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CH20 THE STRAW MAN

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PHILOSOPHICAL PREMISE. A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent. [1] The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e. "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition. [2] [3] This technique has been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly in arguments about highly charged emotional issues where a fiery, entertaining "battle" and the defeat of an "enemy" may be more valued than critical thinking or understanding both sides of the issue. Allegedly, straw-man tactics were once known in ...

LEAVING the CITY

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                   MMMM,ALCOHOL...KINDA SCREWS YOU UP... JEFF 'THE BLOND BEAST' BRIDGES?, IN 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'... OR 'THE PALE CRIMINAL'.... Lo! the pale criminal hath bowed his head: out of his eye speaketh the great contempt. "Mine ego is something which is to be surpassed: mine ego is to me the great contempt of man": so speaketh it out of that eye. [ZARATHUSTRA CH VI] THE 'BLOND BEAST' THAT NIETZSCHE WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN IS THE 'PRE-CHRISTIAN' NORDIC OR 'ARYAN' GENETIC MAKEUP AND ITS PROPENSITY FOR TRIBAL VIOLENCE OFTHE WHITE CAUCASIAN RACE. OF COURSE THE 'ARI' TRIBES OF EUROPE,WERE IN FACT DERIVED FROM THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT.BECAUSE ENGLISH, AS, A LANGUAGE, IS, A PIE.... 'PROTO INDO-EUROPEAN'... Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages . PIE was the first proposed proto-language to be w...

CH 22 ALL QUIET, ON THE WESTERN FRONT

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 http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-and-heath-ledgers-sacrifice/ DEATH HAS ALWAYS BEEN, A JOKER. 'ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT' WAS AN OSCAR WINNING MOVIE HENCE ITS INCLUSION IN THE SCRIPT! IN,LITERATURE, 'ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT',EXPLORES, THE RELATIONSHIP, BETWEEN, INNOCENCE AND EVIL,THROUGH, THE EYES, OF, CONSCRIPT,SOLDIERS, A THEME, ECHOED, IN,KUBRICK'S,'FULL METAL JACKET'. [THE METAL JACKET, BEING A  PUN, ON COFFINS [OR IRON LUNGS?]AND MUNITIONS... SHINY METAL TIPPED BULLETS THAT DESPATCHED THE 'ENEMY', AND SHINY SILVER COFFINS, THAT TRANSPORTED OR 'ROTATED',THE DEAD GRUNTS BACK TO THE WORLD] DUALITY, IN 'FULL METAL JACKET', IS CENTRAL TO THE SCRIPTING. THE ,'JUNGIAN' QUOTES, FROM PRIVATE JOKER,ARE INTERESTING, BUT NOT REALLY, CONVINCING. THE MOVIE IS JUST ANOTHER DRUG ADVERT -THE 'PEACE SYMBOL', IS ACTUALLY AN UPSIDE DOWN CROSS.. AND I...