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Traditional Catholic Faith => Anσnymσus Posts Allowed => Topic started by: Änσnymσus on October 08, 2012, 08:17:10 PM
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1. Have you ever seen the feminist movie Hockey Night with Megan Follows?
2. What was your favorite movie and tv show growing up?
3. What is your favorite cheap candy and expensive candy?
4. Recommend a philosophy book for beginners?
5. Who on Cathinfo have you most learned from?
6. You give off a calm and relaxed vibe. And you never appear angry. Is this calmness something innate or something you've achieved?
7. This was your first post on Cathinfo: "I'll watch this after work. There's a book out there all about this titled Shadowplay. I haven't read it yet, but it gets good reviews."
How did you find out about Cathinfo, and how long did you lurk before joining?
8. Do you have an IQ above 135?
9. Is there anything you'd like to say to Belgians who may be lurking?
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This was never answered by Graham.
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1. No.
2. Movie: When I was much younger I told people that my favourite movie was 'Beverly Hillbillies', but I only ever saw it once, and now the only scene I can remember is where the hillbillies are driving and one of them gives someone the finger. I guess that was the main part that I liked.
TV show: Bugs Bunny and Tweety when I was very young, and later on I watched Dragon Ball Z every day.
3. No particular favourites, but when I eat candy these days it's typically dark chocolate or maple fudge.
4. Plato. The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo are often sold together, and are short, deep, dramatic, impassioned, and require no background in philosophy.
5. It is very close, but I will say PereJoseph. He is learned and devout, and I don’t think I’ve ever skipped a post by him. There’s a reason the man has more rep points than posts. He’s been a good (online) friend to me as well.
6. People frequently say that. It’s mostly innate. It’s not as though I am a volcano of passion kept in check through tyranny of will. My passions move slowly and if there is one that consistently predominates, it’s melancholy. Then again, I have been attracted to the unmovable ascetic ideal since I was a teen. I took to sleeping on the floor and taking cold showers. Later I tried fasting, vigils, solitude, and forced marching. This was before I was religious. So there is some natural achievement too.
7. Posting on FE and I kept hearing about a mysterious “other place” that wasn’t Catholic Answers. My interest was piqued because it always seemed like the liberals loathed it. Then I recall reading the violent blow-outs between Tele and the harpy horde, and admiring his intensity and wanting to hear more from him. Eventually I found my way here and, if memory serves, starting posting right away.
8. Well, I used to. It was 138.
9. Yes. There is. But the message is weighty, and the moment not yet fully ripe. If my reticence with respect to lurking Belgians appears, today, too cold and inhuman, I only ask that they trust in my warm and hitherto unquestionable dedication to their silent cause.
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It should still be 138. Unless you hit your head or something.
I'm somewhat surprised that you chose PereJoseph. Though he is one of the more important contributors here.
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I'm somewhat surprised that you chose PereJoseph. Though he is one of the more important contributors here.
The question asked for one, so I flipped a coin. It's apples and oranges anyway.
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Graham, were you popular in high school?
What do you think of Nietzsche? Is he dangerous for Catholics to read?
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Graham, were you popular in high school?
Well, in my class there were about 350 students. If we say for argument’s sake that there are five tiers of social status in high school, then in grades 9 and 10 I was in the middle, and in grades 11 and 12 I was in the second highest. I was a talented and I guess a likable person, but shy.
What do you think of Nietzsche? Is he dangerous for Catholics to read?
Nietzsche’s unrelenting contempt for sentimentality and the democratic spirit was worthwhile to me and hypothetically could be to many of us. Bishop Williamson himself made a similar point in a recent lecture. But if we can find strong antidotes to these problems in Catholic sources then I see no good reason for reading Nietzsche, and every reason for regular Catholics to avoid him, seeing how titanic and infectious his pride is, how many terrible errors he espouses, and how easily he becomes a habit.
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It should still be 138. Unless you hit your head or something.
I'm somewhat surprised that you chose PereJoseph. Though he is one of the more important contributors here.
