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Well I do like Mr. Spock! The 'drama queen' line is funny, but note the subtle casting of a female for that role. And it's something that a long marri...

The asker of precisely that question? At the very least, man is the creature who can dream that he is any or all of these things. The human is (one mi...

You tempt the gods, my friend. While a system of thought and habits clearly helps determine one's happiness or misery, as long as this gory machine is...

Oh I'm not at all complaining that you used those words. Far from it. Courage and/or manly virtue is central to my own thinking. I've only been challe...

Nice. Here's a passage that I think maybe you'll appreciate. To me it's about the glory of the negative what it tends toward. https://www.marxists.org...

Ah, but look at how you can't resist words like 'weakling' and 'wimps.' We also get 'moral fiber.' That's fine, of course. My point is that this is th...

Ah, OK. And nice poem! I've wrestled with some funk, too. Some people have died, are sick. Doing this ol' philosophical thing is a bright spot.

Thanks! Hello darkness madness, my old friend. :starstruck: :grimace: :cool:

I know and love that quote. Nice!

For me it's not the the 'who made God?' objection. Let's grant that there is a God. If 'He' is intelligible at all, he has a structure or nature. Why ...

From a Feuerbach-influenced perspective, I think it's unavoidable. Even if we reject Feuerbach's notion that such intelligence is merely a projection,...

I like green tea. It tastes like dirt in a good way. Thanks. I like your posts. They are raw and authentic.

I'm with you on people as icebergs. No real philosopher is vulgar enough to know what he or she really believes.

Good quote! Reminds me of the roller coaster metaphor. If only the self was always the Self...

I'd like to challenge you in a different way. Let's assume for the sake of argument that some kind of creative intelligence is responsible for big ban...

Is it strictly unfortunate though? Doesn't the advocate of diologism need a foil? It's like the crystal palace of Dostoevsky's underground man. In the...

Well that's a deep question. If I tell you about nobody from nowhere (some articulate prole without institutional backing or connections to fame), doe...

That's the story I had in mind. And then the form of the TLP is something a crank would dream up. Don't get me wrong. I love it. I got quasi-mystical ...

Fair enough. Plenty of people are put off by freewheeling interpretative philosophy. I have a 'meh' reaction to philosophy that hides from this. To me...

Well, sure, but I'm suggesting that the autonomous ego is something like a useful fiction, a piece of being-in-language and being 'one of us.' Languag...

I do not object to a jest, either finite or infinite.

I think of Russell and Wittgenstein. If you seduce the right somebody, you don't stay a nobody for long. Now I love me some Wittgenstein, but homeboy ...

Here's some of Schlegel's take. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlegel/ Self-satisfied system versus onanistic irony?

Thanks for jumping in. To put it mildly. Know thyself. Indeed. I love Kojeve's take on the philosopher as a type. Philosophy is the (anti-)religion of...

That may be so, but it also blends very well with deciding that more and more is out of our control. How does one after all determine what is in and o...

I guess we've just missed one another so far in this too-wide world. I think I'd recognize a fellow monological walker. These days I'm walking the lon...

These words, going into my mind, turned into illusions and misunderstanding. I too now know nothing about everything and everything about nothing. I h...

When troll really makes it, no one calls him or her a troll anymore. Calling all the philosophy that came before a bunch of confusion, for instance, s...

That's a deep question. IMV, the philosophical canon is itself full of 'negative excitement and domination.' I view it as a battle of 'final vocabular...

I like your sense of humor.

I think you read that line out of context. If you read more of my posts in this thread, I think you'll see that I am defending angst. I am criticizing...

I agree very much with this. I think it depends on the drug. With the right dose of a CNS,... But I agree with broken-down people tending to veg out. ...

I must see it that way too, because I try to be kind. Now I do think 'healthy' pretty much has to be ambiguous here. If we avoid 'ideological' stasis,...

Thanks for pardoning what I feared would be excessive. I tend to err on the side of 'too much.'

Hey, I am happy to read it. Or send me a PM. I am addicted to the red pill. I like deep conversations. IRL, I am 'that friend.' My idea of a good time...

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I like this. The genuine future is the one that's not conquered or denied with a system. Death lurks somewhere in that darkness.

I agree that Nietzsche as guru is questionable indeed. Nietzsche as a complex, brilliant personality wrestling with the death of God is something else...

You too, brother. 'We know time.'

Right. And this is one way to read that the real is rational and the rational real. What isn't intelligible to us (isn't mediated by human concept and...

I've been there. Up and down. I've scribbled joyous manifestos only to be dragged back down. In my experience, no abstract system holds things up. Wit...

He did a mountain of cocaine. It's better than coffee. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/payngv/a-brief-history-of-freuds-love-affair-with-cocaine Th...

The saner part of me agrees with all of that. The wilder part of me remembers the connection of ecstasy with the terrible. Why do groups wage war when...

Indeed. I do think the situation is complicated. Doesn't every community have its blind spot? Its plan and scapegoat? In practice I muddle through, tr...

You wrote this to @"dazed", and it made me think of our conversation. You pose the rational self against the old lizard. If only we are rational enoug...

I agree with you, basically. One things that occurs to me is that a community is more or less formed by unquestioned and even unquestionable beliefs a...

This is where I'm at too. With philosophy comes a self-consciousness that makes traditional religious belief more difficult. God as he exists for me i...

I'm with you on confronting the aporia. But I also think this is a terrifying path ('condemned to be free') and that religion is also an opiate in dem...

Thanks. I am now seeing it as a metaphysical system that wants to resolve traditional confusions and overcome apparent dichotomies. This too is in Heg...

Me too. And I know what you mean by hypocritical Christians. The leftist hippies are the true Christians, as I see it, as they continued with the impl...