Recent content by kmik

hey I have not posted here in a while... what's up with this forum???

I just want to say that I still try to follow this "column", although I barely get to see my sweet home now. So keep up the good job! :)

Hemingway's novels suck, but his short stories are genius. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is my favorite short story ever. His style had a bad influence on literature, though (easy to imitate)

A matter of stylistic preference; I don't think Saramago's style is symbolic in any way. Many people talk of how the absence of naming is supposed to somehow represent blindness: if you think about it for a moment, it's stupid. You would have expected such a book to lack visual descriptions and...

I'll be a little more careful. We've established that being is not a being. I'd have thought that's because beings show up within being, so being cannot be a being in itself, but the reasoning here is different: being is not a being since all beings are. My mistake was to assume that the...

Finally someone who agrees that DeLillo sucks! I don't understand why he gets any credit. He has such "internetish" style, so obviously "typed". I read recently an article called A Reader's Manifesto which attacks American prose style, and it was mostly right on the mark (except for McCarthy...

It's true, and that could be part of the reasons that the laws cannot be canceled at this point, but it's not the only reason ..

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are also censored, even though obviously fake. Whether the implications of Holocaust denial are inevitably antisemitic etc. is open to question but it's not absurd to suppose they are; given that, it's clear why these laws exist.

I agree with almost everything. I myself am not too passionate on either side when it comes to laws against Holocaust denial but I'll defend the other position for fun. See, you question yourself the forces that have criminalized revisionism. You've already got the answer: I think it's for its...

I apologize, OldScratch. This was not in place, because you argue very well even on such "sensitive" subjects; but, see, I was not even trying to be sarcastic. What I've been trying to illustrate, apparently without success, is that Holocaust denial differs from regular historical revisionism in...

hibernal_dream: I agree with you that moral judgments and historical research are different things and I dont' know where I said otherwise. I don't understand how citing probability makes any sense in the context of our argument because it can be applied to everything. The thing is that you...

That thinking can exist without something that thinks does not refute any logical axioms. It's logically possible. Your second statement is very interesting. Didn't think about that myself, but the implications reach far beyond that of the Cognito itself

I think he was bullshitting. "Bad gays" and "Good gays" has more to do with personality than sexual orientation.

The study of history is scientific research. It is based on evidence. With time, new evidence comes to light and existing evidence is interpreted differently. This is the entire point. Of course nothing is 100% probable but nothing is. To cite Roman history (what a vague term!) makes no sense in...

I am saying that the demon twists my brain into believing that thinking without something that thinks is impossible, just like he could possibly trick me about 1 + 1 = 2. I am not saying that if something is not sensed then it does not exist. There is existence that is independent of the...