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I also find that kind of thing fascinating. If you haven't already looked into Carl Jung, you might like some his ideas (on the sources of religious m...

Just wanted to share and see if anyone also saw themselves in it...

Let me joke with you a little bit and say: you tell me, because aren't you one of them? Or was your comment the emission of Virtue 2000, true to type?...

Just bumped into this, and I think it describes (more or less) why I give a damn about self-consciousness and the idea of seeing one's self from the o...

I like the freedom so much that I distrust the training. Let there be many kinds of training. The only prohibition or restriction could be on prohibit...

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Good questions. It seems to me that it's both. The world is disclosed or found always already with some structure.

I agree. We reason about and within this raw presence, but I don't see how we can get behind or under being to make it rational or necessary. I share ...

All of these are fine points, but I think you are neglecting an important situation. The philosopher or poet or comedian is only truly successful if h...

We have entered the dragon. :fire: If it ain't disturbing/thrilling, then it's just algebra?

Indeed. I tend to enjoy this kind of thing, but not without a sense of danger. That's the 'saturnine' aspect mentioned above. It's sweet hellfire. For...

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I've had this theory for a long time, and I'm not sure if anyone has ever found it all that palatable. I see similar theories here and there in certai...

I think you nailed it. I know this contempt. It's all there in the word 'pussy,' which in a crude vocabulary serves as both the primary kind of sinner...

It's funny, but I could see that being described as the food that makes men lose interest in sex. Or as a joke on the tendency for relationships to be...

What I mean is that sometimes lovers are equal partners dealing with the business of life. At other times one lover wants to show off and be admired b...

No problem. I welcome it. Yeah, this sounds right. Well let's not get tangled up in context-dependent language. I choose my words with a sense of my c...

Beautiful. Yes, there is a deep kind of pain-pleasure for me in these little deaths. I like this analogy. When I really get into a new thinker, it's l...

Totally agree. Modes. I think in sexual relationships this fluidity is especially evident.

Thanks for the kind words. It is indeed one of those metanarratives. I'm a knight of self-consciousness in shimmering armor. I agree that we'll have s...

The kind of play that 'doesn't go all the way down' (what I had in mind) is 'ironism.' All I mean by that is that I think everyone in non-extreme stat...

I agree. We are thrown into a contingency that some of us end up recognizing as contingency. Or let's say that some of us can't help but end up unders...

Well said. Reminds me in a good way of what I like in Rorty's pragmatism, though in context-appropriate grimier terms --appropriate because a rosier s...

*This isn't a very direct response to your post, though I did read it. I guess I'm steering things back to the intellectual forum situation, to a spec...

Beautiful poem. Frost is great. And that's how I feel. Doing philosophy good conversation just feels like really living to me (the deed being truly do...

The OP asked for an abstract book, but maybe it's good to return to the sensual, to something that recalls life's potential sexiness. from The Subterr...

as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then Bukowski https://www.goodreads.co...

Yeah, and just for clarification: I don't think it's play all the way the down. I 'believe' in something like final vocabularies. Our empathy and unde...

To me the disappointing play is maybe the rule. When things get real (good play), wheels start to spin in this old heart. Working all of this out feel...

The background is great, and I think it matters. I grew up in a small conservative town. Working class. Lots of stupid meanness at my school. Orphans ...

Hey, I've seen that show. I even watched one of the new seasons on Netflix. I love when stuff like that brings tears to my eyes. Oh what a sweet pleas...

But what could be better? :smile: And I think there's some 'adult/adult' games happening, which is nice. Can't tell if you're playing, but I'm curious...

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Indeed, another lingo to learn, another toy to unwrap. If there is freedom from being stuck in any particular lingo, I think it depends on an exposure...

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Right on. :smile:

I just mean that it cuts through all the ambiguity. It's the one thing that just about everyone 'believes in.' Just imagine if the physicists weren't ...

:razz: Yeah, and the problem is just the constipation and not the homoeroticism. :halo:

Thank you for jumping in! That part I underlined above pretty much sums up the 'magic' of Trump, I think. It somehow worked! Never apologize. Never sh...

Beautiful. And for me that connects with life is exploitation. Life is 'stupid.' But we like or can sometimes like it for and despite of its nastiness...

Ah. I was raised by a supremely tepid Catholic mother and a father who believed more or less in blue-collar masculinity but without the usual restrain...

I like the Sade mention. I've read some of his shorter works and could never finish his longer works. Too repetitive! I felt 'in' on something with wi...

Sure, and I'm far from being a prude. I agree. And I am far from being a man-hater. I just don't want to alienate women. Basically it's just bad form ...

Right. I agree. I think you missed what I wrote beneath my original quote of Sloterdijk. Here is is, for convenience:

Ah. OK. That's helpful. I've studied a little bit of religion from the East, especially the Tao and some of the popularizers. I was personally surpris...

It's a relief to hear someone else relate to this perspective. For whatever morbid or self-incriminating reason, I'm especially interested in this kin...

Right. You and I and he all seem to understand the value of a kind of 'nobodiness.'

For me these adult-child-parent roles aren't about deep structures. They are more like modes. In 'mansplaining,' a guy plays 'all knowing daddy' with ...