Well indeed, it is this equivalency of the sub-clerk and the conqueror that allows The Dude and Peter Gibbons to be the middling existential hero... B...
Somehow knowing "how" something developed and living with the manifestation of that development seem like two very different questions or at least app...
This is obvious Terrapin, but that was not the point. It's not about Africa's complex varied range of economic, political, socisl phenomena, but the i...
Yes, I agree that he emphasizes the "absurd" while Sartre emphasizes freedom. There are some differences like Sartre's freedom seems to be intrinsic w...
I agree..but I think most people reading the essay also know he wasn't meditating on suicide as a way to explore the "real" sociological reasons for w...
@"Bitter Crank" This question is most pertinent on a Monday before work. This is sort of a joke but it is also a metaphor for the instrumentality of t...
You seem contradictory.. Acknowledging that trade barriers are good for developing countries but then saying it is bad because of its possible slower ...
Indeed along with this is the need to compare our situation with Africa. It's as if Africa exists solely so Westernized countries can have something t...
So what would be equivalent to "You shouldn't have been out at night!" in this situation? So is flow and faith a good thing or is it more of a stop-ga...
No I'm with you about actual suffering. What I meant I guess is that if you read a good pessimist writer's turn of phrase (i.e. Schopenhauer's aphoris...
I see, so I should just shut up you are saying. Don't take it so seriously darthy! It partially meant to let people vent if they want..like a shoutbox...
I think people might ask, "Well, what would people do in perpetual idleness?". And there is the existential dilemma many people do not want to face. P...
Some people say work gives life meaning because it provides a direction and "something" for them to put their attention on. The thinking might go that...
OHH.. Ok, now I clearly see where you were going.. It was still meant to be inciting.. but I see the context. Why didn't you just quote the comment so...
No I knew what you meant from your original posting..but my point was did you have to come out swinging? I guess I may have misinterpreted this.. The ...
See couldn't you have said that from the beginning instead of wrapping it in troll-speak? That's a much better place to start to have a discussion or ...
So you are trying to make an actual philosophical point or a dig at the OP? But by doing this, I ironically just get sucked into your troll hole, so I...
@"darthbarracuda" Are there actually public universities that teach theology? I know ones founded originally by religious institutions do this, but no...
The will to survive. 1) People usually are attached to their individual egos once alive. 2) It is more of an escape hatch ideation 3) Philosophical Pe...
“Certain it is that work, worry, labor and trouble, form the lot of almost all men their whole life long. But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as ...
@"darthbarracuda" That the only exit is suicide rather than a pleasant sleep that lasts a long time. That after sleep comes the awake part and all the...
This is an interesting point.. It is funny how all this drama in your head can ensue.. this internal emotional suffering.. and how it can be negated s...
That's a really good list of harms. I like that you bring up the nuance that our pleasure may rely on enormous amounts of pain that are so indirect or...
No, I think it does.. Upset is a broad category.. the mix of other emotions or the nuance of exact kind of upset that the person was feeling may be in...
Go back and read the arguments with apokrisis. Then see if what you are objecting to is really what the argument was about. Schop: So makes a differen...
If it's a strawman then it's from your confusing statements. According to what I see above: Models are not exhaustive Map has a "tiny part" of me in t...
No, I cannot exhaust the experience by simply verbalizing/mapping it. I can simply recreate a model of it. It may be a detailed map, but a map nonethe...
So you are saying that the situation can be that much more? On each of those planets does there also exist Elders and nasayers who blame the aliens fo...
No, communicating the experience is the map.. making it "information" a "difference that makes a difference".. there is still the actual experience wh...
Right because what you say exceeds the norm.. Anyways, I was just guessing what you were trying to get at with your last statement. To go even further...
It seems that you want to take the stance that things are inherently uncertain. Then certainly, if things are uncertain, feelings of spirit and love d...
How is the actual experience experienced by the experiencer "framed"? Only afterwards in analysis or description, not the experience itself. That's be...
That seems to be contradictory in that you cannot have a "real" acceptance of uncertainty (mystery as you put it) if you assume a spirit and love of l...
Yet you seem to contradict yourself earlier when you stated: "There is nothing in the world, according to this notion, that tells us unequivocally, wh...
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