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Roderick Long speaks Klingon

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Sage Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009 10:53 PM

See 44:35 here.

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Sage:

See 44:35 here.

Yes Roderick Long is a geek. Geeks are cool though. I also remember him making a comment about how the Klingons were able to make spaceships and the like if they are a constantly warring people's. That would indicate that there are members of their society who were able to work in voluntary exchange in order to meet the capital accumulation necessary for space travel. The philosophical politics of Star Trek, brought to you by Roderick Long.

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I wonder what his D&D tabletop characters are.

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Snowflake:

I wonder what his D&D tabletop characters are.

I'm a rogue in order to furfill my unquenchable need to steal and rob.

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You say that as if it wasn't a given that Dr. R. Long is an extreme geek.

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Laughing Man:
I'm a rogue in order to furfill my unquenchable need to steal and rob.
Im a cleric so that I don't have to argue over phat lewt. A healing spell is a healing spell....

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Thedesolateone:

You say that as if it wasn't a given that Dr. R. Long is an extreme geek.

He is probably one of the smartest men at LvMi. David Gordon takes the cake though.

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Laughing Man:
David Gordon takes the cake though.

Gordon is awesome. What specifically makes you say that though?

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Stephen replied on Sun, Nov 8 2009 7:32 PM

Sage:

See 44:35 here.

He's a waste of talent in many respects.

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Haha that's awesome. Roderick Long just seems like a huge geek (as is anyone posting and/or viewing this forum). He's probably my favorite modern philosopher too.

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Thedesolateone:
Gordon is awesome. What specifically makes you say that though?

That he is the smartest man at the LvMi? I would say because he did a complete seminar on the history of political philosophy covering Aristotle to Rothbard without notes. Pure off the cuff lecturing. My history teacher during my undergrad years did that so I highly respect anyone who can do whole lectures let alone seminars in such a fashion.

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Stephen:

Sage:

See 44:35 here.

He's a waste of talent in many respects.

why do you say that?

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Kakugo replied on Mon, Nov 9 2009 3:49 AM

Sometimes you guys scare the Hell out of me. Indifferent

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Sage replied on Mon, Nov 9 2009 5:10 PM

Stephen:
He's a waste of talent in many respects.

My experience is that the more of his work I read, the more brilliant he gets.

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Sage:
My experience is that the more of his work I read, the more brilliant he gets.
Yes

For me, it was love at first sight.

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For me it was his lecture on the American debates between Hamilton and Seabury

 

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