stuff for another forum, rhis is culteducation.com's forum :) ), it will be worth your time. He has convinced me of his analytical qualities. Now all I wanna know about the man is whether he's got some addictions ;).
Anyway... nutrino, hope you're reading this - I just read your reply. Thank you for taking time out. People, it is my opinion, have an innate desire to believe. Try raising children without beliefs, if you don't believe me on this one :). Once you've been "programmed" since childhood to adopt beliefs on an ongoing basis - and achieve, as you said, some success in terms of wealth, occupation, relationships, etc - you seek "more" (of whatever it is). This is the point at which all clever people either succumb to LGAT bullshit (and a lot of smart people are or can be extremely insecure and suffer from a loss of identity even in more advanced age), or, treat it for what it is - a deep, penetrating, self-reflecting experience which hopefully made them re-examine everything about their character/beliefs/etc.......
the bit about the complacency, mediocrity and laziness... man oh man.. if it weren't for the immigrants in this country, I don't know who would be in the graduate engineering/science schools.... :)....
anyway, from where you framed the context with your last post, this can very well turn into an extended discussion about education, philosophy, politics (Markus here preempted me on that), etc. I think the thing that mattered to me the most is to see if there are people on this forum who can be balanced in their pronounciation of what LGATs, or really, anything of similar nature, are... basically, I wanted a genuine analysis of what it is they do, their methods, goals, etc (other than the 'for-profit' aspects). If they can do it - so can I (and so can you, it seems very much so). Thing is, I'd rather not milk people for money like that. Would I use language to capture maybe a woman's imagination :)? Sure - but only insofar as she would perceive a mutual benefit from the relationship..... without which, all the talk would seem empty, meaning, talk would have to be followed by action....... that's about as 'unethical' as I would become with this newly found "power" of b.s.-ing :).... or knowing what makes us tick in a sense... which was always there within us, because we react to it... but aren't necessarily aware of it... like a damn pavlov reflex almost :)... except the bell here is the english language...
oh well... g'nite :), just finished watching Conan OBriend, I'm off to bed.