Elysium House

['Member']Joined: January 06, 2024 at 13:16Last active: May 20, 2024 at 13:331 discussions21 comments

Location: The Great State of Missouri

Bio

I am a father and a husband with various animals and plants. I am a student of the creative arts, government administration, spiritual matters, ethics, and the deeper questions in life.

Mowing my lawn turned me on to philosophy. The gods help me understand it.

My favorite hobbies are thinking and laughing. I joined this forum to learn from other lovers of wisdom.

Favourite Philosopher

The Presocratics, Lao Tzu, Aristotle, Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, Gasset, Emerson

Favourite Quotations

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
- David Hume

Discussions (1)

De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government)

January 08, 2024 at 23:25 52 comments Political Philosophy

Comments

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

This book is available on Archive.org if anyone is looking. https://archive.org/search?query=The+nine+nations I think you have to have an account and ...

January 13, 2024 at 22:07

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

BC, first, thank you for the reading recommendation. I am a bookworm and always looking for more. Please understand, this discussion must continue. It...

January 13, 2024 at 02:51

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Instant fail! Just kidding, I'm listening . . . It's good we're thinking more broadly and with more creativity here. Keep "exploring the space." Caref...

January 13, 2024 at 00:12

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Hi Nos4A2 Fair enough, so let’s start chipping away Is this broken citizen a permanent fixture doomed to failure and the production of multiple future...

January 10, 2024 at 15:35

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Hi Tzeentch! You’ve nailed a central issue were going to have to deal with, thank you for bringing it up. Part of what we’re talking about is a kind o...

January 09, 2024 at 18:35

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

I can certainly understand and sympathize with this. I wouldn’t trust anyone who held little or no genuine concern for future generations. The situati...

January 09, 2024 at 18:31

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

I think this would be key. When I mentioned experimentation before, I was thinking along these lines. Differing individual strategies (state level or ...

January 09, 2024 at 18:26

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Excellently written. I really enjoyed that. No success on the devolution though, so you fail! You can take that as a point of pride. I particularly en...

January 09, 2024 at 02:22

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Heavy, but very well written! I too have serious misgivings about the future. I think, in part, that's why this topic interests me. I look around and ...

January 09, 2024 at 01:58

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

I understand, and that's a lot of good stuff to think about. Do you mind if I ask you what you think is likely to happen next given our actual situati...

January 09, 2024 at 00:19

In: De-Central Station (Shrinking the Government) — view comment

Fair enough, happy to hear your thoughts if you change your mind.

January 08, 2024 at 23:48

In: Right-sized Government — view comment

I think you could easily expand on any of the issues you raise here, and even go much further! Concerning the idea that different states do things dif...

January 08, 2024 at 18:36

In: Right-sized Government — view comment

Hello Vera, I'd like to take you up on that. It seems to me that we're asked to choose between an increasingly globalized state/authority or self-impo...

January 08, 2024 at 03:02

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

It's a real problem. I don't know how many times I've watched a movie that's on all the top critics' lists, or hear the indie-darling record, and thin...

January 07, 2024 at 21:09

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

I like that quote very much! Wilde has a lot of good ones. It reminds me of a comedy podcast I heard a few years ago where old writers are brought up ...

January 06, 2024 at 20:32

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

It seems so to me as well. It can be tricky, but it seems like certain ways of thinking (or being) might lean on certain character traits or at least ...

January 06, 2024 at 20:29

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

I see that now, got it. :up: I'm very unobservant and practically an internet cave man. Many thanks!

January 06, 2024 at 19:11

In: Would you live out your life in a simulation? — view comment

I like this, and I think I agree. There are many things I wanted to be when I was younger that I cringe at now. My "perfect" world then would betray t...

January 06, 2024 at 18:59

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

Ah, I see. I'm new to the way this forum works (first day). Did you have any thoughts on lookism or the idea that internal character shows itself on t...

January 06, 2024 at 18:34

In: All that matters in society is appearance — view comment

Can you please elaborate on this? I'm interested to see what your take is on how he arrived at his views on women. Also, continuing on with Schopenhau...

January 06, 2024 at 16:03

In: Philosophy Is Comedy — view comment

This has been a very enjoyable discussion to read and think about. I often think about the importance of comedy when considering the most difficult or...

January 06, 2024 at 15:00