Dumb_Ox
Since Nov 19, 1998

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Hello! I invite you all to visit my weblog

Philokalia Republic

You'll especially enjoy it if you're a political philosophy or theology junkie like I am.

I also have a StumbleUpon blog.


I am also the author of a useful language learning tool, Semi-Fluent.com
It allows intermediate language students to read efficiently any text in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian, Latin, and a few others.

A more-or-less accurate ranking of my political preferences:
# 1 Paleoconservative
# 2 Conservative
# 3 Paleo-libertarian
# 4 Neoconservative
# 5 Centrist
# 6 Libertarian
# 7 Radical
# 8 Liberal
# 9 Left-libertarian
# 10 Third Way

For neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding wickedness; for that runs faster than death.
-Socrates, in Plato's Apology
The source of my screen name:


Third Order Knight, Council #12979
Vivat Jesus!