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I personally, in my depression, have found myself wallowing in it, willing it further, in the past. It's not that I 'liked' it as much as I found mean...
August 14, 2018 at 22:01
That depends. Some people do not want to get rid of their depression for good reason. Some people, in this case, can only live depressed. They cannot ...
August 14, 2018 at 21:50
Not necessarily. What I am referring to is the fact that, subsequently, down the line after accepting an emotion, the emotion's power over the will be...
August 14, 2018 at 21:44
Depression itself is a condition... But I think, contrarily, it is very useful. It shows a person their depth. It also shows a person their power if t...
August 14, 2018 at 21:36
The question is not to be a Stoic, non-emotional person... But to have power over one's emotions and have the Ubermensch as the ideal! To OVERcome.
August 14, 2018 at 21:25
Realizing and accepting a negative emotion will inevitably deprive that emotion of its power--its power to determine.
August 14, 2018 at 21:24
Depression is willed because one does not want to free that emotion. One wants it to determine them because of its power and its individual meaning. O...
August 14, 2018 at 21:22
The realization of a negative emotion is inconsequential. What is important is not letting it remain in its determining configuration, as it will dete...
August 14, 2018 at 21:19
Nietzsche was interested in a radical acceptance of the human in terms of Ubermensch, the ideal human... The overhuman. Typically people look at sad e...
August 14, 2018 at 21:13
If depression is at base pessimistic then an understanding of pessimism in terms of what a depression characterizes is an adequate reference point to ...
August 14, 2018 at 21:08
'Our everyday lives' is fundamentally an inauthentic expression.
August 14, 2018 at 20:33
I have not expressed any meaning actually. I have been vague and have only hinted at what you can never understand. ... It seems actually to be an ins...
August 14, 2018 at 20:32
Which is extraordinarily vague! Inauthentic everydayness.
August 14, 2018 at 20:19
There is no creation of existence. Existence preceeds essence.
August 14, 2018 at 19:47
Matter is an abstraction. The material is an abstraction. Ergo realities independent of matter is an abstraction. Communicating has nothing to do with...
August 14, 2018 at 19:45
It is impossible to communicate any real amount of meaning anyway... So why is it important that there are 'clear, basic definitions of words'? There ...
August 14, 2018 at 19:15
Because it seems to me that an objectivity can only be based on Another, "radical alterity" of ourselves, another person, which is a subjectivity... B...
August 14, 2018 at 19:12
It seems to me that the more I have tried to explain myself, the more distance becomes between myself and where I come to be. And it seems language is...
August 14, 2018 at 19:00
Then what are people usually talking about?
August 14, 2018 at 17:32
Based upon what is the necessitation that objectivity is the opposite of subjectivity ?
August 14, 2018 at 08:56
I will grant to you that language can put in place a new feeling, but only with regard to a new configuration. I have never personally thought of some...
August 14, 2018 at 08:52
But that is not conducive to an interdependence now is it?
August 14, 2018 at 08:42
how? New experiences bring about new emotions. That's what I mean
August 14, 2018 at 08:16
You cannot change your emotions. You can only add emotions.
August 14, 2018 at 08:13
But then again is anything really existentially dependent on anything else? One could surely object to causality or aetiology.
August 14, 2018 at 07:50
The human will is not in chains by this 'influence.' Volition is rather the concrescence of what, after language has intervened and objectified it, co...
August 14, 2018 at 07:44
I absolutely disagree! Language strives to capture emotion or reconfigure it into a communicably apprehendable way, not to establish it. It cannot est...
August 14, 2018 at 07:39
If the human will is not free from influence then it is not completely free. I choose radical freedom.
August 14, 2018 at 07:35
So I am happy because of words? I am sad because of words? I experience joy because of words? I experience anxiety because of words? These are nonexis...
August 14, 2018 at 07:34
I read it wrong.
August 14, 2018 at 07:20
Language itself does not do it. Surely you mean 'empty' as in conceptually empty... Are you implying that words themselves create emotions? I agree th...
August 14, 2018 at 07:03
What do you mean? Something that is existentially dependent on another thing exists prior to that which it is existentially dependent on? How is that ...
August 14, 2018 at 06:55
Very Interesting. Have you heard of DMT? Especially endogenous DMT? Psilocin in magic mushrooms is 4-HO-DMT
August 14, 2018 at 06:39
Seems legit. But does belief not require learning? Hmmmm. But what about neologisms? If I create a word, I am attributing meaning correctly but not wi...
August 14, 2018 at 06:28
Hey hey. Don't resort to that! And the same is for him! Have a rational discussion! Get to the bottom of the differences! "The meeting of two personal...
August 14, 2018 at 06:14
Albeit you have understood somehow that Nietzsche was influenced by Schop... You don't need to completely understand the precursors to understand each...
August 14, 2018 at 06:06
Just go straight into Nietzsche. If you find something you don't understand... Google it. dictionary it.
August 14, 2018 at 05:53
Evolution is not the question, in my view. The question is the causa prima, the first cause. The main idea of God is necessitated from the questions "...
August 14, 2018 at 05:50
If you struggle with depression... A great book is 'Modern Man In Search Of A Soul" by Carl Jung. I myself have major depression and PTSD and have str...
August 14, 2018 at 05:19
But the rational guidance is based on the understanding of how thought can elucidate upon emotions. In terms of depression... In order to change away ...
August 14, 2018 at 05:13
"In order to change, one must accept." Jung
August 14, 2018 at 04:03
Usually talk therapies address emotions. Psychoanalysis does this... Free association. Free association means that a person speaks about their life......
August 14, 2018 at 04:02
can you prove that there are still there atoms in a water molecule regardless of an intelligent agent?
August 14, 2018 at 03:53
I think you have misinterpreted me... Not that your interpretation is not well based but that I should elaborate... Intentionality is a phenomenologic...
August 14, 2018 at 03:18
This presupposes that others perceptions, experiences, feelings and impressions say something contradictory to what mine do, and also that others perc...
August 14, 2018 at 02:30
but an assertion based on these feelings or experiences ?
August 14, 2018 at 00:25
I think it is not unheard of for a person to have two, contradictory ideas. I think in pychology it is called cognitive dissonance... But I don't thin...
August 13, 2018 at 23:51
Well obviously I could be wrong. It seems to me that the world and consciousness are essentially one. Consciousness belongs to the world and the world...
August 13, 2018 at 23:46
I wrote of this a few years back. It was something along the lines of "Time is a simulation of lack for stability." I do not know if it is epistemolog...
August 13, 2018 at 23:40
In that case, yes. The tree is as it is in consciousness, but it is not itself consciousness. The world is in a sense consciousness, because the consc...
August 13, 2018 at 23:33