About the Members 31: Norsefire

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  1. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    No books, but the writings of Nietzsche have helped shape my philosophy

    My honesty, my helpfulness, my friendliness, my open mindedness, my willingness to do my best

    Something Greek. I like Greek names
    I don't "drink" regularly but I have before; Budweiser is the best I've had:shrug:
    Hmm...can't think of anything
    Car, because it's convenient and comfortable
    My favorite philosopher is either Nietzsche or LaVey; I've read Nietzsche but no Rand but I've read about her. And no

    Steak, burger, kebab.........anything with meat!

    Defiance, V for Vendetta, SW: Episode II, I Spy, Goldeneye
    Favorite Quote(s)?

    I'm not big on US history, so I'll say Ron Paul. Does that count?

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    Anton Saadeh
    Ceasar, or Saladin

    No

    Yes
    House of the Scorpion, The Art of War, The Analects, Harry Potter 7, Bag of Bones
    Kendra from Girls Next Door; or Eva Green

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    Crusades
    Why did you never show yourself?

    Hitler. Odysseus. Constantine.

    Cut spending and taxes.
     
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  3. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    I'd strongly recommend that you read Atlas Shrugged, also The Fountainhead.
    There's a poem by Philip Larkin that expresses this very well:

    I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
    Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
    In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
    Till then I see what's really always there:
    Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
    Making all thought impossible but how
    And where and when I shall myself die.
    Arid interrogation: yet the dread
    Of dying, and being dead,
    Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

    The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
    -- The good not done, the love not given, time
    Torn off unused -- nor wretchedly because
    An only life can take so long to climb
    Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
    But at the total emptiness for ever,
    The sure extinction that we travel to
    And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
    Not to be anywhere,
    And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

    This is a special way of being afraid
    No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
    That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
    Created to pretend we never die,
    And specious stuff that says No rational being
    Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
    That this is what we fear -- no sight, no sound,
    No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
    Nothing to love or link with,
    The anaesthetic from which none come round.

    And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
    A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
    That slows each impulse down to indecision.
    Most things may never happen: this one will,
    And realisation of it rages out
    In furnace-fear when we are caught without
    People or drink. Courage is no good:
    It means not scaring others. Being brave
    Lets no one off the grave.
    Death is no different whined at than withstood.

    Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
    It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
    Have always known, know that we can't escape,
    Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
    Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
    In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
    Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
    The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
    Work has to be done.
    Postmen like doctors go from house to house


    http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Philip_Larkin/389
     
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  5. Cellar_Door Whose Worth's unknown Registered Senior Member

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    What's your biggest regret in life so far?

    What is your favourite painting/work of art and why?

    If you could be anywhere in the world right now where would it be?

    Does the prospect of your own death scare you more than the death of a loved one?

    Does your Islamic upbringing still affect your world view?
     
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  7. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    I don't have any major regrets yet

    I don't remember the name or artist, but it was one where a lady sat at a make up studio and all of it together, viewed in a certain way, also resembled a skull. I liked it because the theme was "all is vain"


    Somewhere cool and rainy.

    No....and yet, yes.

    Yes, in the sense that it has shaped me being a social conservative.
     
  8. Cellar_Door Whose Worth's unknown Registered Senior Member

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    Could you expand on this?
     
  9. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    I value the lives of my loved ones, obviously; but it's hard not to value my own life more. If I die, I am gone; if they die, I still live. Might sound selfish, but :shrug:

    Madanthony, decent poem, but I have a hard time understanding.

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  10. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    If you could relay just one thing for everyone to remember that helped you through your life, what would that one thing be?
     
  11. scifes In withdrawal. Valued Senior Member

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    what if he says:
    "i did, but i gave you the choice not to look"
    ?
     
  12. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Think!
    If only people did more of that

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    There's nothing to see.
     
  13. Mrs.Lucysnow Valued Senior Member

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    If you could go back to any period of time in the past which would it be? Why? Which famous person of the time would you seek out if any?
     
  14. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    This is really a tough one.

    I would either go back to the Crusades and seek out Saladin; I would do this because this period of time was one of great conflict and many heros.

    Or, I would go back to WWII and seek out Hitler; I would do this because the man interests me greatly.
     
  15. Mrs.Lucysnow Valued Senior Member

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    If you had the power to change the leader of a nation which one would it be and what type of alternate leader would you replace him with? Explain why you chose that particular nation or leader?
     
  16. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Either:

    Syria; I'd change alAssad with a more libertarian, pro-science leader; the reason is 'cause that is my hometown, of course!

    US: I'd change Obama with Ron paul; 'cause I live here!
     
  17. draqon Banned Banned

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    If you were alone standing in an astronaut suit, alone in space standing with magnetic strap on boots holding you to the vast endless arrays of solar cells stretching for thousands of miles across space, above you stars shining so brightly and soundly reflecting in the vast amount of solar cells...your radio was not functioning...your oxygen supply regenerated infinitely from CO2 and your food cycle inside the suit was enough to last for many thousand of years to come, the cell regeneration cycle was active...meaning you would practically never die as long as the power from solar arrays was there.

    So, now, North fire...would you believe in God than? to save you if you opened the helmet to the vacuum outside? Or would you wait for thousands of years until a chance would slip by and a spaceship rescued you?
     
  18. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    It depends. If I'm just stuck there and there's no way to move or anything, then I'd let myself die. But that doesn't mean I'd believe in God. I'd just let myself die.
     
  19. draqon Banned Banned

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    what if you saw a vision of God than...after spending who knows what time alone in vastness of space and darkness...would you?
     
  20. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    I suppose if I saw Him
     
  21. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

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    Height?
    Weight?
    Hair colour?
    Eye colour?
    Race?

    Favourite animal?
    Favourite colour?
    Do you talk to yourself?
    Do you read on the toilet?
    Do you pick your nose?
    Do you have any weird interests that you keep to yourself?
    Do you enjoy dead baby jokes?
    Are you diagnosed with any disorders?
     
  22. Mrs.Lucysnow Valued Senior Member

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    Space stress hallucination. Don't trust it.

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  23. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    5'7" last time I checked, so I'm guess now it's 5'8", about
    I'm not sure
    Black, although I have a tendency to grow gray or white hairs for whatever reason, but I just dye it.
    Brown, unfortunately. I'd love green.
    Arab
    The wolf; or the snake.
    green
    No, unless you count having private thoughts
    Guilty as charged.
    No, I use a napkin and blow my nose, the correct way

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    A few
    Never heard one, and I don't understand what's so funny about them:shrug:
    I don't think so. Hopefully not.
     

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