WAR ROOM LOUNGE V11: Now With More

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Cubo de Sangre said:
It's justified by might makes right so I'm guessing it was a short debate. Contracts are entered into voluntarily.
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Yeah, I've entertained nihilism more recently as opposed to validating the discovery of natural rights, mostly though out of an appreciation of a descartian hard objectivity.

It went on for a couple pages though.
 
Greoric said:
Yeah, I've entertained nihilism more recently as opposed to validating the discovery of natural rights, mostly though out of an appreciation of a descartian hard objectivity.

It went on for a couple pages though.
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What's important about natural rights are that they are the building-blocks to a structure that protects the individual for the sake of the individual and not just as a necessary tool of the state (there to serve to the benefit of elites). A unifying force for the masses to overcome their individual lack of power and influence.
 
Trotsky said:
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That movie holds up so well. I'll be 90 and still laughing my ass off at it.
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
It's justified by might makes right so I'm guessing it was a short debate. Contracts are entered into voluntarily.
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It's the same problem as the taxation issue in that the argument also invalidates property (that is, property rights are dependent on a social contract).
 
Jack V Savage said:
It's the same problem as the taxation issue in that the argument also invalidates property (that is, property rights are dependent on a social contract).
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Property rights are dependent on might, as any sovereign citizen can tell you. :D
 
Side note fellows...

I'm starting drinking early to brace for impact for the manny Pacquiao/mattysshe fight tomorrow.

Manny is the favorite, but what's going to happen is , manny is going to engage in these wild exchanges and get caught.....
 
Trotsky said:
Yeah. My favorite role of his is in 21 Grams, though.



Agreed, haha. It's easily the funniest movie I've ever seen. Followed by Napoleon Dynamite and Kingpin respectively, but both are pretty far behind.
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Incredible acting by BDT in sicario
..small things he did, like when he was sleeping with his hand shaking...obviously having nightmares...showing that he was war torn, traumatized by past events etc
 
Greoric said:
Yeah, I've entertained nihilism more recently as opposed to validating the discovery of natural rights, mostly though out of an appreciation of a descartian hard objectivity.
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"Descartian hard objectivity" is the most Greoric phrase ever, in the way it betrays both extreme pretension about his learning and his lack of it. Almost anyone else would just say "objectivity," but almost the entire remainder would know the correct adjective.

Cubo de Sangre said:
Property rights are dependent on might, as any sovereign citizen can tell you. :D
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Sure, but the point is that any argument you use to attack the moral legitimacy of gov't also kicks out the legitimacy of property (naturally given that the gov't and property are inextricably linked).
 
Trotsky said:
Agreed, haha. It's easily the funniest movie I've ever seen. Followed by Napoleon Dynamite and Kingpin respectively, but both are pretty far behind.
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Interesting. I'm with you on two of them being great. ND is fun, but not super funny, IMO, but it's just MO.

Weird thing about comedy for me is that the movies that make me laugh the most the first time don't tend to hold up over time. My favorite movies that are comedies, the ones that are most rewatchable and that seem to never age, are usually not the funniest (for example, Groundhog Day is a comedy, and one of the best movies ever made, but it's not very funny).
 
Trotsky said:
Yeah. My favorite role of his is in 21 Grams, though.



Agreed, haha. It's easily the funniest movie I've ever seen. Followed by Napoleon Dynamite and Kingpin respectively, but both are pretty far behind.
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Kingpin is awesome -- ND was great in my university (weed) days but I find it pretty dry now.
 
Jack V Savage said:
Interesting. I'm with you on two of them being great. ND is fun, but not super funny, IMO, but it's just MO.

Weird thing about comedy for me is that the movies that make me laugh the most the first time don't tend to hold up over time. My favorite movies that are comedies, the ones that are most rewatchable and that seem to never age, are usually not the funniest (for example, Groundhog Day is a comedy, and one of the best movies ever made, but it's not very funny).
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Surprise and spontaneity I find are keys to a comedy -- you lose that as you rewatch them. Probably why no one really laughs at that scenes shown in the trailer during the movies.


Groundhog day is funny as hell but I'm into deadpan -- it's why King Of the Hill is my all time favorite animation show.
 
HomerThompson said:
Agreed. He was overlooked in True Detective because McConaughey brought it so hard.

But, he was brilliant as well.
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True Detective was one of those tandem performances where I think the wrong guy got praise.

The other one is Brokeback Mountain, where I think Jake Gyllenhaal had a much harder role and did a better job than Heath Ledger. With Harrelson in True Detective, I don't think his role was harder, but I do think he was nevertheless the more impressive actor.

Harrelson in Out of the Furnace was a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing flick.
 
Trotsky said:
True Detective was one of those tandem performances where I think the wrong guy got praise.

The other one is Brokeback Mountain, where I think Jake Gyllenhaal had a much harder role and did a better job than Heath Ledger. With Harrelson in True Detective, I don't think his role was harder, but I do think he was nevertheless the more impressive actor.

Harrelson in Out of the Furnace was a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing flick.
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I thought Out of the Furnace was solid. But, I agree that it was disappointing to some extent.

It could've been an all time great film with the cast they had.
 
One of my favorite Woody roles is in, 7 Psychopaths. I love that whole film, frankly.

I think I like it more than, In Bruges(same director).
 
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