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Philosophers was founded three years ago today.

Happy birthday to us !

Laughing Hyena wrote:What do you all think?

An article in which this is discussed can be found with a Google search.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky, The New York Review of Books, 23 February 1967

Safety: First: Pacific Northwest Territories top 0.6%. Second: Central Kadigan top 2%. Third: Kingdom of Cambria top 2% … Middle: Axiotica top 30% … Last: Anarchocapitalistan bottom 0% (69th from bottom in world)

In Kurtka, nudity is frowned upon and cars are banned.

In Zahabistan, kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies.

In Borazjan, residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts.

“If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.”
― Noam Chomsky

Reporter wrote:In Volurkunst, if a tree falls in the forest Your Majesty is personally notified.

I likes me some good wood

Patriotism: First: Neo Atlas Paradise top 0.6%. Second: Kaurdelantedust top 2%. Third: MSN48 top 2% … Middle: West Belgravia top 46% … Last: Anarchocapitalistan bottom 0%

In The Imam Khannate, national magistrates in Cambulac are overwhelmed with cases of petty larceny and attempted witchcraft.

In Reporter, the banshee wail foretells skies of death.

In Dukla, the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them.

“What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'
So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?
Simon Tisdall, The Observer, 19/05/2024

article:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/natos-failure-to-save-ukraine-raises-an-existential-question-what-on-earth-is-it-for

Cheerfulness: First: Telgan top 0.5%. Second: Cognosco top 0.7%. Third: Neo Atlas Paradise top 2% … Middle: Cheer up top 29% … Last: Postapocalyptic Terror bottom 0%

In UPOSA, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles.

In Avumstan, surveillance cameras are banned.

In Borazjan, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank.

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

!!!
Happy (belated) creation day to the region!
Philosophers: ranked #1 for the best spot to be if you want to think so hard that your brain bleeds!
A place where chewing the fat is only rare because cutting to the core is so common and it is the drink that, once you have tasted, you crave the deep essence of its wise flavor for ever!

Long live the Philosophers!

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