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Karpel!

All active posters should be up for nomination, as all active posters make these boards what they are… even Guide ; )

That’s how you know someone is useless, empty. When they suggest that the exceptional were just “first in line”.

Why socialism will never produce genius.

Thanks :smiley:

K: ummmm, listed is three winners of the Nobel prize for literature,
all of them Russians during the communist years,
Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov and of course Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn…

of course, no genius there……

Kropotkin

I don’t think Pasternak was a socialist and he was born in 1890 and seems to have been pretty cranky in conforming to what communist, not socialist leaders wanted. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism, he was raised in the Orthodox Church by his mother, his family’s land was taken and made communal, and he had to hide his father’s wealthy past. Mikhail Sholokhov sort of works, though again, here we are dealing with communism, not socialism, and large scale communism

I suppose if one is arguing that som geniuses might be created by communism if they hate and rebel against it, the other two might be good examples.

Better examples might come from, say, Scandanavia.

You guys are unforgivable for leaving off Dostoevski.

But Scandinavia never abandoned capitalism.

Good repudiation of Peter.

HAHAHA HA
Fjodor a Socialist…

If you’d read any of his work you’d see the humour in such a remark.

Funny.

Thanks, but if you consider Scandanavia capitalist, with free health care, free education, free dental for kids, an extensive social support system, extremely high taxes rates capitalist,
then most of US liberals you classify as socialists are extreme capitalists by comparison.

Obviously I’m not the most perceptive poster since I’m only now discovering this thread :laughing:

But I vote Carleas because he’s the most likely to concede points in earnest aspiration for truth and I think his respectful style of interaction with members should be a model for us all.

Hell yeah, on the scoreboard! Suck it, Meno!

Yeah? Somebody here did me a favor.

If we’re talking ferocious, that would be Urwrongx1000… I’m not saying he’s always right, but he would be the most ferocious in defence of his argument.

I will post an update commentary on the current positions thus far… exciting, I know :slight_smile:

He relents and will stop replying after a while, but Prism won’t give up. He’ll argue about what it means to be a Christian until Christ returns lol

I retract my suck it. I have met my match.

Is being ferocious good or bad?

A dictionary definition which looks generally negative (in my opinion) :
Ferocious:

  1. savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel
  2. extreme or intense

Fierce :

  1. menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
  2. violent in force, intensity, etc.:fierce winds.
  3. furiously eager or intense:fierce competition.
  4. Informal . extremely bad or severe:a fierce cold.
    dictionary.com/browse/ferocious

I’m guessing, that like most things, it may have it’s pros and it’s cons… depending on the circumstance at hand. :confusion-shrug: One-dimensionality probably pigeon-holes, whereas a multi-faceted character has more to play with… probably.

:laughing: Even the word ferocious, sounds ferocious.

:music-singing:

Karpel Tunnel still out in front holding the lead,

with WendyDarling now in 2nd place… who are both pulling away from the pack,

and Gloominary now fallen behind in 3rd… so is now neck and neck with Serendipper,

with MagsJ and Iambiguous right behind them in 4th place,

with the remainder all trailing behind in last, with no also-rans… final results dependent on any subsequent votes.

This is a tough challenge. Anyone who’s astute enough has found amazing utterances from everyone at times, so, then it becomes about “bedside manner”.

I’ll vote Karpel - least likely to get feathers ruffled, most likely to engage.