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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 04/15/2012 : 10:26:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by HalfMooner
(Is anyone else seeing the wrong user thumbnails displayed? My post display Hawks', and Kil's display mine! OFfC's is his own.):
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I'm not.
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Weird. I still am. I'll try clearing my Firefox cache.
Edit: That cleared the problem. I must have somehow gotten wrong data sent to me, but no longer. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/15/2012 10:35:19 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2012 : 11:13:10 [Permalink]
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| I'm sure I'm going to be embarrassed, but I just can't get this one. Unless it's Mussolini. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/15/2012 : 11:38:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
I'm sure I'm going to be embarrassed, but I just can't get this one. Unless it's Mussolini.
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It isn't. But the face fit over Mussolini's quite nicely.
Hint #7: The answer is directly in front of you, right now. Inches from your face. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2012 : 11:41:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
I'm sure I'm going to be embarrassed, but I just can't get this one. Unless it's Mussolini.
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It isn't. But the face fit over Mussolini's quite nicely.
Hint #7: The answer is directly in front of you, right now. Inches from your face.
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ummm...It's HalfMooner! |
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 11:43:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Zandermann
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
I'm sure I'm going to be embarrassed, but I just can't get this one. Unless it's Mussolini.
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It isn't. But the face fit over Mussolini's quite nicely.
Hint #7: The answer is directly in front of you, right now. Inches from your face.
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ummm...It's HalfMooner!
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D'oh! No. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 13:54:23 [Permalink]
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| Eric Hoffer |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 17:23:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Eric Hoffer
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Correct! Excellent, Kil!  *
Eric Hoffer was a self-taught philosopher and author. He was born in the Bronx in 1902, the son of a cabinetmaker. When he was five, he and his mother fell down a stairway. His mother died, and two years later Eric went blind, regaining his sight only at age 15. Hoffer began to read as much as he could, thinking he might go blind again at any time. His father died when he was about 18, and Hoffer set out for California in 1920. He lived on LA's skid row, reading and doing casual labor.
Hoffer spend years in fields as a farm worker. He meantime read (getting a library card from every town he worked in), and he wrote: My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight,
in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch.
Towns are too distracting. |
Hoffer briefly tried his hand at gold prospecting:| A seminal event for Hoffer occurred in the mountains where he had gone in search of gold. Snowed in for the winter, he read the Essays by Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne's book impressed Hoffer deeply, and he often made reference to its importance for him. He also developed a great respect for America's underclass, which, he declared, was "lumpy with talent." |
In 1942, Hoffer tried to enlist in the Army, but a hernia got him declared 4F. He instead worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco, and at that time began to write more seriously.
In 1951, Hoffer had his most famous work, The True Believer, published by Harper and Row. Per Wiki:| The book analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and the similarities between them, whether religious, political, radical or reactionary. As examples, the book often refers to Communism, Fascism, National Socialism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Islam. Hoffer believes that mass movements are interchangeable, that adherents will often flip from one movement to another, and that the motivations for mass movements are interchangeable; that religious, nationalist and social movements, whether radical or reactionary, tend to attract the same type of followers, behave in the same way and use the same tactics, even when their stated goals or values differed. |
Eric Hoffer died in 1983 at age 80.
* The joke, such as it were, was on me as much as anyone. It turns out that my (present) user sig happens to be a quote from Eric Hoffer, and which credits him. Thus the last several increasingly exasperated hints.
I'd love to claim that I planned it that way all along, but in fact I'd only noticed the sig was a "dead giveaway" after I'd posted the OP. So I crossed mt fingers and hoped nobody would read my sig, But later, as the "face" was proving very hard to identify, I hoped someone would notice it!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/15/2012 20:52:31 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 21:20:04 [Permalink]
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| I didn't really deserve to get that one I suppose. I sure didn't get it because of my vast knowledge of Eric Hoffer. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 21:29:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
I didn't really deserve to get that one I suppose. I sure didn't get it because of my vast knowledge of Eric Hoffer.
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I think you deserved it. You apparently worked at it more than anyone else, and unlike them, you got the right answer.
But please tell, how did you get it, Kil? |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/15/2012 21:29:47 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2012 : 22:26:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
I didn't really deserve to get that one I suppose. I sure didn't get it because of my vast knowledge of Eric Hoffer.
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I think you deserved it. You apparently worked at it more than anyone else, and unlike them, you got the right answer.
But please tell, how did you get it, Kil?
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I looked at what was right in front of my face. And then I googled Hoffer's name. Then I remembered that we have a thread that Storm started. True Believer. And that was all I needed. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2012 : 00:18:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Kil
I didn't really deserve to get that one I suppose. I sure didn't get it because of my vast knowledge of Eric Hoffer.
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I think you deserved it. You apparently worked at it more than anyone else, and unlike them, you got the right answer.
But please tell, how did you get it, Kil?
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I looked at what was right in front of my face. And then I googled Hoffer's name. Then I remembered that we have a thread that Storm started. True Believer. And that was all I needed.
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And in that thread, I mentioned Hoffer's book.
See? You (eventually) deserved it. (And you gave me time to create a small new backlog of Faces.) Hope I didn't give you a headache! |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/16/2012 00:19:52 |
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