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The Logos of Aphrodite

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sat, 07/07/2018 - 6:05pm

And when the men have finished their beating of chests
when they have sated their desire for wrangling
and have divided up the spoils
They leave only the blame upon the table.

That blame is to be assigned to me.
I, the whole source of the matter, they claim.
They say that the war would not have occurred
save for the vanity of goddesses

Economists have no idea how capitalism works

Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 11:23pm

The experts have been asking these exact same questions for at least five years, maybe longer.
At a certain point any unbiased critique would have to conclude that the experts either don't care what the answer is (in which case they aren't experts at all), or they are completely incompetent (in which case they aren't experts at all).

Friday Night Photos - unauthorized version

Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 9:09pm

Hi all,

I can't 'host', as I will be in an out, and have no freakin' clue about how this is supposed to work, but since I don't see a thread up, figured I put a place maybe where some could toss some pix. Since I like seeing everyone's photos so much... So just have at it and I apologize if I am stepping on a foot... Here's a couple to get it going...

The Logos of Odysseus - A Veteran's Anti-War Speech.

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 4:52pm

So, thanks to the work of Shahryar I have managed to get ahold of a digital copy of The Logos of Odysseus. I have deliberately avoided as many spoilers about this, and literary analyses, to better understand the piece without the gilding of ages. So, first of all, a HUGE thank you to Shahryar for the hard work, and link to a Thesis which contained Antisthenes work in toto. It's much appreciated and this essay is my way of doing a bit of homework on the piece.

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