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	Patents Are An Economic Absurdity
		Public research, contrarily to patents, is not an economic absurdity.
		Moreover, even without specific government funding of research, on a reserved budget, it may be argued that, in as much as public institutions exist, they have their own technological needs, and research is thus a legitimate way among other things to spend their resources so as to optimize their efficacy, within their own normal budget.
		Thus, from a political point of view, public research may or may not be positive, but let us repeat that from a strictly economic point of view, it is not an absurdity at all, and is even a very good idea, under some circumstances.
	fare.tunes.org /articles/patents.html (7469 words)

	THE ABSURDITY OF SAMUEL BECKETT - CHAPTER 3
		Absurdity does not reside in the world itself, or in a human being, but in a tension which is produced by their mutual indifference.
		Absurdity consists in permanent conflict, it is a contradiction and a struggle.
		These moments of consciousness open up the world of the absurdity, the world of never-ending effort to go on, the world from which it is impossible to escape, the world of estrangement, loneliness, waiting, and continual endurance.
	www.samuel-beckett.net /CH_3.HTM (1510 words)

	Absurdity Quotes
		Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
		It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
		In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
	www.worldofquotes.com /topic/absurdity/index.html (428 words)

	Absurdity and incongruity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Absurdity and incongruity are often made out to be essential elements of humor.
		In the present theory, where normality and violation of the accepted order of things are simultaneously juxtaposed to generate humor, absurdity and incongruity are certainly present, since ``It's okay'', and ``It's not okay'' are incongruous, and believing them both to hold true of one situation is at least apparently absurd.
		In the present theory, the absurdity or incongruity that is present is of a particular kind, namely the absurdity of thinking some situation simultaneously is normal and is a moral violation.
	www.tomveatch.com /else/humor/paper/node13.html (164 words)

	samirshomepage.zzn.com
		This statement suggests the importance of contrast and this is as true in case of absurdity and non-absurdity as it is true in the case of silence and music.
		In this light we can reach decision that there is no sense of absurdity with out the normality.
		Beckett tries hard to achieve absurdity by doing through his characters, the abnormal things (or at least normal things in abnormal sequence), still there remains the elements of non-absurdity in every corner of the play.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/literature4all/absurdity.html (841 words)

	Absurdity Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA
		The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
		Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
		There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
	www.giga-usa.com /quotes/topics/absurdity_t001.htm (240 words)

	Columns: Absurdity is the legacy of our skin-deep differences
		Because they are the perpetrators of racism and are not its victims, they have the dubious honor of observing and, more often than not, creating elaborate denials for this thing they have wrought.
		The denial of choice is blaming the victim for his condition - the height of absurdity.
		As with fls, realism and absurdity, as they relate to race, are so similar in the lives of white Americans that they cannot tell the difference.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/10/15/Columns/Absurdity_is_the_lega.shtml (931 words)

	Absurdism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A century before Camus, the 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote extensively on the absurdity of the world.
		For some, suicide is a solution when confronted with the futility of living a life devoid of all purpose, because ending life seems a rational reaction to its absurdity.
		However, he insisted that one must always maintain an ironic distance between this invented meaning and the knowledge of the absurd lest the fictitious meaning take the place of the absurd.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Absurdism (827 words)

	The Absurdity of Egalitarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The absurdity of this is that egalitarians suppose that justice requires ignoring whether people deserve what they have and whether they are responsible for what they lack.
		One efficient way of compensating them for their loss is to set up government sponsored pleasure centers in which men may spend the hours and days gained from having shorter working days and longer vacations.
		They may say, "how could it not be an evil that some people's prospects at birth are radically inferior to others?" The expectation is that the question will be regarded as rhetorical, since the answer to it will be obvious, at least to right-minded people.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11904 (1977 words)

	ABSURD PHILOSOPHY---CHAPTER 3 of OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT by JAMES PARK
		This absurdity is not the intellectual perception of clash or disharmony
		The causes of ordinary absurdities are well-known and easily-described.
		The ordinary absurdities and incongruities of life are all self-contained.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~parkx032/XP53.html (827 words)

