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@Dark Wind I assume you read them in English? I was always kind of hesitant to read them because they'd be translations and some of the storytelling flair would be lost when transferred to English.

@POOHEAD189

I did. I have no doubt that there is probably something lost within the translations. Even still, the writing is top tier.

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@POOHEAD189 If you want to have a go with mind theories, just explore the Brain in a vat theory.

Addition: I think I had a debate with someone about this here once. It was about truth being subjective or objective. My statement is that the truth is always objective, personal truths aren't really truths so much as they are perspectives/opinions. And, the proof of objective truth is the simple and inarguable premise that somewhere there is existence. We may be figments of an imagination, but there has to be an imaginer beyond that.

And that's all there is to that, lol, way to get me going on philosophy.

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Fiction: Fantasy

Baptism of Fire (Third in the Witcher Saga) by Andrzej Sapkowski -- A continuation of the previous excellence in The Time of Contempt (#2) and Blood of Elves (#1). Really, as far as anti-hero grey morality fantasy narratives go, these books are the best. They have the flavor of traditional fantasy twisted into something different. It takes the pristine picture of honor and heroism but shows chinks in the armor, a rot festering underneath. To summarize, it's about a monster hunter who encounters various different problems revolving around a girl he raised and took in as his own daughter by the name of Ciri. He needs to find her, and he's going to do all the things he needs to do to get her back. The plots are simple in these books, but the characters and their characterizations are perhaps the finest pieces of fantasy literature I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. If you want to be moved by Sapkowski's brilliant understanding of the full range that the human condition displays, then look no further. Read them all. READ THEM ALLLLLLL.

Note: Obviously I hate the Witcher.

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That's not really the point of that meme headline. Do you need a snickers, Dynamo?

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lulz

@mdk

Amazing what a decade can bring.

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Presidents, like police officers, should be held to a certain standard.

@POOHEAD189

And as far as I'm concerned, Trump held up to his end of that bargain with his original condemnations with regards to Charlottesville. I have no patience for pseudo-moralistic outrage or the non-existent standard of virtue upon which the vast majority of establishment politicians and partisan media members shriek their pontificated nonsense.

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<Snipped quote by Penny>

Seven, to be precise

@mdk

Let's hope we get Roy Moore after that.

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@POOHEAD189

I didn't say you did, I said you sounded similar. Hillary, being that she's a recent losing candidate and almost the first female president of the United States, holds similar clout to her name as our current POTUS. If we want one person to condemn condemn condemn, then she shouldn't be free of the same condemn condemn condemn moral outrage. She, after being ragged, finally did say something. All we ask for is consistency of outrage if we're going to be outraged about people not condemning things.

ADDITION: I also don't blame Obama for George W. Bush's garbage economic choices or for George H.W. Bush's garbage economic choices, or for Bill Clinton's. However, he certainly has a hand in doubling the debt.

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No one's talking about it because no one mentioned her, and she's not the president.

@POOHEAD189

"Bush is no longer president."

It's funny how you sound like Bill O'Reilly/Fox News during the beginning of the Obama years. As they say, the cycle continues.

Besides, I think mdk's point is that there's a double standard. That's it. She's still a major political figure of nearly the same clout as Trump, and was ALMOST president.

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Trump fighting the Globalists