I am not surprised at all. PereJoseph is a very smart guy.
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Did you go to a public or private school? You seem too cultivated to be the product of a public school, unless it was in a tony area.
What is the funniest book you've ever read?
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Did you go to a public or private school? You seem too cultivated to be the product of a public school, unless it was in a tony area.
What is a tony area? I went to a public school. 99% of the students were white, and 90%+ went on to college or university. Maybe that qualifies as a tony area.
There was a push to put me in private school from my mother's side, especially from my grandad, an Old Boy from Lakefield. He had sent my mom to Branksome Hall, her brothers to Lakefield and Upper Canada College. But I didn't want to be seperated from my primary school friends.
In university I knew a lot of people from St. Michael's and UCC, and I don’t think private school had much cultivating effect on them. In fact, from having known them, I'm rather grateful I didn't wind up going to a private school. They were cliquish hipsters and threw coke parties. So if I seem cultivated, that's my family's influence.
What is the funniest book you've ever read?
Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse or Cugel’s Saga by Vance.
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99% of the students were white
Allow me to correct myself. Perhaps 90% were white.
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I'm going to read Cugel's Saga.
Have you ever, even just once in your life, struck a pose like either of the two guys at this link?
(http://h.dropcanvas.com/o5t5q/Captasdfasdfasure.PNG)
Do you know that for just $5 you could get a +18GB DropBox account?
(http://h.dropcanvas.com/o5t5q/Captsadfasdgfsadgasdure.PNG)
Of the people at the following link, which do you think has the best name:
(http://h.dropcanvas.com/vqnpm/Capsadfasdfasdasdture.PNG)
And which of the females do you think most pleasing to the eye?
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Ugh. Forgot that it's a pain to post links down here.
You'll be able to see the links if you hit "reply" and scroll down.
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I'm going to read Cugel's Saga.
It's quite funny. It's a picaresque. The humour relies on irony, so you have to be sensitive to language to get it.
"Are you ready for unorthodox procedures?" Cugel says that at one point.
Have you ever, even just once in your life, struck a pose like either of the two guys at this link?
I don't strike poses. I'm quite inhibited that way. Sometimes I cross my arms, or put my weight on one foot.
Do you know that for just $5 you could get a +18GB DropBox account?
I didn't. I'm afraid that's not interesting to me.
Of the people at the following link, which do you think has the best name:
Hey, I think I was considering that program in 2010.
I would say Bradley Vines, except that the W. upsets the rhythm. So I choose Maria Teresa Morena Sala. She is also the most attractive.
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can't see the images
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If you hit reply, then scroll all the way down the page, you'll see the links.
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If you hit reply, then scroll all the way down the page, you'll see the links.
That doesn't work.
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It worked for me :scratchchin:
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I don't strike poses. I'm quite inhibited that way. Sometimes I cross my arms, or put my weight on one foot.
I didn't. I'm afraid that's not interesting to me.
:laugh1:
There's a lot of great names on that page. And faces.
I would have chosen Giulia deProphetis or Isabelle Vaudeville for best name. And Eve-Marie Quintin as most eye pleasing.
But you're you. Different strokes for different folks.
What was your favorite family trip as a kid?
Do you ever worry about your future?
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I don't strike poses. I'm quite inhibited that way. Sometimes I cross my arms, or put my weight on one foot.
I didn't. I'm afraid that's not interesting to me.
:laugh1:
There's a lot of great names on that page. And faces.
I would have chosen Giulia deProphetis or Isabelle Vaudeville for best name.
I don't remember seeing those names. None of the women were my type, in looks.
What was your favorite family trip as a kid?
Tough question.
But it has to be the cross-Canada trip. We took the VW camper van all the way from Toronto to the west coast, then up to the Yukon, then back. We spent the whole summer. My dad read us The Prisoner of Zenda (and other things) in the evenings. It's still one of my favourite books. I saw the prairies (dead flat!) and grizzly bears and great horned owls and the northern lights.
