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by archylgp » 12 Jun 2012, 13:14
headhonchoII wrote:White people can come here if they want to, but why would they want to? It's difficult to adapt to, costs a lot to just get to, hot and humid, far away, crowded, hard to earn a living, there are few international tourists or business people, hard to get around with lack of English. Most people would have no interest to visit here let alone live here, even friends and family back home.
After living here, it's hard to image why anyone would come here. Before coming here, it's hard to image why anyone wouldn't..haha...If you could do it all over knowing what you know now, would you still move here?
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by bismarck » 12 Jun 2012, 13:25
archylgp wrote:headhonchoII wrote:White people can come here if they want to, but why would they want to? It's difficult to adapt to, costs a lot to just get to, hot and humid, far away, crowded, hard to earn a living, there are few international tourists or business people, hard to get around with lack of English. Most people would have no interest to visit here let alone live here, even friends and family back home.
After living here, it's hard to image why anyone would come here. Before coming here, it's hard to image why anyone wouldn't..haha...
If you could do it all over knowing what you know now, would you still move here?
Yes, I would have come three years earlier though and done some things a little differently.
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by archylgp » 12 Jun 2012, 18:57
bismarck wrote:archylgp wrote:headhonchoII wrote:White people can come here if they want to, but why would they want to? It's difficult to adapt to, costs a lot to just get to, hot and humid, far away, crowded, hard to earn a living, there are few international tourists or business people, hard to get around with lack of English. Most people would have no interest to visit here let alone live here, even friends and family back home.
After living here, it's hard to image why anyone would come here. Before coming here, it's hard to image why anyone wouldn't..haha...
If you could do it all over knowing what you know now, would you still move here?
Yes, I would have come three years earlier though and done some things a little differently.
I would do the same, too, and also do some things differently.
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by bismarck » 13 Jun 2012, 07:35
trubadour wrote:I would JOYFULLY DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS I have DONE, EVERYTIME
don't you guyz know your Nietzsche?
Not a huge fan of German philosophers. Far too droll for my taste.
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by TheGingerMan » 14 Jun 2012, 23:54
trubadour wrote:I would JOYFULLY DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS I have DONE, EVERYTIME
don't you guyz know your Nietzsche?
Obviously, you don't.
The above quote is, in diction and in spirit, quite indicative of the abominable manner in which the nuance of Nietchy has been repeatedly sabotaged.
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by Confuzius » 15 Jun 2012, 00:34
TheGingerMan wrote:trubadour wrote:I would JOYFULLY DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS I have DONE, EVERYTIME
don't you guyz know your Nietzsche?
Obviously, you don't.
The above quote is, in diction and in spirit, quite indicative of the abominable manner in which the nuance of Nietchy has been repeatedly sabotaged.
Most people also dunno that he rarely came up with anything on his own, SO much of his stuff he took from his contemporaries, or even Jewish stories which predated him a couple hundred years at most....reworded the just a TEENSY bit and passed it off as though they were his own ideas.
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by TheGingerMan » 15 Jun 2012, 22:17
Confuzius wrote:TheGingerMan wrote:trubadour wrote:I would JOYFULLY DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS I have DONE, EVERYTIME
don't you guyz know your Nietzsche?
Obviously, you don't.
The above quote is, in diction and in spirit, quite indicative of the abominable manner in which the nuance of Nietchy has been repeatedly sabotaged.
Most people also dunno that he rarely came up with anything on his own, SO much of his stuff he took from his contemporaries, or even Jewish stories which predated him a couple hundred years at most....reworded the just a TEENSY bit and passed it off as though they were his own ideas.
This is a valid point you make. He did synthesize much of what he read in libraries. However, I would argue that is precisely the point. His whole trip was atavistic.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Oblique often carries the day!
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by Exister » 20 Jun 2012, 17:46
All the staring and pointing makes me feel like this:
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