Icons, Wallpaper, Manips, Collages - Doggett/Scully & Mulder/Scully

... Without, Patience, Roadrunners, Invocation, Redrum, Via Negativa, Surekill, Salvage, Badlaa, Medusa, Per Manum, This Is Not Happening, DeadAlive, Three Words, Empedocles, Vienen, Alone, Essence and Existence (missing: The Gift - Scully wasn't in that one). Enjoy! Teasers: 001 002 003 004 005 006 ...

new book on Parmenides

... and operation of the world's mutable entities. Later chapters reassess the major Presocratics' relation to Parmenides in light of the modal interpretation, focusing particularly on Zeno, Melissus, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. In the end, Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being, and his arguments regarding what what must be must be like, simply in virtue of its mode of being, ...

X-Files recs for the unconventional

...apocafic, angst, romance (sort of) WIP?: no Why This Must Be Read: I'm probably the only person on Earth who had this reaction, but when Mulder and Reyes met for the first time in "Empedocles" (I think I remembered the ep title right? been a while...), I went, "Dang, why didn't they meet each other first?" Meaning before Scully and Doggett respectively. *g* I thought the characters instantly ...

Empedocles: Jumped into a Volcano

Diogenes Laërtius records the legend that pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles died by throwing himself into an active volcano (Mount Etna in Sicily), so that people would believe his body had vanished and he had turned into an immortal god; however, the volcano threw back one of his bronze sandals, revealing the deceit. Another legend has it that he threw himself in the volcano to prove to his ...

The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play

06:54 13.03.2009 The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play Friedrich Holderlin David Farrell Krell, “The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play” State University of New York Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0791476472 | 306 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB read more at AvaxHome RSS: rss2lj

Конференция по классической филологии

... моры и крайняя позиция древнегреческого ударения Н.В. Брагинская  (РГГУ) "Сот меда" или "сот пчелы", или о чем говорили небесный вестник и Асенет А.С. Егоров  (МГУ) Empedocles, fr. 128  DK . Проблемы комментирования К.Г. Красухин  (ИЯ РАН) Ассибиляция в греческих диалектах А.В. Марков  (МГУ) В преддверии классической филологии: ренессансный спор о литературном языке ...

is evolution a pseudoscience? part 2

6. Some pseudoscientific theories rely on ancient myths and legends … Okay, one that doesn’t particularly describe evolution, although evolutionary notions can be traced back to ancient pagan Greek philosophers such as Empedocles (c. 490–430 bc). [Duggan, G.H., Review of The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, Apologia, 6(1):121–122, 1997.] Sigh. Evolution is not based on that myth. ...

... :] The Professor is one of those crazy theatre loving women, which is perfect. And entertaining enough that I don't want to fall asleep instantly as I feel in my... Western Cultures class. Ugh. If I had ANY idea that this was about Anaximenes, Empedocles, Socrates and the sort, I WOULD NEVER EVER HAVE SIGNED UP! Gosh, I have it so much. So boring. So useless. My first major college regret lol.

Monotheism and the Drug War

... didn’t gibe with any practice not useful to refining social control and/or increasing the production of profit. Hillman does make note of the pre-Socratics, chief among them Pythagoras and Empedocles, for whom mysticism and rigorous investigation of the natural world were no contradiction. He says: “the roots of Western philosophy reach deep into the fertile soil of the human imagination, where ...

WSNF Update

I updated my John Doggett fansite today with screen caps, poll results and a brand new September poll (which I will post here for your voting convenience). Caps Added: Three Words, Empedocles, Essence, and Existence http://www.danadoggett.com/doggett/ How likely are you to see XF3 if Doggett is NOT included in the movie with as much screen time and importance as Mulder and Scully? ...