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  • JimD
    Senior Mumbler
    • Feb 2002
    • 29704

    Ukrainian Postage Stamps

    There is no rational, logical, or physical description of how free will could exist. It therefore makes no sense to praise or condemn anyone on the grounds they are a free willed self that made one choice but could have chosen something else. There is no evidence that such a situation is possible in our Universe. Demonstrate otherwise and I will be thrilled.
  • Chip-skiff
    Wolves Without Borders
    • Jan 2008
    • 22764

    #2
    Re: Ukrainian Postage Stamps

    Відмінна!

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    • JimD
      Senior Mumbler
      • Feb 2002
      • 29704

      #3
      Re: Ukrainian Postage Stamps

      Originally posted by Chip-skiff
      Відмінна!
      You can say that again.
      There is no rational, logical, or physical description of how free will could exist. It therefore makes no sense to praise or condemn anyone on the grounds they are a free willed self that made one choice but could have chosen something else. There is no evidence that such a situation is possible in our Universe. Demonstrate otherwise and I will be thrilled.

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      • AndyG
        Still Not Banned Yet
        • Mar 2011
        • 4978

        #4
        Re: Ukrainian Postage Stamps

        Regarding the vessel on the right.

        I visited an archaeological/ethnographic museum in Russia a couple of decades ago, and was very pleased to see a wealth of material devoted to the Vikings who'd sailed up the Baltic, turned right in Lake Ladoga to go up the Volkhov River, and - by lakes, rivers and portage - make their way to the Dneiper River, dodging the rapids, in order to get to Kiev, the Black Sea and thence to the fleshpots of Constantinople.

        "Niet!" said my guide "Not Vikings. Rus. Slav, like me."

        "But these axes, those carvings: they're all Scandinavian. Varangian, as the Greeks and Rus called them."

        "Niet! Rus!! RUS!!!!"

        Her Nationalistic tendencies were bubbling to the surface. And so we left it at that.

        Andy
        "In case of fire ring Fellside 75..."

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        • Flying Orca
          Ruth, feck, and gorm
          • Jan 2007
          • 21319

          #5
          Re: Ukrainian Postage Stamps

          You were both right, more-or-less. The Rus were Vikings, essentially, and some were Slavs.

          What are you doing about it?



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