commentary on "(Let's Play) Master and Servant"

... Balancing these factors requires some skill, like the puzzle-solving the Patrician enjoys. Perhaps, the secretary thinks, it's even a little bit like ruling the city. Politics in miniature, finite, perfectible, and safe. "The Patrician" referred to here is Vetinari himself; he's treating his normal life as a separate persona. But what's really crucial here is the slipperiness of power. Vetinari...

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Published: 1 month ago (Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:27:41 PST); 16 Kb

kindkit

this again.

... hoping against hope that one day i will find a girlfriend who suits my purposes. i'm also a big believer that people aren't born to be great or terrible, they are made that way. we are all perfectible. and in pursuit of what i think of as the perfect girlfriend, i have tried my best to mold and model the person i happen to be with to conform to those particular standards. and that's the source of...

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xxxtitsxxx

[Log] Marui and Mizuki

... nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen- I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want ...

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Published: 1 month, 3 weeks ago (Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:53:03 PDT); 29 Kb

tenicamp

Antecedent of Thelema- Relativity and the Hermetic Doctrine

...there is no point in infinite extension which may not be regarded as the centre of a circle having an expanding circumference receding indefinitely into space.*** Every individuality is therefore indefinitely perfectible, since the moral order is analogous to the physical, and since we cannot conceive any point as unable to dilate, increase and radiate in a philosophically unlimited circle. What ...

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starchamber007

Apologies in Advance, the opposite of a pipe dream.

... where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen–I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and ...

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Dicworld fic: "(Let's Play) Master and Servant" (Vetinari/Drumknott)

...and age. Balancing these factors requires some skill, like the puzzle-solving the Patrician enjoys. Perhaps, the secretary thinks, it's even a little bit like ruling the city. Politics in miniature, finite, perfectible, and safe. "Thank you," says the secretary's master, not looking up from the array of draught letters spread out before him. After another minute of reading, he tastes the tea; he ...

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kindkit

Where's Neil when you need him?

... nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want...

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thatdamnvirgo

Two of the Most Beautiful Quotes Ever

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hear me now and believe me later.

...we have the knowhow. We can live forever. Transhumanism is the art, science and study of human modification. It is the practical application of the noble idea that humans are perfectible. We can confront and overcome our petty mortal limitations. Transhumanism is the 21st century progeny of humanism. Where humanists of the nineteenth century sought to liberate themselves from the oppressions of...

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xxxtitsxxx

A Must-Read

... sort of idea has any traction at all concerns me, because we should be going in the other direction, trying to find ways to both encourage better health habits and understand that people are not perfectible." It talks a lot about weight, smoking, health, and shame, but also touches on the anti-vaccination movement, compassion, and an idea I've been reading a lot about lately (in the excellent ...

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shahnasa

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