	The Value of Absurdity
		The dictionary defines “absurd” as “contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish.” This week we will be discussing selections that contain some elements of “absurdity.” It will be your job to determine what about the situation is absurd, or how it could be perceived so.
		Although the literature of the absurd employs many of the devices of expressionism and surrealism, its philosophical base is a form of existentialism that views human beings as moving from the nothingness from which they came to the nothingness in which they will end through an existence marked by anguish and absurdity.
		Be sure to respond to the differences between the dictionary’s definition of absurdity and the literary definition of absurdity.
	www.casc.cc.ok.us /sharrod/the_value_of_absurdity.htm (541 words)

	SparkNotes: The Myth of Sisyphus: An Absurd Reasoning: Absurdity and Suicide
		Camus also associates the feeling of absurdity with the feeling of exile, a theme that is important not just in this essay but also in much of his fiction.
		The feeling of absurdity is linked to the idea that life is meaningless, and the act of suicide is linked to the idea that life is not worth living.
		The feeling of absurdity is effectively the feeling we get when we come to see ourselves in the second of these two alternative perspectives.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/sisyphus/section1.html (1357 words)

	Godot and the Great Pumpkin
		I've come to suspect that we're at least as fond of absurdity as we are of order, and of course, the two are not mutually exclusive.
		This cycle goes on indefinitely, and it appears to be the central absurdity, especially since it's the action (or non-action) named in the title.
		Beckett shows us the absurdity around us, and he shows us people living absurdly, but the simple fact that life is absurd doesn't mean that we have to live absurdly in all its worst incarnations.
	ginfor.tripod.com /pumpkin.html (2740 words)

	www.myspace.com/absurditymusic
		Absurdity was born in Strasbourg (France) at the end of 2001.
		In the beginning of 2004, Absurdity released his first demo "Decline Of The Human Condition" recorded during a session.
		November 2004, Absurdity recorded in a studio a new song for the Soul Grinding Festival compilation, a festival organized by Grind Your Soul, the association of the Grindcore French band Inhumate.
	www.myspace.com /absurditymusic (1228 words)

	CityBeat Fringe Coverage 2006 - FRINGE 2006 REVIEW: The Absurdity of Writing Poetry, written and performed by Matt ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Absurdity is somewhat of a departure from Slaybaugh’s previous BlueForms Theatre Group Fringe efforts, the obvious difference being that this is a solo performance.
		And writing is Absurdity’s character’s passion, even as he denies its validity.
		Here we are given a glimpse of issues the poet faces — the painful process of facing a blank page, the detachment and simultaneous connection only a writer can know and, finally, celebration.
	citybeat.com /fringe/absurdity.html (364 words)

	Jack or Jive: Absurdity
		The latest album of the highly regarded Jack or Jive takes on a political theme for a more intense work than usual, but the lush beauty of their music remains.
		Absurdity is a reaction to the actual worldwide context (especially the crazy Bush war in Iraq).
		The japanese duet is back with an album full of distress and sadness.The voice of Chako is full of bitterness as if all suffering souls were blowing in her voice.
	strangefortune.com /cd.php?id=2487 (163 words)

	Father Jack's: Acceptable Absurdity
		Absurdities detract from God's Natural Order, and are the introduction to anarchy, and further the aim of the AntiChrist-Devil (see Jn.
		Then, further absurdity abounds in legalized abortion, which is an industry feeding upon all this-a disposable society.
		Relativism-the loss of objective truth: this pervasive and pernicious philosophy teaches there are no absolutes (in morality, for instance), or way of proving truth, so all is up grabs; and, so, all is changeable according to what is currently politically or immorally correct.
	www.emmitsburg.net /grotto/father_jack/2004/acceptable_absurdity.htm (1565 words)

	The Absurdity of Knowledge
		There are certain machines where there are no internal changes to indicate the flow of power through or from the machine.
		The Absurdity of Knowledge relates to the fact that Knowledge is an interpretation of reality.
		What was known to be true at a certain time can be replaced with "new" knowledge resulting in a different interpretation.
	depalma.pair.com /Absurdity/Absurdity03/AbsurdityOfKnowledge.html (925 words)

