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Focus, a misunderstood musical album but ahead of its time [ENG/ESP]

Source Source At a time when most metal bands were well defined by their musical genre, on September 14, 1993, an album titled Focus was released by Cynic, who already

Quit With The Relentless Optimism Already: A New Community Has Appeared

Where have all of the good degenerates gone? It's a question I think not enough of you are asking. Back before the days of Hive and me pretending to be interested

Conservatives surge ahead of Liberals in latest Polls 🇨🇦

It looks like Canada is headed for a Change this Election with the Conservatives surging ahead of the Liberals… We will see what happens on September 20th but I

AI - Is it a fad, fiction, doomsday or opportunity?

I and @ddrfr33k are having an interesting conversation about AI in my latest post on the (new) economics of self driving cars and I thought to throw it out to the

I like alcohol

It helps me pretend i like people.

Eyes of the Cynic

You come to the poets, for laments and lampoons For affairs of the loin, and laughs of a loon To the eyes of the cynic Nothing holds weight Forever suspending judgment

干物仔的摘评

1、是谁拍了垃圾桶？ 忽如一夜朝鲜来 也许当一个事物无法改变的时候，我们就会转而让自己认为它是天经地义的，面对一个既不认可又无法改变的东西是痛苦的，而承认它的合理性则会让人觉得舒服。 中国共产党没有毛笔 习得性无助 2、财务自由是个大骗局 对有产者来说，把钱捂起来，就是自取灭亡；靠工作所得，又是杯水车薪；把钱投出去，更是任人宰割。

I'm Not Educated Enough To Be A Cynic!

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Song of the day #106

Probably one of the best known songs by Cynic. I have this album, and it is the only Cynic album I own. I really like their music. I need to take a month to listen

Wise Man Words About Cynic

It all depends on what you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.

Skeptical Cynic Channel Introduction

Welcome, I am the Skeptical Cynic and this is my channel. On this channel we will research, debate and come to a conclusion based on the truth as it exists. I invite

Wise Man Words About Cynic

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay. Author: Basava

Wanting Little or Wanting Nothing

Self sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια) is sometimes attributed to the Cynics, but with little reason. The word is rarely used in writings relating to them. In Bion's treatise

Pestilence - Multi Dimensional 1st Single released from new album Hadeon

Enjoy New Music from Pestilence. I played the Lead guitars on this album. Hope you all enjoy this song. You can order the album here.

Not Educated Enough To Be A Cynic.

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Living From Day to Day

Ἐφήμερον signified improvidence or living in the present. Gregory Nazianzen says: "Come, O philosopher and wise man. . . . Come Dog, not with shamelessness

The City Swarms with These Vermin

The Cynics rejected learning but professed to possess wisdom. A question arose as to the manner in which this wisdom was obtained. Dio Chrysostom said that the wise

Philosophers Who are No Philosophers

Ἀμαθία (ignorance) was a natural result of the Cynic indifference. "Diogenes, being asked who were the noblest men, said, 'Those despising wealth, learning,

For a young man not yet; for an old man never at all

Ἀγαμία (celibacy) was a Cynic principle in spite of the tradition that Crates had a wife and children. "Being asked what was the right time to marry, Diogenes

Extreme Public Indecencies

Sometimes ἀδοξία was used in a positive sense to mean disrepute or infamy, such as might result from the perpetration of crimes or shocking public opinion. It was