Sun 8 Nov, 2009 11:14 pm - I thought long and meaningfully about this, summing up my life's experience and knowledge.
And the answer is ---- No. (view)
Sun 8 Nov, 2009 11:10 pm - Studying for a Classics exam I am reading nothing but Plato, Herodotus, Pliny et al.
It will be good to read a living author once my exam is over (or even a recently dead one!) (view)
Wed 23 Sep, 2009 04:55 pm - I always find it very unsettling when I am reading Roman and Greek writers to think that their whole society was based on slavery. No matter how badly we get treated at work in any modern Western... (view)
Sun 5 Jul, 2009 07:05 pm - I know from dealing with people's finances that inherited wealth certainly seems to stick around! Self made wealth people are often big risk takers, great when they win but they can lose it... (view)
Sun 5 Jul, 2009 06:55 pm - Despite the bad press about Australia & Indian students lately I would still recommend Australia, especially South Australia, as a destination. The incidents reported here were from a very... (view)
Mon 18 May, 2009 01:30 am - Wrong probably. Stupid certainly. I had to spend 3 hours the other week getting rid of a virus from a family member's computer. Yes, from an illegal file sharing site. Like sex, sometimes... (view)
Sun 17 May, 2009 10:53 pm - I tend to think that it doesn't "flow" anywhere, it all happens exactly at this instant, then the rest is just memory or traces of events that happened prior to just now. So there is... (view)
Sun 17 May, 2009 10:46 pm - [B][/B]Theaetetus is probably correct when he talks about the pointlessness of his Philosophy course - but isn't that true of most university courses (and probably was always so). They seem... (view)
Wed 1 Apr, 2009 09:12 pm - [quote=Phosphorous]Don't know about others, but growth strikes me as an accumulation. You grow by having more experiences, more knowledge, more emotions, and in general just facing the... (view)
