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Catholic Christian.  Son. Brother. Husband. Father. American. Conservative. Soldier. Friend. 

 Why Cornelius Julius Sebastian? "Brasidas" was taken (again), so I went with my Facebook (FB) moniker.  I was new to FB and only joined because I was deploying and thought it would be a good way to keep in touch with my family and friends. I had heard lots of stories about folks being inundated with friends requests on FB from folks they really had no interest in being in contact with, so I decided to go with a pseudonym. I've always been fascinated classical Rome and its military. I have also always identified with the several Roman soldiers who interact or speak with Christ in the Gospels. Especially as someone who for a time rejected the Christian Faith (the Roman soldiers who scourged and crucified Christ), then later was compelled by Christ's example to return to His Church ("Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof...."). So, I ran a highly unscientific Google search for the most common names for Roman centurions and the first three that came up were Cornelius, Julius and Sebastian, thus my FB, and now Ricochet, nom de guerre.


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Cornelius Julius Sebastian
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Cornelius Julius Sebastian
Hometown:
SPQR, Legio VI Ferrata ("Ironclad"), 3rd Cohort, Galilee
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MMPadre: That's because for liberals, politics is their religion, the State is their God, and your opposition is blasphemy.  Given that, they tend to invest their egos in their opinions, and so experience disagreement as disrespect.  · 3 hours ago

This is so true, its why you can't have a discussion or debate with them.  They don't want to actually exchange ideas, they just want to feedback loop their worldview.  When you confront them with facts or logical fallacies they scream obscenities and exile you.  It's really quite pathological.

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I need to get this.  I love a good cautionary tale.

Re: On Anime

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Have any of the Lone Wolf and Cub ever been done as anime?  I know that there were some live action adaptions in the 70s, but an anime version always seemed like it would be natural.

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It is awful.  Just awful.

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Richard Fulmer:  A better treatment of the phenomenon of "pathological altruism" is provided in Marvin Olasky's book, The Tragedy of American Compassion.   Olasky documents the amazing number of private aid societies that existed in 19th century America - before they were crowded out by government.  He highlights the fact that these societies were careful not to let their aid create dependency or reward destructive and self-destructive behavior.

While Barbara Oakley's piece is helpful, I think that it is marred by her attempt to make her argument appear more “scientific” by drawing analogies to examples from physics and biology.    · 2 hours ago

Dang it! I wasn't familiar with Olasky's book.  I have been noodling such a work for awhile but I see its already been done.  Ah well, anoyther for my to read list.  Thanks for the tip!

Re: On Anime

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Thanks Royal Family and Lidens for the suggestions!

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DocJay: I find it's not good to stereotype Korean dwarves. People fall in to that trap all the time though. · 11 hours ago

This currently is at the top of the "funniest thing DocJay has ever written on Ricochet" list.

Re: On Anime

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Thank you for taking the time and effort to give me the best overview of the genre I've ever read.  When I was a kid, we lived briefly in Bellingham Washington. It was interesting to see the Japanime influence on kids cartoon programming on the west coast (vice my midwestern origins).  Speed Racer and Marine Boy were on every morning before school and I loved them.  You can clearly see the influence of the anime style in Heavy Metal and Aeon Flux. I have always loved Kurosawa's works so my inability to get into Anime has gnawed at me.  What am I missing? I think the animation style is hypnotic, but the incoherence and bizarre, seemingly ubiquitous, Japanese sexuality themes have turned me off in all the attempts I've made to watch them.  Though admittedly, these attempts were just via channel surfing and not really looking for the best of Anime.  If had to pick the top 5 anime for story, coherence and least "transgressive" themes, what would they be?  Would the 4 you cited above be among them?

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You stay classy, CNN!

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This is truly significant. This needs to be on the Main Feed!

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That is a beautiful thing!

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Severely Ltd.: Many aspects of Japanese culture are interesting to me, but I've never understood the appeal of anime. I'd enjoy a comprehensive post on the subject from one of you aficionados. Is it primarily the graphics, the characters, the stories, the themes? I don't get it. · 0 minutes ago

I second this motion.

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My deepest sympathies on your loss and that of your friend's family.  I had a friend kill himself when I was in high school, but he lived in another state so I didn't get to be there much for the family.  I can add no suggestions beyond your own wise instincts on how to help.  Always sad when someone loses all hope.

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