Noble Dust

What I'm saying is that you can't have access to that core; it's the very identity of the person built up over the years of their entire life. Being a...

So how come your philosophy in general doesn't follow those types? Or does it?

I'm with you! Which parts?

I don't think Lynch is trying to show life as meaningless or senseless. As I mentioned, what he said was something to the effect of "life doesn't alwa...

Can I ask a question in good faith? Why is it that when it comes to aesthetics, us philosophy types are suddenly beholden to personal experience?

Yeah, again, i've made that point on this forum for awhile now. I'm not sure how it's a response to my question about beauty being it's own referent. ...

Try posting in the Phil/art subforum sometime. :P appreciate your thoughts there regardless.

Actually, I kind of did, but it didn't receive much attention, which is what I expected. Not at all; certainty is the antithesis of horror. Your descr...

No... :) It's a weird show, after all. But, as I said in my initial post here, I was never a fan of horror as a genre until I watched Twin Peaks (ok, ...

Have you seen Twin Peaks?

The theme I'm getting here is a savior complex. Based on your anecdotes, you seem to want to save the people you come into contact with who have sever...

I was the same until I saw Twin Peaks. The primary element in horror as a genre is the unknown. Not gore, terror, disgusting things...manipulate that ...

So beauty is it's own referent? I disagree. Beauty needs a context in which to obtain its definition.

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What? Why not? I would love a full-blown theory. Ah, this must be our departure. Why say that the beauty of a sunset has no purpose?

No, I mean aesthetic metaphysically. The aesthetic of a work is the property that makes it interesting to the observer. Aesthetic as "surface", as you...

Why create such a false dichotomy? :) Given a desert island situation, I'll take a few albums vs. a few philosophy tomes.

So the aesthetic of art is from nature? The beauty/ugliness dichotomy stems from physical nature?

I assume you're basing that interpretation off of the clip I posted? That would be a fair interpretation off of just that clip, however, that clip beg...

And for something totally stylistically different that plays by similar rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrLxpUHUJQ

One of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHEpuj96bCg

:) True, I didn't connect it all the way to saying that "life is like a dream". I dug for the interview in which he addressed it, but couldn't find it...

Unfortunately this more or less underlines what I'm trying to say; of course you weren't able to change this guy; you were in a position of social equ...

So what's inauthentic here? Obviously the person is acting a certain way because of insecurity; what's inauthentic about that? There's clearly an auth...

Nah, he's clearly going to love the attention and soak it all in. ;)

Do you have no conception of what I mean?

So you're suggesting a racial or nationalist tendency, right?

What, in order to be trendy?

Me neither, but that's why I read posts from folks like , read the history that I have time for, and reserve judgement as best as I can when I make po...

Right, a modernist worldview was prevalent at the time; the idea was that some sort of utopia was somehow palpably on the horizon; and what exactly le...

Heard of it; I'm an artist, not a philosopher; I only read things that get me excited. I'm already falling asleep... So, is this an argument, now? I'd...

How would eugenics achieve that? Specifics? When did increased IQ equal happiness? >:O Take a look around the forum... I was trying to point out that ...

So what makes those things "best possible"? Best against what? What measures best/worst? What gives best/worst their context? Ah, point taken; yes, I'...

God, we can't go a few posts in the shoutbox without actual philosophical debate. I was 100% still on the sarcasm train there. >:O "Best possible" in ...

Wait, that's a childish insult? Sounds more like an intriguing proposition. "Pacifist", though, I take issue there. I'm a pacifist myself; what; you t...

What about childish insults, though? Maybe we can start an "I know you are, but what am I?" Fight Club?

Not around here!

Wadaya wanna fight about?

Sorry this is four days old, but what exactly? Not a good idea >:O Surely playing the victim can be done at any time in a situation. On the contrary, ...

More religious appeals. You have no info regarding my worldview either. Reference my responses to MikeL. Is this sentiment genuine?

So, for clarity, to backtrack: I said to Wayfarer, lets wait for the barrage (presumably of adverse opinions). You volunteered a quip about sharks wai...

Yes, hilarious >:O Thanks for that!

First of all, the sentence I quoted from you wasn't a complete sentence, so it's possible I mis-interpreted what you meant. It sounded to me like you ...

Re-read it.

Hmmm, we need to draw a fine line here. I'm not talking about the victim abusing their status in order to manipulate. I'm talking about when the victi...

>:O Give me a break. The religious ecstasy is more than palpable.

Works for me.

Is an idea physical?

It seems simple enough; something is being transmitted reliably through various physical mediums. Something is being communicated.

I don't know Maimonides, but that lines up pretty profoundly with the attempt at a philosophy of atonement (or whatever) that I've tried to espouse he...