That was the summer between grades five and six. Thanks for asking that.
Do you ever worry about your future?
Sometimes. It is too personal.
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What do you think about libertarianism?
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Libertarianism is (1) false and (2) impracticable.
(1) First, it is based on the false premises of political individualism, economic reductionism, and social contract theory. Catholics believe that the family is the basic social group, that man’s end is spiritual, that the state was created by God, and that it is obliged to profess Catholicism. Right off the bat we can see the incompatibility.
(2) In practise, libertarianism would create a vacuum of power, which is of course unnatural and could not be maintained long except through external intervention (which would be an internal contradiction). My brother, who is basically an anarcho-capitalist, inadvertantly expressed this contradiction when he once said to me that in a libertarian society all children would have to be thoroughly educated in libertarianism in order to resist the tendency for power structures to 'ossify'. Human nature being what it is, I think that within a generation such a society would regroup into a primitive feudalism.
It might be objected that there are many different kinds of libertarianism, some of which might be compatible with Catholic teaching, etc. I’ve read Hans-Hermann Hoppe before, and his vision seemed somewhat conservative and appealing. Ultimately I think the social doctrine of the Church is best expressed in Christian Corporatism, as expressed in writings like Quadragesimo Anno, and that in terms of secular thought the perspectives of men like Karl Polanyi (The Great Transformation) or even Alisdair MacIntyre are more valuable than the Libertarians.
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Impressive writing Graham. I didn't remember which thread this tab was yet I could recognize the author.
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When I think of "libertarianism" I don't even think of its supposed theoretical basis, which seems so ridiculous. Rather it seems to be a collection of attitudes, sometimes combined with "objectivism."
They have a horror of "might makes right" - yet they seem to substitute the principle that control over money and property justifies every use of it. Which is rather comical - it is such a transparently self-interested "philosophy."
(or rather "self-interested" for those who imagine themselves rich in the future)
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Impressive writing Graham. I didn't remember which thread this tab was yet I could recognize the author.
I guess my writing style is characteristic, and I secured and hold my job on the strength of it, but I've always wished I could write in a more 'biblical' style - more like Saint Paul, for instance. British mannerisms and equivocations come too naturally to me.
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When I think of "libertarianism" I don't even think of its supposed theoretical basis, which seems so ridiculous. Rather it seems to be a collection of attitudes, sometimes combined with "objectivism."
Yes, libertarians are often fanatical about it.
They have a horror of "might makes right" - yet they seem to substitute the principle that control over money and property justifies every use of it. Which is rather comical - it is such a transparently self-interested "philosophy."
That hasn't been my experience, that sounds more like a republican attitude. The libertarians I've encountered tend to disparage the western plutocracy because it is socialist.
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Have you ever considered buying 5 acres of land and building a cabin?
What do you think the West will look like in 50 years?
Do you like pork rinds?
Please name 5 movies you enjoy.
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You know we really have no idea if this is Graham who has been answering these questions.
It could be anyone. Maybe roscoe.
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:smoke-pot:
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Graham has been answering the questions. His writing style is hard to mistake.
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What about his writing style gives him away?
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He uses uncommon words quite naturally. Simple, concise sentances- often intermingled with a poetic thought.
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Have you ever considered buying 5 acres of land and building a cabin?
Considered is the wrong word. Dreamed of it. I don't yet have the means to 'consider' it.
I'm not sure if I would need companionship or not. I want a wife, but at times I think that's weakness talking.
This evening I was visiting with a priest my age. He talked about the moment, some time following the conferrance of the subdiaconate, when it dawned on him that he would never marry. He was sitting on a hill in Switzerland. I felt something uncanny when he related it.
It was one of those moments when you realize that another person really exists, in the same way that you exist. But there was something else: a dim kind of recognition. How many times have I sat alone on a hill and danced around that same thought?
You know, I've a collection of things for my future wife. I have no idea who or even if she'll be, but I have some things I know she would like.
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Like what things? An end table?