PopMatters 20 questions with Bruce Greenwood

...but if I’m in Armani at least I know I’m not paying for dinner. 14. Your dinner guest at the Ritz would be? Stevie Ray Vaughn. 15. Time travel: where, when and why? Athens, 400 BC, Socrates is talking… 16. Stress management: hit man, spa vacation or Prozac? Amp to 11, favorite Strat, Beer. Or 400 miles offshore in a 37 foot sloop. 17. Essential to life: coffee, vodka, cigarettes, chocolate, or...

memery

... a favourite philosopher: I have favourite areas of philosophy (language, mind, logic) and favourite contributions to them. But I might finish this incredibly long answer by saying I am very fond of Socrates (the "gadfly" model of philosophy, I endorse it), and Wittgenstein's theories of representation always strike me with how neat and elegantly argued they are. 3) What's your favourite guilty ...

SPOCK/UHURA AWARDS: NOMINEES LIST.

... | by slippery_stone 12. All in the Mind | by mrstater 13. Surak and Socrates Want You to Masturbate | igrockspock Best Multi-Chapter : the best long fic you ... Candy | by lunabee34 03. A Wicked Game | by belismakr 04. Surak and Socrates Want You to Masturbate | by igrockspock 05. The Hounds of Morrigan | by hounds_morrigan...

maybe I used too many monkeys

Another meme, this time less with the icons: Choose ten characters. What fandoms would they participate in, and in what ways? 1) Carl Arbogast is that guy that everyone in Leverage fandom can't stand, as he's always pointing out how the team should have been caught in their heists. He's rooting for the protagonists as much as everyone else, granted, but being a security tester makes the ...

Silicon Socrates

Give me your chin gold messenger of dreams pull back your skin holy saint of due streams constantly pushing up through shadows and dorian scaled pitch that is only one note off from the origional pasted back on the integral solder stepped flyback herding harddrives and tv guts singing with pride for the shocking tease of my chakrobot its been a while but I'm braiding into your heart missing the ...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

... in her mailbox one day and begins a correspondence course on philosophy with an unknown man. Every other day or so he sends her a new lesson-starting with the earliest philosophiers such as Plato, Socrates, etc. While doing this correspondence course, she begins to find postcards addressed to a young girl named Hilde, whose birthday is the same date as Sophie's. All the cards are sent "care of" ...

...would be that Plato was seeking to set down a fundamentally interactive sort of written philosophy. While Socrates makes arguments, they seem almost perfectly crafted to contain blind-spots which invite the reader to ... the arguments I've read so far tend towards the under-determined side of things, with Socrates building a case from a few direct examples, and his conversation partners just sort of ...

malice n wonderland

...careful direction, selecting a piece of written work as a gift can turn out disastrously disappointing. took another one of those personality tests today. still an intp like my boys decartes, einstein, pascal and socrates. still would rather sit in my room reading books than go out and meet new people (unless those people are rich, but in bremerton, statistics says i won't have much luck). still ...

Top 100: Greatest Matches

.... 6. 1982 World Cup second round group stage - Italy 3-2 Brazil With the likes of Socrates, Falcao and Zico in their side, the Brazil team in Spain were overwhelming favourites to go all the ...end-to-end encounter. Antonio Cabrini set the striker up for the opener after just five minutes, but Socrates levelled seven minutes later after a superb one-two with Zico. Rossi put Italy back in front in...

Great moments in Time-Travel

... barn-burner! Tonight, ancient Greek philosopher Socrates will take on 20th Century free ...Rand: I think you would agree, Socrates, that it is the Individual and their constant struggle what really matters. Socrates: Hmmm...that's interesting. Why do...Group that we achieve true meaning. Socrates: Hmmm...that's interesting. Why do...to get out of here! [flees] Socrates: [turning to cross-time liaison] ...