Elbereth she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Wow. I didn't even know there were papers on the economics of human sacrifice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Be darned if I know. But hey, for the curious, it's freely available on the academic's webpage... o.O And why does your school have this paper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 And why does your school have this paper? Good question. I'll get back to you when I get an answer. If I do not return, mourn me, for I have been sacrificed in the quest for knowledge. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Wow. I didn't even know there were papers on the economics of human sacrifice.It's not about the actual sacrifice, per se, as much as it is about questions of "When is it acceptable to voluntarily lose the value/wealth that a human being can produce?" Or something like that. Pros and cons, but not actually focusing on the emotional part of taking another human's life. I've read up on some issues like this in the past that look at economic values of things we consider taboo now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbereth she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I think what it's saying is that it protects societies from being plundered, by publicly destroying "wealth" (humans). It's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Don't ask me, I'm going back to the correct paper on the economics of piracy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Honor Spren she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've found myself going into a lurking phase, where I just read through threads, but never have anything to say about them. Is this a normal sharding phase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdGen Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've found myself going into a lurking phase, where I just read through threads, but never have anything to say about them. Is this a normal sharding phase? Totally normal. If and where you want to jump in, go for it. Eventually something will grab you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've found myself going into a lurking phase, where I just read through threads, but never have anything to say about them. Is this a normal sharding phase? Totally. Sometimes I have a good laugh at a thread, come back a while later and go "huh? I didn't post there?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sovereign Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 (edited) Waiting on my download of this paper on the economics of piracy from the school network. ...Found out a few minutes later I accidentally downloaded a paper on the economics of human sacrifice instead. Well. Okay. This is all I could think of while reading your post. Sparks: "I have a book for you." Debbie: "What is the book called?" Sparks: "A modest proposal." Debbie: "By Whom?" Sparks: "Jonathan Swift." Debbie: "And what is the book about?" Sparks: "...Eating babies." Edit: AHA! Found it. Edited November 12, 2015 by Iron Eyes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 This is all I could think of while reading your post. Edit: AHA! Found it. ...that...that was the best thing I've seen all day. HELLO SEALAB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sovereign Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 ...that...that was the best thing I've seen all day. HELLO SEALAB Thank you for knowing about this, TOO MANY people have never seen Sealab... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 "It is easy to do what is wrong, to do what is bad for oneself; but very difficult to do what is right, to do what is good for oneself." "By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure. The pure and the impure come from one's self: no man can purify another." "The hunger of passions is the greatest disease. Disharmony is the greatest sorrow." "He who does what should not be done and fails to do what should be done, who forgets the true aim of life and sinks into transient pleasures -- he will one day envy the man who lives in high contemplation." "Let a man be free from pleasure and let a man be free from pain; for not to have pleasure is sorrow and to have pain is also sorrow." The consolations of philosophy are rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've found myself going into a lurking phase, where I just read through threads, but never have anything to say about them. Is this a normal sharding phase? Everyone else is too nice to tell you, but it sounds like you've been possessed by void spern. I suggest plenty of bed rest and several glasses of fresh squeezed lime juice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 “Your death will soon be on you: and you are not yet clear-minded, or untroubled, or free from the fear of external harm, or kindly to all people, or convinced that justice of action is the only wisdom.Look into their directing minds: observe what even the wise will avoid or pursue.Harm to you cannot subsist in another’s directing mind, nor indeed in any turn or change of circumstance. Where, then? In that part of you which judges harm. So no judgement, and all is well. Even if what is closest to it, your own body, is subjected to knife or cautery, or left to suppurate or mortify, even so that faculty in you which judges these things should stay untroubled. That is, it should assess nothing either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man or the good: because what can happen to a man irrespective of his life’s conformity to nature is not of itself either in accordance with nature or contrary to it.Think always of the universe as one living creature, comprising one substance and one soul: how all is absorbed into this one consciousness; how a single impulse governs all its actions; how all things collaborate in all that happens; the very web and mesh of it all.You are a soul carrying a corpse, as Epicetus used to say.” --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestrel she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 I've found myself going into a lurking phase, where I just read through threads, but never have anything to say about them. Is this a normal sharding phase? Me right now. I never have anything to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 And I'm not moving to Mesquite, TX, either. Tomorrow I'll print and fill out apps to IL and WY, since they like to kick it old school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMistborn he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Unmmmm is anyone else watching the Nintendo Direct cos it is HYPE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistrunner Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 This is what I do in class. Doodle responses to the moral questions they stick in the school planner. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestrel she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 And I'm not moving to Mesquite, TX, either. Tomorrow I'll print and fill out apps to IL and WY, since they like to kick it old school. good luck! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King he/him Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 And I'm not moving to Mesquite, TX, either. Tomorrow I'll print and fill out apps to IL and WY, since they like to kick it old school. Probably for the best. If there are enough of those stupid trees to name the town after them, it's probably not that great of a place to live. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Thanks, Lark! Who my phone thinks should be Alarm.... for some reason. Probably for the best. If there are enough of those stupid trees to name the town after them, it's probably not that great of a place to live. This is true. I'm still hoping I hear back from Neenah. It used to be that id consider it a bad thing that I didn't hear back for so long....but I didn't hear back from Indianola for over w month, so I think this is just how public libraries do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Unmmmm is anyone else watching the Nintendo Direct cos it is HYPE "Bill? Bill! BILL! BIIIIIIILLLLL!" XD Also, Pokken! Wooo! NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING! Come on, Cloud? Seriously? We need another sword character? *Is obviously going to download him anyway* Id rather have like Zidane, Vivi or Chrono if we are getting a Square Character, oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestrel she/her Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I still need to ask about a possible opening at the library at my school, if you're still interested and not completely against Texas. Can't do it tomorrow, I don't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 I still need to ask about a possible opening at the library at my school, if you're still interested and not completely against Texas. Can't do it tomorrow, I don't think. Definitely still interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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