Recent content by Ogeima

This looks like a "disclaimer"...

More from the "Zen is boring" guy. http://www.hardcorezen.blogspot.com/ http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/ Some academic translations of Dogen, foundator of the Soto Zen school. http://scbs.stanford.edu/sztp3/translations/shobogenzo/sbgz_contents.html

Toyo isn't a place you want to go to. Here's what I remember from them: There are no charges, you get a fixed commission for every trade you make. The commissions are small so you have to daytrade. But their spreads are so insane that there's no way you could be profitable. Unless, of...

The sadistic/realistic bits didn't do anything for or against the movie, for me. I didn't find it moving nor strong. I found Scorcese's "Last Temptation of Christ" way more interesting.

Asimov, if you like old sci-fi. Very simple English.

We agree on that. You're free to define "existence" and "supernatural" as contradictory terms. But you can't back it up. All you can do is share this usage with other people. Indeed, this holds true also of my definition of "existence" and "supernatural" as non contradictory terms. When I...

Indeed, when I say the USSR didn't survive this defeat, I mean "the USSR as a superpower didn't survive", not "the USSR as physical territories on Earth didn't survive". I agree that the debt problem seems huge, but then i don't have the knowledge to say that it can lead only to one...

This statement can not be proven nor disproven, so if it is to backed up it will be with something else than science. Can it make sense to use in one sentence "supernatural" and "(not) to exist"? maybe we re just hitting the limits of language here...

Supernatural beings' existence or inexistence can neither be proven nor disproven by science, for supernaturality, by definition, lies beyond the realm of science. Supernaturality can not be a "scientific object", if you will. The atheist and the believer can not rest on science to justify...

Many factors come into play in the demise of a superpower. You say it yourself when you say that Afghanistan "had something to do" with the end of the USSR or that it "turned out to be its killer". It says that it was at least a symptom, but not necessarily a cause. If you die of the flue when...

Has anyone successful both at poker and trading read this one? The poker Face Of Wall Street, Aaron brown http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471770574/sr=8-1/qid=1154180514/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4284345-9572803?ie=UTF8

2 somewhat simplistic remarks: As of now, were the US economy to fail, I don't know who it would hurt the most, but it'd hurt everyone (well, at least the G7): sure, the US borrows 2 billions a day from its partners, but then its partners also benefit from this state of affairs: who would...

In the 70s, Emmanuel Todd wrote a book in which he explained where the soviet demographic indicators would go and why and what effects it would have, and things happened as he had predicted. err, well, I must admit I haven't read the book though... I should add that, nowadays, he isn't very...

Haven't heard of it, and I'm no lawyer, but I would think that when you buy a share at an exchange, your buying is (at least partially) under the juridiction of this exchange, regardless of your nationality/location, or those of your broker. I would also think that it's not possible to sue for...

Mishima, you opened a thread on that subject on ET, why do you post the same material here?