	Absurdity and the Meaning of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Note from the Author: If you like this essay or if you hate it, please e-mail me at pirsigaffliction@hotmail.com and tell me why you like/hate it and what in particular in the essay you like/hate. If you think it’s okay or slightly on the uninteresting side, well, you can drop me line, too.
		Camus develops this principle by giving examples of the absurdity of life. He comments on the absurdity of the day-to-day activity of the average person:
		Ah, now the absurdity jumps out. The absurdity isn’t the universe or man. It’s their combination together that produces the absurd. If anything has been made abundantly clear in the 20
	www.moq.org /forum/Kundert/AbsurdityandtheMeaningofLife.html (881 words)

	Surreal humour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1960s, surrealist humour was combined with counter-culture in movements such as the Youth International Party, Situationism, and Discordianism, as well as in the work of psychedelic musicians such as The Beatles, Frank Zappa, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Pink Floyd, and Captain Beefheart.
		However, the most significant influence of surrealist humour on popular culture is probably Monty Python, most notably in their Goon Show-influenced TV series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, which featured a more lucid and intricate style of show structure and many more absurdities and non-sequiturs than the later show, Saturday Night Live.
		Since the influence of Monty Python, shows including humour of a primarily surrealistic nature include later seasons of The Simpsons, The Kids in the Hall, the comedy programming of Adult Swim (especially Williams Street shows such as Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman and 12 oz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Absurdity (717 words)

	SSRN-Avoiding Absurdity by Glen Staszewski
		John Manning, a prominent new textualist scholar, has recently challenged the legitimacy of the absurdity doctrine on the grounds that it cannot be justified by legislative intent or squared with principles of constitutional law.
		His critique relies, however, upon deeply contested economic theories of the legislative process and constitutional structure that view lawmaking as a market in which self-interested participants compete for resources.
		The absurdity doctrine also promotes specific constitutional norms of fairness and equal treatment in a manner that avoids most of the institutional concerns that would arise from more aggressive approaches to judicial review.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896310 (213 words)

	From Beckett to Stoppard: Existentialism, Death, and Absurdity
		Victor Cahn supports this difference, explaining that Stoppard "brings his characters into a new world, one where elements of absurdity are disguised under a mask of order and reason worn by a society which Stoppard has made us come to see as perhaps absurd itself"(64).
		And the absurdity of the situation is heightened even more when he continues, "Well, we'll know better next time"(126).
		At the same time, the recognition of all these bitter truths will have a liberating effect: if we realize the basic absurdity of most of our objectives we are freed from being obsessed with them and this release expresses itself in laughter.
	home.sprintmail.com /~lifeform/beckstop.html (4510 words)

	+dotNetTemplar+ - Perpetual Absurdity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I say this because the media perpetually revisit this proven absurdity by constantly mocking believers; they (the media) hedonistically relish the idea of Christians, particularly Christian leaders, not living up to this long-defunct idea that we should somehow be without flaw.
		For non-Christians, for those to whom I probably sound like a raving looney, all I can ask is that I hope you see the absurdity in expecting all Christians to be saints.
		We should not be discouraged, however, because even though humans, Christian and non-Christian alike, may persist in the perpetual absurdity that believing should make someone perfect, God does not.
	dotnettemplar.net /PerpetualAbsurdity.aspx (1136 words)

	www.gaydeceiver.com - The Essential Absurdity
		This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity.
		It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name.
		And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.
	www.gaydeceiver.com /religion (423 words)

	The Mere Absurdity of Checks and Balances
		It probably turns out that dividing power is better for liberty than consolidating it, but this is not as axiomatic as some libertarians might prefer to believe.
		In fact, the very notion of an optimally effective system of checks and balances, in which each branch of government does more to limit the damage done by other branches than it does in causing damage itself, is riddled with absurdity.
		Now, nearly everyone is familiar with Thomas Paine’s most cited argument: that the King had no natural right, merely by virtue of being born to royalty, to rule a group of people who lived 3,000 miles away.
	www.strike-the-root.com /51/gregory/gregory8.html (1215 words)

	Security Absurdity
		The article was written to spark off dialogue, discussion and debate on the significant security challenges we face.
		Shortly after my Security Absurdity article was posted online, we witnessed a remarkable series of events which illustrates quite clearly that cybercriminals are indeed currently winning the battle.
		In my article, I mentioned that one of the challenges security professionals face is that cyberspace’s digital battlefield heavily favors the cybercriminal.
	www.securityabsurdity.com (2512 words)

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