[audio // backdated to about 20 minutes after DO-KANSince people are curious, it was an improvised explosive placed in the shafts of all three banks of elevators on Deck 14. The primary was a mechanical explosion of aerosol cans triggered by an alcohol flame, followed by a secondary from the flammable contents of the cans ( Read more... )

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"Self" is one of the fundamentals of philosophy. Everyone, even the Buddha, agrees that it exists, but the agreement goes no further than that.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Ophelia to Claudius, in her madness.

Who are you today? Who will you be tomorrow?

How do you know?

Je pense donc je doute.

[text]...Whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.... Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself ( Read more... )

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In the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the Sibyl of Cumae is granted a wish by the god Apollo, in exchange for her virginity. She takes up a handful of sand and wishes to live for as many years as the grains of sand she holds. Later, she spurns the god's affections and he denies her eternal youth. The Sibyl wastes away over the years ( Read more... )