unenlightened

004 True infinity. Very abstract. Dasein is determinate being, which is being, limited by not being what it isn't. Then, by negation again, what it is...

I can't say I've met one. Are you sure these people are not made of straw? I am most interested in comparisons of this sort between our cultures. New ...

Yeah, that sounds like bullshit to me too. One of the interesting things about the podcast is that it aims to relate Hegel to modern stuff in physics,...

Well if you don't have 50 hours or so spare to listen to the podcast, I'll try and give you a shout if I hear anything that might sound like a bit of ...

Well that is my understanding of where we are heading in broad terms, but for sure Hegel doesn't answer on page one, but arrives there, and I am liste...

002 Quite a lot of placating of science-botherers here to counterbalance the woo of the introduction. Speaking of which, I have decided that A Course ...

Thanks for the kind words and good advice, everyone. Apart from sporadic and secret poems, this is my second attempt at a story ever. the first was ma...

This is a stipulation:- And one I agree with. When I say 'stipulation' I mean such a defining or contextualising statement. So, I assume Confucius had...

Well yes it is. I'm not going to disagree with the story, but I am disagreeing with the moral of the story. The great and the good are responsible for...

Yes I was generalising about the overall effect of US society as a whole, which has produced trump supporters in millions. I accept there are decent p...

Of course. Have your nothing back and donate it to charity. There, that'll learn ya! And here's some Dylan lyrics for comparison: I left out the denou...

I am extremely annoyed that no one thinks I wrote anything. Talk about me, damnit!

One thing cannot be denied though, that the culture that produced such a bunch of ... ... is Western liberal democracy as practiced in the US. All the...

No, but I doubt they would admit it.

What a nerve!

It's a dream of death, but of a universal death. You don't get an explanation, except the hint that it is universal and yet solitary. It's always movi...

I have read Chuang Tz? a long time ago, and have an outsider's understanding of Tao. I think morality as understood in the West is more in tune with C...

Here is a frame of good versus evil. Within this frame there is no possible answer. How can a fair player win against a cheater? They cannot, they wil...

Yes, if you have 300 people competing for a position, then competition is necessary. Absolutely!

This is exactly what bothers me, and why i have gone to the trouble of locating it in the heart of my own culture. It has become inconceivable to you,...

Because it purports to measure the immeasurable. There is no best one. There is my favourite, and your favourite, and perhaps they are the same or per...

"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." is a sentiment proposed by the culture of the British Empire, surely the most amoral, ...

It's a lesson learned from advertisers, that incoherent statements cannot be shown to be false. or inciting, or threatening, or irresponsible - becaus...

Those that can might like a listen to The Coming Storm podcast. A review here. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/08/the-coming-storm-r...

Mcarthyism deserves dishonourable mention in this context. Fascism is the revolution of the entitled. Declining powers are vulnerable, because we have...

Not just California - I'm not French. Meanwhile here's a cheery site that aggregates greenhouse gasses into a CO2 equivalent measure, and finds that w...

I remember having an epileptic fit from overheating many years ago in a vineyard in the South of France. It was ever thus, but now more-so, and it's o...

There's something unsatisfying about this story. I think it comes from a confusion of weirdnesses. We have the weirdness of dreams within dreams, then...

Godlike powers -> godlike responsibilities.

Dummies caught between heaven and earth are not entitled to make universal judgements. The cunning of Geist is to use your suffering and your despair ...

Welcome to the doubledownbox, ladies and gentlemen. I blame @"Hanover".

The EU has a principle called "Subsidiarity", which is that decisions should be made at the most local level possible. A Global issue such as climate ...

The Cunning of Geist.

I thought it was competition that made for efficiency in the private sector.

This story gets better on a second reading. I used to know a media guy who made good money filming beheadings and stuff. His children were a bit fucke...

I keep forgetting, literalists cannot understand sarcasm or irony. And it's so delicious and nourishing. :sad:

Nah mate. You've already made it clear you only care about your own opinions; and you clearly think I'm the same, so I have no further questions.

Great stuff! Tell us more about your arseholes, so we can kiss them all.

That is a philosophy of life, and therefore moot, But my philosophy of life is that we have to all live on the same planet and therefore our lives int...

There is a lot of confusion about government. Take water for an example. A chap needs clean fresh water on tap, and sewage and waste water drainage an...

We live in degenerate times. And our opposition leader is burbling on about growth, as the solution to all our ills, when any fool can see that we nee...

Kind of sad that all one can find to choose between for president are dynasties of wealth and privilege and old movie stars.

I am completely selfish in my reading, and only concerned with what i can get from a story. And I only bother make a comment when i think I have gotte...

I'm overwhelmed by your godlike consideration, it's more than i deserve.

Democracy stinks, let's have a panel of hereditary judges.

Can you ask Him to speak up a bit, as I'm a bit deaf, and sometimes It seems as if He's just deliberately ignoring me. It's like when you send Father ...

Right. You have values. I have values too. Therefore not only facts are worth talking about. This is called enquiry through dialogue. Have we begun to...

Yes, like them too. Because facts without values are pointless information.

That's what I thought - like the value of facts. A cloak of objectivity in the word 'measure' for mere opinion, like this :