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Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team - Wikileaks

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:14:38 -0000

Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

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Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:06:35 -0000

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How can I trust someone to tell the truth in a blog?
Does someone else’s rating reflect my own taste?
Do I want this person as part of my discussion group?
Will this computer help upload files over a peer-to-peer network if I let it use my computer to download files?

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View Contagious

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:29:42 -0000

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Dove strips away the smoke and mirrors to remind us that nobody's perfect. 200,000 views on youTube in one week.

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Fake Steve Here, Fake Steve There

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:27:44 -0000

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Fake Steve Here, Fake Steve There

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The Nietzsche Channel: On the Genealogy of Morals: Third Essay

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:14:18 -0000

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As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe—the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles.—

What, in all strictness, has really conquered the Christian God? The answer may be found in my Gay Science (section 357): "Christian morality itself, the concept of truthfulness taken more and more strictly, the confessional subtlety of the Christian conscience translated and sublimated into the scientific conscience, into intellectual cleanliness at any price. To view nature as if it were a proof of the goodness and providence of a God; to interpret history to the glory of a divine reason, as the perpetual witness to a moral world order and moral intentions, to interpret one's own experiences, as pious men long interpreted them, as if everything were preordained, everything a sign, everything sent for the salvation of the soul—that now belongs to the past, that has the conscience against it, that seems to every more sensitive conscience indecent, dishonest, mendacious, feminism, weakness, cowardice: it is this rigor if anything that makes us good Europeans and the heirs of Europe's longest and bravest self-overcoming."

If we look for the beginnings of Christianity in the Roman world, we find organizations growing up for mutual support, combinations of the poor and sick, for burial, on the lowest levels of contemporary society, in which that major way of combating depression, the minor joys which habitually develop out of mutual demonstrations of kindness, were consciously employed. Perhaps at the time this was something new, a real discovery? Such a calling out for "the will to mutual assistance," for the formation of the herd, for "a community," for a "congregation," must summon up again, if only in the smallest way, an aroused will to power and lead to new and much greater outbursts. In the fight against depression, the development of the herd is an essential step and a victory. By growing, the community also reinforces in the individual a new interest, which often enough raises him up over the most personal features of his bad disposition, his dislike of himself (Geulinx's despectio sui ["Contempt for oneself." Arnold Geulinx (1624-69) discussed in Kuno Fischer's Geschichte der neuern Philosophie I]). All sick pathological people, in their desire to shake off a stifling lack of enthusiasm and a feeling of weakness, instinctively strive for the organization of a herd. The ascetic priest senses this instinct and promotes it. Where there is a herd, it's the instinct of weakness which has willed the herd, and the cleverness of the priest which has organized it.

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The Internet Classics Archive | Meno by Plato

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:48:57 -0000

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Soc. He is Greek, and speaks Greek, does he not?

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What do we actually know about Mohammed? Patricia Crone - openDemocracy

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:36:18 -0000

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is it offensive to be objective? when did historical bible study take off - 19th century hegelians? posted by tonycurzonprice

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The biggest problem facing scholars of the rise of Islam is identifying the context in which the prophet worked. What was he reacting to, and why was the rest of Arabia so responsive to his message? We stand a good chance of making headway, for we are nowhere near having exploited to the full our three main types of evidence – the traditions associated with the prophet (primarily the hadith), the Qur'an itself, and (a new source of enormous promise) archaeology.

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Digital cameras focus on revised reality | CNET News.com

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:53:49 -0000

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Some new Hewlett-Packard cameras include a feature that makes subjects look thinner, while another mode makes facial lines and pores virtually disappear. A "skin tone" feature on some Olympus models can give consumers a leisure-class tan. Other manufacturers offer modes to make the colors of the world richer as you capture them. Using these new in-camera tools, consumers can even crop out ex-boyfriends, or put a virtual frame around a new one.

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CNN.com - Reuters says Mideast photographer doctored shots - Aug 7, 2006

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:49:53 -0000

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epistemic virtue, picture-doctoring and the Truth posted by tonycurzonprice

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after a review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.

"There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," Szlukovenyi said in a statement. (Watch another picture Reuters says was manipulated -- 1:32)

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